The hard search, vetted
Executive and senior leadership search for the roles that decide where a company goes next. Across regulated fintech, Web3, and AI.
IThe Name
Worth, sealed
ValCera draws on two Latin roots: valor, worth, and cera, wax. The worth of a candidate, sealed. Like a signet pressed into wax, ValCera's evaluation is a mark, it means this one has been vetted, and stands for something.
Valor is also courage: the resolve to run the hard search properly, rather than the fast one.
IIThe Stakes
At senior level, the real cost of a wrong hire is time
The months you cannot get back, the momentum a team loses, the growth that stalls while the seat sits wrong. ValCera exists to take that risk off the table. Every candidate evaluated, not forwarded.
IIIThe Difference
Most search firms forward CVs. ValCera evaluates
Every candidate meets ValCera in a structured video conversation, then is scored against the role, with risks flagged before they ever reach you. What you receive is a written evaluation with a clear grade and a clear decision, naming what worked and what didn't. Not a CV with the kind of sales blurb that talks every candidate up. Enough to decide, before you spend an hour of your team's time.
Seen every side
built across founder, agency, and in-house, ValCera reads a hire from every angle.
Senior-led, every search
the person who evaluates your candidates is the person you met.
Scored and sealed
every answer graded, every risk flagged, a document your team can decide from.
IVFocus
Where ValCera goes deep
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Leadership
Heads, Directors, Tech Leads, Engineering Managers
Architecture
Architects
Development
Backend, Frontend, Full-Stack, Mobile, AI Engineering
Data
Analytics/BI, Engineering, Machine Learning, Scientist
Infrastructure
DevOps, DevSecOps
Testing
QA
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Leadership
CISO, Director, Head
GRC
Governance, Risk, Compliance
Technical
Security Engineering, SecOps
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Leadership
CPO, Head of Product
Senior IC
Lead, Senior, and Group PMs
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Leadership
CRO, CMO
Sales
Heads, Directors, Account Executives
Marketing
Heads, Directors, Product Marketing, Growth
Business Development
Heads, Directors, Strategic Partnerships
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Finance & Accounting
CFO, Finance, FP&A
Compliance
KYC, Fraud, Risk
Operations
PMO, Strategy
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Office of the CEO
CEO, COO
Finance & Risk
CFO, CRCO
Technology
CTO, CPO
People
CHRO, CPO (People)
Deep in a small world, direct relationships across the people who build and lead in regulated fintech, Web3, and AI.
VThe Standard
The standard behind ValCera
ValCera is led by its Founder and Managing Partner, Orson Oduber. Over seven years in senior search, he has worked from three vantage points on the same problem: as the founder who owns the outcome, as the agency operator placing Heads and C-level across Europe, the Middle East, and APAC, and as the in-house leader who scaled hiring inside some of the region's most demanding regulated fintechs. That perspective is the difference between a candidate who looks right and one who is. ValCera was built to apply it to every search.
VIWhat's been built
The proof
150+
senior hires over three years at a high-growth regulated BNPL, evaluated against a bar most candidates didn't clear.
A career across founder, agency, and in-house
placing Heads and C-level across Europe, the Middle East, and APAC, over seven years in search.
Built in regulated worlds
SAMA and CBUAE, BNPL, card issuing, stablecoin settlement, and VARA licensing.
The same standard now applies to every ValCera search.