Beecher Reagan Names Managing Director
June 12, 2026 – Houston, TX-headquartered executive search firm Beecher Reagan has appointed David Rio as managing director. He will deepen the firm’s work with consulting and technology-enabled services clients across publicly traded, private partnerships, and sponsor-backed companies.
“David is a great addition, who will do nothing but strengthen our capabilities and the client experience we deliver,” said Clark Beecher, co-founder and managing partner of Beecher Reagan. “He spent years building HIEC’s U.S. business, and as a senior talent leader at PwC, he comes directly from the industries we serve. He deepens our bench in consulting and doubles down in technology-enabled services — exactly where our clients need us most.”
Mr. Rio joins from HIEC, a global, European-headquartered search firm where he was instrumental in building the U.S. business. For over four years he led its U.S. mandates and brought significant growth across professional services, software and technology, and private equity clients. Before HIEC, Mr. Rio spent nearly seven years at PwC, co-leading experienced-hire recruitment across its consulting industries before moving into executive search.
“Beecher Reagan is a premier, specialty executive search platform with a level of service that’s genuinely unmatched — it’s an A-team, and a firm I’ve respected for as long as I’ve been in the business,” said Mr. Rio. “My perspective comes from sitting on every side of the talent desk — as a consultant, an internal talent leader, and an external search advisor. Having lived the pressures our clients face, I’m uniquely positioned to help clients identify and hire leaders who will accelerate growth in today’s shifting landscape.”
Founded in 2009 by Mr. Beecher and Tim Reagan, Beecher Reagan is an executive search and leadership firm focused exclusively on senior professional services and the consulting talent market. The firm brings more than 100 years of combined experience to help professional services, Fortune 500, and alternative investment companies map search strategies to organizational goals. The partners at Beecher Reagan have longstanding relationships within the consulting, professional services, and private equity space.
Mr. Beecher has spent the majority of his career advising management consulting, technology services, and business advisory service firms on building and growing their industry, functional and geographical practice areas. For over 20 years, he has led and completed searches for some of the leading professional services firms, including Accenture, AlixPartners, Bain & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, EY, Infosys, IBM, KPMG, McKinsey & Company, Oliver Wyman and PwC Strategy&.
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Mr. Reagan leads the private equity practice and has completed numerous searches including operating partner roles for PE firms and hedge funds and helped their portfolio companies hire senior leaders. He has expertise in the areas of operations, enterprise transformation, commercial excellence, digital transformation, turnaround and restructuring, finance, strategy, and human capital leadership roles.
Past Addition
Earlier this year, Beecher Reagan named Scott Ratliff as partner. His promotion reflects Beecher Reagan’s long-standing philosophy of recognizing leaders who create firm-wide impact and who actively shape the firm’s future. Since his arrival at Beecher Reagan in 2022, Mr. Ratliff has played a central role in translating the firm’s long-term vision into a scalable business development culture. He has built and led a multi-functional shared services team that leverages AI, modern technology tools, and process innovation to expand market presence, increase productivity, and give the firm’s production teams more time to focus on high-value client and candidate work.
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“As a result of Ratliff’s leadership, Beecher Reagan has delivered year-over-year growth in both sales and search delivery every year since his arrival, while maintaining the firm’s reputation for quality, precision, and partner-led execution in the professional services and private equity markets,” the firm said.
Mr. Ratliff specializes in recruiting senior leaders who drive value creation, growth, and transformation in private equity–backed businesses across professional services, digital and it services, and business and industrial services. His work spans top-of-house leadership, board-level appointments, and executives responsible for scaling platforms, professionalizing go-to-market, and leading complex change through key inflection points.
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor — Hunt Scanlon Media
