10 | Acquisition International, Issue 4 2024 Empowering Recruitment Leaders Recruitment Entrepreneur is a global private equity investor passionate about empowering recruiters to launch, build, and exit their business. As one of the most successful private equity investors in the industry, the company has fostered a vibrant community of businesses that benefit from the team’s extensive expertise. Recognised in this year’s Global Excellence Awards, Recruitment Entrepreneur help businesses founders thrive and create wealth in the recruitment sector. Contact: Sam Proctor Company: Recruitment Entrepreneur Web Address: http://www.recruitmententrepreneur.com/ Offering entrepreneurs strategic advice and the wisdom of its extensive experience, Recruitment Entrepreneur provides businesses with the funding and infrastructure to achieve their goals. It is the company’s mission to help founders launch, grow, and eventually exit their recruitment businesses to create wealth. Recruitment Entrepreneur invests in numerous sectors within the recruitment industry, each one a specialist in their own niche. Its expert team provide funding, strategy, financial expertise, operational infrastructure, legal advice, marketing, and talent attraction to help their joint venture businesses prosper. Founded in 2014 by James Caan, former Dragons’ Den star and serial entrepreneur, Recruitment Entrepreneur plays a crucial role in shaping the businesses within its portfolio. With over 40 years’ experience in recruitment, James has invested in recruitment companies of varying sizes across many locations and sectors. Alexander Mann, his first recruitment business, sold in 2013 for £260 million while Humana International, his second endeavour, expanded to 140 offices across 30 countries. Since then, James has continued to achieve success by building and selling businesses on a global scale. With over 3 million followers, he was named LinkedIn’s second most influential voice. Through Recruitment Entrepreneur, James, and the Recruitment Entrepreneur team, led by Greg Hollis the CEO, supports entrepreneurs on their path to success. Through their extensive global network, they assist their portfolio of businesses in attracting exceptional talent to join their team and supporting new clients and candidates. Mark Baker, Founding Partner at Darwin Hawkins, says, “Darwin Hawkins is now 5 years in business, and we have grown our team significantly! The advisory and infrastructural support from Recruitment Entrepreneur has been integral to our success and allows us to do what we do best, which is helping finance professionals evolve and progress in their careers.” At Recruitment Entrepreneur, the team seeks to partner with leaders. Working in collaboration with businesses, the investor shares in its companies’ successes and helps them to overcome challenges to build sustainable value. Whether launching a new business or scaling an existing organisation, Recruitment Entrepreneur provides its partners with a strong platform to compete with the best recruitment businesses in their sector. Its professional team understands that growing a recruitment business is not just about finance, but involves talent acquisition and retention, internationalism, diversification, legal support, and much more. By leveraging its substantial experience and expertise, Recruitment Entrepreneur allows its partners to focus on their growth to achieve their business vision. Walter James and EliteCyber, are some of its many success stories. The senior management team were able to provide the necessary support to help these businesses scale and eventually sell. James Absalom, CEO of Walter James, said following the sale of his business to ZRG Partners, “When you are looking at your business strategy for growth, and the option of external investment presents itself, taking the next step and parting ways with a percentage of your company isn’t an easy decision. However, after my first meeting with James Caan, Chairman, and Greg Hollis, CEO of Recruitment Entrepreneur, partnering with them was a natural decision to ensure the evolution and growth I wanted from Walter James. This has led to where we are today, and this planned exit event. I’m delighted for Recruitment Entrepreneur, and ourselves, after an amazing collaboration over the years that we have managed to achieve such a great success story.” The Founder and CEO of EliteCyber, Laurent Halimi said, “Being welcomed into the RE portfolio fast-tracked our growth and the partnership enabled the business to navigate and overcome significant challenges and milestones. Their invaluable support helped deliver an incredible six years of continuous growth, collaboration, and innovation, where we positioned ourselves as a leading presence in the cybersecurity industry. We’re thankful Recruitment Entrepreneur helped facilitate our success and now stand fully equipped to continue the growth of EliteCyber”. For its empowering and unique offering, we have bestowed on Recruitment Entrepreneur our award for Best Recruitment Investment Company 2024 – UK.
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