Our Search Expertise
We support a range of leadership and strategic hires across functions, with a particular focus on C-suite leadership, finance, operations, HR, sales, marketing, management, customer support and administration.
Our Process
We understand that time is one of your most valuable resources. Our process moves quickly without cutting corners. Within 25 days of starting your search, you’ll receive a curated slate of fully vetted candidates ready for consideration. Each presentation goes beyond the resume, including assessment insights, fit analysis, and our recommendations for next steps.
Kickoff & Strategy Alignment
We study and unpack your business, team dynamics, and hiring goals. This process includes stakeholder interviews, JD refinement, and assessment planning.
Search Execution
We map the market, reach out to our targets, and generate interest in the opportunity. We’ve built a proprietary outreach approach that finds candidates others miss.
Evaluation & Presentation
We screen, interview, and thoroughly test every finalist. You receive detailed candidate briefs, testing results, and side-by-side comparisons.
Interviews & Selection
We manage interview logistics and feedback cycles, including offer strategy coaching and decision-making guidance.
Offer & Onboarding Support
We help close the right candidate and set them up for success. All of our searches are backed by a 100% satisfaction promise.
Our Areas of Expertise
We’ve led searches across industries including private equity, healthcare, medical technology, manufacturing, nonprofit, and professional services. This breadth gives us the insight to identify what great talent looks like in any business context, from growth-stage teams to established organizations.
Our experience includes searches across a wide range of roles:
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C-Suite hires should drive growth and successfully navigate challenges. We support boards, founders, and investors in hiring C-level executives and senior leadership who bring vision, strategic direction, and follow-through to your organization.
We go beyond reviewing resumes and examining track records. Our in-depth interview process for these roles is led by David Stupay, a five-time CEO who has been in both the candidate’s shoes and your position.
Our rigorous interview process is paired with robust testing. We integrate tools like the Hogan Assessment, which evaluates personality traits and cognitive abilities, and we employ a wide range of testing protocols to ensure your hire is the perfect for your role.When confidentiality is essential, we exercise the strictest level of confidentiality and execute the search with care to protect sensitive information and ensure a seamless transition. Learn more about our confidentiality.
Roles We Support:
Chief Executive Officers
Chief Operating Officers
Chief Financial Officers
Chief Revenue Officers
Chief Marketing Officers
Presidents / Executive Directors
Vice Presidents (Sales, Ops, HR, etc.)
Leadership succession planning
Success Indicators:
While every role is unique, we often see consistency in the traits and attributes that make for strong senior leadership:Strategic vision that is paired with operational capability
Alignment with company stage and growth goals
Track record of building and leading high-performing, growing teams and organization
Empathetic communication skills and that are paired with decisiveness under pressure
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Financial and administrative leaders keep your business running lean, accurate, and accountable. These positions are often the longest tenured roles within a company, and they touch more parts of the business than anyone else. Hiring the right person the first time avoids costly turnover and builds a stable foundation for scale.
Whether you're a growing company preparing for a capital event or a closely held family business bringing on its first controller, we help identify candidates who bring both rigor and adaptability.Roles We Support:
CFOs
Finance Directors
Controllers
Accounting Managers and Accountants
Chiefs of Staff
Executive Assistants
Success Indicators:
While every role is unique, we often see consistency in the traits and attributes that make for successful finance and administration hires:Alignment with your size, systems, and complexity
Ownership of reporting, compliance, and budgeting
Ability to implement strategic decisions, not just execute a process
Adaptability in resource-constrained or growth environments
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Sales leaders should positively impact your bottom line and and the teams they manage. Identifying those high-performing sales people isn’t an easy task, though. We pair a robust outreach process with a proven sales testing process using tools like Chally to identify the sales people can truly drive results.
From new business hunters to experienced account directors, we specialize in finding sales talent who will actively grow your revenue.
Roles We Support:
CROs
VPs of Sales
Regional Directors
Business Development Directors
Sales Development Representatives
Sales Managers
Account Executives and Account Managers
Success Indicators:
While every role is unique, we often see consistency in the traits and attributes that make for successful sales hires:Consistent history of exceeding quota
Pipeline creation experience and outbound discipline
Experience with relevant deal sizes and buyer types
YOY revenue growth within their book of business
Positive Chally results for your type of sales role and structure
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HR leaders who don’t just maintain your culture – they shape it. The wrong HR hire can slow down growth, fuel turnover, and create risk. The right one builds trust, enables leadership, and supports long-term retention.
As companies grow, HR leadership needs often shift from reactive to strategic. We help you hire HR and people leaders who can lead teams and build systems that scale, while still managing the day-to-day.Roles We Support:
CHROs
VPs of HR
HR Directors
HR Managers
Talent Acquisition Leaders
People Operations and HR Business Partners
Success Indicators:
While every role is unique, we often see consistency in the traits and attributes that make for successful HR hires:Experience scaling HR functions
Deep understanding of compliance and employee relations
Strong emotional intelligence, with the ability to lead by example through change and growth
Adaptability to new tools and processes
Strong internal communication and decision-making skills
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The right operations hire brings order, accountability, and consistency to every part of your business. The wrong one can create bottlenecks, waste resources, and slow growth. We help you find operators who build systems that scale, drive efficiency, and turn business goals into measurable results.
As companies grow, operational needs often shift from hands-on management to structured leadership. We identify leaders who can balance both: optimizing today’s performance while preparing your organization for tomorrow’s growth.
Roles We Support:
COOs
VPs of Operations
Directors of Operations
General Managers
Operations Managers
Plant Managers
Continuous Improvement Leaders
Success Indicators:
While each role varies by company, the most successful operations hires often share common traits:Proven ability to design and improve processes that scale
Experience leading cross-functional teams toward shared KPIs
Strength in managing budgets, resources, and performance metrics
Comfort operating in fast-moving or high-growth environments
Data-driven decision-making paired with strong leadership presence

