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13 October 2025

Directorbank announces partnership with AssessioAI

Directorbank is excited to announce a new partnership with AssessioAI to bring science-backed, technology-driven leadership assessment to its clients.

AssessioAI, a pioneer in its field, helps to equip organisations with the clarity and confidence needed to make smarter decisions across hiring, succession planning and leadership development.

What does this mean for our clients?

In a nutshell, it helps them de-risk critical hiring decisions. As we well know, finding the right leadership talent is crucial to business success. By integrating Assessio’s cutting-edge tools into our search processes, we add an extra layer of value for our clients. The better the candidate data, the sharper the insight, and the greater the likelihood of a candidate thriving in the role, the team, and the organisation.

Directorbank’s Simon Thomas comments: “For our private equity, portfolio and other mid-market clients, the right leadership team is the most powerful driver of value creation. By partnering with Assessio, we bring greater confidence to key hiring decisions through a proven, science-backed, technology-driven approach to evaluating candidates. This allows us to go beyond the CV, interview and references to measure those deeper leadership capabilities, team dynamics, and ultimately the candidate’s ability to deliver real impact in the role.”

AssessioAI combines decades of validated psychometrics with cutting-edge technology and business context, to dive into the deeper level characteristics and motivations of candidates. And, by bringing together multiple streams of intelligence – from assessment results and human judgment to CV content and interview feedback – Directorbank can present a more holistic view of the candidate and a more precise understanding of whether their competencies and values align with the needs and ambitions of the hiring organisation.

Our clients will benefit from:

A more structured, consistent interview process:
Assessio’s scorecard system is based on extensive research into the competencies and behaviours of high performing individuals. Incorporating this into the interview process brings improved focus, consistency and fairness.

A much deeper understanding of candidates:
Grounded in 70 years of proven psychometrics, Assessio leverages cutting-edge science, data and AI technology to translate diverse candidate data into clear, contextual insights that clients can trust.

Support in building high performing teams:
Assessio assesses and compares members of the leadership team to bring deeper understanding of team dynamics, strengths and risks. This helps drive growth by shaping collaboration, aligning values, overcoming challenge, and elevating performance.

Alo Arro, CEO of AssessioAI, comments: “After careful research and analysis of several leadership assessment tools, we are delighted Directorbank has chosen AssessioAI. This reflects their commitment to innovation and reinforces their position as a trusted search partner to their private equity and other entrepreneurial clients seeking to recruit ‘best fit’ industry experts, build high-performing leadership teams, and deliver ambitious growth targets.”

For more information, please email Simon Thomas, Director at s.thomas@directorbank.com, or Jo Clasper, Head of Research at j.clasper@directorbank.com