Sepcialist Recruitment for AIM & PISCES Companies

Specialist Recruitment for
AIM-Listed Companies

Supporting leadership teams at AIM-listed businesses through the senior and governance hiring that public company life demands.

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We understand your hiring environment

Hiring at an AIM-listed business is more constrained than most leadership teams anticipate. Your shareholders have a view. Your Nomad has expectations. Your board needs to be satisfied that a senior appointment is defensible - not just commercially right but process-sound.

At the same time, the best candidates for AIM businesses are rarely found through the same channels that serve FTSE-listed companies. The profile you need - someone who can operate under market scrutiny without the infrastructure of a large corporate - is specific, and the pool is smaller than it looks.

We work with AIM-listed businesses on the senior and governance hires where getting it right the first time matters most. We understand the constraints your position creates, and we run searches that are rigorous enough to satisfy your board and fast enough to keep pace with your business.

What makes AIM businesses distinctive as employers

AIM-listed businesses occupy a distinctive position in the UK market: publicly traded and investor-scrutinised, but nimble enough to move at a pace the main market rarely allows. That combination - public accountability without the full weight of a premium listing - creates a specific hiring environment. Leadership candidates need the governance credibility to satisfy institutional shareholders and the commercial drive to operate in a business that still moves like a growth company. Finding both in the same person is not straightforward.

The hiring moments we are built to support

AIM businesses generate a consistent set of senior hiring needs, driven by growth, succession, governance requirements, and strategic change. These are the situations we understand best.

CFO succession or upgrade

The most common senior search at AIM-listed businesses. Whether the incumbent has outgrown the role, the business has outgrown the incumbent, or a fundraise or acquisition has raised the bar, the CFO search is where most AIM businesses first engage a specialist. We find finance leaders who are credible to institutional investors and comfortable in a business that still moves quickly.

CEO or MD appointment

Founder succession or externally driven leadership change at an AIM business requires a search process that is discreet, thorough, and defensible to shareholders. The profile is narrow: operational credibility, market-facing confidence, and the judgement to lead a business under continuous investor scrutiny.

Non-Executive Director appointments

AIM governance requirements and investor expectations mean NED appointments carry real weight. We recruit non-executives who bring genuine sector knowledge and board experience, not just the right CV, but the right contribution to a board that needs to function as well as to satisfy a listing requirement.

Senior leadership ahead of M&A or strategic change

An acquisition, a disposal, or a significant strategic pivot often exposes gaps in the leadership team that were manageable before the change but are not afterwards. We support AIM businesses through the senior hiring that strategic transformation requires - quickly, discreetly, and without disrupting the transaction process.

Fram Professionals

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Fram Search

A financial services background that matters

Fram Professionals is the sister company of Fram Search, a specialist executive search firm with over sixteen years of experience placing senior talent across financial services and growth businesses in the UK. That network - built across investment firms, growth-stage businesses, and the adviser community that serves them - is directly relevant to the AIM-listed businesses we work with.

We bring those relationships to every search we run, alongside the rigour and discretion that a public company environment requires.

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How we work

Fram Professionals offers retained executive search and contingency recruitment, applying the same direct-approach methodology to both.

We work on a fully retained basis for senior, confidential or business-critical appointments. For other hires, our exclusive contingent service applies the same active search methodology.

That means dedicated resource from day one, a properly managed process, and complete discretion.

In a VC-backed environment, where your investors, your competitors, and your potential hires all operate in the same networks, that discretion is not a courtesy — it is a commercial necessity.

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