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Global Executive Search firm DHR International is pleased to announce the placement of EVP and Chief Information Officer for Northwestern Mutual, Neal Sample. Partner David Merwin and Managing Partner Sal DiFranco conducted the search for Northwest Mutual. Both partners have over 20 years of technology recruiting experience and their practices include significant experience placing CIO’s, CTO’s, CDO’s and CISO’s along with their direct reports. Full Story>
Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to announce new appointments in the Global Real Estate Practice. Vince Saunders has been named Co-Managing Partner, Real Estate. Martin (Marty) Nass has been promoted to Vice Chairman in addition to his role as Co-Managing Partner, Real Estate. Full Story>
Podcast Episode Summary: Transcript A company of effective leaders is an effective company. Jeanne Branthover, one of the most influential people in the world when it comes to executive search, talks about hiring the best leaders to run your organization or company. Shes opens up about her unique background of how she was taught the importance of relationships and how women can do anything, including making a difference in the world. As she reveals the four secrets to winning a new job, she also highlights the importance of patience and having genuine empathy and transparency to success. Full Story>
Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to announce Jenny Wang has joined the firm as Partner with a focus on the Life Science practice. Wang will also be a member of the APAC industrial team and will be based in Shanghai. Full Story>
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer David Solomon was paid $23 million last year, a third of what his predecessor received in 2007. Other Goldman employees haven’t fared much better. Compensation per employee is down by 61% at the Wall Street firm when adjusted for nominal wage growth in the period, according to company filings and calculations by Bloomberg. Goldman had the sharpest pay decline among a dozen of the largest U.S. and European banks, followed by Credit Suisse Group AG at 46%. The group had an average reduction of 14%. Full Story>
Procurement is in a strategic role to find the best price while identifying vendors and suppliers - often with an assist from AI ans ML. Full Story>
The Wall Street Journal - California law requiring female directors causes ripple effects at companies nationwide Full Story>
Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to announce David Sheahan has joined the firm as Partner in the Private Equity practice. Sheahan is based in the Dallas office and holds almost 15 years’ experience in the human capital space, primarily in executive search and talent advisory. Full Story>
At Wells Fargo & Co.’s town hall meetings, executives have fielded countless questions from employees about efforts to resolve scandals that erupted almost three years ago. One looming topic hasn’t come up recently: Who will run the bank? Full Story>
City’s eight largest banks have scrapped minimum balance fees effective August 1 Traditional lenders are upping their digital banking game in preparation for virtual banking challenge Full Story>
It's usually men who get a seat at the table — and women who have previously served Full Story>
One year into her new job as the athletic director at the University of Pittsburgh in early 2018, Heather Lyke was facing the most important decision of her tenure. Men’s basketball coach Kevin Stallings was in the midst of a winless season in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and a change was in the offing. Hiring a new football or men’s basketball coach are among the most important decisions that a high-major athletic director will make, as millions of dollars are invested on a yearly basis into those programs and the coaches make seven-figure salaries. So before Stallings had even coached his last game for the Panthers, Lyke found herself in South Carolina meeting with former coach-turned-hiring consultant Eddie Fogler about filling her soon to be vacant job. Full Story>
Christine Greybe, president of an executive search firm, has a proven track record in her career and is a role model as a successful woman. Full Story>
Never “assume” what members of your team aspire to be in their careers. One senior member on my team, critical to my day to day operation, shocked me after 10 years by quitting. She told me that her career goal was not to follow in my footsteps as I had assumed and was training her […] Full Story>
• The average pay package for an experienced financial fraud officer on the mainland can reach up to 2 million yuan a year, which matches the pay of a CEO of a small Hong Kong-listed company • International financial firms are seeking individuals in their 30s and 40s with strong digital skills Full Story>
Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to announce Wladmir Silva as Managing Partner focusing on the Consumer practice. Silva will be based in the firm’s Singapore office focusing on the consumer, retail, hospitality, travel and leisure sectors. Full Story>
Today’s unemployment rate is at its lowest point in decades, so how is your bank supposed to attract talent fresh out of college or from another industry? The good news is that community banks have tools that they can use to recruit the next generation of bankers. Full Story>
DHR International Managing Partner Jeanne Branthover speaks about the trend of women and diverse leaders gaining more roles in c-level positions and what they bring to the table. Full Story>
DHR International Managing Partner Jeanne Branthover talks about the changes in technology taking place and how a C-Level leader should react and embrace the changes to succeed. Full Story>
Lisa Walker, DHR International Managing Partner of Global Industrial Practice, speaks on Female Leadership Changing Corporate Boards. Full Story>
Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to announce Daniel Ensor as a new Partner focusing on the Financial Services sector. Full Story>
Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to announce that Jose Martinez has joined as Managing Partner with a focus on Advanced Technology and Professional Services. Full Story>
Managing Partner Lisa Walker discusses the challenges the industrial sector is facing in these times of technology changes and disruption in the industry. Full Story>
PE firms that specialize in lower mid-market transactions have an added challenge of attracting top talent who can function effectively to lead their businesses. Keith Giarman, managing partner private equity at DHR International, joins Hunt Scanlon Media this week to discuss how these smaller companies — often starved for leaders in finance, HR and sales — are changing up their strategies to lure talent. Full Story>
Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to announce that Mary Matthews has joined as Partner with a focus on the Board and C-Suite Practice. Full Story>
Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to announce that that it has acquired OBEN Search and that OBEN’s founder, Michael Wing, has joined the firm as Managing Partner in the Oil & Gas industries. Full Story>
