Our Partners

The partners behind every mandate

Every search at our firm is led personally by a senior partner — the person you engage is the person who does the work. If you have been contacted about a confidential opportunity, it was one of them.

Mark Young

Executive Search Partner

Conducts confidential board-level and senior leadership mandates across all industries, working directly with boards, investors, and executive teams.

Ken Minter

Executive Search Partner

Conducts confidential board-level and senior leadership mandates across all industries, working directly with boards, investors, and executive teams.

Thomas Wilzinski

Executive Search Partner

Conducts confidential board-level and senior leadership mandates across all industries, working directly with boards, investors, and executive teams.

Steve Cogswell

Executive Search Partner

Conducts confidential board-level and senior leadership mandates across all industries, working directly with boards, investors, and executive teams.

Ryan Mahady

Executive Search Partner

Conducts confidential board-level and senior leadership mandates across all industries, working directly with boards, investors, and executive teams.

Deborah Zoerkler

Executive Search Partner

Conducts confidential board-level and senior leadership mandates across all industries, working directly with boards, investors, and executive teams.

Howard Hodges

Executive Search Partner

Conducts confidential board-level and senior leadership mandates across all industries, working directly with boards, investors, and executive teams.

Jay Conte

Executive Search Partner

Conducts confidential board-level and senior leadership mandates across all industries, working directly with boards, investors, and executive teams.

How Our Partners Work

Accountability, personally held


Each partner leads confidential mandates across every industry, supported by our research function — but the partner remains accountable for every conversation, every assessment, and every outcome.

This structure is deliberate. It means your mandate is never handed down a chain, your confidentiality is never delegated, and the judgement applied to your search comes from experience — not volume.

  • Direct partner accessYou work with the partner, not through an account layer.
  • Cross-industry fluencySector depth without silos — and without blind spots.
  • Discreet outreachCandidate approaches are made personally, in confidence, by name.
  • Long-term perspectiveWe measure success by the appointments that endure.

Speak with a partner

For mandates, market insight, or a confidential discussion about your next role.