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About Jack Hammer
Africa’s #1 Executive Search Firm
WE FIND LEADERS WHO CREATE GREAT WORKPLACES, WHERE PEOPLE AND IDEAS FLOURISH.
We are the largest Pan-African executive search recruitment agency, with a proven track record in 24 countries.
For more than two decades, we’ve been helping companies, NPOs, and venture capital investors with a presence in Africa to find leaders who are innovators, builders, and champions of change.
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Jack Hammer through the Years
2001
The company is established in South Africa, is originally known as ‘Hunt Executive Search’, and focuses on retained executive search.
2004
We rebrand to ‘Jack Hammer’. Why this somewhat quirky name, which is NOT named after its company founder? For those in the know, a jackhammer is a power-tool that digs deep beneath the surface and shakes things up. Our maverick founder thought this was a perfect name for our (then) all-female team.
2009
Jack Hammer makes it through the global financial crisis with flying colours. As an independent boutique, we are rated one of South Africa’s top 3 executive search firms.
2011
We are invited to become members of IRC Global Executive Search Partners (now Kestria, the world’s largest executive search alliance).
2013
Our daily ‘IntheFlow’ practice becomes an integral part of our culture and values. Close to half of our team starts working remotely, and we abolish our leave policy. We actively work on creating a culture of autonomy, accountability and freedom. This really works for us!
2017
Jack Hammer becomes known as Africa’s largest executive search firm, with partners in SA (covering Zambia, Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola and Zimbabwe), Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania & Egypt.
2018
We set foot further afield, establishing a presence in the USA. Our credentials earned helping companies in Africa diversify their boards and leadership teams stands us in good stead in the US.
Today
Jack Hammer Global now includes Jack Hammer Africa (the continent’s largest Pan-African executive search firm), Jack Hammer USA (Rated Top 5 Executive Search firm in Edtech in the USA), and Virtual Coaching Partners (an online leadership coaching platform).
We are inspired by our vision to build amazing workplaces – by finding the game-changing leaders who make them thrive.
Jack Hammer is the most courageous executive search firm I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. They represent the top 5% of leaders and conduct the search with pinpoint accuracy.
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