Pam Attinger, Managing Director – Russell Reynolds Associates

Pam Attinger works with private equity, growth equity, and Fortune 500 companies on critical talent and leadership issues. She is a managing director in the San Francisco office and leads the global private capital practice within the technology sector. She is also a member of the CEO advisory partners team where she advises boards on CEO succession planning and recruitment, and board succession planning and refreshment. Pam serves as a board member with Deep Lake Capital.

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Pam spent nine years at Visa in senior leadership positions, including global head of innovation and hlobal head of mobile. Prior to joining Visa, Pam was a management consultant for Marakon Associates, a global strategy consulting firm, where she worked with Fortune 100 companies to drive strategic growth and value creation in dynamic markets.

Emily Azevedo, Partner and Head of Talent – Mainsail Partners

Emily Azevedo is a partner and the head of talent at Mainsail Partners. She joined Mainsail in 2016 and works predominantly on portfolio talent needs, including executive recruiting, leadership development, compensation and assessment.

Prior to Mainsail, Emily spent eight years in executive search, most recently at Heidrick & Struggles as an engagement manager in the global technology & services practice focused on executive level placements for venture capital and private equity backed portfolio companies.

Emily began her career in management consulting, where she engaged on several US-based cross-continental projects in India, China, Hong Kong and Brazil. She moved to São Paulo, Brazil and lived in South America for five years working in executive search across a variety of industries. Prior to repatriating back to the U.S. in 2013, Emily served as the managing director for the Brazil subsidiary of Altimetrik, an IT multinational consultancy focused on ERP, cloud, and mobile app development.

Darcy Casarella, Talent Team – New Enterprise Associates

Darcy Casarella joined NEA in 2015 where she is a member of the talent team and focuses on partnering with heads of people and talent to recruit, hire, and develop talent across the portfolio. Darcy is passionate about bringing forth initiatives that encourage leadership development and education for NEA team members and portfolio companies. She works closely with teammates, search partners, and HR/talent experts to execute beneficial talent-focused programs and events.

Alan Cullen, President & CEO – Westwood & Wilshire

Alan Cullen founded Westwood & Wilshire in 2003.  Over the last 20 years, he has helped mold W&W into one of the premier search firms in the country. The firm focuses on partnering with the portfolio companies of the top Private Equity and Venture Capital firms in the world.  With dedicated practice areas in Life Sciences, Technology/SaaS and Healthcare, the firm operates at the convergence of human health, where science, medicine and technology all converge.  In 2020, Alan helped launch a second company, AccelPeople, that provides a wide range of human capital solutions, including interim/fractional executive placement.   Prior to diving into executive search, Alan worked in Management Consulting with Tucker Alan Inc (now part of Navigant Consulting).

Ashley Day, Operation Partner, Talent – FFL Partners

Ashley Day, PhD, joined FFL in 2021. Ashley works closely with FFL’s portfolio companies advising them on all aspects of talent management including recruiting, compensation, succession planning, retention, team building, and performance management. Prior to joining FFL, Ashley was chief talent officer for an NYC-based mid-market private equity firm. In this role, Ashley was responsible for the overall strategy for human capital development and talent assessment across the portfolio and at the fund level. Earlier in her career, Ashley was a member of the leadership and succession practice at Russell Reynolds Associates in New York. At Russell Reynolds, Ashley worked on a range of leadership assessment, development, team effectiveness and succession planning assignments for senior executives.

Aaron Mitchell Finegold, Chief Marketing Officer – Kingsley Gate

Aaron Mitchell Finegold is the chief marketing officer of Kingsley Gate. He is responsible for overseeing the company’s full-funnel marketing strategy, all external communications, and investment in business-critical capabilities such as experimentation, marketing automation, and measurement. Aaron brings over 15 years of experience in digital marketing, brand strategy, customer insights, user acquisition, and design thinking to Kingsley Gate. His experience driving innovation across both technology and professional services companies makes him uniquely qualified to lead Kingsley Gate’s marketing efforts.

Before joining Kingsley Gate, Aaron spent three years as a senior leader at LinkedIn, with a focus on developing leading-edge marketing strategy, reinforcing marketing foundations (e.g., data, technology) and ensuring strong collaboration between marketing and other functions. Prior to LinkedIn, Aaron was an associate partner in McKinsey & Company’s marketing and sales practice and served as a worldwide marketing strategy consultant at Ogilvy & Mather, developing demand generation and brand marketing strategies.

