About BSalvador International

Boutique Executive Search for High‑Stakes Leadership Roles

BSalvador International is a boutique executive search partner built for organizations where every senior hire is a strategic bet—on performance, culture, and the future of the business. Large recruitment groups often optimize for volume. Many niche search providers stop at titles and technical fit. We operate differently: our work is designed for leadership decisions where the cost of a mis-hire is measured in delayed initiatives, stalled transformation, lost momentum, and the quiet churn that follows misalignment at the top.

Founded and led by Barbara Salvador, we support leadership hiring across a wide range of sectors, including: Legal | Financial Services | Technology | AI-Driven Organizations | Manufacturing | Tax & Accounting | Life Sciences | Pharmaceuticals. Across these industries, the common thread is complexity—high standards, high scrutiny, and high consequence. Whether the mandate is growth, modernization, risk management, operational excellence, or transformation, we help clients identify leaders who can execute in demanding environments—and elevate the teams around them.

Our role is to reduce uncertainty in executive hiring by running a disciplined, founder-led search process that produces decision-ready shortlists and leaders who align to both the functional brief and the culture from day one.

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What We Do

We specialize in Permanent & Fractional Executive Search for high-stakes leadership roles—where the right person accelerates strategy, strengthens culture, and improves execution across the business.

Permanent Executive Search (Retained)

We lead end-to-end retained searches for senior leadership roles such as CEO, Managing Partner, COO, CFO, CHRO, CMO, CIO/CTO, Chief Data & AI Officer, General Counsel, and Heads of Business Units and Functions. Each mandate is built around clarity and alignment: defining what success must look like, mapping the market, rigorously evaluating candidates, and supporting stakeholder alignment so the final decision is confident and defensible—not rushed.

Fractional & Interim Leadership Search

We place fractional COOs, CHROs, CFOs, CIOs/CTOs, and senior strategic advisors to support transformation, integration, scaling, or turnaround. These engagements are ideal when you need senior capability quickly, when you’re introducing a first-time role (for example, your first COO or Head of AI), or when you want to validate the leadership requirement before committing to a permanent hire—without sacrificing standards for quality, credibility, or cultural fit.

Strategic Talent & HR Advisory (Partnerships)

When needed, we work alongside trusted HR and organizational design partners to support onboarding design, org design, succession planning, and culture initiatives. The goal is simple: ensure leaders aren’t just hired well, but embedded into the right structures, decision rights, and expectations so performance is sustainable—not dependent on heroics.