A global private equity investor specialising in recruitment
Empowering recruiters to build something for themselves.
Recruitment Entrepreneur is one of the most successful private equity investors in recruitment businesses.
Our mission is to help founders globally, launch, scale, and eventually exit their own recruitment businesses, generating a wealth creation event. We invest in all sectors within the recruitment industry, which provides a diverse portfolio of businesses, each one a specialist in its own niche.
We have fostered a community of businesses that benefit from the expertise of our dedicated team who provide; funding, financial expertise, operational strategy, back-office support, legal advice, marketing, and talent attraction solutions, all of which enable our partner businesses to flourish.
Our founder & Chairman
James Caan CBE
Having founded Recruitment Entrepreneur in 2014, former Dragons' Den star and serial entrepreneur James Caan CBE plays a pivotal role in shaping each business within our portfolio.
James has been in recruitment for over 30 years and invests in recruitment companies of all sizes across various geographies and sectors.
Alexander Mann, his first recruitment business, sold in 2013 for £260 million. His second recruitment venture, Humana International, grew to 140 offices across 30 countries.
With 3 million followers, James was named LinkedIn’s second most influential voice of 2017. His global network, both online and offline, has assisted our current CEOs in attracting the best talent, clients and candidates to their businesses.
Meet the leadership team
James Caan CBE
Chairman
James Caan CBE
Chairman
As Chairman, James takes an active role in the investment process, working closely with the Recruitment Entrepreneur team to support you and your company. His hands-on approach enables entrepreneurs to learn from his considerable experience in founding and scaling recruitment businesses.
Wan Pang
Country Manager
Wan Pang
Country Manager
Pang is a Hong Kong based recruiter of 17 years specialising in mid to executive level searches across a diverse range of industry sectors including, life sciences, construction and engineering, technology, sales, and marketing, and industrial.
He founded his own hybrid rec2rec business in 2014 where he has successfully delivered leadership level searches across Asia Pacific for boutique specialists to publicly listed multi-billion organisations.
He has worked in companies such as Bo Le Associates and RGF Executive Search.
With his extensive network and experience, Wan is dedicated to supporting the growth of the recruitment industry.
Simon Childs
Regional Advisor - Asia
Simon Childs
Regional Advisor - Asia
Simon Childs is a Tokyo-based Board Advisor, HR M&A specialist, RPO Operator, and HR Tech Angel Investor. With over 20 years of experience in recruitment, he has built, sold, bought and facilitated management buy-outs, worth approximately USD 100M, across Asia.
Simon co-founded CDS, an executive search firm in Tokyo, which he sold to Recruit Holdings in 2007. Simon has also been an Advisor to the Board of Recruit's Permanent Recruitment Businesses in Asia from 2013 to 2020. He has received numerous awards, including the Asia Hall of Fame award from Recruitment International. Simon is involved in several HR Tech start-ups and is a senior advisor to Reccelerate.
He is also a regional advisor for Asia at RE and the Managing Partner for Recruitment Transactions International.
Annil Chandel
Regional Managing Director
Annil Chandel
Regional Managing Director
Annil began his career as a graduate trainee at Computer Futures, progressing to become the London Contracts Manager and managing a team of 40 recruiters while specializing in SAP.
He was then headhunted by a boutique SAP recruitment company to launch in Houston, Texas and later in Dubai.
Annil later joined Best People to launch their global ERP practice and eventually started his own recruitment company which he sold in 2009.
He then returned to SThree to launch their India business and later joined K2 Partnering as part of the SLT, where he launched India and helped scale their EMEAPAC business. Annil opened and delivered an account generating US$10m in revenue and $3.5m in NFI and also got involved in outsourcing services.