Rory McDermott

Executive Search Redefined | Co-Founder & Director at STOIX | B Corp™ | Global Search Partner to CEOs, CFOs | M&A Market Mapping and Connecting Market and SME's to support M&A thesis | AI explorer.

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

About

Co-Founder of STOIX - an International Search Partner (UK, EU, USA) to organisations who want to hire diverse leaders with purpose. Always delivery-focused, transparent, rigorous and modern. Skilled in: Market Mapping and Research, Leadership Search, Coaching, Interviewing and Leadership Assessment. I help elevate boards and leadership teams through people. This includes Finance Directors, Divisional Finance Directors, Functional Finance Directors - M&A Leaders, Managing Directors and CEO's of Operating companies.

Experience

  • Co-Founder & Coach at STOIX
    Mar 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

    Co-Founder & Director at STOIX | Search Partner to CEOs, MDs and CFOs in FTSE100, PE Houses & Scale-ups | Expert in Leadership Search and Interim Management. I partner with international organisations (UK, EU, USA) that want to hire diverse leaders with purpose. Our delivery-focused model is transparent, rigorous, modern and a refreshing change for our customers. I help elevate boards and leadership teams through people. This includes CFO, Chief M&A Officers, VP Tax, VP Treasury, Finance Directors, Divisional Finance Directors, Functional Finance Directors - FP&A, Control, Reporting, Managing Directors and CEO's of Operating companies. Skilled in: Market Mapping and Research, Leadership Search, Coaching, Interviewing and Leadership Assessment. M&A Mapping, connecting organisations with market and subject matter experts in niche sectors. M&A niche market mapping. “A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.” ― Taleb Nassim Nicholas

  • Advisory Board Member at Advantos Group
    Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

    I am proud to support Advantos as part of a talented advisory board. I am supporting the group with its talent, reward, tech, growth and people strategy.

  • Founder & Coach at uniQua
    Sep 2017 - Aug 2021 · 4 yrs

    Founder and coach at uniQua. uniQua is a transition coaching and talent acquisition practice, specialising in acquiring and developing leadership talent on a permanent and interim basis.

  • Head of Talent Acquisition Solutions at ICAEW
    May 2016 - Sep 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Recruitment Manager at Vitae Financial Recruitment
    May 2011 - May 2016 · 5 yrs 1 mo