Global ID Exchange · Live mandates
Board seats, interim leadership and advisory — one board.
A director building an international portfolio typically holds a statutory seat in one market, takes an interim mandate in another, and advises in a third. Splitting those across three products would hide two-thirds of the options, so they sit here together.
Statutory board seat
21A seat on a statutory board — independent, non-executive or supervisory — with the appointment formalities and the personal duties that go with it.
Interim leadership
6An executive engagement for a defined window: a CFO through a refinancing, a COO through an integration, a CEO alongside a founder. The fastest route onto a foreign board, because it puts you inside the market on the record.
Advisory & consulting
5A scoped advisory engagement — board effectiveness, governance design, shareholder engagement, controls readiness. No office of director, no appointment formalities, no statutory liability.
Market
Sector
How to read these briefs
Every card states its provenance. A retained mandate is a search Gladwin has been engaged to run. Actively sourcing means a demand profile the Exchange is sourcing against, with the sponsor not yet confirmed on this board — we say so rather than implying a signed mandate. Organisations shown as descriptions are archetypes, never masked real names.
6 mandates
Interim Chief Financial Officer
United Kingdom·Technology & Software
Private equity-backed B2B software business, UK headquartered
The CFO has left mid-way through a refinancing and the sponsor needs a credible finance leader in the seat before lender diligence begins, with a permanent search running in parallel.
Interim Chief Executive Officer — Scale-up
United Arab Emirates·Technology & Digital Platforms
Series B logistics-technology startup, DIFC domiciled
The founder is stepping back from day-to-day leadership to focus on product and fundraising. Investors want an operating CEO in place for the twelve months to the next round, with the founder remaining on the board.
Interim Chief Restructuring Officer
Germany·Industrial Manufacturing
German Mittelstand manufacturer under lender pressure
Lenders have required an independent operating executive in the business before agreeing a standstill. The supervisory board needs someone who can hold both the operational plan and the lender relationship.
Interim Regional Chief Operating Officer — ASEAN
Singapore·Consumer & Retail
European consumer group's ASEAN regional headquarters
The regional COO has departed at the point the group is consolidating four country operations into one regional operating model. Momentum on the integration cannot be paused for a permanent search.
Interim Chief Risk Officer
Ireland·Insurance & Reinsurance
Irish-authorised insurance undertaking within an international group
The pre-approval controlled function holder has resigned. The firm needs an interim in the seat while a permanent appointment goes through Central Bank pre-approval, which takes months.
Interim Chief Information Security Officer
United States·Financial Services & Fintech
US-listed financial technology company
The CISO has departed while the company is building the governance and disclosure process required by the SEC's cyber-security incident and risk-management disclosure rules. The audit committee requires continuity of accountability.
Two sides of the same board
Whichever side of the table you sit on, it starts the same way.
Directors register once and are matched against briefs across every market their record travels to. Boards open a mandate — statutory, interim or advisory — and it costs nothing to list.