Retailtech

Retailtech (Retail specific technology solutions) enhance, streamline, or transform various aspects of the retail industry.

Retailtech encompasses a wide range of tools and innovations aimed at improving the shopping experience, optimising operations, increasing efficiency for both online and physical stores and boosting sales.

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Retailtech

Retailtech (Retail specific technology solutions) enhance, streamline, or transform various aspects of the retail industry.

Retailtech encompasses a wide range of tools and innovations aimed at improving the shopping experience, optimising operations, increasing efficiency for both online and physical stores and boosting sales.

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What We Do

Retail tech innovation continues to rapidly evolve, driven by advancements in AI, data analytics, immersive experiences, and sustainability.

Retail Industry technology spend is projected to reach $131.6 billion in 2025. 28% of which, will be spent on Software.

WHAT WE DO

Search

For Executive, leadership and strategic hires, Altura Partners delivers precision-focused executive search services tailored to the unique demands of the FinTech ecosystem.

WHAT WE DO

Scale

Altura Partners offers tailored workforce solutions to help organisations rapidly build teams of individual contributors or expand across geographies. From assembling high-performing sales teams to scaling engineering capabilities, our approach ensures both quality and quantity for hyperscale growth.

What We Do

Customer Experience

The overall impression a shopper forms based on all retailer interactions, from discovery to post-purchase
  • AI & ML
  • AR & VR
  • Loyalty & reward

Data & Analytics

The gathering of information about a retail operation and assessing it to make conclusions and decisions
  • Price tracking & conversion
  • Big Data & insights
  • Revenue management

Digital Signage

Electronic displays in retail stores using digital technology to showcase product info, promotions, and advertisements
  • Digital signage
  • Kiosks

E-Commerce

Buying and selling goods and services electronically through online platforms facilitating transactions and digital delivery
  • CMS
  • Digital shopper analytics
  • E-Commerce platforms
  • Multi-Channel solutions

Fraud & Loss Prevention

Technology-driven strategies and tools to identify and prevent theft, fraud, and inventory losses in retail
  • Cyber security
  • Fraud prevention & detection

MarTech

Software platforms that help retailers optimise marketing, personalise experiences, and deliver targeted promotions across channels
  • Brand experience
  • Optimisation & personalisation
  • KYC
  • UI & UX
  • Digital & web journey analytics

Supply Chain Management Software

All business activities involved in creating a product, from sourcing materials to shipping to consumers
  • Transportation management
  • Inventory management
  • Price management & optimisation
  • Distributed order management
  • Supply chain planning
  • Warehouse management

Payments

An ecosystem of interconnected electronic equipment, banks, and financial corporations facilitating funds transfer between purchasers and vendors
  • BYPL
  • Omni channel payments
  • POS

Meet the Team

Our team has partnered with RetailTech organisations across EMEA and North America. We know your business, we talk your language.

Damian Bird

Damian has supported enterprise software brands for over 20 years. Focusing on delivering leadership, commercial and product hires, across North America and EMEA. His earlier days were primarily spent supporting large muti-national software and IT advisory brands, especially within the Retail-Tech and Supply-Chain world. Today he still focuses on ‘big tech’ clients, but equally enjoys supporting earlier stage businesses (often VC and PE funded) and helps founders within start-ups and scale-ups, across a multitude of technology environments.

 

Harry Price

Harry specialises in the Payments sector within RetailTech, partnering with innovative companies that are transforming how consumers transact across in-store, online, and omnichannel environments. He has successfully supported high-growth SaaS businesses, payments providers, and retail technology vendors with critical hires across commercial, product, and leadership roles. Passionate about the evolving payments ecosystem, Harry helps RetailTech firms secure top talent to drive adoption, enhance customer experience, and deliver sustainable growth.

 

Karin Themsen

Karin brings deep expertise in the RetailTech industry, having partnered with companies such as ImageHolders, Buynomics, and Aures to deliver high-impact commercial and leadership hires. She supports both global players and fast-growth disruptors, giving her unique insight into the challenges RetailTech firms face as they scale. With a consultative approach and strong international network, Karin connects retail technology businesses with leaders who drive adoption, customer success, and sustained revenue growth.

 

Our Clients

What Our Clients Say

I’ve worked with Karin consistently over the last year and she’s helped us hire numerous people, from individual contributors through to members of our senior management team. Not only is Karin an expert across the sales and marketing landscape, she’s also been happy to turn her hand to (and been successful with) roles outside of her wheelhouse. She’s an incredibly diligent recruiter and has always offered flexible recruitment solutions which best suit us as a client. I can’t recommend Karin highly enough - she will always be my recruiter of choice.

Former CEO
ImageHolders

I have worked with James multiple assignments and I have always found him to have a natural (and uncanny) gift for understanding the real needs of the hiring company which is often different to the written brief. He is then able to easily articulate this and describe the balance of experience, skills and personality that he believes will create a platform for sustainable success. I have nothing but the highest regard for his professional abilities and I regard him as a natural growth partner for any organization looking to enhance their skill set.

General Manager
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence

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Altura Partners are experts at collaborating with international SaaS organisations. We would welcome a conversation to discuss how we can best partner with you.