Heidrick & Struggles Announces Promotions

April 5, 2021 – Executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles recently announced that as part of its annual promotions process, the firm promoted 12 partners and 17 principals in its search and consulting businesses globally. “Heidrick & Struggles has a long-standing commitment to developing top talent and promoting from within our firm,” said Krishnan Rajagopalan, president and CEO. “This group of newly promoted consultants has demonstrated outstanding leadership and resilience. They will play a critical role as we continue to serve our clients as their trusted leadership advisors, and help them build and develop high-performing, agile leadership teams that are able to operate in a constantly changing and highly distributed work environment.”

The promoted consultants are based in 18 cities across 10 countries.

Individuals Promoted to Partner in 2021:

• Charles Anderson, partner – financial services practice (New York City)
• Jeffrey Boyd, partner – healthcare and life sciences practice (New York City)

• Alexis Hennessy, partner – global technology and services practice (Los Angeles)
• Martin Holm, partner – healthcare and life sciences practice (Copenhagen)
• Stephanie Mansfield, partner – global technology and services practice (New York City)
• Max Randria, partner – global technology and services practice (Melbourne)
• Scott Robbin, partner – information and technology officers’ practice (New York City)
• Ina Sood, partner – healthcare and life sciences practice (Washington, D.C)
• Christopher Uhrinek, partner – Heidrick Consulting (Singapore)
• Vittorio Veltroni, partner – global technology and services practice (Milan)
• Sebastian Walter, partner – financial services practice (Düsseldorf)
• Mark Zorbas, partner – Heidrick Consulting (Houston)

Individuals promoted to Principal in 2021:

• Mariam Abbott, principal – global technology and services practice (London)
• Joseph Anthamatten, principal – Heidrick Consulting (Costa Mesa)
• Jessica Bennett, principal – industrial practice (Perth)
• Kaeley Conlon, principal – global technology and services practice (Boston)
• Elizabeth Ganz, principal – healthcare and life sciences practice (Chicago)
• Lisa Gordon, principal – financial officers practice (New York City)
• Paula Guerra, principal – industrial practice (Rio de Janeiro)
• Guido LaPorta, principal – healthcare and life sciences practice (Chicago)
• Sahar Malik, principal – healthcare and life sciences practice (Chicago)
• Léssel Manna, principal – financial services practice (São Paulo)
• Neha Mohunta, principal – Heidrick Consulting (Dubai)
• Katherine Pluck, principal – financial services practice (New York City)
• Amardeep Rana, principal – consumer markets practice (New Delhi)
• Rasmus Riisgaard, principal – financial services practice (Copenhagen)
• Tommy Snyder, principal – industrial practice (Chicago)
• Fabian Tan, principal – industrial practice (Singapore)
• Haven Thompson, principal – global technology and services practice (New York City)

Leadership Changes

Heidrick & Struggles recently appointed Kamau Coar to the newly created role of chief inclusion officer and Jenni Hibbert as global managing partner, head of executive search go-to-market. This is part of the Heidrick’s long-term strategic plans to accelerate business growth and strengthen its focus on diversity and the firm’s workplace culture, said the search firm. “We continue to transform our business and build for the future,” said Mr. Rajagopalan. “As we progress on this journey, our leadership and workplace culture remain foundational to our success. We have a longstanding commitment to developing talent from within our firm, and these new roles and leadership changes put us in an even stronger position to support our employees while delivering world-class advisory services to our clients.”

In addition to these new roles, the following leadership changes have been implemented as part of the firm’s ongoing leadership development and succession planning efforts:

• Alyse Bodine, partner – global head of financial officers’ practice
• Sam Burman, partner – global practice managing partner, disruptive innovators team, and head of specialty practices
• Tim Dietlin, partner – global practice managing partner, healthcare and life sciences practice
• Jonathan Graham, partner – global practice managing partner, industrial practice
• Tom Murray, partner – global practice managing partner, global technology services
• Victoria Reese, partner – global practice managing partner, corporate officers’ practice; Ms. Reese also continues to lead the legal, risk, compliance and government affairs practice
• Todd Taylor, partner – global practice managing partner, financial services practice

Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief; Dale M. Zupsansky, Managing Editor; and Stephen Sawicki, Managing Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media