Caliber.

Boutique senior search · Founded Lahore, 2020

Senior placements in tech and finance.
Lahore. Dubai. London.

We place engineering, data, product and security leaders on the technology side, and financial controllers, treasurers, auditors and compliance officers on the finance side. Retained and contingent. Six to twelve weeks, brief to offer.

87
Searches closed since 2020
9.4 wks
Median brief-to-offer (2025)
91%
Placements still in seat at 12 mo
3 cities
Lahore · Dubai · London

What we place

Two practices, run by partners who have lived the work themselves before they ran a search desk.

Technology

Engineering management, principal and staff ICs, data and ML leadership, product, and security.

8 live · how we engage employers →
Finance

Group financial controllers, treasury, internal audit, compliance, FP&A, and tax — through to CFO.

7 live · how we engage employers →

Where we place

The Lahore-Dubai-London corridor. Our consultants live in their assigned market.

Lahore

Founders' city. Pakistan engineering, finance leadership, regulated banking. Eight consultants.

Faraz Iqbal · Mahnoor Khalid · Ayesha Mirza
Dubai

DMCC office. GCC technology and finance — engineering management, group FCs, treasury, compliance.

Aisha Tanveer · Ravi Iyer · Imran Mehdi
London

Brennan Partners affiliate. UK finance audit, GBP-paying tech engineering, cross-border CFO.

Conor Brennan · Daniel Park · Hannah Ellis

Recent placements

Three searches we ran end-to-end in the last two years. Full case studies on the case studies page.

Tech · Lahore · 2024

Group CTO for a Lahore-headquartered Series-C consumer fintech

Caliber was the only firm that asked us to define what we meant by "world-class" before they ran a single search. That conversation changed our shortlist before they even built it.
Group CFO, hiring committee chair
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Finance · Dubai · 2024

Group Financial Controller for a Pakistan-headquartered conglomerate's Dubai expansion

Imran ran our search like an audit engagement. Half-way through I realised we were getting a better-built finance hire than we had built for ourselves the last three times.
Group CFO
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Tech · Dubai · 2025

Head of Data for a GCC B2B logistics scale-up

Aisha sent us four candidates. Two of them are now competing CTOs at peer companies. The one we hired is the one we needed three years ago.
Chief Operating Officer
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The partners

Each partner spends a meaningful fraction of every week on live search work. The firm does not subcontract senior briefs to junior consultants.

Faraz Iqbal
Managing Partner

Built the firm from a single desk in Gulberg to a thirty-one-person practice across three cities. Owns the firm-wide P&L and the Pakistan corridor.

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Aisha Tanveer
Partner, Tech Practice

Owns the firm's technology vertical: engineering management, data and ML leadership, product, and security. Splits her week between Dubai (DMCC) and Karachi.

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Conor Brennan
Partner, Finance Practice (London Affiliate)

Anchors the firm's GBP-paying finance work via Brennan Partners Ltd in London. Twenty years on the CFO desk in Big Four and Michael Page.

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A senior search you cannot run yourself.

We turn around an initial brief in 48 hours. If we are not the right firm for the search, we will say so — and pass two names of firms who probably are.

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