Aaron is deeply involved with Nobel Prize-winning N.G.O., Human Rights Watch, sitting on the San Francisco committee, and the Global Circle of the organization’s LGBT rights program.

Dan Grosh, Operating Partner – Diversis Capital

Dan Grosh is an operating partner at Diversis Capital. He focuses on talent strategy, enhancing leadership teams and special projects for Diversis and the firm’s portfolio. Dan had played a significant role at Calibre One. He served on the global operating committee with responsibility for management, vitality and scale of the US operations, while driving record revenue growth during his tenure. Previously, Dan was the technology practice leader – americas region for Boyden, one of the largest retained executive search firms in the world.

Dan is an advisor to Cortado Group, the leading GTM advisory firm focused on optimizing revenue intelligence, revenue operations, product, pricing, sales, marketing, and customer success. He is also a board advisor to Peak Spectrum, the premier IT cost containment / consulting services provider and senior advisor to Plum Acquisition Corporation I, a leading technology SPAC.

Suzanne Heske, Partner, Head of Investment Practice – SPMB

Suzanne Heske joined SPMB in 2019 and leads the firm’s investment practice. She is focused on recruiting transformational leaders — including investors, operating partners, and functional leaders to venture capital, private equity, and asset management firms. Suzanne also spearheads the firm’s cryptocurrency and blockchain efforts. She joined SPMB from Caldwell Partners, where she ran the West Coast financial services team.

Before entering executive search, Suzanne worked for Merrill Lynch, Fidelity, and Piper Jaffray as an institutional salesperson.

Katie Hughes, Partner, Executive Talent – General Catalyst

Katie Hughes joined General Catalyst in 2018 to build the firm’s executive talent function. She’s proud to be a part of a venture capital firm committed to responsible innovation and investing in powerful, positive change that endures. She and her team advise their portfolio companies on hiring top performing and diverse talent and guiding their cultures through growth. Additionally, Katie is a founding partner of Coalition Operators, helping early-stage founders build diverse, impactful cap tables through a network of top operators. Katie has worked in venture capital for the past eleven years; before joining GC she was the talent partner at DFJ and DFJ Growth and was one of the first talent leaders hired inside a venture firm. Prior to becoming a VC, Katie helped to launch Betts Recruiting – a boutique search firm with a focus on building early-stage companies’ go-to-market teams.

Rhys Hughes, Executive Talent Partner – GV

As GV’s executive talent partner, Rhys Hughes leads executive talent initiatives, advising founders on organizational growth and scale and leveraging a global network. He is a natural connector and has spent his career partnering with global brands as they aggressively scale.

Before GV, Rhys was the chief talent officer for the startup Rubrik, where he helped build an executive team and led talent management including talent acquisition, people development, and DE&I. Previously, Rhys spent nine years at Adobe, where he ran global recruiting teams. He also spent his earlier years successfully building one of Asia Pacific’s leading recruiting brands through acquisition.

Dror Karidi, Managing Director – Oaktree Capital Management

Dror Karidi is a managing director in Oaktree Capital Management’s portfolio transformation team and specializes in driving commercial and operational performance improvement initiatives, including turnarounds, collaboratively with management teams. Before joining Oaktree in 2018, he was a general manager at United States Steel, president and CEO of Alasko Foods and senior director of pricing and operational strategy at U.S. Foods. Prior thereto, he worked at McKinsey & Company where he served companies in the industrial, agricultural, chemical, technology and logistics sectors. Earlier in his career, Dror served as an attorney focused on corporate, labor and real estate law. Additionally, he served in the Israel Defense Forces, Intelligence Corps. He received an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and an LL.B. and a B.A from Tel-Aviv University.

Anthony Keizner, Managing Partner – Odyssey Search Partners

Anthony Keizner is a managing partner at Odyssey Search Partners in New York. He has been involved with buyside talent for fifteen years. He oversees Odyssey’s recruiting and consulting work, that includes team build-outs, organizational design, and compensation structures. He has experience supporting numerous world-class firms to hire exceptional talent in roles such as investment leads, HR heads, IR/marketing heads and positions across deal teams. Anthony is the chief writer of Odyssey’s regular thought-pieces on topics including impact investing, diversity hiring, and compensation trends. A recognized expert in the buyside talent space, Anthony is regularly quoted in the financial press such as Reuters, Business Insider and Bloomberg.

