EIS & VCT Recruitment Specialists

Very few UK recruitment firms have genuine expertise in EIS and VCT. Fram is one of them.

Since 2011, we have recruited for EIS and VCT fund managers across investment teams, business development, compliance, operations and senior leadership roles. We understand the commercial model, the regulatory environment, and the candidate market, including the passive candidates who would never respond to a job advert.

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Roles covered:

C-Suite & Senior Management

Investment Managers/Directors

Business Development (field and telephone)

Marketing

Finance

Operations

Compliance

Executive Search guide

Why Fram for EIS & VCT

One of very few specialists in this market

EIS and VCT is a niche within a niche. Most generalist recruiters lack the sector knowledge to identify the right candidates or assess fit accurately. We have been recruiting in this market since 2011.

Direct market approach

We headhunt on every assignment, approaching the best candidates directly, including those not actively looking. In a market this specialised, that's the only reliable way to build a shortlist.

Retained and contingent solutions

For senior or confidential appointments, retained search gives you process discipline and commitment. For volume or time-sensitive roles, our contingency service applies the same direct-approach methodology, with a fill rate nearly three times the industry average.

Case studies & testimonials:

VCT-Focused Investment Manager

Fram Search was instructed to find an Investment Manager for a well-regarded VCT-focused firm that invests across sectors, with a particular emphasis on early-stage technology businesses. The firm is widely recognised in the market and has a strong track record, but the profile they required went beyond conventional financial skills.

Whilst rigorous financial evaluation and modelling ability were important, the client was equally clear that they needed someone with an entrepreneurial instinct, a person who could engage authentically with founders, identify genuinely promising technology in a crowded and fast-moving market, and apply the kind of judgement that comes from thinking like a builder rather than solely as an analyst. It is a rare combination, and not one that responds well to a purely transactional approach to search.

Through a combination of structured research and our established network in the venture and growth capital space, Fram identified a candidate who matched both the technical requirements and the less tangible qualities the client was seeking. The individual has now been with the client for five years and has been promoted during that time, a result that reflects well on both the quality of the hire and the strength of the client relationship we have developed.

Fram Search has been active in the venture capital market since 2010, and assignments of this nature sit firmly within our core expertise. Our database, research function, and network allow us to access the passive candidate market effectively, and it is this capability that consistently delivers outcomes of this kind.

Leading EIS Provider – Business Development Manager

A well-established EIS provider engaged Fram Search to help them hire a field-based Business Development Manager to cover a specific region. The role required someone with genuine credibility in the intermediary market, an individual who could hit the ground running and build trusted relationships with IFAs and other distribution partners from day one.

The location made the search more challenging, as the candidate pool in the region was naturally smaller. This is precisely the kind of assignment where our network, built carefully over many years, makes a tangible difference. Rather than relying solely on advertising or database searches, a recommendation from within our network led us to the individual who was ultimately placed.

At Fram Search, we have invested significantly in our networks across the asset management and broader financial services market. Many members of our team carry substantial professional networks and well-established social media profiles, and it is this depth of connectivity, developed over fifteen years, that allows us to identify the right people in challenging locations and niche disciplines.

The candidate we placed has now been with the client for almost ten years, has proven to be a consistent high performer, and has since been promoted. We consider this one of the stronger examples of what a well-networked, research-led approach can deliver.

Leading Tax-Efficient Investments Firm – Internal Business Development Manager

A well-established tax-efficient investments firm engaged Fram Search to hire a telephone-based Business Development Manager to support their field sales team. The firm had built a strong field BD function and needed an internal BDM who could complement that team professionally, supporting client relationships by phone and email and helping to coordinate roadshows and events.

The role sounds straightforward, but finding the right person is not. Telephone-based BD requires a specific character. Many candidates are uncomfortable with sustained phone work, preferring the variety and autonomy of a field role. The client needed someone who genuinely embraced that environment, who could build real relationships without the benefit of face-to-face contact, and who brought the organisation and initiative to support a busy field team effectively.

This is an area where Fram Search has accumulated genuine expertise. We are one of the most established recruiters in the tax-efficient investments space for both field and internal BDM roles, with over ten years of experience placing candidates across both disciplines. Our founder and a number of long-standing consultants have worked in this market for many years, and our database and networks reflect that depth. We know what good looks like in this role, and we know how to screen for it.

That experience shaped our approach to this assignment. We were able to identify a candidate who was not only technically capable, but who was demonstrably comfortable and effective on the phone, a quality that is harder to assess than it sounds and easy to get wrong.

The candidate placed has proven to be an excellent fit for the firm and the team around them.

We used Fram Search to help us find a key and strategically important role as we looked to develop our institutional offering. Fram presented us with some outstanding candidates, one of which we hired.

Chloe and her team were professional and fully understood the brief we gave them. Most importantly our new hire has proved to be a great success

Head of Institutional Distribution, leading investment manager