The only recruitment firm within the top 70, The Sunday Times research partner Beauhurst considered financial performance between 2019 to 2021, with Kernel reporting a 96.28% three-year CAGR. Since 2020, the business has navigated the real and human impact of the global pandemic that led to a revenue decrease of only 9.4% in 2020, before growing by 62.1% in 2021 and an EBITDA growth of 93.8% across the group. Coinciding on the same week as Dartmouth’s 10th birthday, in the last decade, the business has grown from a single start-up of five into a global group of recruitment companies with a headcount of nearly 250 ambitious individuals; a percentage increase of 56.25% in the last 18-months. Ambition is embedded across the group; it’s this that has herded rapid and consistent growth across the three individual companies and six geographic locations. Group CEO, Logan Naidu, has created Kernel a high-integrity business and group. This stems from leadership that has a clear understanding of the need for a properly managed business in enabling long-term value-creation, and investment from Literacy Capital, a partnership that provides rigorous oversight. Read the full report of the Sunday Times Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Britian.