Before a career in executive search, Anthony was a senior vice president at Gerson Lehrman Group, the networking platform, and a consultant a Monitor Group, the strategy consulting firm. He started his career at Citibank/Salomon Smith Barney as an analyst and rose to become a VP within corporate and investment banking.

Kyle Langworthy, Head of the AI, ML, and Data Practice – Riviera Partners

Kyle Langworthy is Head of the AI, ML, and Data practice for Riviera Partners, the leading global executive search firm specializing in technology, product, and design leadership. Kyle’s strengths include helping clients navigate the rapidly changing landscape of AI to identify, assess, and secure the right leaders to drive growth and deliver longer-term value. Kyle has focused on AI, Robotics, Autonomy, ML Infrastructure, Data, and Engineering for several years, rapidly expanding Riviera’s client base since 2019. He joined from WorthyWorks, a search firm he founded that was dedicated initially to cryptographers and deeply technical security practitioners before growing internationally and more broadly into technology leadership. He began his career in executive search with Michael Page serving the financial services industry, and gained exposure to numerous domains with HumanEdge and Software Guidance & Assistance, where he helped leading banks and hedge funds hire for and build their algorithmic trading systems.

Ruben Moreno, Founder – Blue Rock Search

As a Blue Rock co-founder with 25+ years of industry-relevant experience, Ruben is a recognized thought leader in executive search. He is a sought-after industry expert who regularly contributes to industry panels, podcasts, blogs, and articles on today’s hot topics.

Ruben and his private equity team partner with their clients to understand their value creation model and culture to ensure they successfully attract and hire the right transformative leaders. His clients consider him a trusted partner who takes the time to build relationships, collaborate, problem-solve, and add value beyond executive search.

Scott Parish, CEO and Founder – Hireguide

Scott Parish is the CEO and founder of Hireguide, an interview intelligence platform founded by 10 LinkedIn alumni and hiring PhD’s. Hireguide is a complete kit to the best hiring decision making interviews faster, fairer and twice as predictive. The company has helped thousands of hiring managers in top companies like IDEO, Stanford and was recognized by Techstars as one of the top one percent of HR-tech startups. Scott has dedicated his career to building leading HR-technology, including almost seven years at LinkedIn. Scott also teaches about social enterprise, wrote the world’s largest study of Purpose at Work and Hireguide is a certified BCorp.

Rohan Paul, President – Teamalytics

As President, Rohan Paul leads the Teamalytics business unit of The Flippen Group. In this role, he facilitates an experienced team in the development and delivery of leadership and team solutions to organizations in the United States and around the world.

Before joining Teamalytics, Rohan was the business manager and a founding executive team member of Breakthrough, a leadership development company based in Bangalore, India. Rohan led the development and implementation of the company’s strategic plan and oversaw all aspects of operations. As part of the Breakthrough consulting team, Rohan developed and delivered workshops extensively across India, as well as Egypt, Slovakia, the United States, Singapore, and Sri Lanka. He continues to serve Breakthrough as a member of the board.

Rohan has extensive global experience, having led and worked with teams in the United States, Australia, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He spent 10 years serving with an international team whose mission is teaching children leadership skills through sports. He still serves on their board. To date, more than 3 million children in 175 countries have participated in these events and resources have been translated into dozens of languages.

Jill Pergande, Managing Director, Human Capital – Gryphon Investors

Serving Managing Director, Human Capital for Gryphon Investors, Jill Pergande’s global human resources leadership experience includes tenures in the U.S., APAC and Europe across diverse industries including consumer products, retail, manufacturing and healthcare companies with up to 32,000 employees. Jill has worked in all key areas of HR, including executive team partnership and aligning HR with business strategy, talent integration and planning for and executing mergers and acquisitions, leadership development, succession planning, learning and development, employee retention, change leadership, internal communication and employee engagement. Jill started her career as a VP of HR at Baxter International, before moving onto top HR and Talent roles with Chiron Corporation, Nuvelo, Avery Dennison and Santa Cruz Healthcare.

Mike Silverstein, Managing Partner - Healthcare IT & Life Sciences Practice – Direct Recruiters, Inc.

