Fractional Executive Search

Experienced leadership for a Bangkok start-up, without a full C-suite payroll.

We search for, vet and match senior operators who have scaled companies in Thailand and the region, and who embed part time to put structure in place without slowing you down.

A founder and a senior executive reviewing work together in a bright workspace in Bangkok
The situation

Where Bangkok start-ups feel the leadership gap

Start-ups tend to put off operational and commercial leadership until it hurts. The pattern repeats by stage:

01

Pre-seed: one person, every job

Finance, operations, product and sales all sit with the founders, and every baht of runway matters too much for anything strategic.

02

Seed: the gaps appear

Product-market fit is emerging and the team is growing, but reporting lags behind what corporate venture investors expect and the sales process is not yet repeatable.

03

After seed: investors want structure

Reporting, operating discipline and a commercial engine are now expected, yet the revenue to justify a full-time executive is still a year or more away.

04

Before Series A: the crunch

The data room has to satisfy careful corporate investors, the leadership team has to look credible, and there is no time to wait for a permanent hire.

At each of these stages, an experienced fractional executive can add the missing seniority for the days it is needed, matched from our collective and in place within weeks.

Is it the right fit?

Who this is for, and who it is not

Best for

  • Founders wearing every hat with no senior cover where it matters most
  • Pre-seed to pre-Series A companies that need structure before they can fund it
  • Teams that need investor-grade finance, reporting or operations at speed
  • Startups scaling headcount faster than their processes can hold
  • Founders who want to protect the cap table while adding senior leadership

Not for

  • An idea with no product or traction to build structure around yet
  • A role a capable full-time hire is already ready to own
  • Founders looking to outsource a function rather than lead it
  • A single deliverable an agency or contractor could hand back
A quiet modern workspace at dusk, city towers beyond the windows

Funded-company discipline, without the funded-company burn.

For Bangkok founders

What a start-up gets from us

Senior experience, matched to your stage, with our governance around it.

1 monthNotice, either way
800+Curated and vetted executives
2–3 weeksBrief to deployment
30–60%Less than a full-time hire, on our engagements

In place within weeks

Two to three weeks from brief to an embedded executive, without a long recruitment cycle or the risk of a permanent mis-hire.

Experience of the Thai funding scene

Where the brief calls for it, we match a CFO who knows how Bangkok's corporate venture arms and regional funds assess a company.

Credibility with corporate investors

A seasoned CFO preparing your model and board pack tells investors the company is run with discipline.

A room full of operators

Your CFO can check infrastructure costs with a CTO from our collective; your CMO can test positioning with a COO. One engagement gives access to many.

Add roles as you grow

Start with one executive and add another when the team or the market calls for it, with no restructuring needed.

How it works

From first call to embedded operator

We move at startup speed.

01

Tell us your stage

Where are you in the journey? What are the gaps? What does the next 90 days need to deliver?

02

We match the right operator

From our vetted collective, we introduce the fractional executive matched to your stage, sector, and culture.

03

Embedded within weeks

Your fractional embeds with your team, begins the scoped work, and operates with real accountability.

04

Scale the stack

As you grow, add further specialists from the collective. We coordinate them so they work as a coherent team.

Stage to role

Which leader for your stage

The gap that slows a startup changes as it grows. Here is where most founders feel it first, and who owns it.

Stage
The most common gap
Fractional role
StagePre-seed
The most common gapFinancial model, operating rhythm
Fractional roleFractional CFO
StageSeed
The most common gapCommercial structure, reporting
Fractional roleFractional CFO
StagePost-seed
The most common gapTeam, process, investor readiness
Fractional roleFractional COO
StagePre-Series A
The most common gapData room, governance, scale story
Fractional roleFractional CFO
Roles for start-ups

Which fractional executive comes first?

It depends on your stage and where the biggest gap is today.

Proven leadership

Our operators have built and scaled at

Stripe
Revolut
Airbnb
Spotify
Klarna
Figma
Canva
Datadog
Common questions

The questions buyers ask first

Often, yes. Pre-revenue is a good moment to set up finance and operations properly, before habits form. A fractional CFO at this stage costs far less than a full-time hire and can make the first raise considerably smoother.

We match operators who understand what Bangkok's corporate venture arms, accelerators and the regional funds active in Thailand look for, and who can prepare the company for those conversations.

Yes. Bangkok is a good base for regional growth, and we can match executives who have scaled companies into Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and beyond.

Yes. A CFO and COO together, or a CMO added as product-market fit firms up, are both common shapes. We coordinate the engagements so the executives work as one leadership team.

Experienced investors tend to see a well-chosen fractional team as a sign of capital discipline. What matters to them is the quality of the people, which is what we match for.

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Get started

Build the leadership your stage needs.

Tell us where you are and what the next round has to prove. We will match a proven operator to your stage and add to the stack as you grow, backed by our vetted collective.

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