Meet Rory McDermott

Rory has spent more than 20 years finding senior finance leaders for businesses across the UK, Europe and US.

He specialises in CFO and senior finance appointments, with particular experience across M&A, tax, treasury and controlling, and in manufacturing, engineering, construction, energy and greentech.

His starting point is simple: understand what the business needs this person to achieve. Then find the person who will deliver.

That often means looking beyond the obvious CV. Rory is also a trained executive coach, which shapes how he assesses leadership style, motivation and fit, particularly when a business is going through growth, transformation or change.

To see how Rory has partnered with Halma Plc to strengthen finance leadership across the business Read the Halma Case Study.

Rory is actively building and implementing AI, automation and data tools within STOIX to make executive search faster and smarter. His ethos is to remove unnecessary admin, search more of the market, generate more useful intelligence and give consultants more time to do the work that requires human judgement and finesse.

Rory has built relationships spanning decades, with clients returning for support as their teams evolve and candidates becoming clients as their own careers progress.

Rory splits his time between Barcelona and London. He’s a proud dad, sports obsessive and devoted Norwich City fan.