Technology

Principal Consultants -  Patrick Higgins, (click on the name link to see the profile and contact details)

Manufacturing firms have always been involving in turning ideas into products and services, but according to Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing; in today’s globally competitive landscape manufacturers are inventors, innovators, global supply chain managers and service providers. What was once seen just as production is now production, research, design, and service provision; and value is more than just profit and may be strategic too.

CNA’s Technology Practice serves the High Value Manufacturing (HVM) sector and the idea generators that feed into it. We understand that R&D is the key investment that generates the technical advances to drive the flow of innovative new products and services that provide enhanced value to customers and value-added growth to companies.

We specialise in leadership in the technical environment from the boardroom to the design room, as well as in the New Product Development Process, Manufacturing, Technology Exploitation and Business Development, as well as Intellectual Property, Engineering and Operational Management. We have also been successful in placing candidates in Information Technology roles across a range of sectors

CNA’s Technology Practice leverages this expertise by being able to speak our client’s language and the technical and strategic understanding we bring to our clients’ particular challenges and to our candidate matching and selection process.

Our main Clients encompass organisations involved in:

• IT and Software development
• Semiconductor design and electronics
• Medical Devices
• Display Technology
• Industrial Inkjet, Coding & Marketing
• Instrumentation, sensing & measurement
• Telecommunications
• Precision engineering
• High speed machinery
• Process Engineering
• Automotive

CNA’s Technology Practice headhunts talented executives at senior management and board level, and critical technical staff for large multinational companies as well as medium-sized businesses and venture-backed entrepreneurial start-ups. Our Consultants are able to draw upon their experience in senior line positions in the sectors they serve and are experts at identifying and bringing aboard top performers for our clients, who will give you real competitive edge.