About Us

Kaye/Bassman was founded in 1981 with a mission to positively impact companies and enhance careers by providing the best in professional, executive, technical and scientific search. We’re a Dallas recruiting and search firm providing global recruiting solutions with full range of permanent placement options ranging from retained and/or contingency search. Our recruitment practice areas include healthcare, construction, insurance, pharmaceutical, biotech, banking and over 15 other niche recruiting specialty practice areas.

Kaye/Bassman is recognized as a Top 10 Executive Search Firm by Hunt Scanlon, plus ranked among America’s 5,000 Fastest Growing Private Companies by Inc. Magazine, as well as an industry thought leadership media expert by The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, Business Week, USA Today, Fox News, Dallas Business Journal, Inc. Magazine, Bloomberg, CNN and many others.

DIFFERENT

We’re different from other executive recruiting firms in that we Specialize by functional area, industry sector, position and geographic location; are Flexible in customizing our process, relationship and terms around the unique needs and expectations of our clients; provide an Array of Services ensuring our ability to handle any staffing challenge; and have earned a Track Record of success that enables our clients to gain a competitive advantage and candidates to advance their careers.

Whether it is a single position or large-scale staffing initiative, our patented Client Focused Search™ and Market Mastery™ approaches enable us to identify, attract, evaluate and acquire the right candidates for our clients. These approaches ultimately allow our clients to gain a competitive advantage, our candidates to advance their careers, and us to become the largest single-site search and recruiting solutions firm in the country.

INSIGHT

With local knowledge and a global reach, we leverage our network of resources to provide search solutions to businesses who need to lead in their markets. Our clients benefit from an industry practice consultant as a single point of contact with access to our day-to-day market insight, providing the right candidates and ensuring the right fit.

CONNECT

Contact our office or our recruiting consultants discover how we can help your business reach the next level. Get started today – https://www.kbic.com/contact-us/

ACHIEVEMENTS

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We’re different from other executive recruiting firms in that we Specialize by functional area, industry sector, position and geographic location; are Flexible in customizing our process, relationship and terms around the unique needs and expectations of our clients; provide an Array of Services ensuring our ability to handle any staffing challenge; and have earned a Track Record of success that enables our clients to gain a competitive advantage and candidates to advance their careers.

Whether it is a single position or large-scale staffing initiative, our patented Client Focused Search™ and Market Mastery™ approaches enable us to identify, attract, evaluate and acquire the right candidates for our clients. These approaches ultimately allow our clients to gain a competitive advantage, our candidates to advance their careers, and us to become the largest single-site search and recruiting solutions firm in the country.

Contact our office or our recruiting consultants discover how we can help your business reach the next level. Get started today – https://www.kbic.com/contact-us/

Solutions And Expertise

Solutions
  • Executive Coaching
  • Executive Search
  • On-Demand Recruiting
Industries
Functions
  • Advertising
  • All Functions
  • Board/Governance
  • Business Development
  • CEO/President
  • Communications/PR
  • Customer Service
  • Data/Analytics
  • Development
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Finance/Accounting
  • General Management
  • GM/Operations
  • Government
  • Human Resources
  • Information/Digital
  • Invest. Mgmt./Banking
  • Investor Relations
  • Legal/Compliance
  • Manufacturing
  • Marketing & Sales
  • Medical/Clinical
  • Research & Develop.
  • Risk Management
  • Supply Chain

News Briefings

Starfish Partners Acquires Direct Recruiters Inc.

Acquisitions and consolidations continue to make news in the recruiting industry, with a number of notable purchases in recent months. Starfish Partners, an investment and ownership platform for niched professional and mid-to-upper management search specialists, has acquired Direct Recruiters Inc. (DRI). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Current Starfish Partners organizations include search firms

Starfish Partners Launches Investment Platform for Recruiting Firms

Starfish Partners has been launched as an ownership/investment platform for the executive search market. The platform, according to its founder, was formed to allow owners to scale and monetize their business value; it will also allow independent search firm owners to participate and share in the equity of an entire family of companies, not just

Crisis Management: CFOs Confront New Layers of Risk in Pandemic Era

Perhaps the most important lesson that business leaders have learned from the pandemic is the importance of continuity planning in the C-suite, and beyond. In the crosshairs: Chief financial officers who are suddenly dealing with a vast array of new challenges, from cash flow, declining revenues, and employee health, to advising the CEO and board

Kaye/Bassman Names Managing Partner

Recruiters in the search industry continue to climb the ladder within their respective firms. Just recently, Plano, TX-based executive search firm Kaye/Bassman International Corp. promoted Nasrin Akter to managing partner in its insurance and risk practice. The firm said she will be “leading the team with mentoring and developing the search consultants and project consultants under her.” Prior

Press Releases

Trey Wright, Kaye/Bassman Managing Partner, Featured In The Washington Post

Plano, TX | 7/15/2021 Rising college senior Charity Cohen awoke Tuesday in her Whitsett, N.C., home to a call from her father, who had disappointing news. Acclaimed reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones announced on “CBS This Morning” that she was heading to Howard University instead of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ending a months-long

Eric Dickerson, Kaye/Bassman Managing Director, Featured in Relias Media

(March 15, 2021) Well-run peer review committees are essential to maintaining high-quality performance for physicians and nurses, but recruiting for those committees can be challenging. Physicians and nurses may resist the time commitment or fear legal and professional repercussions from passing judgment on their peers. Those fears can be dispelled by educating physicians and nurses

Susan Fishlock, Kaye/Bassman Managing Director, Featured in Dividends

(Sept. 8, 2020) Within a few weeks of stay-at-home orders prompted by the spread of COVID-19 throughout the United States, the number of Americans working remotely increased by 16 million people, according to an April report from Slack, a communication platform for businesses. Financial institutions weren’t exempt from the phenomenon. According to Susan Fishlock, partner

Tim White, Kaye/Bassman Managing Partner, Featured in Valdosta Daily Times

(Aug. 31, 2020) The Adi Dassler International Family Office, LLC (“ADIFO”), a privately owned, independent, multi-family office co-founded by three grandsons of Adi Dassler, founder of Adidas, recently launched U.S. operations in Miami and Tampa, Florida. Horst Bente, grandson of Adi Dassler, shared his thoughts: “Lead, don’t copy. This is the lifelong principle by which

Seth Cummings, Kaye/Bassman Managing Partner, Featured in Risk & Management

(July 20, 2020) The popularity of commercial insurance careers has been in steady decline for the past few generations. That’s why employee recruitment and retention efforts within the insurance industry are vital components of every business’s success. Seth Cummings, managing partner, insurance and risk management practice at Kaye/Bassman International Corp., said using top performers as