Ralph Grayson

Ralph has over 30 years of board advisory and recruitment experience in the Financial Services sector. He is active in the recruitment and shaping of Executive and Supervisory Board management across a range of Financial Services, FinTech and aligned public and private businesses.

Ralph is an angel and early stage investor in multiple businesses, for whom he advises on board composition and executive teams. He was a co founder and seed investor in Boardex (exit to Thestreet.com), as well a range of other private and public companies including inter alia; Adimo, Adnit.io, Aquis Exchange, Artorius Wealth, Blend Media, Cloudhouse, ComMedica, The Disruption House, Enso Tyres, EnviroFresh, Hands In, Laundrapp, Novatrans, Pi-Top, Quorum, Starcount, Takumi, Tred, Wejo.

Ralph holds the Non Executive Directors Association NED Knowledge Assessment Certificate and the Financial Times Non Executive Diploma.

Ralph acts as an investor director, director and mentor for a number of accelerators and incubators such as AI Forge, Techstars, Startupbootcamp and Level39, as well as a range of family office and vc and pe investors.

Before co-founding Sainty, Hird & Partners in 1996, Ralph was a Partner at another international search firm for seven years. He was a co founder of SHP Associates, which successfully exited through a trade sale to Heidrick and Struggles.