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ABOUT.

Steve Bourne
Distinguished Headhunter & Film maker.

22 years operating behind the scenes,
from London to Silicon Valley.

Building start-ups and leading executive search across DeepTech, AI, and Defence.

Where to find me.

Instagram
Youtube

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surgical precision +Speed

Time-to-first interview: 48 hrs

Avr. Time-to-hire: 14-21 Days

Avr. Candidate-hire ratio: 2:1

Avr. Offer-close rate: +98.0%

Headhunt-Engaged conversion rate: 100%

Learn more about
High-velocity search, team-scaling or how to optimise your recruitment strategy, book a call.

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TRACK RECORD + RECEIPTS.

LAST 4 ENGAGEMENTS.

- AI + Autonomy Defence Scale-Up [Series F, SF]
- AI Defence Scale-Up [Series E, SF]
- AI Scale-Up [Series A, SF]
- AI Defence Start-up [Seed, UK]

CORE/FOUNDING TEAM-BUILDS.

- Sovereign Defence Start-up [£30m Seed]
→ Core Team (7 hires / 4 weeks)

- Physical AI Defence Scale-up [$15b F]
→ Founding BD Capture Team (6 hires / 6 weeks)

- Defence Scale-up [Undisclosed]
→ Founding Engineering Team (4 hires / 3 weeks)

- AI Defence Scale-up [$15b F]
→ MENA Leadership Team (2 hires / 3 weeks)

- AI Analytics Software [$1.8b Public]
→ Corporate Venture Build (10 hires / 6 weeks)

- SaaS Software Company [$8.2b E]
→ IC Track Design + Build (9 hires / 7 weeks)

- SaaS Software Company [$8.2b E]
→ European Expansion (37 hires / 6 months)

LEADERSHIP.

- Head of Gov and Defence, Europe (London)
- Head of Gov and Defence, APAC (S.Korea)
- Head of Land Autonomy, UK/Europe (London)
- Head of Air Autonomy UK/Europe (London)
- Head of Gov and Defence MENA (Abu Dhabi)
- Head of Nordics (Stockholm)
- Head of Maritime Autonomy, UK (London)
- Head of Maritime Autonomy, Nordics (London)
- SVP of Engineering (London)
- VP of Engineering (Munich)
- VP of Engineering (Munich)
- Director of Engineering (London)
- Global Account Manager (Munich)
- Global Account Manager (Munich)
- Head of Car Simulation Sales, Europe (Munich)
- SVP of Engineering (Dublin)
- VP of Engineering (Dublin)
- Managing Director, Europe (London)

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ENGINEERING.

- Principal Robotics Engineer (London)
- Principal Robotics Engineer (London)
- Principal Software Engineer (Munich)
- Forward Deployed Engineer (London)
- Staff AI Engineer (London)
- Staff Software Engineer Sim & Modelling (UK)
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer (London)
- Staff Research Engineer (Munich)
- Technical Program Manager (Stockholm)
- Chief Solution Architect (UK)
- AI/ML Engineer (Berlin)
- AI/ML Engineer (Berlin)
- AI/ML Engineer (Berlin)

- AI/ML Engineer (Berlin)

- Forward Deployed Engineer (London)

- Member of Technical Staff (London)

- Principal Software Engineer (Munich)

- Staff Software Engineer (Munich)

- Principal Security Engineer (London)

- Staff Security Engineer (London)

- Technical Account Manager (Stockholm)

- Sr. Robotics Engineer (London)

- Principal Autonomy Engineer (London)

- Customer-facing Autonomy Engineer (London)

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