Aidan Kennedy

Aidan joined Saxton Bampfylde in January 2015 with 16 years experience in Executive Search. He most recently spent eight years as a Partner in the London office of a global executive search firm. Aidan has particular experience in advising organisations on management change in times of transition and has worked on a wide range of leadership and executive mandates for Financial Services, Public Sector and Corporate clients across established EMEA business centres and in emerging markets.

Aidan is currently the Global Chair of Panorama, the global community of 24 leading executive search firms, of which Saxton Bampfylde is a founding member. He is a former Global Chair and Executive Committee member of the Association of Executive Search Consultants which represents over 75% of the leading search firms and over 7000 consultants across EMEA, APAC and the Americas and remains a Director on its Global Board. As a firm advocate of research led executive search, Aidan previously led the Research division of Armstrong International, before becoming a Partner of the firm and its Chief Operating Officer.

A graduate of University College Dublin, Aidan earned his Master’s degree in Politics from St. Antony’s College at Oxford University and undertook further Executive Education at Harvard Business School.