Todd Monti, Managing Partner (Global)
Richard Thackray, Managing Partner (EMEA)
Steve Mullinjer, Managing Partner (APAC)

Few organizations face such complex hiring challenges as private equity firms. In addition to staffing their own firms with highly talented partners, they must also find board directors, CEOs, and often entire top management teams for their portfolio companies in widely disparate industries, varying states of financial health, and different geographies and economic environments. With a robust private equity market driving increased activity at the portfolio level and a consequent push to expand investment teams, access to top talent is a business-critical priority for private equity firms.

To help meet those needs, Heidrick & Struggles' Private Equity Practice has developed a unique way of working with clients that extends far beyond traditional executive search. In fact, our practice credo states:

• We only back candidates we believe in
• We believe in a 24-hour working day utilizing our global team: we make it our business to be available
• Insightful market intelligence is a major part of our currency, we never underestimate its value
• Our global reach is unmatched: our colleagues around the world sustain and support us
• We take pride in every detail of our work for you: each phone call we make and every email we send
• We judge our success by the success of our clients

With 75 consultants who devote a majority of their time to the private equity community, our global Private Equity Practice sits atop and draws from all of our major industry and functional practices. By combining a deep understanding of the private equity world with distinct expertise in specific industries and functions, we can become a strategic partner to our clients, providing a broad range of complementary services, often far in advance of a specific need, that ultimately add substantial value that might otherwise go unrealized.

Mirroring the need of our private equity clients, the bulk of our work is to identify and recruit senior-level executive talent for portfolio companies. Having conducted thousands of such assignments, we clearly understand the requirements for backable executives, not just in ordinary corporate terms, but in terms of the private equity world where leaders must be adept at working in a highly leveraged environment, taking out costs, focusing on working capital, managing cash, and improving the top line. And our search consultants, whose incentives align them with the interests of our private equity clients, serve as relationship managers who are accountable for ensuring that every search is successfully executed.

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