EXECUTIVE SEARCH FOR INNOVATORS
We connect top executive talent to the world’s best and fastest-growing innovators across the country.
Who We Are
SPMB builds executive teams that ensure venture capital and private equity-backed game-changers achieve scale, and position multi-billion-dollar public companies to unlock innovation.
Where We Came From
For over 40 years, SPMB has worked alongside our clients through tech booms & busts, market peaks & troughs, and rapid digital transformation. Our industry longevity and Silicon Valley heritage has equipped us to successfully:
Our people are what differentiate us. SPMB has a long history of not only developing and attracting some of the industry’s most skilled search professionals, but also retaining them—the average tenure of an SPMB partner is 10 years! We understand the incomparable value of human capital to our own organization and to those we serve.
Specializing in technology and innovation, we recruit upper management and board members to growth-oriented companies in tech, consumer, and sustainability industries.
Todd Greenhalgh and Gina Burns of SPMB Executive Search’s innovation & sustainability practice, have placed Minesh Shah as president of Omnidian in Seattle, WA. “After an exhaustive and careful selection process, we are pleased to welcome Minesh to our team,” said Mark Liffmann, co-founder and CEO of Omnidian. “His demonstrated leadership skills and alignment with our values
In this post-Covid era, are there hiring trends or executive skills that are more prevalent and in demand? “As an executive recruiter focused largely on the private equity markets in B2B tech, we’re experiencing two distinct – but overlapping – macro trends in leadership hiring,” said Jon Landau, partner at SPMB, in a recent report.
As SEC regulation around private fund advisers evolves and more investment managers become registered investment advisors, limited partners (LPs) are gaining influence in capital deployment and firm strategy. LPs are insistent that investment managers recruit top tier investor relations (IR) and business development (BD) talent to bolster fundraising efforts and to institutionalize firms to meet
Reskilling has been a simmering hot topic for the past several years, especially as it applies to professional and technical skills. But the past year and a half may go down as the great shake-up for leadership skills, according to executive search consultants. Traditional leader skill-sets (including communication), which could once be mastered, now need
(Aug. 12, 2021) SPMB is pleased to announce and congratulate our new Client Partner, Carleigh Morba. Carleigh joined SPMB in 2015 and has since partnered with clients ranging from early stage, VC-funded startups to larger, growth stage companies. Her functional expertise focuses largely on GTM (sales, marketing, customer success), and she also supports strategic projects for
(July 29, 2021) SPMB is pleased to announce and congratulate our new Client Partner, Sarah Auten. Sarah joined SPMB in 2018 and today co-leads the firm’s Financial Officers Practice, with a strong track record serving consumer-oriented companies. Sarah also launched SPMB’s General Counsel (GC) Practice — an area that she is uniquely qualified to lead having
(July 16, 2021) SPMB is pleased to announce and congratulate our newest Partner, Damon Zeligs. Damon joined SPMB in 2016 as an Associate and has since become one of the firm’s fastest-tracked employees, being named Client Partner in 2019 and Partner in 2021. Today, Damon and Managing Partner Eamonn Tucker lead the firm’s Infrastructure GTM technology
(June, 2021) Sam joined SPMB’s Colorado team in 2017 to focus on building executive leadership in the Mountain West and Midwest’s emerging tech markets. Since then, she has launched the firm’s footprint in geographies like Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Bozeman, Phoenix, Edmonton, and Toronto, while continuing to work with clients in Denver/Boulder, Austin, Salt Lake
(Feb. 28, 2019) SPMB, the top-ranked executive search firm in Silicon Valley, announces new partners, Suzanne Heske from The Caldwell Group, and Bianca Moreno from Bespoke Partners. SPMB has over 40 years of experience in technology executive search, and is the top-ranked firm in Silicon Valley, according to Forbes 2018 Best Executive Recruiting Firms, and