Fractional Executive Search.

The right leader, for exactly as long as it matters.

We find, vet and match senior executives from our curated collective, and they embed in your business for the part of the week the work needs. Ho Chi Minh City is Vietnam's commercial engine, and its fastest-growing companies usually outrun the senior hires they can make. Executive search, done fractionally, closes that gap while you grow.

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800+Curated and vetted executives
2–3Weeks from brief to embedded
30–60%Less than a full-time hire
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Governance as a service

We do not make an introduction and step away

One executive arrives with the thinking of a whole collective behind them. We hold the structure around the engagement: a clear brief, regular check-ins, and an early word if the work starts to drift. The executive runs their function and owns the outcome. For a Saigon company growing faster than its management layer, that puts senior leadership in the room now, without bolting a foreign operating model onto a team that runs on relationships.

An operator, not an adviserThey join the leadership team, make the calls in their function and are judged on what moves in the business, not on slide decks. That matters when the founder is still the bottleneck on every decision.
A collective behind every engagementOur collective of 800+ curated and vetted executives backs each match, across finance, operations, technology, revenue and people. In a city where seasoned senior managers are scarce, that depth is the point.
The roles we match

A full C-suite, on the terms a growing business needs

We focus on the leadership functions that move a company forward. Start with one, or draw on the whole collective.

Proven leadership

Our executives have led at the companies you know

AccentureAmazonAmerican ExpressAntlerAppleBPBarclaysBoeingEmirates GroupErnst & YoungGEGoogleHSBCIBMJ P Morgan ChaseL'OréalLinkedIn
McKinsey and CompanyMercedes-Benz AGMicrosoftMoneyGram InternationalNestle S.A.NikeOraclePricewaterhouseCoopersProcter & GambleSAPSalesforceShell InternationalSiemensStandard Chartered BankThe Coca-Cola CompanyUnileverY Combinator
Where we are brought in

A leader for the moment in front of you

Most engagements begin with a moment: a departure to cover, a raise to close, a market to enter, a business to turn around. Find the one that fits.

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The Ho Chi Minh City commercial case

Senior leadership, ahead of the permanent hire

An engagement is company to company: your business contracts with the executive's own company for a defined scope. At this level, our engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a comparable full-time hire, with one month's notice as our standard. In Vietnam a permanent senior package carries a long tail of contributions and bonuses, so a fast-growing company can buy the seniority first and decide on the permanent seat once the business has caught up.

Brief a search
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No permanent headcount

Nothing is added to the payroll. You gain a senior leader without growing the fixed cost base mid-expansion.

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Seniority before scale

A growth-stage company gets a leader who has run the function at a larger size, before it can justify that hire full time.

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No recruitment fee

The engagement is what you pay for. There is no search fee for finding and matching your executive.

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Room to change pace

Add days ahead of a new plant or a funding round and reduce them once the function is settled. The scope moves with the company.

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One month's notice

Our standard on every engagement, either way. You keep the option to change course as the business changes.

How an engagement works

From the moment to the match, in weeks

Tell us where you need leadership and we take it from there. Our first conversation does most of the work, whether the moment is a market entry, a Series A or B raise, a second factory, or a management layer that the founding team has outgrown.

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Tell us the moment

Share where you need leadership: a finance lead departing, a raise ahead, operations outgrowing the founder.

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A working conversation

We talk through the brief and sharpen the requirement together, so the match is right.

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The match

We search our collective of 800+ curated and vetted executives for the closest fit, and you choose.

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Deployment

Your leader embeds within weeks, holds the decisions in their domain, and gets to work.

Common questions

The questions founders ask first

We search our collective for a senior leader who has done the job before, vet them, and match them to your business, where they embed for an agreed share of the week. They take the decisions in their function and are accountable for the result. The model fits Saigon's fast-growth manufacturers, scale-ups and foreign-invested companies that need a senior operator now and a permanent appointment later, if at all. Engagements are company to company, with a defined scope.

Our engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a comparable full-time hire, with no recruitment fee. A permanent senior package in Ho Chi Minh City comes with contributions, a Tet bonus and other costs that are hard to reverse, whereas a fractional engagement is one invoice between two companies for an agreed scope. One month's notice is our standard. Most engagements run for six to twenty-four months.

Three groups stand out. Export manufacturers in electronics, garments, footwear and furniture upgrading their operations to win global-brand supply contracts; venture-backed technology scale-ups building a leadership team ahead of a Series A or B; and foreign-invested companies setting up or restructuring their Vietnam business. Each is at a point where one wrong senior decision costs more than the right leader.

A consultant diagnoses and recommends, then hands the work back. An interim fills a seat full time for a short spell. A fractional executive works inside your team for part of the week, owns the decisions in their function and stays as long as the growth phase needs them, with our governance wrapped around the engagement.

Usually two to three weeks from brief to embedded, where a permanent senior search in Ho Chi Minh City can take months and still end with an empty chair. We search our collective of 800+ curated and vetted executives across finance, operations, technology, revenue and people, and you choose. If the timing is urgent, tell us and we will say plainly what is possible.

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The home of fractional leadership.

Tell us which leadership gap is slowing the growth plan and we will match a vetted executive from our collective within weeks, with no permanent headcount and one month's notice.

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