About Albany Partners
Albany is CTO Craft’s long standing, highly recommended, strategic partner for all things “Recruitment”.
Not only have many of our key people and CTO Craft Members used Albany’s excellent services over the years but Albany knows how to deal with the key challenges CTOs, senior engineers and technology leaders face on day-to-day basis.
Albany have the know-how, experience and connections to effectively and efficiently help our Members deal with the three critical challenges CTOs face – Recruitment, Downsizing and Retention.
This means by working with Albany you have a trusted partner who can help you with your most important resource of all – your people.
Albany Partners is the executive search arm of Albany. Delivering high-impact leadership appointments within the investor-backed technology ecosystem. Albany will help you from securing key members of your own leadership team such as VPs of engineering and technology roles to finding your next CTO role.
Albany Growth is the recruitment engine of Albany, helping CTOs scale and build their teams. Albany Growth specialises in technology, engineering, product & software talent with extensive experience recruiting into Europe’s leading investor backed businesses.
Albany Interim focuses on Interim and contract-based hiring across all levels. This new division of Albany was set up to respond to evolving market conditions. Albany Interim supports Technology, Engineering, VC and PE clients where they require rapid placement of high quality, skilled technology executives.
Albany Insights – Accessing the best talent is about research, tapping into an unrivalled network of talent, and deep domain knowledge.
Each year CTO Craft works with Albany Insights to produce Compensation Surveys interviewing over 500 CTOs as part of that research. Through the partnership with CTO Craft, Albany can access and provide all these services for our 20,000+ CTO Craft Member network.
Albany and CTO Craft have begun filming to launch in 2025 a new video series to help educate CTOs and our Members with stories and real-life case studies. This means we will be able to pass on valuable life-lessons from other CTOs delivering you and our Members knowledge about how to deal with overcoming “Recruitment” related challenges and other key issues.
When we asked successful CTOs we found they understood that if you put in place the right recruitment strategy you are more likely to improve the retention of key staff. What people don’t know is that research has shown that there is a 70%+ improvement in retention when recruitment is done properly.
Organisations don’t really talk about ‘Downsizing’ during their business cycles but again companies that do put in place the right strategy to address this challenge are more likely to survive and when the business cycle returns to an upturn be in a position to truly thrive.
Give Albany a call and discuss how they can help you. Albany are good people, consummate professionals, with a wealth of experience, which is why they are CTO Craft’s exclusive strategic partner for our Members for all things “Recruitment”.
Meet Albany
Henry Draper – Managing Partner, Albany
Henry brings over a decade of experience in Executive Search, where he consistently delivers value by placing transformative Technology and Product Executives in high-impact roles. He specializes in addressing complex leadership challenges within technology and product functions, helping organizations navigate critical hiring decisions. Henry has an established track record of partnering with Venture Capital and Private Equity firms, working closely with their portfolio companies to drive growth and innovation through strategic talent acquisition.
Before joining Albany, Henry served as an Executive Search Partner at La Fosse Associates, where he led the Technology practice, with a focus on placing CTOs in VC and PE-backed businesses. He holds a BSc in Architectural Engineering from Westminster.
henry@albanypartners.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-draper/
David has broad experience in tech recruiting and executive search across a variety of sectors including banking, automotive and tech startups across Europe. His focus for the last few years has been on interim, fractional and advisory engagements, typically relating to Private Equity backed businesses. He runs Albany’s Interim division and is always interested in meeting tech and product leaders keen to move into a more independent, project-based way of working.
david@albanyinterim.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidatalbany/
Niruban Retnanandam – Director, Albany Growth
Niruban has 15 years’ experience advising Founders, VCs and PE firms on how to build world class technology teams. His experience is broad, having a deep understanding of how to scale Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Data, and Product teams.
Having covered all aspects of hiring including Permanent, Contract, Embedded Talent Solutions, and Outsourced Consultancy Services, Niruban prides himself on delivering a solution-based approach to hiring problems.
niruban@albanygrowth.co.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirubanretnanandam/
James Goodrich – CEO & Founder
James has over 20 years’ experience working in search and moving CTOs. He enjoyed 13 years working for a global brand before setting up Albany in 2012.
James believes in providing an honest approach whilst delivering objective advice on the relevant markets. He acts as an advisor, helping clients who wish to augment their team, or technology leaders who are looking for their next opportunity.
james@albanypartners.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/jagoodrich/
