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Mandates in the United Kingdom.
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.
3 mandates
Advisory — Internal Controls Readiness for Provision 29
United Kingdom·Financial Services
UK-listed specialist financial services group
The board must make its first declaration on the effectiveness of material controls for the financial year beginning in 2026, and does not yet have an assurance map that would support it.
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.
Non-Executive Director — Audit Committee Chair Designate
United Kingdom·Consumer & Retail
FTSE 250 consumer group
Provision 29 of the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024 requires a board declaration on the effectiveness of material controls — including operational and compliance controls — for financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2026. The current committee is strong on financial reporting and thin on operational control environments.
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.