For commercial leaders and exceptional revenue generators
A retained, investor-grade career partnership for commercial leaders preparing for the next stage and for the rare individual generators who consistently outperform. Run personally by Rich Evans. No CV uploaded anywhere. No scattergun outreach. One next move, with the chair, the equity and the operating environment to match.
How this is different
You are not on a database. You are not a CV being shopped around. You are a retained engagement, run personally by Rich Evans, with direct access to a portfolio of founders, chairs and investors, and a defined commitment to discretion at every step.
Built against the alternative
The default route looks like this. A retained search firm puts a junior researcher on the phone. They have not run a P&L, sat on a board, or built a commercial function. They want your CV in the database, today, so they can pattern-match you against a brief they only half understand. Six weeks later you are deep in a process for a chair you should never have met, with your name on a longlist that has already been emailed around.
And the truly exceptional individual operators have it worse. The top-1% Account Director or Enterprise AE who has consistently outperformed for five years is treated as a CV with a number on it, then passed around the same way every other CV is. The numbers are the easy part. The conditions that made them repeatable are what actually matters, and almost no one bothers to surface them.
Bespoke Career Search exists because the people at the top of the commercial market deserve better than that. Discreet. Strategic. Run by an operator and investor. Anchored to the business you are actually trying to build over the next five years.
Free to the right candidates
The service is free of charge to you. Evara is paid by the employer at the point a hire is made, the same way a retained executive search works on the recruitment side. Nothing is invoiced to you, at any stage, ever.
In return, this is offered selectively. We only run a Bespoke Career Search where the candidate, the level and the long-term direction genuinely match what our client base, our portfolio and our investor network are looking for.
Eligibility, in plain terms
One short, confidential conversation with Rich decides whether we take the brief on. If it is not the right fit, we will say so directly and point you to where it is, including to Rachel's Confidential Career Search where the brief sits below the executive level.
Built for
The process
Step 1
Before any conversation with the market. The point is clarity on outcome, not movement for the sake of it. Run personally by Rich Evans, at board and operator level.
Step 2
Most senior commercial leaders are introduced badly. We rebuild the narrative the way an investor would read it, before any door is opened.
Step 3
A board-grade, anonymous, investor-ready brief used to position you at the top of the market before your identity is revealed. Not a CV. A document a chair would read.
Step 4
We do not apply you anywhere. We map the businesses where you would genuinely thrive and approach them at the level that decides.
Step 5
This is the difference. Rich personally invests in and advises a portfolio of UK SMEs and sits at board level with founders, chairs and investors. Conversations are opened where the alignment is genuine, including roles that will never be advertised. No mass outreach. No profile passed around.
Step 6
Your time is not spent in processes you should never have started. Every opportunity is pressure-tested before you sit in a room.
Step 7
The offer matters. The structure matters more. You are supported through the offer, the equity, the contract and the first 90 days in seat.
Who this is for
You are already operating at a level the market notices. You are not in a rush. You are not on a job board. You want one move, well, with the chair, the equity and the operating environment to match.
Who this is not for
That is not a judgement. It is just a different problem and a different service.
Discreet by default
One short, confidential conversation with Rich Evans. No CV required at this stage. If it is the right fit, we agree the brief and the engagement. If it is not, we shake hands and you have lost nothing.
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