About Us

Murray Price Executive Search was formed specifically to focus on the demands of clients for a service which, whilst drawing on many years of international capability, has a greater agility to offer specifically targeted consulting services.

Honesty.  Trust.  Integrity.  Commitment.

We bring a genuine commitment focused on building a trusted partnership, driven by an approach which is best in class.

Recognised in providing exceptional level of service, both to clients and candidates.

Honesty

We are straightforward, open,honest and committed to your success. We believe in promoting authenticity when handling business critical appointments and will present facts to achieve the best outcome for our clients.

Impactful

We produce results and have a longstanding, successful track record in placing top talent. Our services are underpinned by strong, rigorous, structured process.

Insightful

We conduct thorough assessments both technically and culturally, assessing  knowledge, abilities & potential. We are not afraid of challenging the brief.

Personal

Our services are bespoke to client needs. We always take time to understand the job requirements, cultural fit and intangible differentiators that will help us identify appropriate candidates with suitable profiles.

Trustworthy

We aim to provide a deep and trusted relationship to all parties. Whether you are a client or candidate, you are able to rely on us to be honest and truthful throughout the entire engagement process..

Commitment & Passion.

The commitment we bring is focused on sourcing the most sought after executives and leadership talent for the future. We work with you as a partner so that we can align your end goal to the best result.

Mission & Vision

Our Vision

Our clients entrust us with their most important, sensitive and confidential management problems. We respect this trust and place their interests above all by pooling our skills and resources for the clients’ benefit.

Our Mission

We view our mission as increasing the corporate community’s productivity and effectiveness by offering its clients a systematic management consulting approach to executive search and selection.

Our Values

  • Global reach with a bespoke Client service.
  • Working in Partnership.
  • Acting with professional maturity.
  • High standards of quality and ethics.
  • Managing recruitment projects with passion and dedication.
  • Failure is not an option.

Our People

Graham Murray
After qualifying with a degree in Metallurgy and Engineering Materials, Graham began his career in a division of Burmah Castrol in their research and development function, before progressing into an international marketing role. He then joined the foundry division of Cookson plc in a technical sales role before entering the recruitment sector.

He has worked for two market leading firms, Michael Page and Odgers Berndtson before then working in a small generalist executive search boutique.

Graham has worked in search and selection for over 20 years now with experience recruiting at all levels in a wide range of market sectors and across most business functions.

Phillip Price
A graduate Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young London, Phillip spent his early career in search with an international FTSE Plc where he managed a large portion of their international business. He subsequently became Managing Director of a boutique search practice before joining Deloitte Consulting.

Over some 10 years he helped build and subsequently directed Deloitte’s Executive Search practice and HR Consulting operations throughout central England. He was a founder member of Price Guy Cholerton in 2000 and until 2021 held the role of Treasurer and Partner within Friisberg & Partners International.

His recruitment and search experience covers all major board functions working with a range of businesses from entrepreneurial SME’s to FTSE250 companies. He is aslo experienced in Management Audit and in Assessment and Development work. His industry experience covers professional services, logistics and retail, manufacturing and finance.

Andrew Cholerton
Andrew is a versatile and results-orientated recruiter with 25 years’ experience of delivering talent acquisition solutions to clients across the UK and internationally. Committed to delivering excellent customer service, Andrew has the drive, passion and communication skills to achieve results across multiple sectors including transport and infrastructure, consulting and manufacturing.

After working in a variety of executive search firms including 10 years developing his own niche consultancy with two ex-Deloitte colleagues and 5 years with a top 10 global search firm, Andrew was hired to develop Penna’s Infrastructure and Transport practice. In addition to delivering director and senior management roles in both public and private organisations, Andrew led a multi-disciplinary team responsible for delivering a major managed recruitment solution for the Department for Transport, Rail Executive covering a wide range of functional areas including infrastructure planning, passenger franchising and service delivery. He also worked on numerous roles with Network Rail as part of a managed recruitment solution including infrastructure planning and deliver roles, and the engineering and procurement functions.