About Us

Relationships that compound.

A partner for building leadership teams for enduring businesses.
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Torre Search

We built torre because we wanted to work differently — with fewer clients, over longer periods, on decisions that genuinely matter.

Max Alfano and Harry Hewson
torre search founders, Max & Harry
The best leadership decisions don't start with a job briefing. They start with an honest conversation about where the business is going, what's really in the way, and whether the team you have today can get you there.

We've spent our careers inside and alongside investors — building leadership teams, sitting in investment reviews, and watching which decisions create value and which ones cost it. That experience shapes everything we do.
We work with investors, Boards, CEOs and founders on the hires that matter most: CEO, CFO, board appointments and Go-To-Market leadership across Private Capital backed software and services businesses.

We take on a small number of mandates at any one time, and we do them properly. Many of our client relationships span multiple hires, multiple funds and multiple years. That's the model we've built for — and it's what we find most rewarding.
Why work with us

Built for long-term partnerships

We're not built for one-off mandates. We're built for the kind of relationships where we know your portfolio, your team and your thinking well enough to be genuinely useful — not just when a role is live, but across investment cycles.

Value creation focus

Our work starts with your value creation plan. We align on outcomes, pressure-test the strategy, and define the leadership profile needed to deliver — ensuring every hire is tied directly to value creation.

PE-native perspective

We bring first-hand experience from within PE value creation teams, combined with deep networks across Europe and the US. We understand what works in PE-backed environments — and what doesn’t.

Partner-led execution

Every search is led by the founders. Every search matters. No delegation of critical work — just direct, senior engagement from first conversation through to onboarding and integration. We’ve stepped out of bigger businesses to build this with intention.

Focused, high-quality delivery

We take on a small number of mandates to ensure depth, quality and accountability — prioritising outcomes over volume. We focus on

Global reach & internationalisation

We operate across the UK and US, with strong, established talent pools in both markets. We keep our internal team intentionally lean, allowing us to stay close to the external market — building relationships, tracking talent and supporting clients as they scale internationally.

Access, not just advice

Beyond the search itself, we open doors — to capital, talent, and expertise — because the best partnerships go further than the placement.

Built on relationships -
led by the people you meet on day one.

Max Alfano

Max Alfano

Founding Partner of Torre Search
Max spent six years leading Talent Strategy inside Hg's Value Creation team, one of Europe's most respected software investors. During that time he was part of a team that delivered over 200 executive and board-level appointments across Hg's portfolio — spanning CEOs, CFOs, GTM leaders and board roles in businesses from initial platform to exit.

That experience gave him something most search partners don't have: a genuine understanding of how leadership decisions look from inside an investment team. What the model demands, where the pressure points are, and what separates a good hire from a transformative one.

That's the perspective he brings to every search at torre.

Max spends most of his time away from work with his young (growing) family or traveling, being outside staying active playing various sports…badly!  
Harry Hewson

Harry Hewson

Founding Partner of Torre Search
Harry has spent his career building trusted relationships with the people making senior leadership decisions — across private equity, permanent capital and founder-led businesses in software and B2B services.

Before torre, Harry was a board member, shareholder and brand-founder at Camino Search, where he helped build the business from scratch — hiring and developing both graduate and experienced search talent, building out multiple teams and a leadership layer, opening the US office, and breaking into new clients across the UK, US and Europe before exiting in early 2026. Alongside this, he led complex C-suite and Operating Partner searches for leading investors.

He’s known for being direct, thoughtful and well connected, with a genuine passion for the space. More than anything, he takes a long-term view — building relationships over time and acting as a partner clients come back to because they trust his judgement as much as his network.

Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family — Erin, Audrey and their crazy cockapoo Jemima — and is a big fan of sport and travel, particularly tennis, trail running and exploring new cities.
We built torre to do fewer things, with more care, over a longer period of time.

The relationships we value most are the ones that compound - where we know your business well enough to be useful before you've even picked up the phone.

If that's the kind of partnership you're looking for, we'd like to talk.
Let's talk

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Executive
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Senior appointments, delivered with discretion and rigour.
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team builds

Multi-hire leadership hiring campaigns to support growth, integration and transformation.
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Thesis creation & expert network

We open up our network of operators, advisors and specialists to help you shape your investment thesis.
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Advisory & support

Practical help across incentives, benchmarking, org design and leadership reviews.
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