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KENNETH NICHOLAS & ASSOCIATES

Kenneth, Nicholas & Associates is a Chicago-based executive search firm founded in 1981 with a singular focus on delivering rigorous search and placement consultation for organizations nationwide. Acting as a true business partner rather than a transactional recruiting resource, the firm leverages a comprehensive applicant network and a national affiliate network to identify, engage, and deliver high-caliber professionals who often are not actively pursuing new roles. KNA’s consultants specialize in understanding each client’s unique context through enhanced due diligence—clarifying business goals, role requirements, and critical competencies—before launching a targeted, research-driven search. Their methodology combines a wide-net market mapping approach with deep candidate assessment against precise job specifications, ensuring cultural fit, capability alignment, and long-term impact. The team supports key corporate functions including Human Resources, Accounting & Finance, Sales & Marketing, and Analytics & Insight, and brings proven experience across diverse industries such as consumer products, food service, general manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, information technology, healthcare, and oil and gas–related sectors. Clients benefit from multi-faceted search strategies that benchmark talent from competitive peer groups and from the creation of a strategic search plan designed to effectively market each opportunity to best-in-class candidates. Whether building leadership benches, upgrading critical individual contributor roles, or scaling teams across the United States, KNA emphasizes transparency, communication, and high-touch candidate care throughout every engagement. With decades of experience and an unwavering commitment to quality, the firm is trusted for executive and professional placements that strengthen organizational performance and align with long-term business objectives, consistently delivering coast-to-coast reach with boutique-level attention and accountability.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseHealthcare AdministrationMental Health CareVeterinary

HQChicago, United States

Another Source

Another Source is a trusted recruiting and executive search firm known for its time-based recruiting, fixed-fee pricing, and guaranteed results. For more than 30 years, the company has partnered with colleges, universities, nonprofits, and corporations to source, qualify, and place top talent across critical functions. Its model replaces commission-based contingencies with transparent, flat fees and clearly defined 30- to 40-day engagements that deliver curated candidate pools quickly. Through its professional recruitment program, clients receive a high-quality short list in as little as 30 days via a proven workflow that includes kickoff alignment, targeted sourcing across expansive professional networks, structured screening supported by BrightHire, and presentation of vetted finalists, with interview coordination and SkillSurvey reference checks on request. The firms executive search practice focuses especially on higher education leadership, navigating search committees, decentralized structures, and funding constraints to present leaders who align with mission, culture, and outcomes within 40-day engagements. Another Source also provides consulting, training, alignment, and coaching to optimize recruitment infrastructure, department collaboration, and employment brand so in-house teams can compete and win the war for talent. Industry focus spans Higher Education, Non-Profit, and Data Center & Construction/Real Estate, connecting mission-driven organizations and technically complex operations with professionals who can operate at the intersection of strategy, operations, and stakeholder impact. Functions served include accounting and finance, legal, marketing, human resources, research administration, advancement, enrollment operations, student affairs, auxiliaries, and procurement. With over 10,000 successful searches and candidate pools that exceed client expectations the vast majority of the time, Another Source blends modern sourcing techniques, inclusive and equitable hiring practices, and nationwide networks to help clients move from outreach to selection with confidence, speed, and value.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtSOW/ProjectsHigher Education (Faculty, Administration)Corporate Training & CoachingE-Learning & Online EducationCommercial Real EstateConstructionArchitecture

HQSeattle, United States

Excel Talent Solutions - ETS

Excel Talent Solutions (ETS) is a Chicago-based executive and professional recruiting firm trusted by organizations nationwide for retained, container, and contingency search. Led by Partners with more than three decades of industry experience, ETS delivers a consultative, high-touch approach that consistently connects clients with talent that advances corporate missions and drives measurable impact. Serving a diverse client base that spans large global enterprises to innovative entrepreneurs, the firm recruits across levels—from emerging professionals to C-level leaders—while maintaining a strong track record of repeat engagements, with nearly two-thirds of assignments coming from returning clients. ETS blends market insight with disciplined execution: partners help refine role requirements, advise on current talent dynamics, design tailored search strategies, and rigorously vet candidates to ensure both technical alignment and cultural fit. Candidates benefit from a thorough engagement model that includes career consultation, resume positioning for maximum visibility, in-depth interview preparation, and expert guidance through offers, negotiations, and professional resignation, ensuring a smooth transition into new roles. While ETS works across multiple sectors, it demonstrates notable strength in technology and manufacturing/engineering functions, having supported searches in areas such as cybersecurity, cloud architecture, product management, continuous improvement, and HR leadership. The firm also provides specialized assistance for diversity, EEO, and affirmative action needs as well as defined project-based recruitment initiatives, reflecting its ability to adapt to evolving workforce priorities and complex hiring mandates. Known for integrity, judgment, and the ability to surface talent previously considered out of reach, ETS sustains long-standing client and candidate relationships by delivering a seamless process and an outstanding offer-to-close ratio. Through its disciplined methodology and partner-led counsel, ETS helps organizations make informed talent decisions that enable them to outperform, inspire, and grow.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceDefenseConsumer Goods ManufacturingIndustrial Machinery

