The UK's board network, in one place.
30,000+ diligenced non-execs, board advisors, chairs, interims and fractional C-suite. One membership, three platforms: Membership, DealZone and HiringZone, covering the seat, the deal and the hire.
The seat, the deal, the hire.
One network, three platforms. Join as a member and the whole ecosystem is open to you: the board seats, the deal flow and the hiring bench. How much of it you use is up to you.
Membership
Take your seat on a board
Non-exec, board advisor, chair, interim or fractional C-suite. A profile in front of the PE funds, VCs and family offices actively building boards, plus the events and community that keep you in the room.
- →Board vacancies, on and off market, matched to your remit
- →26 NEDWorkin' sessions a year, plus dinners and roundtables
DealZone
See the deals before they surface
Off-market capital raises, business exits and buy-side mandates, shared quietly with investing directors rather than listed on the open market.
- →Around 400 off-market raises and exits circulated each year
- →For investing NEDs, professional services firms and founders
HiringZone
Hire a Chair or NED in days
Post the brief, take one call, receive a shortlist of vetted board-level operators. One fixed fee agreed upfront, never a percentage of salary.
- →Shortlist in under five days from a bench of 30,000+
- →80–90% below conventional executive search fees
One way in, then as much of the ecosystem as you want.
A NED looking for a seat, an investor looking for a deal and a board looking for a hire have always overlapped. Where any one member sits depends on where they are in building a portfolio.
So we stopped splitting them up. One membership, one profile, with all three platforms open from day one. How much of the ecosystem you connect across is down to your appetite for portfolio growth.
Boards are being built faster than they are being found.
Private capital, succession and regulatory pressure are all pulling in the same direction: more UK companies need board-grade judgement, and they need it sooner than a traditional search can deliver it.
Search is too slow and too expensive
A conventional retained search takes months and a percentage of salary. Most growth companies making their first board hire cannot justify either, so the hire simply does not happen.
Investors price governance directly
PE, VC and lenders now look at the board before the plan. A credible Chair on the cap table changes the terms of a raise, not just the tone of a meeting.
The best deals never reach the market
Capital raises and exits move through networks long before they reach a broker. Access to that flow is the difference between choosing a deal and being shown one.
A directory is not a network
Lists of names are everywhere. What is scarce is a diligenced community where the introduction actually happens, and where both sides show up because the quality holds.
The community that gets you in the room.
Non-exec, board advisor, chair, interim or fractional C-suite. A profile built with a C-suite consultant and made discoverable to the private equity funds, venture funds and family offices building boards right now.
Then the part that actually moves careers: 26 NEDWorkin' sessions a year, dinners, roundtables and a hub of 30,000+ members who open doors for each other because that is the whole point of being here.
- →Live onboarding and a one-to-one profile consultation
- →Board vacancies and offsite opportunities matched to your remit
- →Non-Exec Monthly, AI CV tooling and member training
Private dining · Member events
287 board seats are live, and some close this month.
Members see every brief in full: the client, the fee, the time commitment and the route in. Over 1,000 board roles have come through the board, and the shortlists for these 287 are being drawn now.
See all 287 briefs
Two minutes to join. Every brief unlocked straight after.
Know what the seat is worth. Then go and win it.
Networker Pro is the upgrade that does the work with you. A full CV and board profile review, rewritten by a senior strategist, plus the fee benchmarks so you never walk into a conversation guessing what the role should pay.
of member interviews secured were supported by the Networker Pro package.
Based on interviews reported by VirtualNonExecs members.
Full CV review and rewrite
Your CV and board profile rebuilt line by line with a senior strategist, positioned for board work rather than an executive career. Typically valued at £1,200.
Profile built to be found
Optimised for the searches funds, chairs and headhunters actually run, so you surface for the mandates that fit your remit.
Fee benchmarks before you negotiate
What the seat pays across listed, AIM and private boards, so the fee conversation starts from evidence and not from a guess.
What a board seat pays
Typical annual base fees, 2026. Committee and Senior Independent Director premiums sit on top. Hover any row for the full range.
Tell it what you want. Meet up to 8 board contacts a week.
