Chris Cheesman

SisuPeople finds your permanent leaders. SisuScale gives you fractional ones. Chris runs both, so he has no reason to sell you the wrong one.

Most founders have thought hard about product, funding and go-to-market. The leadership team tends to get sorted under pressure: when someone leaves, a round closes, or the board starts asking questions. Twenty years in executive search have taught Chris that the expensive mistake isn't always the wrong person. Often it's the wrong kind of hire. A full-time CFO eighteen months too early. A fractional CTO kept on long after the business needed someone in the seat every day.

So he built two businesses to cover both. SisuPeople, founded in 2020, provides executive search and recruitment for scaling businesses. SisuScale is a tight, curated community of fractional CxOs, operators who've built and scaled before and know when it's time to pass the baton.

Chris works with tech founders from Seed to Series C, usually 10 to 200 people, at the point where who's around the leadership table starts to matter more than ever. The first conversation is usually about working out which kind of hire you need. Sometimes the answer is neither yet, and he'll tell you that too.