Global Executive Search & Advisory

The right people.
In the room.
When it matters.

We find the leaders, operators, and high-impact individuals who move businesses forward. From permanent executive search to interim deployment and team build-outs, we work at the speed the situation requires.

Start a Search What We Do

A premium executive search firm built for organisations at a point of change.

Audbry works with founders, boards, and leadership teams at the moments that matter most. On permanent search, interim and fractional placement, and team build-outs for organisations going through transformation.

What sets us apart is how we assess. Every shortlist is pressure-tested by a practitioner who has held the accountability your next hire will face. Not a consultant. Someone who has been in the seat.

Audbry exists to make sure the right people are in the room when it matters.

What We Do

Three ways we work with you.

Whether you need a permanent hire, a leader deployed this week, or a full team built from the ground up, we bring the same precision and sector depth to every brief.

Permanent Search

Executive Search

Retained executive search for senior leadership roles across Finance, Technology, and Transformation. Every shortlist pressure-tested. Every candidate assessed against what the role actually demands.

C-suite and functional director level
Retained and exclusive mandates only
Validated shortlist in three weeks
Executive Assessment Report per candidate

Interim and Fractional

Speed Deployment

Transformation programmes cannot wait for a 12-week permanent search. We deploy experienced interim and fractional leaders within 48 to 72 hours, with the same sector depth applied to every brief.

Interim leadership deployed in 48 to 72 hours
Fractional executives for scaling businesses
High-impact individual contributors
Fixed-term, flexible engagement models

Build-Outs and Advisory

Team Build-Outs

When the mandate is bigger than a single hire. We structure and execute team build-outs for scaling technology, finance, and transformation functions, from first hire to full team.

Function design and role architecture
Sequenced hiring aligned to delivery milestones
Talent advisory and gap analysis
Build vs hire vs fractional recommendations

The Audbry Difference

Assessed by someone who has held the role.

The fundamental problem with senior hiring is that most people running the process have never done the job they are hiring for. They assess what they can see. Polish. Confidence. How well someone describes their experience. None of which reliably predicts whether that person can actually perform under pressure in a complex environment.

Every Audbry shortlist is pressure-tested by a practitioner with direct, first-hand experience of operating at the level your next hire will face. Not a consultant. Someone who has been in the seat.

01

Practitioner Validation

Every shortlisted candidate is assessed by someone who has held comparable accountability in a relevant environment.
02

Executive Assessment Report

Every candidate comes with a structured intelligence report. Scoring matrix, capability analysis, and hire recommendation.
03

Precision Over Volume

We do not send CVs. We send validated, assessed candidates with a clear rationale for why each one belongs on your shortlist.
04

Full Discretion

Retained and exclusive mandates only. Every search receives full resource commitment from brief to placement.

Our Focus

Where we work best.

Deep networks and genuine sector understanding across the industries where leadership decisions carry the highest stakes.

Fintech & Payments

Scaling payment infrastructure, embedded finance, and fintech platforms operating under genuine regulatory weight — across the US, Europe, and the GCC. Active in MiCA, VARA, FCA, ADGM, and SEC-regulated environments.

Technology & AI

Engineering leadership, AI-first operating model design, and technology transformation for scaling SaaS, digital asset, and product-driven businesses. From CTO to Chief AI Officer to VP Engineering.

Transformation & Change

Programme leadership and operators for organisations rebuilding, scaling, or fundamentally shifting how they operate — including PE-backed portfolio mandates across the US, Europe, and the Gulf.

About Audbry

Built on the belief that executive search deserves better.

Kane Wills is a global executive recruiter and talent specialist with over 15 years of experience building high-impact leadership teams across complex, high-growth organisations. He has operated at the most senior levels of executive search and in-house talent leadership across the US, Europe, and the Middle East.

Kane's specialism spans Financial Services, Fintech, Digital Assets, and Technology-driven transformation. He has built leadership teams across some of the most demanding regulated environments in the world — including scaling an engineering, product, and commercial function from the ground up at a regulated blockchain infrastructure business, placing a Chief Data Officer into one of the world's largest media and advertising groups, and leading multiple AI team build-outs across fintech and technology businesses in the US and Europe.

Prior to his career in executive search, Kane was a professional footballer — an experience that instilled deep foundations of performance under pressure, resilience, and uncompromising standards that underpin everything Audbry does.

Audbry is headquartered in Dubai, UAE, with active networks across the United States, Europe, and the Gulf.

What Clients Say

Heard from the room.

A selection of feedback from the mandates we have delivered. All identities withheld by default.

“Kane placed our CFO in under three weeks. The shortlist was three people. All three could have done the job. That doesn't happen with most search firms.”

CEO, Series C Payments Platform GCC expansion mandate — 2025

“We needed an interim COO inside 72 hours. Kane had someone in the seat in 48. Not a warm body — exactly the right operator for the moment we were in.”

Founder, Digital Asset Exchange Regulated market entry — 2025

“Building an AI team is hard when you don't know what good looks like from the inside. Kane does. He pressure-tested every candidate in a way our internal process couldn't.”

CTO, Scaling Fintech AI engineering build-out — 2024

Get in Touch

Start a conversation.

Tell us about the mandate and we will be in touch within 24 hours. Whether it is a permanent search, an urgent interim requirement, or a team you need to build, all enquiries are handled with complete discretion.

kane.wills@audbry.com

Location

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Coverage

Global — US, Europe and Middle East

Response

All enquiries responded to within 24 hours

The right people. In the room. When it matters.