HQChicago, United States

XCES Limited

XCES Limited is a boutique recruitment and career advisory partner focused on advancing the careers of financial advisors and related wealth management professionals. Centered on the belief that great careers are built through access, insight, and discretion, the firm helps candidates uncover opportunities that are often not advertised, leveraging strategic alliances with leading firms while maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality. Whether supporting emerging producers seeking their first platform move or seasoned advisors exploring a transition to a new firm, bank, or RIA, XCES Limited provides end-to-end guidance across the hiring journey, from market exploration and targeted introductions to interview preparation, offer navigation, and smooth onboarding. Its consultants take a relationship-led approach, aligning talent with organizations where culture, growth trajectory, client mix, and compensation structures converge to maximize long-term success. For client firms, XCES Limited offers a precise and consultative search process, mapping talent across relevant markets, assessing production history and growth potential, and presenting only well-qualified shortlists to accelerate time-to-hire without compromising quality or confidentiality. The teams specialization in financial advisory roles enables nuanced conversations about books of business, transition timing, non-solicitation and portability considerations, and business development expectations, ensuring both clients and candidates can make informed, low-risk decisions. Driven by the promise of more leads to follow, XCES Limited continuously curates a pipeline of relevant openings and leverages trusted relationships to open doors quickly and discreetly. By combining industry expertise, deep networks, and rigorous selection standards, the firm empowers advisors to stay at the forefront of their field and enables hiring managers to secure high-caliber talent that strengthens client outcomes and accelerates growth. For professionals intent on progressing their financial advisory journey, XCES Limited serves as a steadfast, confidential partner from first conversation through successful placement and beyond.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtRPOBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementFinance & AccountingSales & Business DevelopmentSenior Executives

HQAltamonte Springs, United States

Ivy Blu

Ivy Blu is a UK-based specialist recruitment agency focused on the IT, digital and creative sectors, recognized for standing at the forefront of IT and digital recruitment. Serving startups, SMEs, blue-chip brands and FTSE 250 businesses across the UK, the firm delivers permanent, contract, freelance and interim hiring solutions. Its consultants operate as vertical market specialists, covering software development, testing, networking, infrastructure and support, data warehousing, IT security and senior appointments, while its digital practice recruits across SEO/PPC, UX/UI, front-end and back-end development, ecommerce management, web analytics, digital project management, PHP development and marketing management. Ivy Blu’s approach is partnership-led and process-driven: specialists take comprehensive job briefs, manage end-to-end interview coordination, provide transparent candidate assessments and negotiate offers to secure the right hire. The company invests in state-of-the-art cloud-based recruitment software, CRM and sourcing tools to ensure around-the-clock availability and robust delivery. With consultants trained to high professional standards and a culture built on honesty, integrity and continuous improvement, Ivy Blu maintains a 90% repeat business rate and has been featured on more than 300 preferred supplier lists. Testimonials from senior client stakeholders highlight consistent delivery across technical and digital mandates, while industry recognition includes winning the IT Recruitment Company of the Year – Birmingham award. Backed by a management team with over 50 years of combined recruitment experience, Ivy Blu combines deep market knowledge with proactive headhunting, extensive job board access and a strong networking community to identify high-caliber candidates quickly. The firm’s flexible commercial terms and compliance-driven process provide clients and candidates with a reliable, high-quality experience from first brief to successful placement, making Ivy Blu a trusted recruitment partner for technology and digital talent across the UK.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceAdvertisingJournalismGraphic Design

