INNOVO is recruiting CEOs and Boards to set up Corporate Ventures alongside $B+ Corporate Partners across all industries
- Over 150 CEOs and Board members per year needed for Corporate Ventures
- Other Board members needed for Topco and asset companies
Read how an INNOVO Corporate Venture works, and what the Corporate Entrepreneur CEO role offers your executives.
A new kind of senior assignment for your bench
An INNOVO Corporate Venture is a dedicated company formed alongside a multi-billion-dollar Corporate Partner. It builds independently assured partnerships with the partner’s major customers and suppliers, and finances the projects they have approved but not funded. Each Venture is founded by a Corporate Entrepreneur Chief Executive, with three board members in its first year, three more in its second and a ten-person management team as it grows. Every new Venture needs them again, so the demand recurs year after year.
Why Corporate Partners say yes
The best-known customer-supplier partnerships took about 32 to 42 months to start working and committed up to about 2.5% of the corporate’s revenue up front. An INNOVO Corporate Partner commits in month 4, sees value from month 5 and pays up-front fees of 0.06% of its revenue or less. These are modeled figures on INNOVO assumptions; no Corporate Venture is yet operating.
Who to refer
Senior executives with strong relationships with the Chief Operating, Commercial and/or Financial Officers of multi-billion-dollar companies. Interim executives often hold more of these than a career executive at one company.
Why your executives will want it
About 64% of UK interims were on assignment at the end of March 2026. A Corporate Venture offers the opportunity to earn outstanding remuneration and equity reflecting the Corporate Partner’s scale, with ongoing exit opportunities and no cash investment. It starts at eight hours a week, so your executive stays available to you for six months.
Three briefs
| Brief | What it is | When It Starts |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate Venture boards | The Chief Executive, then three board seats in Year 1, three more in Year 2 and a ten-person management team. | Now |
| INNOVO Topco central roles | Talent, sales and technology leaders, on the same terms as Corporate Entrepreneurs. | Alongside Chief Executive recruitment |
| Asset-company boards | 70 board and senior management roles across INNOVO’s first asset companies. | From the first financial close, over three years |
How you are paid
- Placement fees. 20% of the day rate INNOVO actually pays, for twelve months from the first payment: about $47,200 for a Chief Executive and $36,000 for each board, management or asset-company seat.
- About $623,000 a Venture, for a Chief Executive, six board members and ten managers.
- Retained fees are not offered initially.
- Never fee-bearing: the Chief Executive’s own margin. Fees attach only to day rates actually paid.
- Corporate Partner introductions are welcome and acknowledged; there is no standard introduction fee.
INNOVO was built this way
From April 2022 to July 2026, INNOVO Net Zero Topco created four divisions with $141,034 of cash, 0.3% of the total, and 99.7% contingent work by 75 executives. It answers the first question a senior executive asks about a contingent role: has this been done before?
Becoming an INNOVO Recruitment Partner
Recruitment Partner status is by invitation during the first months, with no exclusivity: the advantage goes to the firms that move first. Each Recruitment Partner has its own INNOVO-hosted, co-branded entry page, so every referral is tracked to your firm, and we run candidate webinars together.
We ask for an account manager’s time and your own screening. You warrant nothing, and your off-limits policy applies first.
Start with a short call under a mutual non-disclosure agreement.