Semiconductor executive search for fabless design, compound semiconductors, photonics and equipment makers. Clients include Oxford Instruments.
Oryx provides semiconductor executive search across fabless design, compound semiconductors, RF and power devices, photonics, EDA and IP, test and advanced packaging, and the capital equipment and materials businesses that supply the industry. Our client Oxford Instruments sits in that last group, and Bühler Digital Technologies in the adjacent industrial technology space. Senior appointments here turn on a specific technology, process or architecture rather than on general management experience, and the qualified population for a given role is often measured in tens of people worldwide. Our in-house research team works at that level of precision, mapping design centres, foundry relationships and engineering leadership across Europe, North America and Asia to find individuals with directly relevant technical and commercial track records. Coverage extends to analogue and mixed-signal design, MEMS and sensors, silicon carbide and gallium nitride, optical and quantum technologies, and the metrology, deposition and etch equipment used in fabrication.
Retained by fabs, device makers and systems businesses who cannot afford a miss
Buhler are leading manufacturers of optical sorting equipment. They use a range of technologies including cameras, lighting and machine learning software to sort grain, food and plastics and to remove defects by colour, shape and texture. Oryx recruited the Human Resources Director.
Oxford Instruments PLC are a footsie 250 manufacturer and leading provider of high technology products and services to the world's leading industrial companies and scientific research communities. Oryx has handled a range of work over the last 5 years. In 2022 we were asked to conduct the search to recruit a new Global sales and Marketing Director for the Plasma Technology Division. We conducted a global search which resulted in an appointment in Singapore in January 2023.
Established in 2009, Tokamak Energy is a fusion power research company on a mission to harness the significant potential of nuclear fusion to deliver an abundant, safe and cost-effective source of clean energy to the world. Oryx worked in partnership with Tokamak Energy to recruit a Programme Director who would lead the delivery of their most ambitious programme to date – a £500m demonstrator device which would be a crucial milestone in achieving the organisations aim of delivering grid connected power by the mid-2030s. Key to success would be identifying industries and businesses that were managing and delivering technology-led engineering programmes of a relevant scope and scale. Oryx undertook a thorough, cross-industry search that examined Aerospace, Automotive, Defence, Marine, Nuclear, Power Generation and Rail industries in the UK.
As a semiconductor headhunter, Oryx approaches those individuals confidentially and in person, which is the only reliable route to people who are well paid, heavily equity-locked and not reading job advertisements. We have been running research-led searches since 1988 and are employee-owned, with consultants who stay a decade or more and therefore hold long-term relationships inside a small industry. Clients receive weekly auditable progress data, a vetted shortlist within eight weeks, and support through what are often complex international offer negotiations. Psychometric profiling is available where a technical leader is stepping into a general management or board role for the first time. Our semiconductor recruiters also provide talent mapping for organisations opening a design centre or assessing whether the leadership they need exists in a given location. Because much of the sector's leadership sits outside the UK, these searches are routinely cross-border, and we account for relocation, visa and equity considerations from the first conversation rather than at offer stage.
Rebecca Ross
Director
26 years with Oryx
Nic Davis
Senior Consultant
11 years with Oryx
Colette Brown
Director
27 years with Oryx
Alex Mitchell
Director
26 years with Oryx
Will Strange
Director
28 years with Oryx
Gemma Killin
Senior Research Manager
12 years with Oryx
Phil Moran
Managing Director
37 years with Oryx
Jon Badger
Senior Research Manager
22 years with Oryx
Alec Berry
Senior Research manager
14 years with Oryx