HQBirmingham, United Kingdom

Stork Technologies

Stork Technologies is a Chicago-based recruitment firm specializing in building high-performing teams for industrial and advanced manufacturing organizations, with deep expertise across automation, robotics, automotive, aerospace/defense, and medical device environments. Led by founder and president Mike Bocian, the firm takes a hands-on, relationship-first approach, focusing on thoughtful, timely, and lasting placements that align with client culture and role vision. Stork Technologies delivers executive leadership, engineering, production/operations, quality, and technical sales talent, and has supported clients ranging from fast-growing Tier 1 automotive and aerospace manufacturers to medical device innovators. Known for diligence and speed-to-hire, the team leverages advanced sourcing tools and an established network to present thoroughly vetted candidates within days to weeks, backed by a placement guarantee and proactive post-placement follow-up to ensure smooth onboarding and retention. The firm integrates seamlessly with client processes—coordinating with multiple stakeholders, syncing with ATS workflows, and adapting to unique interview stages—to remove friction while maintaining rigorous evaluation standards. Testimonials consistently highlight professionalism, responsiveness, industry knowledge, and the ability to fill tough roles quickly, including senior engineering managers and sales professionals. With a reported 150+ elevated talent, a 4.9 “flight record,” and over a decade of success, Stork Technologies emphasizes integrity, transparency, and long-term partnerships with both clients and candidates. Recent searches have included production leaders in Ohio-based automotive manufacturing, technical sales for aerospace/defense, and controllers for multi-site automotive operations, reflecting the firm’s breadth across organizational levels. Whether clients need executive search, mission-critical individual contributors, or rapid team build-outs, Stork Technologies streamlines the search process to deliver quality, growth, and consistency—helping manufacturers strengthen their greatest asset: their people.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtTemporary StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefensePharmaceuticalsBiotechnologyMedical Devices

HQChicago, United States

CVC Search Partners

CVC Search Partners is a boutique executive search firm based in Oak Brook, Illinois, dedicated to empowering organizations through exceptional leadership hiring across the United States. Purpose-built for agility and precision, the firm intentionally limits the number of active searches to deliver rigorous execution and artful evaluation on every engagement. CVC serves private equity and venture capital firms, their portfolio companies, family-owned businesses, and Fortune 1000 organizations, combining deep functional expertise with sector knowledge to place transformative leaders who drive value creation. Its practice spans mission-critical roles including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Board Directors, and GP-level positions such as Operating Partners, Fund CFOs, Capital Markets, and Business Development executives. Searches are led by senior partners who actively recruit, directly represent each client’s story to the market, and leverage an Executive Advisor model that brings industry veterans into the process for impartial strategic counsel. The team’s network and track record cover Business Services, Manufacturing, Distribution, Healthcare, Transportation & Logistics, Software/Technology, and Real Estate, with notable placements such as CEO and CFO appointments across industrial and healthcare platforms. Clients consistently cite CVC’s ability to assess fit, culture, and the unique demands of private equity environments—from M&A integration and cost rationalization to EBITDA improvement and sale readiness. With a philosophy grounded in passion, commitment, and excellence, CVC invests the time to deeply qualify each mandate, ensure alignment, and deliver shortlists that balance capability with cultural alignment. The firm maintains long-standing relationships with premier investment firms and executive operators, offering unparalleled access to top-tier talent and referrals. For companies, candidates, and potential Executive Advisors, CVC provides discreet, hands-on partnership and a process designed to produce outcomes that are immediately accretive and sustainable over the long term.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticals

HQChicago, United States

Oak Bay HR Inc.

Oak Bay HR Inc. is a Halifax, Nova Scotiabased recruitment and people advisory firm founded by Rebecca Coleman, a human resources leader with 15+ years of experience across corporate recruitment and HR leadership. The company partners with organizations as a strategic hiring ally, combining retained and contingent search with practical HR consulting to build sustainable, high-performing teams. Oak Bay HR delivers end-to-end recruitment for white-collar, blue-collar, and executive roles, with proven results that include a diverse shortlist for a national manufacturing clients VP of Supply Chain search, large-scale hiring events that filled 100+ automotive roles in Western Canada, IT hiring programs supported by centralized processes, and ATS implementations that enable scalable, compliant hiring in healthcare. The firms approach is people-centered and outcome-driven, aligning workforce planning, organizational design, and employer branding with operational and growth goals. Services span executive and professional search, contractor and project-based hiring, onboarding design, policy development, employee relations, performance reviews, recognition and engagement programs, leadership advisory, and facilitated workshops and training for employers and job seekers. With experience supporting inclusive hiring initiativesfrom connecting newcomers to skilled jobs at production plants to building flexible contractor pools for fly-in/fly-out healthcare roles in Northern Quebec Indigenous communitiesOak Bay HR embeds equity, inclusion, and candidate care into every engagement. The team leverages modern platforms for applicant management and talent marketing while advising founders, CEOs, and executive teams on change management, culture alignment, and employer value proposition development. Sector strengths include manufacturing and engineering, automotive and industrial trades, technology and IT functions, and healthcare operations, enabling Oak Bay HR to meet clients where they arewhether scaling quickly, professionalizing processes, or elevating leadership capability. Grounded in transparency, accessibility, and measurable results, Oak Bay HR is committed to changing the way organizations hire, for good.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseHealthcare AdministrationMental Health CareVeterinary