For the first time in its 53-year history, Best Buy will have a woman in the corner office. This week, Best Buy announced Corie Barry, the electronics retailer’s chief financial and strategic transformation officer, will become CEO in June, replacing Hubert Joly who is also chairman. Full Story>
Whenever Wall Street muses on who may someday replace Jamie Dimon atop JPMorgan Chase & Co., Marianne Lake’s name arises. For six years, she’s guided analysts and investors through the firm’s business as its chief financial officer. Full Story>
Board members often lack experience in executive succession and rely on the skills of a director with a CHRO background to bring that expertise to the CEO recruitment process. That’s where a top HR leader can add tremendous value to boards, says a new report by DHR International. Mike Magsig and Jerry McGrath join Hunt Scanlon to discuss why boards have so few CHROs – and how to recruit them. Full Story>
Global Search firm DHR International is pleased to announce that Jennifer (Carroll) Finger has joined as Partner based in their Chicago global headquarters. Full Story>
Executive recruitment firm DHR International has recently placed top leaders at three major arts and cultural institutions: Onassis Foundation USA, the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center. James Abruzzo, managing partner of the firm’s global non-profit practice, led the assignments. Full Story>
Wanted: New chief executive to clean up radioactive mess. Hazmat suit not provided. Wells Fargo is searching for a new leader after its chief executive, Timothy J. Sloan, abruptly resigned on Thursday, having been hounded by politicians, regulators, customers and employees about the halting efforts to overhaul the scandal-tarred bank. Full Story>
ooking at what it takes to be a country manager of a multinational pharma company in some of the world’s most challenging markets. DHR International’s Helen Park outlines what she looks for in potential candidates for country manager positions in South Korea. Full Story>
If you're into who's in and who's out among the nation's big banks, today is a catnip kind of day. The New York Post reported today that directors of Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) were talking to Harvey Schwartz, a former top executive at Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), about taking over from current CEO Tim Sloan. Full Story>
Here’s the new rallying cry for high-skilled workers hoping to get hired at their favorite company: Full Story>
The great Amazon beauty pageant, in which over 200 cities competed to become the site of the corporation’s second headquarters, spotlighted the role geography plays in a company’s growth plans. Location—especially a region’s quality of life and cost of living—has become an increasingly important factor in a company’s ability to attract and retain talent in a tight labor market. Full Story>
Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to announce that Dan Carney has been named Partner at the firm. Full Story>
James Abruzzo and the Nonprofit Practice of DHR International recently completed four extensive searches for executives at leading arts and cultural organizations: Executive and Artistic Director, Onassis Foundation USA President and CEO, Tennessee Performing Arts Center Executive Director, Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center Senior Director, Finance, Apollo Theater Foundation. Full Story>
Chicago-based search firm DHR International has continued its recent expansion with the opening of its first office in Switzerland. Stefan Binder has joined the firm as managing director to lead the new office in Zurich, which becomes DHR’s 10th office in Europe. Full Story>
Healthcare is among the most rapidly growing employment fields, according to analysts at Hunt Scanlon Media, which tracks trends in the executive search and leadership solutions space. So it is that the need for recruiting firms to deliver top-drawer leaders throughout the sector has only grown. Full Story>
Recruiting for the right talent is no easy feat. If you're in the business of hiring you know that sorting through hundreds of resumes can be time consuming and overwhelming. As a candidate, it's no picnic either. With digital making us all have the attention spans of a goldfish or less, candidates need to make every effort to stand out from the sea of paper. However, there gets to a point where candidates are taking artistic license too far. Last week, I saw a resume for a buying position that was pink and lavender with at least four different infographics and fonts. I joked that it looked like a Valentine's Day card, but in all seriousness, it inspired this post. It's time to set the record straight on appropriate and preferred resume styles, so I decided to ask the experts, the recruiters, who do this for a living. Full Story>
TORONTO (February 8, 2019) – Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to announce that Anthony Capodanno has joined the firm as Managing Partner in the Toronto office. Capodanno has more than 20 years retained executive search experience having led numerous engagements throughout Canada, the U.S. and globally, serving as strategic advisor, business partner and confidant to clients. Full Story>
Few organizations are meeting their innovation goals because they lack the right leadership, according to a recent global survey of 636 business leaders by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. Full Story>
Wells Fargo & Co. has jettisoned a longtime strategy of growing its own leaders in favor of importing them as part of the effort to clean up its image. The San Francisco-based firm hired Steve Troutner -- a veteran of Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and Wachovia -- to lead the community bank’s U.S. Western region. And it brought in Nyron Latif from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as the head of operations for Jon Weiss’s wealth and investment-management unit. Both moves were announced this week. Full Story>
Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to open its first office in Switzerland. DHR has been looking to establish a local presence in the Swiss market for the last couple of years as Switzerland is a geographic hub for many of our global clients and will allow us to better service our core global practice areas in Life Sciences, Consumer and Industrial. Zurich will be the firm’s 10th European office. Full Story>
Which firms have reputations for developing superior C-level marketing leaders? And which firms provide the best training that enables marketers to become CEOs? These are two common questions I get from marketers, executives, and students. Full Story>
The biggest wish of employees is an increase in salary. Research institutions’ surveys have shown that employees in the financial industry were the ultimate winners in 2018. According to the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management’s Pay Trend Survey, the financial services sector enjoyed the highest pay growth rate both in base pay adjustments (5.3%) and in non-guaranteed bonus plans (17.63 months of base salary) compared with other sectors. Will the growth trend continue in 2019? Full Story>