Built and led by 30 years of executive search

We started in 2004. The founders already brought significant in-market experience, especially across consumer goods, retail, and automotive. It was a high-growth era that needed speed, precision, and deep market insight to get the fit right for candidate and client alike. The conviction we opened with has not changed: the right talent is defined by the business need, and a placement delivers value both ways: the candidate for the business, and the role for the candidate.

Twenty-two years on, Mindfield places leaders and teams across the Middle East and Africa, thirty-two markets to date. We have worked through start-up windows, expansion cycles, recession, regional conflict, an oil price collapse, and a global pandemic. We were in the room before, during, and after each of them.

Today we cover consumer goods from farm to fork, retail, automotive, real estate, engineering, financial services, private equity, and venture capital. Our work spans contingency search, executive search, talent mapping, and a Leadership and Advisory practice that includes fractional executives, board advisory, and HR solutions.

More than 300 of those leaders sit at C-suite and one level below. We measure whether they are still in
role three years on, because a placement only counts if it holds.

Ownership through partnership is how we work. The same lens runs every mandate, whether it is a first General Manager in a new market or a CEO succession. Every first conversation starts with the business need and the market and talent intelligence around it: you define the challenge, we design the solution. It is free and direct, and if we are not the right fit, we say so.