REES JAMES ASSOCIATES TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS SEARCH
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A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION

Recruitment, written by hand.
Human to human, always.

No algorithms making introductions on your behalf. No account managers you've never met.

Rees James Associates is a boutique search practice for technology and business leaders — small enough to know exactly who we're introducing, and why.

MANCHESTER • LONDON EST. BY TWO PEOPLE TIRED OF BEING A NUMBER IN A DATABASE

For clients

We take on a small number of mandates at a time, and we work them properly.

•One senior consultant runs your search end to end — not a team you meet once and never see again.
•Every shortlist is written, not filtered. If we can't make the case for someone in a paragraph, they don't go forward.
•We tell you when a brief is wrong before we tell you we can fill it.

For candidates

We represent people, not CVs on file for years unopened.

•You'll speak to the person who's actually handling your introduction — before, during, and after.
•We only put you forward for roles we'd take ourselves. That's the whole filter.
•Rejected or hired, you get a real answer, not a template email.

Where we specialise

TWO PRACTICES, DELIBERATELY
PRACTICE I

Technology

  • —Engineering • Infrastructure leadership
  • —Data, ML • Platform
  • —Product • Design
  • —CTO • VP Engineering search
PRACTICE II

Business

  • —CFO • Finance leadership
  • —Revenue, Commercial • GTM
  • —Operations • Chief of Staff
  • —Board • NED introductions

The people who write your letters

NO BENCH, NO POOL — JUST US
CONSULTANT

Rees Adeyemi

TECHNOLOGY — ENGINEERING • DATA

"I've turned down briefs I couldn't be honest about. That's the job."

CONSULTANT

James Okonkwo

TECHNOLOGY — PRODUCT • DESIGN

"A good introduction reads like it was written for one person. It was."

CONSULTANT

Priya Shenoy

BUSINESS — FINANCE • COMMERCIAL

"I still write every shortlist by hand. It's slower. It's also right."

From the casebook

A SELECTION, KEPT DELIBERATELY BRIEF
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Series B fintech — VP Engineering

One confidential introduction, no shortlist theatre. Offer accepted on the second conversation.

CLOSED IN 11 DAYS
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Scaling SaaS business — Chief Financial Officer

A search we paused for three weeks because the brief needed rewriting, not resending.

CLOSED IN 6 WEEKS
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Private equity portfolio company — Chief of Staff

Sourced entirely off-market, through a single conversation we'd been having for two years.

CLOSED IN 19 DAYS

Write to us, and we'll write back — personally.

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