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York, England, United Kingdom
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Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers. With a buy-grow-and-hold-for-life approach and a permanent capital base, Banyan acquires and grows companies worldwide, honoring founder legacies and helping portfolio companies modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. Founded in 2016, Banyan operates more than 120 portfolio companies across North and South America, Europe, and APAC, and has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list for six consecutive years. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world.
Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialised industries, their employees, and their customers. We are on a mission to acquire, build, and grow great companies worldwide, helping them modernise through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world. Banyan is a Great Place to Work Certified company, a five-time Inc. 5000 honoree, and a top-10 company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, Banyan operates more than 100 portfolio companies across North America, the UK, the EU, and APAC.
Since 1998, Simunix has been providing UK private and public sector organisations with the intelligence tools they need to prevent and protect against fraud, identity theft and misrepresentation by those who seek to take advantage of the digital world.
Our suite of solutions provides our customers with the investigative means to verify, accept, or reject any information provided by their prospective customers or subjects under investigation. Around three-quarters of UK police forces rely on our data to locate people, verify whereabouts, and check the accounts individuals give of themselves. Alongside that public-sector base, we serve financial services firms, debt recovery businesses, the property sector, and any organisation that needs to verify who it is dealing with.
With a dedicated team nurturing one-to-one, personal relationships with every customer, we are here to ensure our customers' businesses are in the safest hands.
This is a rare opportunity to take the helm of a profitable, deeply embedded data business and build the commercial engine that will drive its next phase of growth.
You will join directly as CEO, reporting to a Banyan Operating Leader, with full operational authority over how you run the business. With Banyan's backing and shared AI and operational expertise behind you, your job is to turn a strong, durable asset into a growth company: improve new-logo acquisition, expand into adjacent public- and private-sector markets, and make the product the primary competitive advantage. The opportunity to create structural distance through AI is real.
The CEO we are looking for is a commercial operator with a product mindset who leads with an AI-first approach and is energised by the opportunity to create real, lasting business value. This is a hands-on leadership seat in a small, established business, well-suited to a first-time CEO ready to step up, or to a commercial leader who wants to own a P&L end-to-end.
You will have built and run go-to-market motions, treated product as a primary strategic lever, and grown recurring revenue while protecting the retention that makes it durable. You are comfortable selling into both regulated public-sector environments and private-sector markets, and you can move a business forward with energy and discipline while respecting the people and relationships that built it.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at Banyan: Banyan affirms that inequality is detrimental to our Global Teams, associates, our Operating Companies, and the communities we serve. As a collective, our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions. Together, we unite for equality and equity. Banyan is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic, including race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, or protected veteran status and will not discriminate against anyone on the basis of a disability. We support an inclusive workplace where associates excel based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance.
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