Start-up, Scale-up, Venture Capital & Innovation

We believe that short-term solutions results in long-term problems. That organisations need to consider and value their human capital with the same strategical mindset they apply to their financial capital. We believe a proactive and long-term approach put companies in a position to act, instead of react, on the talent market. By this approach we give you the best start-up and scale-up executives all over the globe.

With our extensive experience of advising early stage investors and startups in executive search and board search as well as organizational advisory regarding growth and innovation, this practice group brings a deep knowledge of partner solutions with VC-firms as well as family offices to the InterSearch table.

Being a central part of the network economy, we are also able to match entrepreneurs with investors. InterSearch’s global reach gives us a unique position in helping scale-ups to execute global business plans when it comes to global competence sourcing.

The practice group also offers intrapreneurs to established companies in need of disruption or re-definition. Intrapreneurs have the ability to identify possibilities and the courage to execute initiatives outside of the the company’s primary agenda – but that are vital to their survival. An intrapreneur stands out through an extraordinary ability to organise and create resources, in order to achieve extraordinary results.

Successfully executed assignments:

  • CEO series A financed deep tech scale-up within robotics

  • CEO listed innovation scale-up within lightning technology

  • CMO scale-up foodtech

  • CFO scale-up foodtech

  • CEO series A financed eyetracking medtech scale-up

  • CEO-pool VC fund matching potential entrepreneurial executives with potential investments
  • CEO listed probiotic company, our candidate has managed the company from a market cap of 10 MEUR to 500 MEUR in 5 years

We thrive off co-operation. When we work closely with our customers and are allowed to challenge old notions of skills, capabilities and what it takes to not only achieve, but exceed goals. Together we create the result you want to see.

  • Samantha Robinson
    Samantha Robinson
    Managing Director - Middle East
s.robinson@intersearchme.com

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Samantha Robinson
Managing Director - Middle East

Sam has over 27 years combined executive search, interim management & global talent solutions experience. She has developed her long-term career with InterSearch in both Australia & Middle East.

Sam was born in Kuwait, educated in Australia and lived in London & Canada for 6 years working within the HR teams of Merrill Lynch and BP International.

In the Middle East, she also worked within investment banking & financial services with Standard Chartered Bank as the Regional Talent Acquisition Specialist, Middle East, Pakistan & Africa (MEPA), focusing on senior-level executive recruitment, as well as committing to the global diversity agenda to attract Arab, African & female talent into the organization.

Samantha returned to the Middle East region over 20 years and as MD Middle East, she is responsible for building and leading a multi-cultural team of high-performing Partners and Research Team across four offices in the GCC, to serve a diversity of clients across Middle East & Africa (MEA) region. Sam personally focuses on executing executive search & interim Management assignments across multiple sector strengths.

Sam is currently the InterSearch Worldwide Group Leader – Economic Development, Investment, private Equity & Financial Services & Global Trainer for the InterSearch Academy. She is also a Board Member & Expertise Leader with Interim Management Worldwide (IMW).

Sam holds a Bachelor of Science, with a major in Psychology, from the University of Melbourne in Australia.