Digital Advisory Director
200+ consultant practice
Advisory practice needed a buyer-side translator, not another technologist.
The Discretion Mandate
We do not weaponise our clients' organisational vulnerabilities as marketing collateral. Our track record is demonstrated by the structural complexity of the mandates we execute — not by borrowing brand equity.
No published client logos.A complete evidence file instead.
Anonymised mandate log, role-family and sector coverage, geographic reach, verified field references. The material a board reviews before committing to an engaged search. Confidentiality is the operating principle — proof is the ledger below.
The unredacted ledger and named references are shared under NDA. Book a thirty-minute mandate call → or see how a search runs.
Evidence File — Macro
250+
Mandates delivered
Engaged mandates since 2000
8 in 10
Still in role at 12 months
Category norm: ~60% at 18 months
35
Days · median to shortlist
Category norm: 84–120 days
93%
Offer close rate
Category norm: 55–70% on retained
Placement Blueprints
Every mandate engaged. None contingency.
Selected search projects — drawn from 250+ completed mandates. Roles shown as function, not title. Clients anonymised unless disclosed. Named references made available under NDA.
Sales Director, Digital Banking
$500M+ deposit book
Revenue growth required a seller who understood compliance-gated procurement cycles, not just pipeline volume.
Head of Delivery
$100M+ managed services book
Delivery leadership vacuum during managed services expansion, execution risk, not headcount gap.
Director, GenAI Architecture
5,000+ seat enterprise rollout
Client-facing AI strategy credibility required. Not an internal build engineer.
AI Subject Matter Expert, Associate Director
National telco AI programme
Telco AI evangelism demanded fluency in both GenAI architecture and boardroom narrative.
Director / VP, People & Change Management
3,000+ FTE workforce redeployment
AI transformation workforce redeployment required a change architect, not a conventional HR VP.
VP, Data Centre Operations
$300M+ hyperscale build-out
Hyperscaler expansion required an operator who had lived the build-versus-buy decision at VP level.
Director, Infrastructure Strategy
40+ site SAP-to-cloud migration
SAP-to-cloud migration mandate exposed a gap between infrastructure ownership and strategic intent.
VP, Payments Corridors (APAC)
$2B+ annualised settlement volume
Post-raise velocity required a VP who had already navigated emerging-market settlement risk, not one learning it in role.
Director, Digital Banking Operations
1M+ active accounts
Challenger bank scaling required an operator who understood the tension between compliance architecture and product velocity.
“A different approach — unusual, worth trying. In limited time, the required quota was delivered without any concession on quality.”
Selected testimony from mandates led by Harald H.R. Agterhuis, now founder of Sercxi. Verbatim on LinkedIn; excerpted here. Verify on LinkedIn ↗
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The Standard We Hold
Verified field references.
Drawn from the founder's LinkedIn recommendations and operating relationships - published with each operator's knowledge. Named references available on request, under NDA, once a mandate is in scope.
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For over a decade, across three organisations, the same firms keep being asked back. Engaged search completes the mandates others walk away from.
— CTO, Data Centre & Infrastructure Group, EMEA
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When the business needed results fast, the methodology delivered. The best searches see talent where others see a gap in the brief.
— VP Talent Acquisition, Enterprise AI Practice, EMEA
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Short timeline, no concession on quality. The quota was filled. Every hire stayed.
— COO, Regulated Digital Bank, APAC
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Engage a firm for three reasons: the network, the creativity around obstacles, and the drive to make results happen. All three have to show up.
— Group CHRO, Infrastructure Fund–Backed Portfolio, GCC
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Look beyond the CV. Read what drives the person - and know whether that drive fits the culture before the brief is finished.
— CIO, FinTech Scale-Up, EMEA
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Understood the need quickly, required minimal guidance, and returned a result that was both time-efficient and cost-efficient. Exactly what a scaling business needs.
— VP People, SaaS Scale-Up, APAC
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Never give up. Resourceful, tenacious, and genuinely skilled at managing both sides of a difficult search.
— CISO, Data Centre Operator, APAC
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High integrity. Does what they say. Gets done what others cannot.
— Managing Director, Payments Corridor, GCC
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Sensitive mandates handled with discretion and dignity. The standard for engaged search.
— Group CDO, Sovereign-Backed Transformation, GCC
III
Coverage
Where the mandates land.
Three seniority bands, seven sectors, three hubs — the full operating envelope on a single page. Outside this envelope, the firm refers or declines.
Role families
C-Level
- ·CEO
- ·CTO
- ·CIO
- ·CISO
- ·Chief AI Officer
- ·Chief Data Officer
- ·COO
- ·Managing Director
VP
- ·VP Engineering
- ·VP Data Centre Ops
- ·VP Cybersecurity
- ·VP Payments Corridors
- ·VP Product
Director
- ·Director, Infrastructure Strategy
- ·Director, GenAI Architecture
- ·Director, Digital Banking Ops
- ·Director, People & Change
Hubs
APAC hub
Singapore
Southeast Asia, ANZ and the broader APAC corridor — concentration in financial centres and hyperscale build-out.
Singapore mandates →EMEA hub
Amsterdam
Netherlands, DACH, Nordics, UK and Ireland — concentration in data centres, regulated FinTech and AI infrastructure.
Amsterdam mandates →GCC hub
Dubai
UAE, Saudi Arabia and the broader GCC — concentration in sovereign-grade transformation and infrastructure.
Dubai mandates →Extended Evidence · NDA
Seven further mandates, held under confidentiality.
Sensitive placements — sovereign, regulated, post-incident, PE-carried. Acknowledge the click-through NDA to view role function, signal, and twelve-month outcome.
Seven mandates behind a click-through NDA.
Sixty-second acknowledgement. Details remain in-browser; we log only that you accepted.
Track record last updated: August 2026
Mandate Initiation Protocol
Initiate Confidential Briefing.
Mandates are accepted selectively under strict confidentiality parameters.
Retention, counter-offer and time-to-shortlist figures above reflect Sercxi engaged mandates only. See Trust & Security for how candidate and client data is handled, and Subprocessors for the current data-processor list.
GDPR · PDPA · PDPL — Engaged mandates only