Alisdair Munro

Partner

Alisdair Munro

Partner

Mr. Munro is a Partner and has 10 years' of executive search and people advisory experience - working at the c-suite and Board level. Alisdair's clients have spanned the technology sector, consumer & retail, professional services and the industrial sector. In addition to Board and CEO executive search Alisdair also covers functions such as CIO, CTO, CISO / CSO, CDO, CHRO and Chief Legal Officer positions across all industries. Alisdair focuses on executive/NED search, succession planning, CXO/NED/Board assessments, competency architecture as well as talent/people advisory strategy.

Alisdair has a 30-year leadership/executive career spanning the air transport industry, telecommunications/ICT, consulting and industry lobbyism/politics. He has held positions as Managing/Country Director, Commercial Director and HR Director for amongst others, DHL, US West (one of the “Baby Bell” companies) and Tandberg as well as a Telenor spin-off (TMP) – and has lived and worked in Africa, Russia, Central Asia and the Nordics/ Baltics.
He has also been the Director of Knowledge & Technology for Virke – the Norwegian Industry Federation, where he was responsible for multiple industries – and he has also been a Partner at Heidrick & Struggles as well as Korn Ferry, both places heading the technology practice in Norway.

Munro holds an Honours degree in Business studies (“Siviløkonom”) from the University of Stirling, Scotland. He holds both Norwegian and British citizenship, and is fluent in Norwegian, English as well as German and speaks good Russian.