About Us

Shaping businesses, changing lives.

Acertitude is a reimagined executive search firm and leadership consultancy committed to unleashing human potential.

We believe in the unstoppable power of brilliant people at work – their ability to reshape an entire business, to empower a whole team, to change their lives and the lives of the people they care about for good. So our focus is singular: finding the right individual, for the right role, at the right time to unleash change.

Specialized in board, c-level, and senior executive search, we serve as trusted advisors to top leaders across nine major sectors: business and professional services, consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, industrial, private equity, social impact, and technology.

Each business we work with we treat as our own, taking ‘extreme ownership’ over clients’ needs and seeking to understand everything about them. This closeness enables us to work seamlessly and quickly to deliver impact. Using tools, technology, and talent, we rigorously vet candidates to put forward only the people destined to make a difference.

Learn more at www.acertitude.com

Achievements

Solutions And Expertise

Make your leadership team extraordinary.

Our sweet spot is solving leadership challenges to help you unleash your biggest ambitions.

Solutions
  • Assessment
  • Board Services
  • Data Analy./Mrkt. Intell.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Executive Coaching
  • Executive Search
  • Interim
  • Leadership Consulting
  • Leadership Develop.
  • Mgmt. Consulting
  • Onboarding
  • Private Equity Services
  • Succession Planning
Industries
  • Advertising/Marketing
  • Aerospace/Defense
  • Agriculture
  • All Industries
  • Alt. Investments
  • Asset Management
  • Associations
  • Automotive
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemicals
  • Clean Tech./Sustain.
  • Clinical Research
  • Cloud Based
  • Colleges/Universities
  • Commercial Banking
  • Communications
  • Construction
  • Consulting
  • Consumer
  • Consumer Products
  • Consumer Services
  • Cultural Arts
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data & Analytics
  • Devices
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Engineering & Archit.
  • Family Offices
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • FinTech
  • Foundations
  • Global Markets
  • Healthcare Services
  • Hedge Funds
  • High Tech
  • Industrial
  • Industrial Products
  • Insurance
  • Internet
  • Investment Banking
  • Investment Mgmt.
  • Legal/Compliance
  • Life Sci./Healthcare
  • Luxury
  • Machine Learning
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Medical
  • Medical Devices
  • Mobile
  • Natural Resources
  • Non-Profit
  • Oil & Gas
  • Payments/Processes
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Private Banking
  • Private Equity
  • Professional Services
  • Quantitative Finance
  • Real Estate
  • Restaurants
  • Retail
  • Software
  • Sovereign Wealth
  • Sports
  • Supply Chain
  • Technology
  • Trade Finance
  • Transportation
  • Travel, Hosp. & Leisure
  • Utilities
  • Venture Capital
Functions
  • Board/Governance
  • Business Development
  • CEO/President
  • Communications/PR
  • Consumer Services
  • Data/Analytics
  • Development
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Finance/Accounting
  • General Management
  • GM/Operations
  • Government
  • Human Resources
  • Information/Digital
  • Invest. Mgmt./Banking
  • Legal/Compliance
  • Manufacturing
  • Marketing & Sales
  • Medical/Clinical
  • Research & Develop.
  • Risk Management
  • Supply Chain

News Briefings

A Bigger Deal: Independent Chairs in Private Equity

A non-executive or independent chair in a private equity deal has long been considered desirable by investors — and, now, is increasingly deemed essential, with some LPs going as far as requiring it from PE funds. As demand for the role heightens, so are expectations of investors and management teams, according to Acertitude’s Charlotte Cederwall.

Hunt Scanlon Looks Back at a Whirlwind Year in Executive Recruiting

Like every year, there were searches that caught the entire recruitment industry’s eye, and left competitors a bit envious that they had not won the assignment. Our story about TurnkeyZRG’s placement of Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, nearing the end of his last term in office, as the new head of the National Collegiate Athletic Association

Executive Recruiters Upping Their Efforts to Help Organizations Achieve Diversity Goals

Anyone who works in executive search right now has seen, and will continue to see, a push for more lists of diverse candidates for open roles. “We are also seeing organizations start to mandate diversity numbers as a benchmark for DEI success, and seeing an influx of diverse candidates at the executive level as a

Acertitude Recruits CEO for Industrial Defender

Executive search firm Acertitude has recruited Jay Williams as the new CEO of Industrial Defender, a provider of OT cybersecurity technology in New York City. The search was led by Acertitude’s technology team and co-led by Rick DeRose, co-founder, managing partner, and leader of the technology practice, and Tim Cook, partner and leader of the firm’s cyber

Press Releases

Acertitude Recognized as a Best Executive Recruiting Firm for Private Equity by Hunt Scanlon

Acertitude Private Equity Practice makes 2023 Private Equity Recruiting Power 100 Ranking for Fifth Consecutive Year NEW YORK (July 12, 2023) – Acertitude, the global executive search firm unleashing human potential, is thrilled to announce that, for the fifth year in a row, it has been recognized by Hunt Scanlon as one of the 100

Executive Search Firm Acertitude Recruits CFO for AIS Global, a KPS Capital Partners Portfolio Company

NEW YORK (June 14, 2023) — Acertitude, the executive search firm unleashing human potential, has recruited Mary Heitmann as the new chief financial officer of AIS Global (AISG), a leading global provider of human-machine interface products for the medical, commercial and industrial markets and applications. Headquartered in Coeur d’Alene, ID, AISG has nine facilities across the

Executive Search Firm Acertitude Recruits CFO for Platinum Equity-Backed SVP Worldwide

NEW YORK (June 14, 2023) — Acertitude, the executive search firm unleashing human potential, has recruited James Christl as the new chief financial officer of SVP Worldwide, the world’s largest consumer sewing machine company, accounting for approximately one out of every three sewing machines sold annually, globally. Backed by global investment firm Platinum Equity, the

Acertitude Recognized as Top 40 Executive Recruiters in EMEA by Hunt Scanlon

NEW YORK (May 4, 2023) – Acertitude, the global executive search firm unleashing human potential, is thrilled to announce its recognition on Hunt Scanlon’s 2023 Top 40 Executive Recruiters list, a roundup of the largest, fastest growing executive search firms in EMEA. Acertitude has experienced significant growth in the region since opening its London office

Acertitude Recognized as Top 50 Executive Recruiters for Fourth Consecutive Year by Hunt Scanlon

NEW YORK (May 3, 2023) – Acertitude, the global executive search firm unleashing human potential, is thrilled to announce that, for the fourth year in a row, it has been recognized by Hunt Scanlon as one of the Top 50 Executive Recruiters in the Americas. “We are honored that Acertitude has once again ranked in

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Jeff Slone: CEO Decodes Leading Global Public Companies and Transforming Global Payments
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