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We are the market leader in NED searches. Having completed 800+ board placements in the last year, we have deep, current knoweldge of the requirements, challenges and opportunities of the NED market.

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Why Nurole for your NED search?

Deeper market knowledge

Our team of 60 search experts have done c.2,500 board placements, 800 of which have been in the last year. Benefit from their wealth of recent experience of the NED recruitment market.

Greater reach & precision

Through headhunting + technology, reach 10x more relevant candidates than traditional search. Our algorithm unearths candidates beyond the reach of traditional search radars.

More diversity

We source diverse candidates through the breadth of our network and the strength of our partnerships. In 2022, 46% of our placements were women; 30% were under the age of 50, and 27% were from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Passionate & engaged candidates

In addition to making direct approaches, we empower candidates to put themselves forward for roles and recommend others. On average c.20 candidates actively apply from our network, rather than being cajoled to do so by headhunters. That produces candidates with the passion and capacity necessary to add value as NEDs.


Our work

Who could we find to join your board?

Nurole helps SimplyCook appoint Kal Atwal

SimplyCook is a tech-enabled subscription e-commerce business shipping over 350,000 products a month to its customers all over the UK and is growing quickly. It's backed by leading investors Episode 1, Maxfield Capital, 500 startups and Octopus investments. They've raised £5m in Series A funding and were looking for a Chair with direct scale-up experience to help maximise ultimate enterprise value and provide strategic guidance. In four weeks Nurole identified the founding Managing Director of comparethemarket.com, Kal Atwal.

Our NED Search Experts

Our team of 60+ search professionals have extensive experience of NED searches

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Susie Cummings

Investment Trusts, Financial Services, Listed Companies

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Tamara Dupree

Financial Services

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Samuel Ellis

Real Estate, Housing Associations

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Sam Colt

Commercial, Not-for-profit

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Ned Cummings

Venture Capital, High Growth

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Carla Devereux

Commercial

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Government & Public Sector

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Joshua Dernie

Not-For-Profit, Government

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Latest NED insights

Episode 20 - How Boards Accelerate Early-Stage Startups with Hema Patel

As a strategic and commercial expert in digital solutions, Hema Patel has spent her career developing an in-depth understanding of how to accelerate growth and lending her functional expertise to various startups to help guide them through their Seed and Series A stages. Informed both by her current board roles at tech startups like ReMake and her executive career at industry-leading institutions like Microsoft, Facebook and Adobe, Hema joins Nurole CEO Oliver Cummings for a retrospective of her journey into the boardroom that explores the opportunities unlocked by investing in board talent at an early stage.

How can AIM boards encourage bold executive thinking in spite of existential threats?

Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder famously said that “the only certainty is uncertainty.” Expanding on the theme, Sun Tzu, the Chinese general and strategist, added the hopeful caveat that, “in uncertainty there is opportunity.” As AIM board members operating in the current economic and political climate, it’s easy to relate to the certainty of uncertainty, but it can be harder to see the associated opportunities. So what can boards do to help their organisations seize opportunities amidst uncertainty? What can they do to ensure their executives are being bold and innovative, in spite of existential threats?

Episode 13 - Forging Bonds Between Boards and CEOs with David Sole

Former record-breaking professional rugby captain, current Chair for Worldwide Cancer Research and founder of the School for CEOs, David Sole OBE, discusses the importance of relationship building in mitigating the challenges of working with and as the Executive Team. His experiences cover subjects ranging from how to tactfully rotate key leadership roles and the most effective styles of questioning when recruiting new board members to proven frameworks for achieving strategic alignment between the CEO and the board.

Overcoming Bystander Syndrome in the Boardroom | Nurole Mastermind Group Insights - February 2023, Oliver Cummings, Nurole CEO

As part of our commitment to helping companies build better boards, Nurole has created a programme of mastermind groups for board members who want to develop their skills and networks. Each month, we moderate a series of these groups, in which non-executives share their problems and opportunities and learn from one another’s feedback. This month, I was struck by a challenge in which a new board member who brings deep functional expertise might be loath to raise an issue because it seems so obvious to them that they assume it must have been discussed previously ...


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