ON Partners Recruits CEO for TalentNeuron
June 26, 2023 – ON Partners’ Tim Conti and Tindall (Sewell) Hein recently placed Julie Peck as the new chief executive officer of TalentNeuron, a Leeds Equity Partners company in New York City. “As a now stand-alone business with a plethora of strategic opportunities to partner with business leaders to address key human capital business imperatives, we are excited to have Julie take the leadership role at TalentNeuron team,” said Jacques Galante, partner of Leeds Equity and board member of TalentNeuron. “Julie’s leadership, in partnership with the rest of the talented executive team at TalentNeuron, will be instrumental in supporting the company’s next phase of growth as we seek to enrich the deep insights we provide our clients and bring additional customer-centric solutions to address tomorrow’s human capital challenges.”
“When partnering with TalentNeuron earlier this year we found a strong, passionate team with a culture driven by delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients,” said Christopher Mairs, managing director of Leeds Equity and board member of TalentNeuron. The existing team have been delivering at a very high level, and bringing in an executive of Julie’s caliber will only serve to accelerate TalentNeuron’s continued growth and success.”
Ms. Peck has track record of growing and transforming SaaS, data, and information services businesses, both organically and through acquisition, and brings deep domain expertise in technology and tech-enabled product offerings. Previously, she served as CEO of Vcheck Global, a tech-enabled services company providing background intelligence to financial institutions, corporations and capital markets dealmakers. Prior to that, Ms. Peck spent over a decade in various senior leadership roles across key business lines for Wolters Kluwer, including as general manager of TyMetrix, a SaaS-based provider of data and analytics solutions to legal departments and law firms.
“I am delighted to be joining TalentNeuron,” Ms. Peck said. “I am deeply aligned with its mission of empowering organizations to make better informed human capital decisions, and believe the company’s expansive data, leading technology platform, and deep market insights are a transformational combination that has become mission-critical for business leaders working through unprecedented times of change, evolution, and complexity in the talent markets across the globe. I look forward to working with TalentNeuron’s talented team, and with our current and future clients, to drive innovation, deliver exceptional outcomes, and better serve our customers’ human capital needs.”
TalentNeuron is a subscription-based provider of labor market data and analytics for corporate human resource and talent analytics teams. Leeds Equity is a New York-based private equity firm dedicated exclusively to partnering with management teams in the education, training, and information services industries. The firm was founded in 1993 and manages over $4 billion of capital across a broad spectrum of companies within the knowledge industries.
Top-Ranked Recruiters
With a primary focus on technology, consumer, industrial, and the life science sectors, ON Partners recruits C-level and board talent for public and private companies, as well as venture capital and private equity firms. Founded in 2006, the firm’s consultants work from offices in Atlanta; Boston; Chicago; Cleveland; Dallas; Menlo Park, CA; Minneapolis, MN; San Francisco; and New York. ON Partners is one of the fastest growing search firms and this year is ranked as one of the Top 20 recruiting platforms in the nation by Hunt Scanlon Media.
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Mr. Conti, who has worked in executive search for more than 15 years, has completed upwards of 150 C-level and board searches across a range of industries. His focus is on public, private equity, and venture capital organizations. Mr. Conti also serves as a member of the ON Partners executive committee.
Ms. Hein builds executive leadership teams at growth equity, private equity, and Fortune 500 companies. She serves a range of positions across CEO, operating partner, and VP-level executive roles with strong focus on diversity placements with a concentration on industrial and technology sectors.
Recent Placement
ON Partners has helped to place Allen Proithis as the new chief executive officer of Austin, TX-based GXC, a leading network-as-a-service communications company. The assignment was spearheaded by Brad Westveld, the search firm’s co-founder and partner.
“Allen’s unparalleled combination of experience, leadership, market acumen, and technical proficiency, especially in the emerging 5G private networks and IoT sectors, makes him the exceptional executive to guide GXC’s growth strategies,” said Bob Istwan, a GXC board member and CEO of Motive Companies. “We are delighted that he will lead the GXC team, and the board has every expectation that his vision, expertise, and ability to execute will accelerate GXC’s success as the leader in meshed 5G private wireless networks, especially as these private networks scale across the globe.”
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief; Dale M. Zupsansky, Managing Editor; and Stephen Sawicki, Managing Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
