Sara founded Aspen in 1987 and rapidly established the company’s position as a global leader in Executive Search, Leadership Development and high performance.

Aspen’s focus combines: CEO and ELT Advisory, Coaching and Mentoring; Board and Investor Advisory; Leadership Development; Executive Search – operating across global Enterprise SaaS markets.

Aspen builds deep and enduring partnerships with Founders, CEOs and investors, focusing on first movers and disruptors. Clients span VC-backed scale-up companies through to established Nasdaq / NYSE-listed and PE-backed $Multi-Bn market leaders. Example clients over the years have included long-term trusted partnerships with the likes of Celonis, Shift Technology, CyberArk, Qlik, Salesforce, Siebel and Oracle, alongside multiple EMEA borne and American unicorns, decacorns and public companies.

Sara’s focus has been to enable global technology CEOs and their Leadership Teams to optimize their own leadership and every aspect of their business to build sustainable success, equipped to navigate constant change and innovation in an AI-driven world, and highly resilient in the face of ever-shifting global macro-economics. Aspen clients operate in markets where the competitive landscape is continuously evolving, and where outstanding leadership is essential for teams to thrive as they move with speed and stay ahead of the curve. These include a number of market creators driving strong and sustained growth, who have gone on to achieve consistent poll position as market leader.

From a search perspective, the Aspen team has been consistently recognised for its unique and multi-faceted partnerships with clients built on deep trust. We have supported build out of cohesive Executive and Global, Regional and Country Leadership Teams who operate as one, and of value-add Boards and expert Advisors bringing real world insight and experience to clients’ growth journeys. The CEOs Sara has partnered with maintain a consistent focus on optimizing the culture of their businesses and creating the multiplier effect at speed.

We are long-term, expert advisors and partners with investors, boards, founders, CEOs and their leadership teams for some of the smallest category creators who have scaled to become some of the world’s largest and fastest growing tech innovators. With clients born out of the US and EMEA, we have supported them across all markets globally.

Leveraging a career heavily focused in the US tech market, Sara’s pro bono work aligns to the vision of Boardwave, a purpose-driven social enterprise supporting tech companies borne out of Europe and the Middle East to optimize their opportunities to scale and fulfil their global potential. Her work for Boardwave centers on CEO development across Europe, reflecting her philosophy of giving back to the world of tech.