ON Partners Recruits Chief Marketing Officer for Transformco

October 27, 2023 – As business becomes more global and complex, and power shifts from producers of goods and services to consumers, the chief marketing officer’s job of planning and coordinating marketing activities has become more challenging, recruiters say. Yet executive search firms are seeing no shortage of assignments for this important C-level position. ON Partners’ Andy Hickman and Alex Pelak recently placed Patrick Dodson as the new chief marketing officer of Transformco in Hoffman Estates, IL.

Mr. Dodson is an experienced B2B and B2C marketing leader with a background in performance marketing, complex media, content strategy, and user experience landscapes. His expertise spans across Fortune 500, mid-size, and private equity across marketplaces. Mr. Dodson has a record of driving millions in new revenue through B2B demand generation campaigns across marketing automation platforms, CRM, personalization, loyalty, digital and traditional media tactics, industry events, compelling content, and powerful sales enablement platforms supporting 500+ member sales teams.

Mr. Dodson joins Transformco from CoStar Group, where he served as the vice president, head of marketing, Apartments.com. Prior to that, he was the senior director of marketing at Autotrader.com and Kelley Blue Book. There he was responsible for multi-channel, product, and sales enablement strategy, and demand generation. He has held additional roles at Greensky and Georgia-Pacific/Koch Industries.

Transformco is an integrated retailer focused on seamlessly connecting the digital and physical shopping experiences to serve its members. Transformco is home to Shop Your Way®, a social shopping platform offering members rewards for shopping at Sears, Kmart and other retail partners. Transformco operates through its subsidiaries with full-line and specialty retail stores across the U.S.

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.

Related: ON Partners Places Chief Sales Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Guru

Mr. Hickman has over 20 years of experience in executive search. He has placed 250-plus C-level executives in technology, information, innovation, security, engineering, and product roles. His primary focus is in private equity.


ON Partners Recruits Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for Searchspring
Daniel Bolger and Jake Espenlaub of ON Partners have helped to recruit Rebecca Grimes as chief sales and marketing officer of Searchspring in San Antonio, TX. “We are thrilled to welcome Rebecca to our leadership team,” said Alex Kombos, CEO of Searchspring. “She is an experienced revenue leader with a strong track record of driving revenue growth and is the perfect fit to support Searchspring through our next chapter of growth. Her deep understanding of the E-commerce industry, along with her ability to foster collaboration across teams, will be critical as we focus on delivering increased value to our customers in 2024 and beyond.”

With over 25 years of experience in B2B SaaS, Ms. Grimes brings a wealth of expertise to Searchspring. Previously, she served as chief revenue officer at Ruby, where she played a pivotal role in scaling the business across sales, marketing, partnerships, revenue operations, and customer success teams, ultimately leading to the sale of Ruby in November of the previous year. Her other past positions include vice president of North America marketing at Cheetah Digital, SVP of marketing at PowerReviews, and various sales and marketing leadership roles at Chicago-based companies such as Panduit, CenterPost Communications, and ServiceMaster.


As a consultant, Mr. Pelak has a strong focus in technology, aerospace and defense, and industrial.  His recent work includes senior-level placements for lidar, photonics, semiconductor, advanced materials, and consumer electronics clients.

Recent CMO Search

ON Partners recently helped to place Maureen Pienta as the new chief marketing officer for ETQ, a provider of quality, EHS, and compliance management software in Burlington, MA. Ms. Pienta is responsible for all aspects of marketing strategy, planning, and execution at ETQ. Partner Lenny Vairo spearheaded the assignment for the search firm. Ms. Pienta brings strong strategy and market development experience along with deep expertise in demand generation to her new role. She is especially skilled at maximizing the marketing and sales dynamic to increase sales productivity.

ETQ, part of Hexagon AB, was founded in 1992. More than 600 customers globally, spanning industries such as pharmaceuticals, electronics, heavy industry, food and beverage, and medical devices, rely on ETQ to secure positive brand reputations, enable higher levels of customer loyalty, and enhance profitability. ETQ Reliance offers built-in best practices and powerful flexibility to drive business excellence through quality. The company has main offices in the U.S. and Europe.

Related: ON Partners Recruits Chief Marketing Officer for Nutrient Survival

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

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