Weekly AI NEDWorkin' turns a plain-English brief into introductions. Describe the seat, the sector and the stage you are after, and the system works the network for you, delivering up to eight matched board contacts every week.
No trawling a directory and no waiting for the next event. The brief runs every week, so the introductions keep arriving while you get on with the day job.
Upgrade to Networker Pro
Cranfield University · Bedfordshire
A NED programme built for our members.
The Non-Executive Directors' Programme, designed by Cranfield School of Management in conjunction with VirtualNonExecs. Eight modules and 25 byte-size lessons, online and self-paced, covering governance, board finance, board dynamics, effectiveness and search. Open to everyone, with a preferential rate for Networker Pro members.
25 bite-size lessons, online and self-paced. The library unlocks in full and stays open, so you dip in and out around the day job and it waits for you when the week gets away.
A verified digital badge on completion for your LinkedIn profile and your CV, which also ranks you higher in VirtualNonExecs search results, in front of the funds, chairs and founders already looking for their next appointment.
Board-grade teaching from a UK top five business school, ranked 3rd in the UK for open executive programmes by the Financial Times, at a fraction of the usual executive education fee.
See the programmeHundreds of deals a year. None of them public.
Our 30,000+ non-execs and chairs sit on and advise more than 60,000 boards. That gives DealZone proprietary sight of hundreds of off-market capital raises, business exits and buy-side mandates, and a direct line to the people who can open the door before any of it is public.
Not scraped data. Not broker spam. The network telling you first.
Tell us what you are looking for.
Whether you are advising on a deal, raising, selling or looking to back the next one, DealZone puts you in front of dealmakers and investors who understand the boardroom because they sit in it.
- →We match your remit against live off-market mandates
- →Introductions happen in minutes, not quarters
- →Nothing is shared outside the network
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Your next Chair or NED, in days, at a fraction of the fee.
Post the brief. We take one call to understand the board, the stage and the challenge ahead, then shortlist from a bench that is already diligenced. No retainer, no percentage, no six-month process.
The board bench behind the next wave of Aquis listings.
VirtualNonExecs is the board partner to the Aquis IPO Academy. As private companies work through the readiness programme, we identify and appoint the Non-Executive Directors and Chairs who will sit on their boards at listing.
A company arriving at the listing gate needs a board that public markets will underwrite: an audit chair who has done it before, a non-executive who has already sat through the scrutiny. That bench comes from the VirtualNonExecs membership.
Boards meet the people who actually move them.
Not the most available. Not the fastest introduction. The operator whose track record, capital and contacts genuinely change what a business can do next. VirtualNonExecs members are not placed onto boards. They are people the boards choose to bring in.
Members, investors and boards on what changed.
By far the best and most vibrant membership organisation. In just two weeks I had 12 meetings resulting in several business opportunities.
This is a game changer for making Chair and NED hires.
For NEDs and Chairs, missing VirtualNonExecs' exposure to PE funds is a lost opportunity.
Without doubt the most powerful connecting tool for non-executives and chairs. The level of access is phenomenal.
We found investors and a non-executive in days. Five star experience.
We were blown away by the quality of the membership.
We've made exceptional, quick board appointments through the network. Highly recommended.
Excellent experience. We hired two NEDs. I'd recommend it to any start-up or founder.
What VirtualNonExecs does for the investment community is nothing short of brilliant.
Why Networker Pro?
Four things that move you from browsing board roles to sitting in front of the people appointing for them.
Deals get done through people, not listings. Talk directly with the chairs and peers who already advise thousands of businesses, and get the introduction from someone who is already in the room.
Bi-monthly NEDWorkin' sessions where members meet each other and the funds, chairs and founders appointing board advisors, plus the dinners and roundtables around them.
Tell the system what you are looking for in plain English. It works the network and delivers up to eight matched board contacts to you every week, without you chasing a single one.
An AI-powered ATS check that scores your CV against the role before you apply, so you find out whether it clears the screen while you can still do something about it.
The seat is yours to win in the room. Everything Networker Pro does is aimed at making sure you get into it.
Sit with the people who have already done it.
Whether you are building a board, backing one or ready to join one, it all starts with the same membership.