Industry Sectors

Executive search sector expertise – broad and deep

Education & Edutech

Edutech & E.Learning
Edutainment
Secondary & Tertiary Private Education
Corporate Leadership academies

Since the early years of shifting classroom teaching to technology-based platforms, Jack Hammer has been at the forefront of helping global Edutech and E.learning organisations build their leadership teams. At first, talent pools in the Edtech space were almost non-existent, and so we supported pioneering companies with identifying talent ready for change. This spawned our fast-growing practice into other areas of the traditional education sector, corporate leadership academies and the global edutainment sector.

Financial services & Fintech

Foundations
Philanthropic Investors
NPOs
Charitable institutions
Industry bodies
Thinktanks
Research institutions
CSI initiatives

We are proud to have helped mission-driven organisations with their most pressing talent needs. Most recently, our clients in the sector include Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Omidyar Network, and Flourish Ventures. In our archives, leadership and executive level appointments are to be found in global think-tanks, industry bodies, and research institutions, as well as private foundations focusing on the education and financial inclusions sectors.

Non-Executive Directors

Foundations
Philanthropic Investors
NPOs
Charitable institutions
Industry bodies
Thinktanks
Research institutions
CSI initiatives

Agri & Food Producers

Diversified Agricultural organisations
Agritech
Food producers
Co-operatives
Fishing
Wine

With a team of consultants who have first hand experience in the agri sector (several have grown up on farms, and everyone loves wine), we have had the privilege of supporting many diversified and specialised agricultural and food-processing companies with leadership appointments. These include some of the world’s top food and agricultural services organisations who have a presence in Africa. These searches all require local (African) knowledge and cultural nuance, in order to achieve successful outcomes.

Retail & Consumer products

Retail (apparel, food, home)
Fashion brands
Health and beauty brands
Lifestyle and home brands
Restaurant groups
Franchisors

The retail and consumer products industries are going through a seismic shift due to a range of factors impacting purchasing behaviour and buying trends, not least of which include the tremendous uptick in e.commerce due to digital transformation and Covid. Finding leaders who can help our clients in these sectors to stay ahead of the curve, and thrive in the face of immense challenges, is typically an integral part of our search mandates in this sector.

Private Markets: Private equity & Venture Capital

Private equity
Venture capital
Social Impact & philanthropic investing

We have aligned with many private equity firms over the years, supporting them with their internal appointments, as well as with key leadership roles in their portfolio companies. We know what it takes to ensure that appointments in portfolio companies are successful (without full buy-in from all the parties, it could be a recipe for disaster), and so we have refined our processes accordingly. Our global private equity clients partner with us to ensure that a high quality, thorough talent search process has been conducted; in particular when their portfolio companies are in Africa, and their own professional networks are limited.