Danos Search delivers executive search and leadership advisory across Compliance, Financial Crime, Legal and Risk, supporting regulated organisations with their most senior and business-critical appointments.
As the executive search arm of Danos Group, we focus on C-suite and senior leadership hiring, where judgement, regulatory credibility and discretion are paramount. Our work sits at the intersection of governance, accountability and leadership.
What We Do
We partner with boards, executive committees and senior stakeholders to appoint leaders who strengthen governance, manage regulatory exposure and support long-term organisational confidence.
Our mandates regularly include:
Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)
Chief Risk Officer (CRO)
General Counsel and Heads of Legal
Heads of Financial Crime and MLROs
Group, regional and divisional governance leaders
Each search is executive-led, targeted and confidential, shaped around the regulatory context, leadership requirements and operating model of the organisation.
Every assignment is led by an experienced executive search specialist with deep sector and functional expertise. This ensures senior oversight, informed challenge and consistency throughout the search process.
Targeted, Network-Driven and Discreet Search
Our searches combine targeted market mapping with long-standing senior networks built across regulated industries. This provides boards and executive teams with clear visibility of leadership capability, succession options and market dynamics, while enabling discreet engagement with proven leaders — many known to us directly.
Sector-Aligned Expertise
Dedicated teams support executive hiring across:
Sell-side and Buy-side Financial Services
Asset and Wealth Management
Insurance
FinTech and Digital Assets
Professional Services and Law Firms
This sector focus allows us to advise clients with authority, relevance and practical market insight.
Our Experts
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Denis Spearman
Managing Director, Group Head, Compliance & Financial Crime Practice
Operating across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Danos Search combines international reach with strong local market understanding. Our integrated model supports cross-border leadership hiring while maintaining regulatory, cultural and organisational alignment in each region.
Inclusive, Network-Driven Shortlists
Inclusive sourcing is embedded in every search. We leverage long-standing relationships, referrals and market intelligence to deliver diverse, high-quality leadership shortlists that strengthen governance and decision-making.
Why Danos Search
Organisations engage Danos Search when leadership appointments demand confidence and precision.
Executive Focus – Danos Search focuses on C-suite and senior leadership appointments, supporting boards and executive teams with their most critical governance hires.
Specialist Credibility – Deep governance expertise across Compliance, Financial Crime, Legal and Risk.
Trusted Partnerships – We work with both long-standing clients and new organisations seeking senior governance leadership, with a significant proportion of mandates coming through repeat engagement and referral.
We build leadership teams that reinforce governance and support sustained organisational performance.
Danos Associates offered much more than simply sourcing candidates.
They helped frame the scope of the search, giving context as to where we could search for our candidate pool and provided a commercial view of the labour market in this field and what we could expect… The shortlist of candidates we received was of a very high standard. Each candidate had been looked at critically.
Nicola SwannHR Director
Danos Consulting offered an excellent Interim Head of Compliance as a solution whilst undertaking our challenging permanent search mandate.
Danos Consulting really listened to our needs, parachuting in a candidate with the right technical skill set and personality. They really understood the DNA of our business which enabled them to provide support effectively when working to tight onboarding deadlines.
General Counsel, Niche Asset Management Firm
Danos Associates spend a lot of time getting to know your team and the culture, which makes it easier when new staff join the business.
In credit risk often the candidate pools have the same skill sets, however there are elements that the CV miss out. The Danos team work tirelessly to understand the skills levels of all candidates and most importantly, they get us quality candidates we can close and bring on board quickly.
Director of Model, Development Banking
Danos was referred to me as the best in the business.
I needed to find risk and compliance staff. My experience corroborates precisely that. Thorough, encyclopaedic market knowledge and execution orientated.
Hugo van VredenburchNon Executive Director, TMF Group
