Savoy Partners, Ltd. - Assignments

A public company retained us to recruit a CEO to succeed the incumbent who wished to retire. We encouraged the Board to seek more -- to pursue someone who could help the company accelerate its growth. We recruited an executive whose path to CEO was currently blocked but brought experience running a business over 4 times larger in markets of great strategic interest to our client. This has been a transforming hire.

A diversified services firm with little overseas sales activity asked us to recruit a Vice President of International Sales. Early in the search it became clear that the company had not determined which geographical markets were a priority or which of their services offerings should be marketed abroad. We changed the direction of the search and recruited an experienced international business development executive who had helped previous companies develop winning go-to-market strategies overseas. We will recruit an international sales executive later, once a real plan is in place.

For a $8 billion, privately-held engineering and technology services company, we recruited a CEO to succeed the founder. The search was initially assigned to a large executive search firm. We were engaged when the client was not satisfied that an exhaustive search had been conducted. We presented just one candidate to the Board --the ultimate finalist.

For a new international web-hosting venture, funded with over $300 million in equity, we recruited a President, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Vice President of Networking, Senior Vice President of Construction, and Senior Vice President of Operations as well as others in a six-month period of time. Savoy assisted in the development of the organization and staffing plan from the outset.

For the world's largest stock exchange, we recruited their chief public affairs and government relations executives.

For one of the world's largest professional services firms, with numerous commercial and government clients, we recruited senior Partners and Principals to lead our client into specified vertical markets. Our successful completion of more than 45 searches (over a twenty year period of time) resulted in fast growing practices in telecommunications, information systems design and integration, homeland defense, decision support systems, commercial aerospace, consumer products, and manufacturing systems. Combined new revenues generated returned to our client more than 100 times the dollar cost of such searches.

For a well-known international long distance telephone carrier, we recruited an EVP to enable the CEO to assume greater responsibility for positioning the U.S. subsidiary as a leader in world markets. The placement succeeded our client as President and CEO.

For a Fortune 100 company with a high profile CEO, we helped assess their government affairs and international relations staff and then recruited the two new top executives for that organization.

For an extremely successful and well-known multi-media company, we recruited their first ever Vice President of Human Resources who has been charged with upgrading the function, as well as integrating their operations and acquisitions around the world.

For an investment group seeking to enter the environmental industry, we recruited a top industry executive who had previously built a profitable $250 million environmental business through 14 acquisitions over a five year period.

For one of the best known, publicly-held, information services companies, we were asked to recruit a top marketing executive to redirect its strategy and improve the firm's declining reputation and margins. He was subsequently promoted to Group President, and the company has more than quadrupled in size.

For a high profile computer company, we were retained to recruit a senior Country Manager to help them enter the Pacific Rim market. We found a superior candidate in Hong Kong; but, as a result of what we learned during our marketplace analysis, we recommended against hiring this individual, or anyone else. All of their competitors failed to penetrate that market and withdrew at great expense. Our client's only cost was our search fee.

For one of the leading mutual fund companies in the world, we were retained to recruit the firm's Senior Vice President/Chief Economist. This talented professional achieved international stature and transformed a staff advisory position into a critical business development function.