About Us

JM Search is the leading retained executive search firm for private equity, and other growth-oriented private and public organizations.

With over 40 years of experience, our partners are immersed in your search every step of the way, supported by a passionate, cohesive team of recruiting experts.

With deep sector and functional-specific expertise, our partners have built expansive professional networks from decades of firsthand experience to ensure the best possible outcomes for our clients and their businesses.

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Our commitment to these principles, combined with our collective experience, distinct market expertise, and executive networks across industries, enables us to deliver the best possible outcome to every client, on each search.

We make sure that each client receives our complete focus and effort by limiting the number of searches any consultant conducts at a time. Our selectivity guarantees that each search is executed with quality, urgency, and unyielding focus, while assuring that we are free from the extensive “off-limits” restrictions that prevent large search firms from recruiting a substantial number of elite executives. Our ability to bring the best, most qualified candidates to the table for any search, regardless of position, industry or location, is unrivaled.

Solutions And Expertise

Solutions
  • Board Services
  • Executive Search
Industries
Functions
  • All Functions
  • Board/Governance
  • CEO/President
  • CFO
  • CHRO
  • COO
  • CRO
  • CSO
  • IT
  • Manufacturing
  • Marketing & Sales
  • Operations

News Briefings

How to Attract, Build, Retain & Engage Your Workforce Today

The COVID-19 crisis changed the world of work in many ways. And though it caused significant hardship, it also had some silver linings. “The greatest has been the increase in workplace flexibility including the expansion and acceptance of hybrid and remote work,” said JM Search’s Louis Montgomery. “This change has provided individuals and organizations much

Executive Recruiters Pull Off Another Remarkable Year, Remain Bullish for 2023

Hunt Scanlon Media has released its annual rankings of leading executive recruiters. In the U.S. and globally, billions of dollars poured into the high-end recruiting sector in 2022, a result of continued pentup demand for senior-level leaders and their key reports. Despite market turbulence and a softening economy in the second half, executive recruiters pulled

JM Search Recruits CFO for Frontline Education

Chief financial officers continue to be in high demand. Finding them is keeping many of the nation’s top recruitment operations busier than ever. In recent months, search firms of all varieties have placed chief financial officers at various companies, especially private equity-backed outfits. Felix Korostin and Charles Egoville of JM Search recently placed Bill O’Shea as the new CFO

Life Sciences: The Power of Supply-Chain Leadership in Today’s Market

Evolving regulatory environments, shifting customer demands, market disruptors, and pricing challenges are changing the life sciences industry. In this new era, where value creation is no longer only about the products, life sciences companies are placing an increased emphasis on building a strong supply chain via both infrastructure and talent, according to executive recruiters. “For

Press Releases

Women Rising: Staying Agile in the Path to the C-Suite – Learnings from Zena Srivatsa Arnold, Sephora CMO

By Cathy Sutherland In our work as executive recruiters, we have the privilege of speaking with exceptional female executive leaders (both established and rising) on a daily basis. As someone who assesses executive talent for a living, I found myself reflecting upon the career journeys of many of the women in my network and believe we have

Reimagining Talent Strategy: Key Considerations for Post-Pandemic Employee Engagement, Attraction & Retention

By Louis Montgomery Jr. and Phil Menzel Employee sentiment toward work has experienced a seismic shift in recent years. As historic events converged during the global pandemic—leading to simultaneous social justice, health, and remote work challenges—employees reassessed their priorities, including their expectations in their careers and employers. The result has been an increasingly contentious war for top talent.

PE Value-Creation Team: Driving Engagement within the Portfolio

By Andrew Henry and Mike Forgash In today’s market, buying and selling companies is not sufficient to generate the magnitude of returns sought after by private equity firms. To stay ahead of the competition, a growing number of private equity firms are forming value-creation teams that are designed to accelerate the growth and profitability of portfolio companies. Working

How AI, Regulation and New Competition are Changing the Landscape of BNPL

By Sanjay Sama It’s been a wild ride for the buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) industry over the last few years. First it was one of the hottest sectors in fintech, on track to exceed $600 billion in total market value by 2026, driven by a pandemic spike in e-commerce spending. Then things hit a rough patch. Rising interest rates and

What Banking Can Learn from Private Equity

By Bill Borkovitz and Chris Radigan It has been a rough 2023 for the banking sector so far. Over the course of just five days in March, three U.S.-based banks failed, with the most notable being Silicon Valley Bank which held more than $200 billion in assets when a bank run brought it down. In the months since, regulators have