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Simon Gray
Executive Recruitment Lead (Product & Engineering) (Blackstone Portfolio Company) @Civica
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WORK HISTORY
Executive Recruitment Lead (Product & Engineering) (Blackstone Portfolio Company) @Civica
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Civica is a global GovTech leader and one of the UK\'s largest software companies, providing cloud based solutions to over public sector organizations worldwide. The company delivers mission critical software that helps public bodies including local councils, central government departments, health and social care providers and schools operate more effectively through automating and streamlining services. Now backed by Blackstone, Civica supports the delivery of critical services to over 100 million citizens globally.As Executive Recruitment Lead for Product and Engineering, I am responsible for attracting senior technical leadership to support Civica\'s growth and transformation agenda. This includes recruiting VP and Director level executives across product management, software engineering and technology functions as the company accelerates its pivot to a pure play cloud software business. I partner with the executive team to define and execute hiring strategies for roles critical to Civica\'s product innovation and engineering capability.Civica operates across local government, central government, education, health and care, with a comprehensive product portfolio covering workflow and automation, risk and compliance, workforce management, financial management and data analytics. The company has delivered over two decades of continuous growth and completed more than 37 acquisitions, adding software assets and expertise in response to evolving customer needs and market developments.
EDUCATION
Penwith College
A Levels in; History, Law, English Literature & English Language, Law
London Metropolitan University
(LLBH), Law
SKILLS
ABOUT SIMON GRAY
I am a Legal Graduate in Business Law from London Guildhall, bringing over 22+ years of executive search experience within the technology sector. My career has focused on recruiting senior Product and Engineering leaders (C/SVP/VP level) for Private Equity backed ventures and publicly listed tech firms. I have a global perspective in talent acquisition, spanning all functions from Director+ up to C Suite and have successfully placed candidates in companies of various stages, from seed/Series A through the alphabetical growth stages to late stage private and public ventures. My core strength is placing technology leaders for large cap B2B Enterprise SaaS vendors globally. I am a Partner with Kingsley Gate, focused on Global Large-Cap Private Equity & Public Markets. At Kingsley Gate, I lead executive searches for the most strategically critical technology leadership roles, the urgent, complex mandates where deep specialization makes the difference. I am the person you deploy when you have business critical executive search work for PE backed software assets. My focus areas are generative AI, security and B2B Enterprise SaaS, with particular depth in regulated industries including financial services, healthcare and public sector.Prior to Kingsley Gate, I founded KSG Executive Search in 2008, through which I worked as a Fractional or Interim Head of Executive Talent Acquisition, embedding directly with PE portfolio companies and scale-ups to lead their most critical searches. This included contract deployments as executive talent leader at Celonis, Salesforce, Infoblox and Cisco. At Celonis, a Series D, PE backed decacorn, I served as Global Head of Executive Talent Acquisition, defining and executing the global executive search strategy for the Chief People Officer.
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