We lead executive searches for high-impact organisations across Africa, partnering with global non-profits, fast-growing startups, regional businesses, and talent-forward multinationals to hire transformational senior leaders.
Our work spans full-time, fractional, and board-level appointments.
Find our open roles here.
Find out more here about our specialties. These include: end-to-end executive searches for full-time roles, fractional hiring to address short-term needs, and strategic HR advisory services, including compensation benchmarking.
We specialise in searches that are difficult to close: senior, mission-critical roles in complex and under-mapped markets across Africa.
These mandates rely on strong judgement, trusted networks, and access to non-public information, alongside deep local insight.
Our candidates are hands-on leaders from across the continent and the diaspora, with the experience to operate effectively in challenging environments.
Amardeep Vidyarthi
Managing Partner, Kenya
Amardeep Vidyarthi is a Partner on the Shortlist Search team and is based in Nairobi.Before joining Shortlist, he spent several years leading the Executive Search and Board Services practice at a regional leadership advisory firm...
Simon Desjardins
Co-founder & Partner, Kenya
Simon is a co-founder and partner on the Search team. He is based in our Nairobi office. He specializes in social enterprise, global technology companies, non-profits, philanthropy, impact investing, and board appointments across Africa and the Global South....
Becca Franssen
Partner, UK
Dr Becca Franssen is a Partner on the Shortlist Search team. Based in London, Becca has spent the past decade in executive search, working to appoint outstanding leaders in research...
Ankita Guhathakurta
Associate Partner, Kenya
Ankita is an associate partner based in our Kenya office. She specializes in family businesses, startups and investment funds across Africa....
Ashbira Singh
Associate Partner, India
Ashbira is an Associate Partner based in our India office. She specializes in roles within the non-profit and impact sectors globally, with a particular emphasis on projects in Africa and India, and has a strong focus on the field of education....
Natasha Bale-Robert
Associate Partner, France
Natasha is a seasoned executive search consultant with over 15 years of experience working across global institutions in the international development...
Amy-Jo Lynch
Associate Partner, UK
Hailing from London, Dr Amy-Jo Lynch is an Associate Partner at Shortlist, committed to delivering exceptional client and candidate care. Prior to joining Shortlist...
Nancy McKinstry
Chief of Staff, USA
Nancy is a Shortlist Chief of Staff in our USA office. With over a decade of experience she specializes in international philanthropy and nonprofits....
Wanjiru Akinyi
Principal Consultant, Kenya
Wanjiru is a Principal Consultant at Shortlist, where she leads senior and executive searches across Africa for purpose-driven organisations. She has delivered searches across sectors including global health...
Dina El Zahed
Principal Consultant, Egypt
Dina is a principal consultant in our Egypt office. Dina has led searches for senior appointments across tech startups, financial services, climate and energy, capital markets, global NGOs, and other sectors across the Middle East, Africa, and the USA....
Angie Muigai
Senior Advisor, Kenya
Angie Muigai is a fractional People and Culture leader with more than a decade of experience strengthening organisational effectiveness, culture, and people strategy across global, mission-driven, and matrixed organisations...
Wendy Chamberlin
Senior Advisor, Kenya
Wendy brings more than two decades of senior leadership and advisory experience across international development, philanthropy, research, and systems transformation, in Kenya and in communities across Africa...
Paul Breloff
CEO, Kenya
Paul is the CEO & Co-Founder of Shortlist, and supports across Shortlist Search and Shortlist Futures. Prior to Shortlist, Paul was the Founder and Managing Director of Accion Venture Lab....
