Adrian Belle

Chief Executive Officer | Executive Search

About:

Adrian is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Allura Partners. He leads the overall business strategy while continuing to deliver executive searches at CEO level for private equity backed, ASX listed, and private companies. For our private equity clients, Adrian provides strategic counsel across their investment lifecycle, encompassing pre-deal identification, market intelligence, evaluation of acquired management teams, and the execution of Executive Chair, CEO, and C-suite searches.

In 2013, Adrian founded an executive search firm focused on delivering CEO and C-suite searches to the private equity sector in Australia. Over the following four years, he built an enviable track record for some of the largest private equity deals across the country. In 2017, Adrian managed a partnership buy-out and re-branded the company Allura Partners. With Adrian as CEO, Allura Partners has become a trusted partner at the forefront of executive search, recruitment, and business transformation. Upholding values of integrity, dependability, and result-oriented commitment, Allura Partners has emerged as a prominent player in the industry. Recognised for growth, Allura Partners has consecutively been listed on the Australian Financial Review Fast100 in 2022 and 2023.

Interests:

Family, food, wine, tennis, skiing, surfing & travel.

Specialities:

Executive Search

  • "Allura Partners have conducted several executive search programs for Fortitude’s portfolio companies. In all situations we have found the process to be well considered and in all situations the candidates introduced have been of very high quality and we appreciate the ongoing relationship with Allura Partners"

    Bryan, Investment Director

  • “The Allura team have been excellent and diligent in working on a range of both straight forward and complex assignments for us in our business as well as our portfolio companies!”

    Jonathan Lim, Managing Partner

  • "Allura Partners have supported the C-Suite needs of OAC over the last few years. Adrian, Andrew and the team take an active partnership approach to recruitment and been great advocates of our business to the candidate market. Allura understand the dynamics of service sectors and PE ownership."

    John Burns, Chief Executive Officer

  • "The Allura Partners team have been highly professional and responsive when conducting candidate search projects for Bombora and our portfolio companies. We are really happy with the tight timeframe and quality of candidates short-listed in the searches"

    Mike Hill, Managing Director & Co-CIO

  • " It was great working with Adrian and Allura Partners on the recruitment of our new CEO for Prime100. Adrian quickly pulled together a rich pool of potential candidates from a range of highly relevant backgrounds. Having worked with Quadrant so many times, Adrian knew what a successful candidate needed to look like and worked skilfully with us to find the best person for the job."

    Peter Elkhouri, Investment Director

  • "Allura Partners is a great recruitment firm that I have enjoyed working with in the past. Adrian and his team are pro-active and energetic professionals who go above and beyond to fill the brief. I find Allura Partners to be far more entrepreneurial and aggressive than the large firms, resulting in some great talent within their candidate pools."

    Tom Hardwick, Founder

  • "Adrian and his team at Allura Partners have successfully helped us with a number of C-suite appointments for existing portfolio companies. Where Allura Partners excelled, versus other executive search firms we have used, is that they really listened to the specific skillsets that were most important to us for the roles and came back to us with a shortlist of exceptionally high quality candidates. I cannot recommend Allura Partners highly enough for anyone looking for assistance with C-suite appointments."

    Tom Matthews

  • "We engaged Allura Partners to assist us with sourcing management talent to assist with our due diligence and development of the investment thesis for Laser Clinics Australia. Adrian worked collaboratively to understand our needs and was instrumental in sourcing several candidates with relevant experience and background who were not ‘in the market’. This was done professionally and confidentially. Adrian is tenaciously focused on outcomes, which combined with a strong ability to build rapport and effectively evaluate candidates delivers results."

    Gareth Woodbridge

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