Claire-Louise McSherry

Claire-Louise McSherry specializes in helping financial services companies find technology leaders. She is passionate about building succession pipelines of diverse leaders in CIO, CTO, CDO and CISO roles.

Based in London, Claire-Louise has deep experience across the financial services industry, capital markets, consumer banking, transaction banking, wealth and asset management. She is member of the Technology Sector at Russell Reynolds Associates. Claire-Louise joined Russell Reynolds from McSherry Brown, a boutique search firm she founded in 2008. The company primarily focused on recruiting and developing diverse leadership in the cyber, digital and technology space – with a particular specialization in financial services.

Much of Claire-Louise's career has been spent advising international clients in the financial services, FinTech, payments, private equity and technology industries on their recruitment strategies and hiring, as well as offering career coaching to senior executives in global institutions. Prior to founding her company, Claire-Louise was a director and head of the technology practice at the Trafalgar Partnership.