Executive search for Fintech.

Retained and interim executive placements for fintech companies in the Australian market.

Tier One People - a decade of placing CEO, CPO, CTO, CRO and COO hires into fintech companies.

The wrong hire at executive level doesn't just cost the search fee. It costs twelve months of momentum and growth you don't get back.

Getting it right requires access to proven operators who have built what you're building, not a corporate executive learning at your expense.

Since our launch in 2016, we've worked with Boards, Investors and Founders of some of the world's leading Fintech companies to help them hire the 1% of leaders who redefine what's possible.

Building in the AI era requires a unique leadership profile. Whether you're scaling a Series A startup or an established enterprise business - you need someone who can build lean.

Traditional executive search firms apply corporate hiring methods to high-growth and AI-native companies. Our data proves it rarely works.

That's why we created our methodology based on first principles. It helps you hire the right leader, fast. Whether that's a permanent, interim or fractional solution.

We'll help you find and hire the people who turn startups into billion-dollar companies.

Tier One People covers mission-critical hires across technology, product, growth and operations.

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200+ Fintech leaders placed.

200+ executive placements. 75% of our work comes through referrals. Over 50 Fintech companies including Afterpay, Zip, Wise, Revolut, Block, Mastercard, Lendi, Spriggy, Ubank, Ezypay, Cuscal.

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Fintech Chatter is where founders, executives, and investors behind the world's most ambitious fintech companies share what's actually working.

We cover raising capital, scaling internationally, hiring leadership teams, and the challenges of building with transformative technologies.

New episodes biweekly. If you're building, funding, or leading a fintech company - this is your podcast.

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Executive search at the highest level.

Dexter Cousins is the founder of Tier One People, the executive search firm behind 200+ leadership placements across fintech.

Over 17 years, he's built a track record few in the industry can match. CEOs, CTOs, CPOs, and the senior leaders who have built startups into billion-dollar plus companies.

His focus is the top 1%. Executives who redefine what is possible. The results speak for themselves: an 85% retention rate across all placements with 95% of offers accepted.

Dexter also hosts Fintech Chatter, Australia's largest fintech leadership podcast. 350+ episodes. 30,000 monthly listeners. 40 countries. It's a network no other executive search firm can offer, and a reason the best operators in fintech take his call.

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