827Permanent MandatesBoard and executive seats
196ID / NED MandatesIndependent and non-executive seats
25+MarketsNorth America to Asia-Pacific
6Private hubsCEO, CFO, CHRO and more

1,023 live mandates·53,000+ esteemed members

The largest and discreet leadership career
platform for the global C‑suite professionals.

Shaping the future of global leadership since 2010.

Where the world’s most confidential board seats and CXO mandates are placed, and where a chief executive can be in the market without being seen in it. Your name is released one mandate at a time, and only when you agree.

The same trajectory, mapped across markets: your career map carried into Singapore, the Gulf, London and New York, an executive passport that travels, and partner desks in each.

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Membership Benefits

01

The Executive Passport

Your discreet portfolio and radar — one record issued in blind, named and full-dossier versions, so a board only ever sees as far as you have chosen to go with them.

02

Whisper

Your fully private CXO job-search agent, working for you around the clock to find seats and mandates across 25+ markets, and reporting only to you.

03

The Assessment

Sixty questions in sixty minutes, built for your seat, sector and market — the score a board reads before it reads your name. Included with membership.

How many of these mandates fit you?

Send the CV you already have. We read it and send back the count of live mandates that match your seat, sector and markets — free, and nothing is stored on a list.

Live Mandates

1,023live mandates

Every mandate is open to read. The full brief and the application open with a free account — three briefs a day, and one application a week — and without limit for members.

How it works

  • 01

    Build your Executive Passport

    Send the CV you already have. We rebuild it into one record issued in three versions — blind, named and full dossier — so what a board sees always matches how far you have chosen to go with them.

  • 02

    Open mandates and apply

    A free account opens three mandates a day in full, and sends one application a week. Each mandate asks three questions written for that seat; you answer them before anything is sent.

  • 03

    Or let an agent work your brief

    A membership opens every mandate across 25+ markets, lifts the daily limits, and puts a Whisper agent on your search around the clock. Your name is still released one mandate at a time, only when you agree.

What discretion means here. You are never “in the market” — you are being considered. Your mandate is never “in the limelight” — and still you receive the most qualified applicants. Your name is withheld from every board you approach until you release it, mandate by mandate.

Find your next mandate smartly. Reach your next leader quietly.

Phase 1 navigation

Enter through a market, industry or C-suite office before choosing the exact combination

Market hubs

Compare the same mandate across five leadership markets

Industry hubs

Follow sector authority across every Phase 1 role and market

Role hubs

Compare one C-suite office across twenty-five operating contexts

What our members say

Careers that crossed a border quietly.

25 reviews from executives who moved through the Exchange and the leaders who hired through it — permanent, interim, advisory and consulting. Three at a time.

  • Executive member

    The mandate was written the way a board actually thinks — the business, what it expected of its next CEO, and the horizon. I read it in full before anyone knew my name, and applied because it fitted. A cross-border CEO move felt considered from the outset.

    Amara OkediranChief Executive OfficerNigeria United KingdomPermanent
  • Hiring leader

    We needed interim finance leadership with experience beyond our home market, and no time for a long search. We posted the mandate on Global Board Exchange, and the applications came from finance leaders who had done the work in Asia. The brief stayed clear and the decision stayed ours.

    Lukas VeldnerChief Financial OfficerGermany SingaporeInterim
  • Executive member

    I wanted an advisory role where my regional expansion experience could be useful without taking on another full-time operating position. The mandate on Global Board Exchange set out board access, decision-making boundaries and the time commitment up front, which gave me a much clearer basis for choosing the opportunity before I applied.

    Mei-Lin QiaoChief Strategy OfficerSingapore AustraliaAdvisory