March 14, 2025 – CarterBaldwin is a retained executive search firm that partners with our clients to build exceptional leadership teams. For more than two decades, we have played a pivotal role in transforming the leadership and landscape for clients, impacting the future of their organizations for years to come. Since our inception in 2001 as a corporate firm, we have expanded our client portfolio to include nonprofit and academic sectors, serving both domestic and international clients from our headquarters in Atlanta, GA and our Washington, D.C. office. Despite our growth, we remain intentional about our “small” size, choosing to focus on delivering great search outcomes with the right balance of partner involvement, recruitment, and research support. With more than 125 years of combined executive search experience, our partners lead a highly engineered search process that is collaborative, efficient, and effective with consistent success. Our in-depth approach enables us to deeply understand each client’s needs and creates a seamless partnership for every search project. We pride ourselves on our highly experienced staff, an unrivaled process, and an exceptional client and candidate experience. As a result, many of our engagements are with repeat clients, referrals, or candidates significantly impacted by our work. To see why many of the best and most admired organizations continue to trust CarterBaldwin with their most critical leadership needs, connect with us.
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Cooper Coleman LLC
March 14, 2025 – Cooper Coleman is a full-service recruiting firm partnering exclusively with nonprofit organizations, social enterprises, foundations, and research and academic institutions to drive meaningful growth. Our team of seasoned nonprofit leaders proudly serves missions and organizations of all sizes across the nation, ensuring the nonprofit sector experiences the highest caliber of executive search support often available only to the largest organizations. With extensive backgrounds in both corporate and nonprofit retained search, as well as in-house development and executive leadership, we leverage a cadre of search consultants, organizational development experts, fundraisers and campaign strategists, communications and marketing professionals, and designers to provide unwavering support to your organization. We aim to be the partner to which other firms aspire.
McIntyre Associates, LLC
March 14, 2025 – Retained Executive Search for the Cybersecurity Industry. Founded by Jeff McIntyre and currently operated by Kyle McIntyre, McIntyre Associates has served the cybersecurity startup community for over two decades, partnering with industry leaders such as CrowdStrike, KnowBe4, Cisco, Arbor Networks and others to achieve record-breaking growth and noteworthy exit events.
Christoph Zeiss Partners, Inc.
March 14, 2025 – With a track record of more than 25 years and backed by one of Europe’s longest-standing family offices, Christoph Zeiss Partners, Inc. (CZP) provides bespoke human capital solutions for the world’s leading organizations.
ECA Partners
March 12, 2025 – ECA is a specialized project staffing and executive search firm focused on private equity and PE portfolio companies. We provide our clients with the very best talent to execute their value creation plans.
Executive Search | Interim Execs | On-Demand Consultants
Example roles include: PortCo CFOs, PortCo CEOs, M&A Leaders, Portfolio Operations Leaders, Strategy Leaders, Interim CFOs and Controllers, PMO Consultants, and more!
We use a proprietary, evidence-based approach to recruiting that leverages data and technology to ensure the very best outcomes for our clients. We invested millions to build our industry leading Talent Management System, CASCADE, that gives our clients an edge both in terms of speed to hire and likelihood of success. We’ve conducted thousands of searches for hundreds of clients, across private equity, corporate strategy, search funds, consulting firms and more.
Locations: Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Chicago, Phoenix
Shelli Herman and Associates, Inc.
March 12, 2025 – Shelli Herman and Associates, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based retained executive search firm that partners with leading organizations across the nonprofit, higher education, and corporate sectors to recruit transformative executive leadership. We have collaborated with a wide range of respected institutions nationwide, including zoos, aquariums, museums, universities, foundations, and service organizations, with a focus on mission-driven organizations that lead their sectors. We focus on placing senior leaders and decision-makers in roles where the hire is transformational.
Roughly 98% of our business comes from repeat clients and referrals, and we have maintained a 99% retention rate on every placement since 2010. Our time-to-hire is up to three times faster than the industry standard, with no compromise to the quality of the slate.
Our practice is grounded in three commitments: integrity, quality, and success. Founder Shelli Herman leads the team and remains active throughout every search. We structure each engagement around the client’s culture, values, and timeline rather than a fixed template, and we hold ourselves to exacting standards at every stage, from defining the role and sourcing strategy to candidate evaluation and offer negotiation. Equity and inclusion are integrated into the search from the outset, guided by our in-house organizational leadership and assessment consultant.
Our work with complex, mission-driven institutions has given us a deep understanding of the operational and cultural dynamics that define these environments. We combine that fluency with current market intelligence and the latest technology to efficiently identify and cultivate candidates and present clients with a slate of leaders prepared to deliver from day one.
RSR Partners
March 12, 2025 – RSR Partners: Your Strategic Partner for Board and Executive Search
RSR Partners is a leading boutique retained search firm, headquartered in Greenwich, CT, dedicated to assisting Boards and CEOs with their most crucial leadership needs. Established in 1993 by industry visionary Russell S. Reynolds, Jr., our firm brings over three decades of specialized experience in board and executive recruiting, strategic selection, and seamless succession planning.
