Calibre One

About Us

Calibre One is a leading boutique executive search firm with more than 25 years’ experience building leadership teams for technology companies and innovation-led organisations across Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Consumer, Sports & Entertainment, and Industrials & Infrastructure. Founded in 1999, the firm operates from London, San Francisco, and New York, combining global reach, deep sector expertise, and a Partner-led approach. Often described as a “super boutique”, Calibre One delivers the scale, specialist networks, and international capability of a larger search firm while maintaining the agility and personal service of a boutique.

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Solutions And Expertise

Calibre One specializes in technology and the sectors being reshaped by it. Their practice areas include Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Consumer, Sports & Entertainment, and Advances Industrials & Infrastructure.

Their dedicated practice groups combine functional precision with sector fluency, giving clients the advantage of speed, accuracy, and insight. Whether identifying transformational leaders for a SaaS scale-up, a digitally enabled consumer brand, or a data-driven healthcare platform, they bring deep functional expertise, industry knowledge, and credibility. Their practice structure ensures true domain specialization, not only in technology, but also in the industries most shaped by it. This model delivers a distinct advantage for investors, founders, and corporate leaders alike: faster access to high-impact talent, aligned with sector dynamics and strategic priorities.
Solutions
  • Advisory Services
  • Assessment
  • Board Services
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Executive Search
  • Executive Tracker
  • Leadership Consulting
  • Recruitment Research
Industries
  • Advertising/Marketing
  • Alt. Investments
  • Asset Management
  • Biotechnology
  • Clean Tech./Sustain.
  • Clinical Research
  • Cloud Based
  • Colleges/Universities
  • Commercial Banking
  • Consulting
  • Consumer Products
  • Consumer Services
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data & Analytics
  • Devices
  • FinTech
  • Global Markets
  • Healthcare Services
  • Hedge Funds
  • High Tech
  • Insurance
  • Internet
  • Investment Banking
  • Investment Mgmt.
  • Legal/Compliance
  • Life Sci./Healthcare
  • Luxury
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Medical
  • Medical Devices
  • Mobile
  • Payments/Processes
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Private Banking
  • Private Equity
  • Real Estate
  • Retail
  • Software
  • Sports
  • Technology
  • Trade Finance
  • Travel, Hosp. & Leisure
  • Venture Capital
  • Wealth Management
Functions
  • Advertising
  • All Functions
  • Board/Governance
  • Business Development
  • CEO/President
  • Communications/PR
  • Customer Service
  • Data/Analytics
  • Development
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Finance/Accounting
  • General Management
  • GM/Operations
  • Government
  • Human Resources
  • Information/Digital
  • Invest. Mgmt./Banking
  • Investor Relations
  • Legal/Compliance
  • Manufacturing
  • Marketing & Sales
  • Medical/Clinical
  • Research & Develop.
  • Risk Management
  • Supply Chain

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News Briefings

Calibre One Launches Purpose-Driven Recruiting Practice

Search firms continue to expand into new areas, hoping to provide clients with the best services for finding, assessing, onboarding and keeping their senior level talent. Calibre One has followed suit by launching what it calls a ‘purpose-driven’ search practice to be led by partner Venesa Klein and backed by a team of specialists. The new practice area

Calibre One Recruits Chief Marketing Officer for PA Consulting Group

Executive search firm Calibre One has recruited Jo Scarlett as chief marketing officer of PA Consulting Group. Hector Macandrew, managing partner in London, led the search. Ms. Scarlett will lead PA Consulting’s global marketing team and support the firm in its growth ambitions. She joins from BT, where she was chief digital and marketing officer of the company’s

Calibre One Expands In San Francisco

Executive search firm Calibre One has added Douglas Gladstone and Ryan Polich as vice presidents in its San Francisco offices. “Our selections of Douglas Gladstone and Ryan Polich were the results of extensive search efforts to find the right vice presidents to maintain our momentum as well as add significant insight and value to our

Calibre One Posts 28 Percent Revenue Gain

Executive search firm Calibre One has posted U.S. revenues of $11.5 million, an increase of 27.8 percent, for 2015. The firm now ranks as the 21st largest search firm in the Americas region, according to the latest statistics report released from Hunt Scanlon Media. Calibre One currently has 10 consultants working from offices in San Francisco, Menlo Park, Stamford,

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Press Releases

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