The Challenge
EdStart needed an advisory-board framework to guide their market entry and build trust with UK independent schools. As an Australian company entering the UK, EdStart was looking for deep connections within the UK private-education sector and needed credible advisors with school-governance and financial-operations experience.
Where Think & Grow Came In
- Advisory Board Framework: designed an optimal member structure with clear roles, meeting cadence, and appropriate remuneration models.
- Executive Search & Mapping: sourced and vetted candidates against benchmark profiles, focusing on school governors, bursars, and education-finance leaders.
- Candidate Engagement: secured exceptional advisors with complementary expertise across regulation, school finance, EdTech and associations.
The Results
- Pipeline of advisors – high-calibre candidates sourced and vetted.
- Board secured – advisors with complementary expertise.
- Credibility – immediate market credibility (ISBA & GSA experience) plus strategic market-entry guidance.
About EdStart
A fintech offering comprehensive fee solutions that enable schools to increase payment flexibility for families without the added complexity and workload.
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Board Advisory
We help you build, strengthen or reshape your board. We place independent directors, non-executive directors (NEDs), chairs and advisory board members from our global network, and we review and realign existing boards so their composition matches where the business is going.
Executive Search
A retained, senior-hire service: we map the market, reach the leaders (even the ones who aren't looking), and run a structured evaluation to deliver a shortlist matched to what you need to progress your growth stage. From C-suite to country-GM level, locally or across borders.
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Growth Partner and operator who helped build companies including Groupon from an early stage, now scaling tech companies through GTM, hiring and digital transformation.
Co-Founder of Think & Grow and co-creator of AWS's Global Passport Program (27 cities, 200+ firms). Has helped Stripe, Square, Peloton and Dropbox enter Australia and scaled Envato, Redbubble and Harrison.ai globally; LaunchVic Ecosystem Hero.
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With 20+ years placing senior leaders into tech companies and raising the bar on hiring practice, Vicky is one of the longest-standing employees at Think & Grow.
