Richard Putley 2024 Speaker

co-Founder & CEO

Executives in Africa

Biography

Richard has over 30 years of professional recruitment experience, operating and managing businesses recruiting at the most senior level across Commerce and Industry, Sales and Marketing, IT, HR, and Finance.

Having covered the African market since 2007, he co-founded Executives in Africa with Sarah FitzMorris in 2010 and has since worked on nearly 300 Search mandates across a range of C-level, Senior Management and Technical roles. Richard brings specialist experience in the Fintech, Agriculture, Infrastructure, Telecoms, FMCG, Renewable Energy, Business & Professional Services and Oil & Gas sectors. In the last 15 years, he has been personally involved in a significant number of Executive level searches across the Continent completing numerous Searches for CEO’s and other CXO roles, for example, a CEO for a leading Telecoms provider, Group CFO for a FTSE250 FMCG