The Team

The people behind the innovation.

The people behind Exenai have built recruitment technology from the inside, founded and exited a highly successful recruitment business, and advised at board level across the industry.

Co-founder & CEO

Richard Harrison

Rich co-founded Invenias — the leading platform for executive search — and served as SVP Product and GM at Bullhorn following the acquisition. He brings product vision, platform depth, and the commercial experience to translate both into measurable outcomes for clients.

Co-founder, Invenias (acquired by Bullhorn)
SVP Product & GM, Bullhorn
Portfolio CIO, Meraki
NED & Investor, Toca.io

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Co-founder & CTO

Alex Lea

Alex led engineering of the Invenias platform and at Bullhorn post-acquisition. He is responsible for the technical architecture of both Exenai products — combining deep Bullhorn schema knowledge with modern engineering practice to build what the platforms alone can't deliver.

Software Engineering Leader, Invenias
Engineering Leadership, Bullhorn
Architect of both Exenai product platforms

NED & Growth Advisor

Peter Hart

Pete founded Austin International and built it from zero to £68m turnover over 17 years before exiting. He brings board-level operator experience in scaling high-growth recruitment businesses — advising Exenai on commercial strategy, growth, and the client relationships that matter most.

Founder & CEO, Austin International
Chief Growth Officer, Meraki Capital
NED & Board Advisior

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Years of combined recruitment technology and industry experience across the leadership team

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Purpose-built products for Bullhorn and Invenias — available independently or together

Our Story

Recruitment technology built from the inside — by the people who spent decades building it.

Rich Harrison co-founded and Alex Lea led engineering for Invenias — the platform that became the industry standard for executive search and leadership advisory, and was acquired by Bullhorn. Rich went on to serve as SVP Product and GM at Bullhorn. Alex led engineering across both platforms through the acquisition and beyond.

From inside Bullhorn, they saw a consistent gap. Firms had the world's leading recruitment platform. What they didn't have was a fully managed automation layer that could run their entire operation — or a candidate experience that matched the standard of the firms using it.

Exenai was built to close both gaps. Not as a software vendor selling licences and leaving firms to figure out the rest. As a dedicated specialist team delivering two purpose-built products — with the platform knowledge, the engineering depth, and the commercial understanding to make them work.

What We Believe

Recruitment deserves better technology. So do candidates.

Growth shouldn't mean a bigger back office.

The firms that scale well are the ones that break the relationship between revenue and headcount. The same automation platform that handles 50 placements handles 500 — without additional ops, compliance, or admin resource. That's the model we build for. Grow your business, not your back office.

The automation layer your whole business runs on.

Bullhorn Automation does what it does brilliantly. Exenai builds the layer around it — end-to-end process orchestration, system integrations, and complete business automation, fully managed with a dedicated team included.

Candidates deserve a consumer-grade experience.

Candidates benchmark your firm against every brand they deal with — their bank, their insurer, their energy provider. They expect instant access, full visibility, and complete control. Most recruitment experiences don't come close. Our Candidate Experience Platform closes that gap — built directly on top of Bullhorn and Invenias, reading live data, writing back every interaction.

The platforms are brilliant.
The gaps are real.

Bullhorn and Invenias are exceptional at what they do. But no platform — however powerful — can be everything to every firm. The gaps between what the platform does and what the business needs are where firms lose time, lose data quality, and lose candidates. We know those gaps better than anyone. We built the platforms they live in.

Company

We built the platforms.
Then we built what
completes them.

Recruitment technology has never been more capable. And yet most firms are still missing two things — a way to connect and automate their entire operation end to end, and a candidate experience that meets the standard candidates already expect everywhere else. That's what Exenai builds.

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How We Work

A different kind of technology partner.

Most automation vendors give you software and leave you to figure out the rest. Exenai delivers outcomes — with the team, the track record, and the technology to back it up.

03 — Focus

We fill gaps no one else fills.

We work exclusively with Bullhorn and Invenias — which means we know precisely where they stop and what firms need beyond them. Every product we build exists because the platform couldn't do it and no one else was solving it with the right depth.

02 — Model

Outcomes, not licences

Your subscription includes a dedicated team of automation engineers, integration specialists, and data engineers. We act as your technical function — not a software vendor you raise tickets with.

01 — PEDIGREE

Built from the inside out

We didn't learn Bullhorn from a partner certification. We built the platforms, ran them at scale, and shaped their product roadmaps. That's not industry experience — it's inside knowledge.

Technology Partners

Built on the best.
Recognised by the best.

Exenai holds official partner status with both platforms it builds on — giving clients the confidence of a recognised, accountable, and deeply integrated technology relationship.

Bullhorn

The world's leading recruitment platform — and the foundation everything Exenai builds on. As an official Bullhorn partner, we don't try to work with every ATS. We focus entirely on Bullhorn and Invenias, extending their capabilities without disrupting what's already working.

✓ Official Partner

Toca.io

The next-generation automation platform that powers our Automation as a Service product. Toca is trusted in healthcare, legal, and financial services — where security, reliability, and compliance are non-negotiable. As an official partner, licensing and hosting are included in every AaaS subscription.