We have successfully completed thousands of high-impact engagements for a diverse clientele, including public companies, mutual fund complexes, foundations, private equity-backed firms, and family-owned businesses. Our expertise spans a wide array of sectors, notably asset management, industrial, consumer, financial services, healthcare, marketing and digital, and technology.
In honor of our founder’s enduring legacy and half-century of advising boards and CEOs, RSR Partners established the Russell S. Reynolds, Jr. Chair of the Year Award in 2022. This annual award celebrates a public company Board Chair who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in navigating significant business or governance challenges, embodying the strategic excellence our firm upholds.
DeBerry Search Associates
March 12, 2025 – DeBerry Search Associates specializes in senior executive recruitment for the retail, consumer, and distribution sectors. We are dedicated to helping companies achieve their strategic goals by identifying and securing transformative leadership. Our high-touch, tailored approach allows us to serve as a trusted partner to a select group of clients, ensuring every search aligns with their unique needs and culture. With deep expertise in these industries, we provide innovative solutions to leadership challenges. Our extensive network and proven process enable us to connect clients with impactful executives who drive growth, innovation, and organizational success. At DeBerry Search Associates, we pride ourselves on building long-term relationships based on trust, integrity, and results. We go beyond filling roles by immersing ourselves in our clients’ goals, helping them shape teams that thrive in today’s competitive marketplace. Whether advising on talent strategy or identifying the next generation of leadership, we are committed to advancing the success of every organization we serve.
Ellis Kirk Group LLC
March 12, 2025 – EKG specializes in board services, retained executive search, succession planning, and leadership assessment. The relationships with our clients and executive talent have been cultivated over many years — and in some cases, decades — as they have progressed through the stages of their own development. It’s these relationships, along with the trust earned by providing exceptional service and continuously exceeding expectations, that sets EKG apart from other executive search firms. Our partners are led by an uncommon drive for excellence, a spirit of transparency and collaboration, as well as a fierce commitment to ensuring their teams are composed of the best of the best. We know that with this drive, you rely on us to find not only the most talented executives for your needs, but also those that closely align with your organization’s culture, vision, and values.
Stevenson Search Partners
March 11, 2025 – Stevenson is a global leader in executive search and on-demand talent solutions with over 40 years’ experience advising clients who are changing the face of Life Sciences. From stealth mode start-ups to clinical and commercial stage companies, we partner with our clients to build modern executive leadership teams across functions, as well as non-executive boards, for the Biotech, Pharma, MedTech, HealthTech and CRO/CDMO sectors.
NGS Global
March 11, 2025 – NGS Global is a leading provider of Executive Leadership Solutions focused on recruiting Board/CEO/PRESIDENT/COO and senior C-suite
H.I.E.C
March 11, 2025 – H.I. Executive Consulting (H.I.E.C) is a leading global executive search firm focused on hiring Board, CEO and Senior-level executives globally. H.I.E.C was established by several senior partners from the leading global search firms to disrupt the traditional approach to executive search by placing a premium focus on hiring transformational leaders across the sectors we serve. Rapid globalization has given rise to new types of disruptive leaders, spread across the globe, in the traditional and transformative functional areas. At H.I.E.C, we are devoted to connecting the world’s leading corporations, Private Equity, and Venture Capital portfolio firms with this new wave of leaders to help our clients scale and win in the digitized economy. Operating across 13 offices in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, unified by one global P&L and delivery model, we have cultivated a new professional standard that challenges the competitors in our field. Our agile, borderless team structure enables us to deliver bespoke services from an integrated group of consultants working as one team focused on one goal: to deliver exceptional services and outstanding results in our clients’ best interests.
Waterford Global Inc.
March 11, 2025 – Waterford Global Inc. is a top-tier international executive search firm specialized in helping our clients build exceptional teams through the acquisition of equally exceptional talent. Clients retain our firm as a strategic partner and advisor in the recruitment of executive-level leaders and mid-to-senior level managerial, technical, and scientific talent. Working with a diverse client portfolio of domestic and international organizations, we contribute to their success in mature and emerging markets. With over 45 years of combined experience between our firm’s two Founding Partners, Karen Swystun and Fred Loewen, Waterford Global Inc. is a long-standing provider-of-choice to private sector and public sector clients in such key industry verticals as agribusiness, manufacturing, healthcare, private equity, professional and financial services, mining, energy & natural resources, construction & infrastructure, cleantech, and technology. Our geographical footprint includes satellite offices across Canada and globally, from which we regularly deliver our customized, high-touch, and high-value search and recruitment services.
