A practice built on judgement.
Most executive search firms treat natural resources as a sector. Templeton Global Search treats it as a specialism: built over nearly three decades of placing leaders across some of the most demanding operating environments in the world. The executives who succeed in these roles are rarely the most visible candidates. They are reached through trust, assessed through rigour, and placed by someone who understands the difference between a CV and a career.
Paul Templeton has recruited senior leaders since 1998, and has specialised in executive search for the mining sector since 2006, including a period at Korn Ferry, one of the world's pre-eminent search firms. He spent 13 years at a leading boutique, where he built the mining practice from the ground up and became part of the leadership team that bought out the founder.
Over that time he has partnered with some of the largest names in the sector, alongside a wide range of mid-caps and junior explorers. Much of his work has centred on remote and frontier operations, where the judgement of whether a candidate will genuinely succeed, not merely whether they look right on paper, is the difference between a placement that lasts and one that fails.
That experience is the foundation of the firm today: a boutique practice that pairs the reach and rigour of the major firms with the personal commitment only a founder-led model can offer.
From the largest diversified majors to the junior explorer with a single asset, and the investors behind both.
