The Board Directory
The closed database for senior board members and leaders
A curated member database for senior board talent, searched by leading board headhunters and private equity firms globally as a group.
Why it exists
Find, assess and contact board talent
The Board Directory is the only closed database for senior board members, leaders and professional services partners searched collectively by the best board headhunter and private equity firms. These include Advent International, Alphaskill, Bjørn Johansson Associates, Egon Zehnder, Heidrick & Struggles, Korn Ferry, Lygon Group, MBS Group, Odgers, Russell Reynolds, Sapphire Partners, Spencer Stuart and Teneo. It has board members from 66% of the FTSE 100 index and 63% of the FTSE 250 index, and is searched by 64 board headhunters internationally.
The first collective private database for senior leaders, it solves multiple candidate issues, including search firm and headhunter tracking and identification, sector silos, ongoing updates and visibility to private equity and international board headhunters. It is for those actively searching for their next executive or non-executive appointment as well as those seeking to be visible to this influential community for future appointments.
State of the art profiles allow members to comment directly to the search partners, be found across the full breadth of their experience and have their listed board roles automatically updated to ensure they are comprehensively found for non-executive and executive searches.
The Board Directory is a sister company of The 350 Club, the closed online community for senior board members and leaders worldwide.
What headhunters see
State of the art filters for real board mandates
Search partners and private equity firms can narrow the Directory by the details that actually matter in a board search, from skillsets to sectors and committees and listed, private, market and international experience.
“The Directory is intuitive and well structured, making it easy to navigate and to access relevant candidate profiles. It gives a clear sense of individuals’ board experience, skills and what they are looking for in their next opportunity. Genius!”
Leading SHREK board and executive headhunter
Candidate Profiles
Profiles are built to allow you to be found across the full range of your skillsets
They help both those who are timing out of large existing board roles and those who wish to move beyond sector silos and headhunter pigeonholes.
Members can show the full breadth of their skillsets, including board, sector, leadership and functional experience, qualifications, languages, diversities, and listed, family, private equity and private exposure. Professional services partners are specifically catered to with innovative filters allowing them to be found by client work, geographic experience and sector expertise.
Search partners
Valued by the best board headhunters
These include Advent International, Alphaskill, Bjørn Johansson Associates, Egon Zehnder, Heidrick & Struggles, Korn Ferry, Lygon Group, MBS Group, Odgers, Russell Reynolds, Sapphire Partners, Spencer Stuart and Teneo.
“really fantastic optionality… super easy to use. I will definitely continue promoting it.”
Leading SHREK firm headhunter
Private equity
Visibility for top private equity opportunities
The platform makes members visible to a range of private equity partners, both directly and within the search ecosystem.
Partner ecosystem
Trusted by major professional services partners
The Board Directory works with large scale legal, accounting, and consultancy firms to support their senior partners seeking a non-executive career through its very high quality membership and visibility to the best headhunters in the UK and internationally.
Eligibility
Designed for senior leaders with board-level relevance
It is open to board members and leaders of the largest companies globally (above £100m of revenue or market cap, down to exco - 2 level where a large cap) and to partners of major professional services firms worldwide. It is also open to board members and leaders of the largest government, arts, military, media, academic and not for profit organisations. Members must be either serving and recently retired, if without a portfolio.