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

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, as they scale up from pre-Unicorn through IPO and then continue to drive growth as public companies. Our client base spans scale-up companies through to established Nasdaq / NYSE-listed and PE-backed $Multi-Bn market leaders. Example clients over the years include Salesforce, Oracle, Siebel, CyberArk, Qlik, Shift Technology and Celonis, alongside multiple EMEA borne and American unicorns, decacorns and public companies.

Our focus is to enable global technology CEOs and their Leadership Teams to optimize their own leadership and build sustainable businesses, equipped to navigate constant change and highly resilient in the face of an ever-shifting global macro-economic outlook. Our 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. Many of our clients are market creators, drive strong and consistent growth, and achieve poll position as market leader.

From a search perspective, we are recognised for our unique, deep and multi-faceted partnerships with our clients. We support build out of cohesive Executive and Global Leadership Teams who operate as one, and of value-add Boards and expert Advisors who bring real world insight and experience to our clients’ growth journeys. The CEOs we partner with are highly focused on optimizing the culture of their businesses and creating the multiplier effect.

Sara has developed long-term, expert advisory partnerships 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. Aspen’s clients are born out of the US, Europe, Middle East and Africa, where we support them across all markets globally.

Leveraging a career heavily focused in the US tech market, Sara 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 pro bono work for Boardwave centers on CEO development across Europe, reflecting her philosophy of giving back to the world of tech.