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In plain terms: what we are seeing in the markets where we run engaged C-level, VP and Director searches, published only when the signal is worth your time.
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Intelligence, Not Noise.
Quarterly Displacement Index + field notes from active mandates.
The
Displacement
Index
The average CDO tenure is now under two years. Senior data centre operators are being told their roles are "evolving." VP-level infrastructure positions are being consolidated into newly created AI Platform titles held by people who've never run a live facility.
"This is not transformation. This is displacement with better PR."
The Displacement Index
The average CDO tenure is now under two years. Senior data centre operators are being told their roles are "evolving."
"This is not transformation. This is displacement with better PR."
Open the Dossier →The Trouble with Knowing What You're Looking For
On fighter pilots, executive appointments and the human habit of looking for evidence that we were right all along — Boyd's OODA loop applied to leadership hiring.
The Quiet Unravelling
What the KPMG & REC Report on Jobs and Sercxi's Displacement Index Q2 2026 tell us — together — about the end of the permanent role as we knew it.
Nine out of Nine: The First Simultaneous Displacement Across All Three Corridors
For the first time in the Index's history, APAC, EMEA and GCC all read 9/9 on data centre leadership. Three different triggers, one convergent outcome: capacity is being commiss…
The Trouble with Knowing What You're Looking For
On fighter pilots, executive appointments and the human habit of looking for evidence that we were right all along — Boyd's OODA loop applied to leadership hiring.
The Quiet Unravelling
What the KPMG & REC Report on Jobs and Sercxi's Displacement Index Q2 2026 tell us — together — about the end of the permanent role as we knew it.
Nine out of Nine: The First Simultaneous Displacement Across All Three Corridors
For the first time in the Index's history, APAC, EMEA and GCC all read 9/9 on data centre leadership. Three different triggers, one convergent outcome: capacity is being commiss…
Know Where You Stand Before You Hire
The capability audit most boards skip - and why the hire fails 14 months later.
Not a Payments Expert. A Corridor Expert. The Difference.
Two profiles. One search. Six months of the wrong one. What the Thunes mandate taught us about corridor specificity.
Sovereign Data. One Jurisdiction. No Margin.
The Core42 mandate and what it taught us about GCC talent scarcity and why the usual European playbook fails here.
Know Where You Stand Before You Hire
The capability audit most boards skip - and why the hire fails 14 months later.
Not a Payments Expert. A Corridor Expert. The Difference.
Two profiles. One search. Six months of the wrong one.
Sovereign Data. One Jurisdiction. No Margin.
The Core42 mandate and what it taught us about GCC talent scarcity.
The Displacement Index:
FinTech & Payments Corridors - APAC
Series C companies are running out of runway and CFOs simultaneously. The next edition maps the mandate erosion happening inside APAC's FinTech leadership layer - and which roles are already gone before the announcement.
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