ON PARTNERS EXECUTIVE TALENT REPORT IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2022

Jul 7, 2022

  • Highlights of recent executive talent appointments and partnering organizations across industries and functions in the first half of 2022

  • ON reports record 81% growth over the last year with a strong focus on sustainability, cleantech, private equity, consumer technology, and life sciences

  • Recent insights from partners on how businesses are rethinking talent strategies and the ongoing shift of the operating partner role in private equity

ON Partners Executive Talent Report First Half 2022

With record growth over the past year, ON Partners is proud to be the only pure-play executive search firm building diverse C-level and board leadership teams. We’ve placed 200+ executives in leadership roles thus far in 2022 and 40% of our closed searches were diverse executive appointments.

We rebuilt the institution of executive search in the way you work, with an approach that includes present partners who engage with clients from the first brief to the final decision, individually crafted solutions unique to each client, and an easier experience overall.

As non-conformists focused on taking an untraditional approach to executive search, ON consultants continue to place C-level, board, and senior executives across multiple industries and functions. Recent placements include C-level appointments for companies including AdeptAg, IGM Biosciences, Indeed, Intelycare, Logitech, Sunworks, and Tailwind Capital.

“We’ve seen 40% growth in our life sciences practice over the last year and our consumer practice has doubled,” said ON Partners co-founder and managing partner Tim Conti. “Plus, we continue to see tremendous demand, particularly in CEO, C-level and board searches not just in sustainability and clean tech, but in PE as well.”

Read on to learn about the people and organizations we’re partnering with, the industry recognition we’re receiving from the likes of Forbes and Hunt Scanlon, and the latest news and thought leadership from our consultants.

Recent Executive Talent Appointments With Leading Organizations

 

Executive Talent Report

ON Partners consultants have placed a diverse group of senior executives within organizations across many market sectors thus far this year. Following are a few of the new leaders we recently placed; click on the links to learn more about each of them:

Helen Davis, board director, Arrowstream

Larry Yang, chief product officer, Phononic

Peter Scherr, chief marketing officer, Pagaya

Ricki Sethi, CISO, Bill.com

Michele Ave, GM, Columbia Sportswear

Orla Daly, CIO, Skillsoft

Katy Moore, president, Allucent

Sheila Dehdashti, chief people officer, Rent

Jason Bonfigt, chief financial officer, Sunworks

Bill Rossi, chief executive officer, Bellwether Coffee

Rodrigo Lasso, GVP, finance, Thermo Fisher

Recent Executive Search Insights in 2022

 

ON Partners executive search consultants released thought leadership insights across the first half of 2022 including roles in high demand, shifts made in the search for executive talent, and new talent strategies amid global labor shortages and a volatile market.

Operating Partner Shifts

While ON Partners continues to place Operating Partners in the CEO role, our consultants see demand growing for executives with active, functional experience, such as GTM, operations, IT, and finance to take on OP roles to strengthen and elevate these key functions across the portfolio.

According to Tindall Hein, partner at ON who has previously published insights on the OP role, “Last year, ‘OP 1.0’ was more of a generalist role, in which PE firms brought in a CEO who could help in certain areas. We’re now seeing more of specialist OP, with specific functional or industry expertise, such as a CIO, CRO or COO.”

Read more into the operating partner role shift here.

Matt Mooney

Amid ongoing labor shortages around the world, Hunt Scanlon releases insights to help business leaders rethink strategies for finding the right talent. In this new featured article by Hunt Scanlon, Matt Mooney, partner at ON Partners, provides insights on executive talent strategies moving forward in 2022 and beyond.

“Candidates still have leverage in this war for talent, but a growing wave of layoffs has the potential to turn that tide quickly,” Mooney said. “The key will be for companies to remain nimble, be transparent, and attempt to communicate a philosophy that matches the current market conditions. Many companies appear to be pushed into a reactionary mode which is not well received by current or potential employees.”

Read more on the ongoing talent shift insights from Matt Mooney here.

Recent Executive Search Awards and Accolades

 

In the first half of 2022, ON Partners received several executive search awards across media publications including Forbes and Hunt Scanlon. Thanks to our executive community for continuing to put their trust in our tenured partners and experienced consultants.

Forbes

Forbes partnered with market research company Statista to determine the annual ranking of America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms—the top 150 firms specialized in filling positions with salaries of at least $100,000. ON Partners is proud to be ranked #45 on the list as the only pure-play executive search firm with organic growth in the top 50. Read more.

Private Equity Recruiting

ON Partners, the pure-play retained executive search firm, is proud to be named to the 2022 Private Equity Recruiting Power 100 list, for the third consecutive year, by market research firm Hunt Scanlon. The list encompasses the nation’s leading executive search firms driving leadership results in the private equity sector.
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About ON Partners

Since 2006, ON Partners is the only pure-play executive search firm building diverse C-level and board leadership teams. We rebuilt the institution of executive search for the way you work. Our approach includes present partners who engage with their clients from the first brief to the final decision, individually crafted solutions that are unique to each client, and an easier experience all around. Named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms and to the Inc. 500/5000 Lists nine times, ON Partners is consistently ranked among the top 20 retained executive search firms in the U.S.

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