Judith M. von Seldeneck is the Founder and Chair of Diversified Search, headquartered in Philadelphia. A pioneer in the search industry, she has been identifying and placing senior-level executive talent around the country for more than four decades.

A born-and-bred North Carolinian, she began her career as an executive assistant to then-Senator Walter F. Mondale in Washington, D.C. Her road into executive search commenced in the early 1970s when she bought into a small Philadelphia firm founded to find temp jobs for women. Buying out her partners in 1974, over the next several decades von Seldeneck built Diversified Search into one of the top ten executive search firms in the nation.

During the course of her career, von Seldeneck has been recognized by the executive search industry as setting the standard for retained executive search and has been active on numerous public, private, and not-for-profit boards of directors. Some of these include the National Association of Corporate Directors, Philadelphia Chapter (Chair); Citizens Financial Group; Tasty Baking Company; CoreStates Financial Group; Meridian Bancorp; and AAA MidAtlantic. She currently serves on the Comcast and NBC Universal Joint Diversity Council and is Chairperson of the Women’s Advisory Council. She was also a founder of the Forum of Executive Women, the largest association of women business leaders in the Philadelphia region.

She has been the recipient of dozens of awards and honors recognizing her achievements both professionally and philanthropically. These include the Association of Executive Search Consultants’ Eleanor H. Raynolds Award for Excellence in Executive Search; being designated as one of BusinessWeek’s Top 50 Most Influential Executive Recruiters in the World; induction into the Philadelphia Business Hall of Fame; and receiving the William Penn Award, the highest honor bestowed by the business community of Greater Philadelphia. She is also a Global Board Member of AltoPartners.

Dale E. Jones is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Diversified Search. His responsibilities include oversight and management of the firm and its global CEO Advisory Services.

A native of Dallas, Jones was the son of a shoe cobbler/janitor and a kindergarten teacher; beginning at age 10, young Dale would often join his dad and brother on weekends cleaning office buildings. Advised by a family pastor and influenced by the fact that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King had attended there, Jones enrolled at Atlanta’s Morehouse College. He began his career in banking, before moving into executive search as a managing partner in the Atlanta office of Heidrick & Struggles International in 1999. Always looking for ways to give back, Jones took a hiatus from the search industry in 2007, relocating to Washington, D.C. to lead a philanthropic foundation, endowed by AOL founder Steve Case and his wife, Jean, that was dedicated to finding clean water in Africa.

Jones returned to executive search in 2009, rejoining Heidrick & Struggles to serve as Vice Chairman and Partner of the CEO and Board Practice, where he consulted CEOs and corporate boards on human capital issues including recruiting, retention, succession planning, and corporate governance. He also served as one of the firm’s leaders in the Global Communications and Global Consumer Practice, and was later asked to oversee the CEO and Board Practice in the Americas.

In 2013, when founder Judith M. von Seldeneck moved into the role of Chairman at Diversified Search, Jones was named the firm’s new President and CEO, based in Washington, D.C. His philosophy on great leadership is simple: “I think it is important that leaders have the ability to inspire and motivate people and to lead by example. I think the best leaders have been through some testing in their journey, so that they can really empathize, not only with the people that they lead, but with their customers.”

Jones is a member of several notable national corporate and philanthropic boards, most notably those of Northwestern Mutual, Kohl’s Inc., Princeton Theological Seminary, and his alma mater, Morehouse College. He is also a Global Board Member of AltoPartners. He formerly served as National Advisory Board Vice Chairman for The Salvation Army.

In his role as Chief Operating Officer, Stephen S. Morreale oversees all financial, operational, technology, and administrative functions at Diversified Search. He plays an integral role in the firm’s day-to-day operations, and in its expansion efforts within the U.S. as well as in the management of its global partnership with AltoPartners, where he serves as chief liaison to the international partners. Major firm initiatives he has led include the acquisition and staffing of four U.S. offices and the first U.S.-hosted meeting of the international members of AltoPartners.

Morreale’s prior experience in corporate finance includes serving as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Management Recruiters International, the permanent staffing division of CDI Corporation, a NYSE company. Earlier, he served as Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller for Right Management Consultants, also an NYSE company. He began his career as a Manager with the accounting firm Ernst & Young before joining Diversified as Chief Financial Officer, serving in that role from 1993 until 2003. He re-joined the firm in 2006 as Chief Operating Officer.

A CPA, Morreale is a member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is also a Global Board Member of AltoPartners. He is a former board member of the Russell Byers Charter School, and he and his wife, Gina, serve on the Parents Council of Schreyer Honors College at Penn State, his alma mater.

Mazza began her career with Diversified—and with the search industry itself—in 1981 as the company’s very first Director of Research, over time developing, refining, and managing the company’s key research and recruiting functions and processes. Over her years at Diversified she has been responsible not only for the oversight and management of the firm’s researchers, recruiters, and databases, but perhaps more important, for their quality as well.

In her current role, Mazza is responsible for the planning, administration, and monitoring of consistent search quality within the firm, and for continually seeking improvements in operations that can achieve even more effective and efficient searches. Just as important, she is responsible for inculcating cultural imperatives—the very values that guide Diversified—to both our employees and our clients. In addition, she conducts select searches as designated by the Chairman and/or CEO; investigates and reviews new methodologies and technologies; and oversees the firm’s internal talent management, from identifying and recruiting in-house professionals across administrative functions to developing, implementing, and assessing processes related to employees’ orientation and onboarding, training, performance, and compensation.

