About David Rush

Guiding Businesses to Greater Heights

I advise boards and senior leadership teams, helping organisations achieve success. I have successfully founded and built businesses, developed high performing teams and advised and supported high growth businesses to do the same. An individuals ability to change an organisations "stars" is simply extraordinary, I help this happen.

Expertise

Leadership, Team & Recruitment

  • 25 years+ of advising boards on leadership
  • Building high performing teams
  • Pre-acquisition due diligence – leadership assessment & effectiveness
  • Appoint Directors, Exco members & senior leaders to early stage, SME’s and Sunday Times fastest growing companies as well as FTSE 250 & 100.

Entrepreneurial

  • Founded, built and sold Executive Search consultancy that became top 15% in UK
  • Co-Founder of award winning tech start up, quantitatively measuring corporate culture with FTSE100 clients
  • Co-Founded a JV UK/Middle East entrepreneur accelerator 

Business Building

  • Develop and execute strategy for sustained business growth
  • Business development through leading high performing teams
  • Built financial services to be largest & most profitable division at Norman Broadbent
  • Won multi-million £ contracts and JV’s with FTSE100 & global top 5 consultancy for startup

International

  • Worked in Middle East
  • Established JV in Saudi Arabia, 
  • Opened office in Singapore, 
  • Ran projects in UK, USA, Middle East and Asia 

Business Background

BOARD ADVISOR  - 2020  to date

Work as a Board advisor, non-executive director, mentor with a small diverse portfolio of businesses. Sectors I have advised in are varied and include; property management, yacht charter, membership organisations, care business, financial services, construction and distribution.

 

LEADERSHIP ADVISOR  - Mercuri Urval  (2019 to date)

Advise small and mid cap businesses on their boards and senior leadership teams, globally. Conduct pre-acquisition leadership due diligence. Helping clients out perform through people.

 

DIRECTOR - Hogget Bowers  (2017 - 2019)

Advise on and appoint the leadership teams of start up banks and established corporates

 

CO-FOUNDER - CultureScope (2012 - 2017) 

Co-founded “CultureScope” the world’s most advance quantitative measurement tool of Corporate Culture, now used by some of the worlds largest companies e.g. HSBC, EY etc.. Wharton University, People Analytics prize winner. Conduct board development programmes, increasing board effectiveness.

 

DIRECTOR - Norman Broadbent  (2006 - 2011)

Grew the financial services division into the largest and most profitable division in Group. 

                 

CEO & FOUNDER - MSC  (1992 - 2006) 

Founded, expanded and ran this successful recruitment consultancy to be top 15% in UK, sold to Norman Broadbent.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

                                                                     

 

Services

Board Advisor
Non-Executive Director
Mentor
Corporate Culture
Leadership Assessment

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