Mike Silverstein is Managing Partner and Executive Search Leader of DRI’s Healthcare IT Division & Life Sciences Practice. He also leads DRI’s efforts in recruiting for 30+ top PE and VC portfolio companies. In 2014, Mike was inducted into The Pinnacle Society, the nation’s premier consortium of top recruiters within the direct placement and search industry. In 2016, Mike was named one of the most “Influential Millennials in Staffing” by Staffing Industry Analysts, the global advisor of staffing and workforce solutions. In September of 2022, DRI was acquired by Starfish Partners, an international investment and ownership platform for niched professional and mid to upper management search specialists. Mike currently holds a Board of Directors role at Starfish Partners and consults with search firm owners to scale and monetize their business values.

Mike founded the Healthcare IT practice in 2008. Under his leadership, the Life Sciences Practice has expanded, and the HIT practice area has grown significantly year-over-year. Additionally, in 2011, Mike helped found what is now DRI’s Hospital IT group as a Managing Partner, which is concentrated largely on Hospital IT staffing and consulting. With a focus on recruiting from the Executive Level and C-Suite through individual contributor roles within healthcare software and services organizations nationwide, Mike’s diverse background helps him to identify exceptional individuals from startup companies to Fortune 500 corporations. Mike’s consultative style along with his personable approach enables him to develop trusted relationships with clients and investors in order to deliver high-caliber talent capable of leading companies in competitive and fast changing business environments. Mike Silverstein is known as one of the top healthcare IT recruiters and life sciences recruiters in the United States.

Katie Solomon, Managing Director, Talent Management – Genstar Capital

Katie Solomon is managing director, talent management at Genstar Capital. She works across the firm’s portfolio to help drive growth through the identification, assessment and acquisition of talent. Katie brings experience in recruiting, investor relations, finance and consulting to her role at the firm.

Prior to joining Genstar in 2011, Katie was vice president, human capital and investor relations at Vector Capital. Previously, she worked in executive search at Russell Reynolds Associates where she focused on recruiting senior level executives to private equity and venture backed companies. Before that, Katie led the marketing team at Harvard Business School Career Services and directed the global investment banking recruiting department at Robertson Stephens. Katie began her career as a consultant with Bain & Company where she advised both Fortune 500 companies and private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

Carter Tatum, Director, Talent – Vista Equity Partners

Carter Tatum joined Vista Equity Partners in 2018. She is responsible for all recruiting efforts related to the hiring of investment professionals and business operations and support roles.

Prior to joining Vista, Carter led investment professional recruiting at H.I.G. Capital. Before her time at H.I.G., she was a business manager in the Asian Art department at Christie’s and managed professional development and staffing at McKinsey & Company in the business technology office (now McKinsey Digital).

Tom Wilson, President & Managing Partner – Frederickson Partners, A Gallagher Company

Tom Wilson is an internationally recognized thought leader in human resources (HR) management and retained executive search, with almost three decades of experience. At Frederickson Partners, he leads the executive search practice, and has worked closely with CEOs and boards of leading biotechnology, high-tech, and Fortune 500 companies to optimize HR functions and complete key HR leadership searches, including work with Alphabet, Perceptyx, Shutterfly, Intel, Northwestern Mutual, StockX, Qualtrics, ServiceNow, Ford Motor Company, Samsung, Second Harvest, Health Equity, and CAA.

A Fulbright Scholar with an M.A. from the University of Toronto and a B.A. from Penn State, Tom started his professional career in retained executive search with Heidrick & Struggles. He then spent eight years with Bank of America in global talent acquisition and HR leadership positions, including leading European talent acquisition out of London for four years, and also leading other recruitment and HR organizations at RBC Capital Markets and Standard Chartered Bank.

Alison Woodhead, Senior Partner – Kingsley Gate

Alison Woodhead is a senior partner with Kingsley Gate. Alison’s expertise spans a variety of industries and functions, focusing on placing executives in general management, finance, operations and marketing roles within private equity, technology, energy, and consumer companies. Alison serves as thought partner to C-suite clients regarding strategic human capital needs, including succession planning, organizational structure, talent assessment and executive coaching.

Prior to Kingsley Gate, Alison served as a senior client partner at a top national search firm and was responsible for securing, leading and executing retained executive search assignments, with a focus on private equity portfolio companies. Earlier in her career, Alison held brand management, marketing, and sales roles within The Walt Disney Company, AGI Media and Pump Audio.