Doug McAllister identifies Chairman and Non-Executive Board Directors for clients in both the UK and internationally.

Since joining Korn Ferry in 2006, he has placed Board Directors across a range of organisations, predominantly in the financial services, technology, telecoms, industrial and life sciences sectors.

Organisations have ranged in size from FTSE 100 and 250 companies to start-ups and pre-IPO businesses. These are organisations based in the UK and internationally. He has particular experience of placing ‘digital' Board Directors and co-authored the Korn Ferry Institute paper ‘The Digital Board'.

He has also worked in the not-for-profit space for a range of domestic and international organisations with a focus on education and health.

Before joining Korn Ferry, Doug worked for the multi-national law firm, Clifford Chance, in their internal consulting and strategy team. His focus was on working with partners and senior management on client and firm strategy, planning, client relationship management, pricing and business unit performance management.

Doug began his career with Andersen Consulting (now known as Accenture) as a consultant in their London office. He was a member of the retail practice, consulting to clients in that sector on strategy, business process re-engineering and ERP implementations in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and Western and Eastern Europe.

Doug studied politics at the University of Durham and has a master of business administration from The Business School, Imperial College, London.

Doug was a Trustee on the Board of Chance to Shine, the cricket and education charity, between 2015 and 2024 and led the search to find their new Chair in 2023.”