Overview
Tim Holt is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ New York office and a longstanding member of the Financial Services, CEO & Board of Directors, and Social Impact practices. He is an expert in CEO and board succession planning, search, board effectiveness, and leadership assessment. For the past two decades, he has primarily focused on financial services and adjacent sectors, alongside conventional private sector work, with particular expertise in highly visible and consequential organizations with significant complexity and sensitivity, such as government, quasi-government entities, regulators, IDIs, and so forth.
Experience
Tim works with clients across the private, public, non-profit, and association sectors—often across sectors—whether large or small, early-stage or mature, global, regional, or community-based. He has onboarded many new-to-firm clients and has long been the primary relationship partner for some of the firm’s key clients. Tim is often asked to help develop new capabilities and markets for the firm, including the Restructuring Center of Excellence, various assessment products and services, and our Leadership Assurance offering.
In his nearly two and a half decades with the firm, Tim has served in various leadership roles, including leading the Financial Services Practice in the Americas, overseeing the U.S. Northeast Region complex, which encompasses two of the firm’s largest and top-performing offices, managing the consumer and commercial financial services sector, being a founding partner of the risk practice, and serving as co-chair of the Americas Diversity Council. Additionally, he spent several years on the global Consultant Promotions Committee. He has also been an active leader, champion, and ally for inclusion, belonging, economic access, economic development, and innovation in his work for the firm and his clients.
Tim's early experience emphasized critical enterprise-wide functional areas, such as risk, audit, compliance, finance, and legal.
Before joining Heidrick & Struggles, Tim was a recruiter with another leading executive search firm based in New York, focusing primarily on institutional financial services. Tim’s earlier career included leadership roles at Lexis-Nexis, Rand McNally, and Gulf States Paper Corporation.
Education
Centre College of Kentucky, Bachelor's Degree in History