Spencer Stuart
March 11, 2025 – At Spencer Stuart, we know that leadership has never mattered more. We are trusted by organizations around the world to help them make the senior-level leadership decisions that have a lasting impact on their enterprises, on their stakeholders and on the world around them. Through our executive search, board and leadership advisory services, we help build and enhance high-performing teams for select clients ranging from major multinationals to emerging companies to nonprofit institutions. Privately held since 1956, we focus on delivering knowledge, insight and results through the collaborative efforts of a team of experts — now spanning more than 60 offices, over 30 countries and more than 50 practice specialties. Boards and leaders consistently turn to Spencer Stuart to help address their evolving leadership needs in areas such as senior-level executive search, board recruitment, board effectiveness, succession planning, in-depth senior management assessment, employee engagement and many other facets of culture and organizational effectiveness, particularly in the context of the changing stakeholder expectations of business today. For more information on Spencer Stuart, please visit www.spencerstuart.com.
BoardWalk Consulting
March 11, 2025 – BoardWalk Consulting is a national executive search firm devoted to the recruitment of CEOs and senior leaders of operating nonprofits and grantmaking foundations. Since 2002, BoardWalk has had the privilege of serving served hundreds of clients in 35 states, with missions ranging from hyper-local to truly global. Everything we do, every single day, supports our core mission: Finding leaders that matter for missions that matter®.
HARTZ Search
March 10, 2025 – HARTZ Search provides distinctive and personalized Executive Search for all aspects of the Healthcare industry including: Higher Education Academic Medical Centers Outsourced Managed Services Firms Construction/Project Management Firms Integrated Delivery Systems Medical Groups Our goal is to find you the highest quality individual to satisfy your organizations goals as well as ensure each of our candidates finds the position that will further enhance their career. We utilize extremely demanding search methods, including in-person interviews and assessments of each candidate prior to presenting to the hiring organization. Beyond providing you with the best talent, we are effective at understanding the market trends to help you achieve your strategic goals. Whatever your organization’s needs – permanent talent, stability during leadership transitions or creative solutions to develop your Rising Talent – our skilled resources are an asset for your organization.
Kirk Palmer Associates
March 10, 2025 – Kirk Palmer Associates is a global executive search partner for leading consumer brands. We are industry specialists and functional generalists, placing top executives in retail, fashion, consumer, and PE-backed portfolio companies of all sizes.
Vetted Solutions
March 10, 2025 – Vetted Solutions, a team of deeply experienced executive search professionals, helps associations and other purpose-driven organizations advance their missions by recruiting and cultivating leaders who can excel in any environment and any situation. The firm does so by
- conducting extensive research to understand the organizational goals, situational factors, and other considerations that will influence each client’s search priorities and focus
- drawing upon their research and Vetted team members’ own experiences as CEOs to help the client translate clearly identified needs into a clear, cohesive, needs-focused position profile and search plan
- recruiting candidates with the skills and cultural aptitudes necessary to drive success in each client’s unique environment
Executives placed by Vetted Solutions build innovative cultures, enhance value creation, and lead strategic growth. The firm’s extensive roster of clients includes an expanding array of trade and professional associations, nonprofit groups, and other purpose-driven organizations. The firm focuses its expertise on placing board directors, chief executives, and mission-critical senior staff leaders in organizations that span the built environment, education, financial services, food and agriculture, medical and healthcare, hospitality, life sciences, manufacturing, and technology.
James Zaniello, whose background encompasses association leadership roles in addition to his search experience, is the president and CEO of Vetted Solutions. Team members are themselves seasoned leaders, having guided the success of a range of associations and other organizations as CEOs, senior executives, and board members. Consequently, their core work in executive and board search, executive onboarding, and interim executive placement is informed by broad understanding of purpose-driven organizations, appreciation of diverse and inclusive perspectives, and a refined ability to learn about their clients’ organizations at a deep level and then translate their understanding into impactful talent recruitment and cultivation. Vetted Solutions’ offices are located in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Los Angeles.
33eleven Partners
March 10, 2025 – 33eleven is a boutique executive search firm for renowned private equity, venture capital, and high-growth companies. Our clients entrust us with their most critical missions—to find the next-gen leaders who can transform their portfolio companies from promising contenders into market dominators.
Energists, The
March 10, 2025 – Established in 1979, The Energists is a global search and advisory boutique focused on the energy sector and adjacent industries. The firm’s aim lies firmly on business outcomes for its clients’ – that is what happens after its work is done. With a team comprising former industry executives, technical experts, and functional professionals, a wealth of direct industry experience optimizes assignment cycle time and customer empathy. Domain expertise is foundational for The Energists: understanding the nuances, challenges, and opportunities within the energy ecosystem is where its core organizational competencies lie. These factors, as well as intrinsic sector network, commitment to continuous improvement, and comprehensive suite of behavioral and cognitive assessment tools, afford the delivery of tailored solutions to elevate clients’ teams while derisking strategies without compromise. The Energists’ typical search mandates include leadership and high impact individual contributor roles. Working across the private and public sectors, the firm’s portfolio of clients extends along the value stream and across value chains of energy, on a fuel source agnostic basis. These include Integrated Utilities (IOUs, POUs & Co-ops); Oil & Gas Companies; IPPs; Government; Transportation, Energy Banking / Financial Services / Investment (Equity & Debt); EPCIs; and Technology providers.
