Elevating Enterprise Through Leadership
Recognising the importance of high integrity and accountability to connect the software industry’s top talent with the world’s leading technology companies
AJR Partnership was founded in 2010
Entity establishment in new territories
Supported organisations in their international expansion
Enabling and empowering VC & PE backed ventures
Scaling value-based Go-to-Market teams
Some of the companies we have helped to scale:
Our Expertise
Snowplow Analytics is enterprise grade, open-source platform that allows the collection of event-level data in real time.
Prior to an incoming Series B funding round, Snowplow wanted to expand their EMEA commercial presence, with a particular focus on UK, DACH and Nordics. AJR was successful retained and completed searches across Sales Leadership and Presales.
Enablon, a Wolters Kluwer business, is the number 1 provider of EHS, Risk, and Sustainability management software.
Following a very successful previous engagement with the incumbent SVP Worldwide Sales, AJR was contracted by Enablon to scale the Global Accounts Team. AJR quickly fulfilled 3x Global Account Director roles in EMEA and US. Subsequently AJR was signed to source a US Director of Sales.
NuoDB’s distributed SQL database for cloud applications helps customers get applications to market faster and reduce their total cost of ownership.
Throughout NuoDB’s exciting journey from Series B to acquisition by Dassault Systems, AJR was the exclusive EMEA recruitment partner. This included hiring the Founding members of the EMEA sales team; VP Sales, VP Sales Engineering as well as Principal-level Customer Success execs.
Striim is the only supplier of unified, real-time data streaming and integration for enterprise analytics and operations.
AJR has been exclusively retained for strategic searches in EMEA and US. Primary focus to date has been Enterprise Sales and Presales as well as Field CTOs in both regions.
Harbr’s data commerce platform enables data innovators to rapidly build, grow, and scale their data businesses by unlocking and distributing high-value data products
Following a $38.5m Series A investment round, Harbr retained AJR exclusively to scale the international go-to-market team and assist with market entry into US and APAC. To date, AJR has successfully sourced a number of hires across Sales, Presales and Customer Support.
Streamsets is a DataOps platform for modern data integration and delivers performance management for data flows that feed the next generation of big data applications
AJR was exclusively retained by Streamsets to expand the go-to-market team into a number of European territories. This included Sales and Presales Leadership in UK, DACH and Southern Europe as well as strategic hires in US. AJR continued to be retained following Streamsets acquisition by Software AG 2022 and was trusted to hire a VP EMEA to lead the newly formed business unit.
Privitar is a data privacy platform that protects its customer's sensitive personal data and delivers comprehensive data privacy.
Prior to Series A investment, AJR were retained exclusively to hire the go-to-market team for this leading UK start-up (now acquired by Informatica). AJR delivered 26 hires (EMEA & US) across Senior Leadership, Sales, Presales, Marketing and Customer Success
Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence that empowers organisations to make trusted operational decisions by making data meaningful:
AJR were engaged exclusively to scale Quantexa’s international go-to-market presence across Banking, Government, Telco and Insurance. This resulted in 10 Sales leadership hires in UK, Southern Europe, Central Europe, Nordics and US.
Dataiku is a centralized data platform that moves businesses along their data journey from analytics at scale to enterprise AI.
Following a significant investment round and subsequent hyper-growth, AJR was exclusively engaged to expand Dataiku’s Enterprise Sales presence in Northern EMEA. This resulted in 14 hires across the region: RVP Sales (x3), RVP Sales Engineering and Enterprise Account Executives (x11).
“AJR Partnership has delivered transformational leaders into organisations around the UK and Europe for over a decade. We take great pride in our forensic approach, which has come to be relied upon by our partners, some who have been with us for 8-10 years. We believe it’s the exceptional quality of service we provide that ensures referral remains our key source of business development to this day”
Retained Search
AJR’s retained search model is a pro‐active methodology best suited to high technology companies that are looking to make a strong impact by attracting and retaining the top percentile of senior level executives across the whole of EMEA. It is widely accepted that the highest calibre technology professionals are not on the open job market and they need to be found. This is where AJR step in.
Managed Service
When multiple hires are required within an aggressive timeframe, AJR’s managed service offering can be tailored to any start‐up’s need. Our fixed term solution can be deployed remotely or onsite, providing a centralised point‐of‐contact for all recruitment requirements.
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