Dedicated to private equity and technology, we connect investors with finance leaders who scale businesses from source to success.

Springwood's roots run deep - uniting over 50 years of entrepreneurial experience in scaling and exiting Software and IT services businesses with more than a decade of global private equity executive search. This combination gives us both the investor's perspective and the operator's understanding, enabling us to deliver finance leadership with precision and pace.

Where Our Journey Begins

Springwoods Roots

Our Story

Our Purpose

Meet Our Leadership

Our role is to bring certainty to a high-stakes decision. Through a process defined by speed, transparency, and precision, we free investors to focus on value creation while we deliver the finance leadership to make it happen.

We exist to solve one of Private Equity’s most critical challenges: securing the right finance leader at the right time. By combining deep expertise in executive search and hands-on scaling and exiting technology businesses, we bring a dual lens.

The firm is built on the purpose to become the most trusted source of financial leadership in private equity-backed tech in the United States.

Our Leadership

Springwood Executive is founder-led, combining global private equity search expertise with decades of technology operating experience.

60+ Years

Combined Experience

Seb has spent more than a decade in executive search, specialising in placing CFOs and finance leaders into private equity-backed businesses worldwide. He has successfully led mandates across 15+ countries, building a reputation for his deep understanding of investor needs.

Sebastian Osborne

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Paul brings over 50 years of entrepreneurial and operational experience in Software and IT services, having founded, scaled and successfully exited multiple businesses. His insight into the challenges of growth, transformation and exit gives Springwood a rare operator's perspective.

Paul Osborne

Co-Founder & Advisor

Our Story

At the Root of Our Work

Investment Rigor:

We mirror PE discipline – market mapping, benchmarking and structure evaluation – driven by data not assumptions.

Execution Pace:

In private equity, time is value. We deliver shortlists in weeks – fast, focused, and without compromise on quality.

Talent Precision:

Like capital allocation, talent decisions demand accuracy. We deliver finance leadership with the track record and equity readiness to match the thesis.

Strategic Partnership:

We act as an extension of the deal and operating team, aligning every search with the fund's value-creation plan.

Sector Focus:

Exclusively focused on US Technology – Software, IT Services, and tech-enabled businesses – at the intersection of private equity capital and scale.

At the Source of Growth

We Connect PE With Finance Leaders Who Drive Growth.

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