Cambridge Enterprise bowls over Bailey

Paul Bailey (pictured), executive chairman of high-level talent recruitment firm Bailey Fisher Executive Search, has been selected as an entrepreneur-in-residence for University of Cambridge’s commercialisation unit, Cambridge Enterprise.
Bailey’s post involves offering support and guidance to embryonic startups affiliated with Cambridge Enterprise. He will pay particular attention to fostering team development within businesses and encouraging entrepreneurs to forecast human capital requirements for their operations.
His remit is intended to complement support offered by Cambridge Enterprise’s other entrepreneurs-in-residence, Richard Green and Peter McPartland.
Bailey helped start Cambridge-based Bailey Fisher Executive Search in 1998, helming operations there as managing director for 20 years before transitioning to become executive chairman following a management buyout of the firm in August 2018.
He served on the board of academic-industry economic development body Cambridge Ahead from 2013 until December 2018 and spent three years from 2015 until May 2018 as a non-executive director at innovation charity Nesta’s Impact Investments division.
Bailey was listed in the 2016 Maserati 100, an index of successful British philanthropists, investors and entrepreneurs compiled by luxury carmaker Maserati and think-tank Centre for Entrepreneurs.
He received education from the independent Perse School Cambridge before studying sociology at University of East Anglia.
Bailey said: “I am extremely excited to be working with and supporting the Cambridge Enterprise team.
“Through my journey with Bailey Fisher we have always had a very close relationship and I have enjoyed working with a number of their investee companies, I look forward to continuing that relationship in an advisory capacity and helping shape some of Cambridge’s technology companies of the future.”