CEO - Simunix in York

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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.

What You Will Own

• Strategy and Commercial Outcomes: Own the company's strategic direction, market positioning, and competitive response. Drive revenue growth with full P&L accountability across retention, expansion, pricing, and new customer acquisition. Build a repeatable, scalable go-to-market engine that reopens new-logo sales and reduces reliance on back-to-base growth, to return the business to double-digit growth. Expand the addressable market beyond the established policing base to include adjacent public-sector buyers (local authorities, healthcare) and grow the private-sector footprint across financial services, AML, and identity verification. Establish pricing and packaging strategies that reflect the value the data and platform deliver. Identify and act on AI-driven opportunities to reposition the product and create a durable competitive distance.
• Product and Technology Partnership: Own the product roadmap at a strategic level, ensuring it reflects customer needs, market dynamics, and long-term competitive positioning. Partner with the operations and technology leadership to translate product vision into execution priorities. Sharpen the product's fit for the financial services market and bring the emerging KYC, AML, data orchestration, and ID verification propositions to market. Champion AI-first product thinking, identifying where automation, predictive insights, and intelligent workflows create durable differentiation in fraud and identity intelligence. Make deliberate build-vs-buy decisions and sequence the roadmap under resource constraints.
• Team and Operations: Build and lead a high-performing commercial team within a close-knit business of around 15 people, raising the bar on sales execution and accountability. Establish clear decision rights, execution cadences, and accountability frameworks that increase speed and commercial discipline without disrupting what already works. Work closely with the founder through a planned transition, respecting the relationships and reputation built over more than two decades while bringing fresh commercial energy to the business. Communicate clearly with Banyan Operating Partners and stakeholders on business performance, strategic priorities, and market conditions.

What We Are Looking For

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.

Qualifications for success:

• Owned the P&L and commercial outcomes for a B2B SaaS or data business, business unit, or function, with direct accountability for revenue growth, retention, and margin.
• Built a repeatable go-to-market engine, establishing scalable sales and expansion motions, ideally one that reopened or accelerated new-customer acquisition in a business that had plateaued or relied on its existing base.
• Comfortable selling into both public sector and regulated environments (for example, policing, local government, or healthcare) and private sector markets such as financial services.
• Shipped AI-embedded product capabilities with measurable customer outcomes, or led sustained AI experimentation with clear conviction about where it creates durable value, and embedded AI into how a business operates: decision-making, team workflows, and go-to-market execution.
• Delivered measurable improvements to net revenue retention and pricing power, turning margin durability from a strategic priority into a realised outcome.
• Hired and developed talent in a way that shifted an organisation's performance trajectory.
• Served as a credible executive voice for owners, boards, and key stakeholders.
• Experience in govtech, fraud and identity, RegTech, or financial services would be beneficial.

What We Offer:

Base salary of £120,000 plus a £30,000 target bonus. A long-term incentive (phantom equity) plan, with the new CEO helping to shape allocation across the senior leadership team. Full operational ownership of an established, profitable business, with the backing, AI expertise, and operational discipline of Banyan behind you.

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