Hannah Cox
Managing Director, Client Partnerships
Hannah Cox is Founder and Managing Director of Gallop Executive, with more than 15 years’ experience in executive search spanning specialist boutique search and complex global corporate assignments.
Before founding Gallop, Hannah worked at Korn Ferry, the biggest and one of the world’s leading executive search and organisational consulting firms. Within six months of joining, she was named one of its Top 10 Performing New Starters globally, working with Blue Chip and SME organisations on senior leadership appointments across Customer, Marketing, Operations, Digital and Transformation.
Prior to Korn Ferry, Hannah spent ten years within specialist executive search, where she developed deep expertise across Customer Experience and customer-led transformation and built and led executive search practices. Over her career she has built an extensive network of senior commercial and transformation leaders and has worked across Financial Services, Utilities, Technology, Housing and other complex, highly regulated environments. The cross-semination of talent across industries is particularly helpful when supporting organisations that are pioneering in the space.
Her search career has included Digital Transformation throughout, with experience in Artificial Intelligence and emerging technology dating back to 2013. She has appointed senior leaders into newly created and evolving roles where the required capability cannot always be defined by a conventional job title or existing organisational structure.
That experience has heavily influenced the way Gallop approaches executive search today. Hannah believes that understanding the business challenge comes before defining the search. She works closely with clients to understand their strategy, commercial objectives, organisational context and the outcomes a leader must deliver before determining the experience, behaviours and leadership capability required.
Before entering executive search, Hannah held senior operational leadership roles within high-growth financial services businesses, including operating at board level within organisations preparing for sale and IPO. This gives her a perspective on executive appointments from both sides of the table: as a search professional and as someone who has operated within fast paced, growing and changing businesses.
Hannah is recognised within the Customer Experience community for her contribution to the profession. In 2026 she was ranked number 93 globally in Customer Experience Magazine’s CXMStars list – the highest ranking recruiter, and the only recruiter making the top 100.
In 2021, she was ranked number 11 in Customer Experience Magazine’s UK Top Industry Professionals and has been consistently identified as female CX talent to watch.
Hannah believes that one of the crucial reasons behind her success is her ability to foster close and trusting relationships with people. Hannah gets people talking – about the things that truly matter.
Getting deeply into a client’s requirements, sharing advice and her own extensive knowledge, and understanding what sits behind each leadership need are central to the way she works. Her energy, curiosity and genuine passion for people bring a distinctly human element to executive search – something that remains at the heart of Gallop’s mission and values.
Today, through Gallop Executive, Hannah brings together the depth and market intimacy of specialist search with the rigour and strategic perspective gained within a global corporate search environment – challenging conventional briefs where necessary and helping organisations identify the leadership capability they actually need.