HQHalifax, Canada

Translink - www.translink.net

Translink is a boutique talent acquisition and executive search firm known for fast, discreet delivery across operations, management, and leadership roles, with a track record built over decades as a platinum staffing partner to Deloitte and a preferred supplier to other global consultancies. The firms heritage includes leading the largest single SAP staffing initiative of the Big 6 eraover 2,400 specialized hires for Deloitte Consulting/ICSdirecting and utilizing 120+ hourly staff augmentation consultants nationwide, and serving as master vendor coordinating 45+ recruiting agencies for a Deloitte outsourcing initiative within an RPO model. Translink has also held IBMGBS tierone preferred status and delivered senior hire diversity specialty recruitment for Accenture. Today, the company blends retained headhunting, contract staffing, and recruitment process outsourcing with rigorous assessment and alignment to help private equity and venture capital portfolio companies, Fortune 500 enterprises, and highgrowth innovators build highperforming teams quickly. Its sector depth spans technology, professional services, manufacturing and supply chain, and healthcare and life sciences, with notable accomplishments in cloud and SAP, AIenabled digital operations, digital health and remote patient monitoring, revenue cycle management, and early pharmaceutical service line development, as well as digital health supply chain and health equity initiatives. Leveraging AIdriven outreach, Translink penetrates markets rapidly to access passive and inactive talentoften outside conventional platformsactivating leaders from senior administration and operations through director, VP, and Csuite appointments, while also scaling skilled trades and project teams when speed is critical. The firm has built complete business units postacquisition, established data centers and call centers, and executed onsite, offsite, and remote resourcing models, including RMS environments, to support evergreen hiring and enterprisescale programs. With hubs across Sister Bay, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, and Miami, Translink offers a simple, uncluttered process designed for outcomes: targeted search, discreet engagement, and market entrenchment that deliver immediate ROI through Executive Advisory, Talent Acquisition & Assessment, M&A staffing alignment, retained search, and RPO.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceProject ManagementHospital & Health Care (Nursing)Physicians

HQSister Bay, United States

Growth Mode Talent Partners

Growth Mode Talent Partners is a boutique recruitment firm dedicated to helping B2B and consumer technology companies secure exceptional talent across critical functions and leadership levels. Operating as Her Move, LLC DBA Growth Mode Talent Partners (est. 2019), the firm is led by Founder and Executive Recruiter Sarah Greenwell, MA, CDR, who partners with executives on talent acquisition strategy and retained executive search, and Director of Technical Recruiting Shelley Wick, CDR, who collaborates with engineering, product, and go-to-market leaders to hire outstanding technical and commercial talent. Growth Mode’s services span retained Executive Search for Director to SVP roles—run at a 25% fee and limited to 2–3 concurrent searches to guarantee focus and quality—Contingent Search for manager and individual contributor positions with a small upfront engagement fee applied to a 22% success fee, and project-based Recruiting Sprints delivered at a flat rate to meet aggressive timelines, sometimes as fast as three weeks. The firm also offers Angel Recruiting engagements—up to four per year—for companies on the precipice of growth that need a resourceful partner to make pivotal hires. Born from its origins as “Her Move,” a mission to elevate women in technology leadership, Growth Mode brings a research-led, candidate-first approach that prioritizes character, cultural contribution, and the agility required in high-growth environments. The team has placed leaders and specialists across Product & Engineering (e.g., SVP Product, VP Engineering, Director of Engineering AI/ML, Senior Data Engineer), Sales & Marketing (e.g., Head of Sales, VP Product Marketing, Enterprise AE), Finance, Legal & HR (e.g., VP Finance, General Counsel, Director of Talent Acquisition), and Services & Support (e.g., Head of Customer Success, VP Client Operations). Trusted by innovators such as Strava, Salsify, Mirakl, Yotpo, Proofpoint, Great Expectations, Nuvolo, Melio, Kyruus Health, CareAcademy, INNIO, BoomTown ROI, and others, Growth Mode provides a reliable, human, and consistent solution that reduces hiring lift while delivering candidates with the right experience and values to drive growth.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData SciencePharmaceuticalsBiotechnologyMedical Devices

HQChicago, United States

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