Building GTM Teams for ambitious tech companies

Executive search with operator insight. Global reach.
📍 Offices in Menlo Park, California and London, UK

What We Do

We help ambitious technology companies build high-performing GTM teams.

  • Sales & Revenue Leadership

  • Solution Consulting

  • Professional Services

  • Revenue Operations

  • Field Marketing

  • Account Executives

We’ve personally hired for every one of these roles at scale, globally, and inside some of the most iconic tech companies of the last decade.

We’ve been in your shoes.

As former Heads of Talent for some of the fastest-growing, industry-defining companies on the planet, we know the challenges of scaling a GTM team from the inside. We've recruited senior GTM talent from Account Executives to CRO, for Series B to post-IPO and way beyond. We know how the bar shifts as you scale.

Whether you're expanding across the U.S., entering EMEA or hiring globally, with offices in Menlo Park🇺🇸 and London🇬🇧 we bring deep local expertise and global reach.

Why We’re Different

How We Work

Setting up to win: We apply the Cypress Talent blueprint; fine-tuned over years of field-tested strategic hiring to build a profile with you around how leaders get stuff done, your culture, your product story, and craft messaging that engages the right people for the right reasons.

We assess talent with care and precision, based on what great looks like in your world, only recommending talent that meets our commitment to quality.

Experience scaling GTM functions for generational technology companies across all phases of growth.

Founding Partners

Matthew Jordan

Menlo Park, California 🇺🇸

I'm Matt, a husband and father to a wonderful (and wild) mix of a boy and three girls. I moved to the Bay Area from the UK over a decade ago, and I’ve spent the years since building and scaling go-to-market teams for some of the most recognisable names in enterprise tech.

I started my working life as a golf pro, before eventually finding my way into the world of talent, initially recruiting GTM roles into the networking and security space with a specialist executive recruiting firm called Optimal. From there, I moved in-house, working with companies like Riverbed, HP, and Adobe. I joined ForgeRock as they began scaling globally, and over nearly seven years helped lead both the Talent and HR Business Partnering teams, taking the company public in 2021. More recently, I served as Chief People Officer at NexTech, an EV battery disruptor focused on lithium-sulfur energy storage.

Cypress Talent is about coming full circle., bringing all those years of hands-on hiring, scaling, and leadership into focused, high-integrity search work.

And talent, I’ve found, is a lot like golf: everything is earned, nothing is given, and most of the answers live in the dirt.

Stuart Rowland

London,UK 🇬🇧

I’m Stuart, husband and father to two amazing girls. I've spent my entire career in talent. I got my start at a brilliant London-based search firm called PSD, found my niche in the enterprise software space, and since then, I’ve had the privilege of leading Talent teams at generational companies like Adobe, Salesforce, Autodesk, and ServiceNow and more recently in the scale-up world with Personio (HR SaaS platform), Satispay (mobile payments), and Multiverse (workforce transformation platform).

Along the way, I’ve hired leaders in every GTM function across multiple geographies, stages, and leadership styles. But what’s stayed constant is how personal this work is. Helping someone take the next step in their career, or helping a founder make the right hire at the right time, that still means everything.

Cypress Talent is us doing the kind of search I believe in: close partnerships, honest conversations, no BS, and a focus on doing the work well.

And if you ever want to lose an hour (or two), ask me about golf, Formula 1, or just about any form of motorsport.

Our Name

The Cypress tree grows in all conditions. In California and Europe. Growing in harsh climates, shifting soil, and even through rock. The Cypress tree symbolises resilience, perseverance, and longevity. Because they grow in groups, a family of trees, they symbolise connection. That’s what we bring to every search: long-term thinking, steady partnership, and a commitment to helping you build something that lasts.

Just like the teams we help shape and the relationships we build along the way.

Email Stuart and Matt