Heidrick & Struggles Unveils 2025 Global and Regional Leadership Appointments
January 8, 2025 – Executive search, leadership consulting, and culture shaping services provider Heidrick & Struggles has announced key global and regional leader appointments, effective January 1, 2025. The appointed leaders will continue advancing the firm’s objective of delivering exceptional value to clients by fostering differentiated, deep, and durable relationships.
“Having the right leadership in place is increasingly crucial to business performance, growth, and prosperity, making our work more important than ever,” said Tom Monahan, CEO of Heidrick. “This dynamic group embodies our values as a firm as well as our unwavering commitment to delivering superior client service. We’re excited to promote these outstanding leaders as they continue to shepherd our clients through their most pressing business and talent challenges.”
These leaders span Heidrick & Struggles’ priority practice and solution areas, as well as multiple regions globally.
Individuals appointed to regional leader:
- Anne Rockey, North America.
- Richard Guest, Asia Pacific & Middle East.
Individual appointed to global managing partner:
- Todd Taylor, Client driven growth, a newly created role.
Individuals appointed to executive search global practice managing partner:
- Jaimee Eddington, Corporate officers practice.
- Dominique Fortier, Financial services practice.
- Chris Bray, Global technology & services practice.
- Gustavo Alba, Co-lead, private equity practice.
Individuals appointed to executive search regional practice managing partner:
- Liz Langel, Americas, financial services practice.
- Ina Sood, Americas, healthcare & life sciences practice.
- David Burd, Americas, corporate officers practice.
- David Crawford, Asia Pacific & Middle East, global technology & services practice.
- Tom Cunningham, Europe & Africa, global technology & services practice.
- Sarah Driscoll, Europe & Africa, global technology & services practice.
- Roman Wecker, Europe & Africa, industrial practice.
Individuals appointed to partner-in-charge:
- Jane Xing, Beijing.
- Jessi Gentile, Chicago.
- Maliha Jilani, Dubai.
- Kim Pomoell, Finland.
- Kiwook Kim, Korea.
- David Richardson, New York/Stamford.
- Christina Besozzi Cary, Washington, D.C.
Individual promoted in Heidrick Consulting:
- Eric Joseph, leading North America on an interim basis.
Newly Appointed CFO
In December, Heidrick appointed Nirupam Sinha as its new CFO. “Nirupam Sinha is a proven financial leader with a passion for strategy, transformation, and people leadership across professional services, financial services, and technology,” said Mr. Monahan. “Throughout his career, Nirupam has helped lead transformative financial management and value creation, all while advancing organizational growth, making him the ideal leader to create value for clients, colleagues and shareholders. Nirupam has the strategic insight, leadership skills and deep experience to support Heidrick & Struggles as the world’s most trusted partner in leadership and critical talent decisions, focused on building differentiated, deep and durable relationships with the world’s most leadership-obsessed companies.”
Heidrick & Struggles Taps Outsider as CEO; Other Leadership Moves Announced
Heidrick & Struggles has announced that president and CEO Krishnan Rajagopalan has decided to retire, after more than 23 years with the firm. Following a planned succession process, the board has appointed Thomas L. Monahan to succeed Mr. Rajagopalan as CEO and member of the board, effective March 4. Mr. Monahan currently serves as managing partner of Norton Street Holdings and was previously president and CEO of DeVry University. Mr. Rajagopalan will step down, effective March 4, 2024, and will retire from the firm as of April 1, 2024, after which he will continue to serve as an advisor. “Search firms are highly focused on trying to leverage data, innovative technology, analytics, and IT to not only lift their client’s performance, but also their own,” said Scott Scanlon, CEO of Hunt Scanlon Media. “Bringing in this outsider at this time makes a whole lot of sense.”
Mr. Sinha is a tested leader with extensive experience across professional services, financial services, and technology. He previously served as CFO of Checkout.com, a global payments company, where he oversees a team of more than 200 across accounting, treasury, tax, FP&A, investor relations, and strategy as well as other groups.
“We are in a pivotal time when people and leadership can make or break a business, making the work at Heidrick & Struggles ever more important,” said Mr. Sinha. “Heidrick & Struggles has long served at the heart of talent strategy and continues to innovate and expand its offerings in an increasingly transformative market. I believe we have an exciting road ahead as a firm and I’m honored to be a part of it. As Heidrick & Struggles continues to grow, I look forward to helping the company continue to scale and deliver strong performance for our clients and shareholders around the world.”
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