Mazza is a Certified Practitioner of MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) and has completed the Leadership Program of The Leaders Lyceum. A member of the Philadelphia Film Society, she was also a Founding Member of the Philadelphia Executive Search Research Roundtable.

Lionel Anderson is a Managing Director in the Education, Nonprofit, and Arts and Culture Practice at Diversified Search, where he partners with colleges, universities, foundations, and nonprofits to understand their leadership needs, prepare for leadership transition, and identify, vet, and onboard talent into executive leadership roles.

Anderson began his career in executive search at Isaacson, Miller, where he recruited senior leadership for colleges, universities, and foundations. Within higher education, he has focused on presidential searches. His previous clients include the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Morehouse College, New York University, Northeastern University, Smith College, Temple University, Tuskegee University, and the University of Bridgeport.

For roughly a decade prior to search, Anderson served in various capacities in undergraduate student development, including serving as the Assistant Director in the Office of Academic Resources at Haverford College and as an academic adviser, adjunct instructor, and student retention coordinator at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. As an inaugural board member of TeenSHARP, a nonprofit college preparatory program for promising low-income students in Camden and Philadelphia, Anderson led efforts to fund the organization’s early college tours with students, while also publishing seasonal op-eds with The New York Times around undergraduate student success.

As co-founder and Managing Partner at BioQuest, which was acquired by Diversified Search in 2016, Roger Anderson sets the highest standards for client service for the firm. His vision and commitment to excellence provide the platform for the BioQuest service model, which for nearly three decades has transformed the firm into one of the leading healthcare specialty executive search firms in the United States.

Anderson’s practice is focused exclusively on conducting searches at the CEO, board, and vice president levels. He has successfully completed more than 75 CEO searches for medical device and diagnostic companies, raising significant value for clients through the recruitment of outstanding leadership.

Cynthia P. Barth is a Consultant at Diversified Search. Her practice encompasses searches for emerging and senior leadership positions for not-for-profit healthcare and human services organizations. Barth has extensive experience in working with search committees to identify accountabilities, to assess candidates against those accountabilities, and to facilitate and discipline the recruitment process. She is the founder of the firm’s preferred provider relationship with Lutheran Services in America and is a member of Diversified’s Quality Team.

Barth has 30 years of experience in not-for-profit health care and human services search. She joined Diversified in 1997. Previously she had been Vice President and Principal of Longshore + Simmons, a regional executive healthcare search and consulting firm. From 1974 until 1980, Barth held a faculty appointment at Hahnemann Medical College in physiology and biophysics.

Euris E. Belle is a Managing Director in the firm’s Atlanta office, where she partners with corporate clients in the areas of diversity recruitment, onboarding, and retention of senior management and emerging leaders. She has successfully placed diverse candidates in the fields of finance, human resources, law, and information technology. Additionally, Belle, who has a strong background in diversity recruitment, has conducted senior-level searches for public and private colleges and universities, foundations, and a range of nonprofit organizations. Among her placements in those areas are presidents, provosts, chief academic officers, CEOs, presidents and executive directors.

Before joining Diversified, Belle was a principal at Hodge Partners. Prior to that, she worked as a principal in Heidrick & Struggles’ Atlanta office, where she held both business development and search execution roles.

Chris Berger joined Diversified Search in 2017 to co-lead the firm’s Human Resources practice, after seven successful years as co-owner of the successful boutique HR executive search firm RomanoBerger LLC. Berger brings close to 20 years of executive search experience focused in the Human Resources arena, and 10 years in HR on the corporate side. He has completed hundreds of senior executive search assignments across all functional areas of human resources and across multiple industry sectors. His clients have ranged from Fortune 50 multinationals to startups.

Berger entered the executive search profession in 1999 when he was recruited into Korn/Ferry International’s Human Resources practice, and quickly became a leading member of the execution team. Several years later, he co-founded the Human Resources practice at TMP Worldwide (later Highland Partners). When TMP was acquired by Heidrick & Struggles, Berger was recruited to further develop the HR practice at CTPartners.

Berger began his career at May Department Stores, completing the company’s highly regarded Executive Training Program. He served briefly as an assistant buyer before entering human resources, where he led merchant training, corporate communications, college relations, and executive recruiting for a May division. In 1995, he was recruited by Melville/CVS Corporation, where, as HR Generalist, he recruited leadership roles before becoming Vice President of Corporate Human Resources and Staffing. Berger was briefly recruited back to the corporate side during his search career to become head of the executive recruiting for insurance giant Aetna.

Karen Bertrand leads the Biopharma and Diagnostics practices at BioQuest, which was acquired by Diversified Search in 2016. She has more than 20 years of experience recruiting CEOs, senior management teams, and board members for a wide range of both established and emerging life science companies.

Bertrand is passionate about recruiting for companies that are developing breakthrough technologies and leveraging innovation in related fields like nanoparticle technology and biomaterials. She has completed searches for senior executives in general management, discovery and clinical research, product development and finance, and commercial leadership roles. Her clients include companies focused in ethical Rx development, POC and molecular diagnostics, drug delivery/combination therapy products, and analytical tools and services.

She has a knack for identifying talent that can take burgeoning innovative technology organizations to the next level—whether it’s a founder-CEO transition, adding independent board members, a progression to clinical development, or defining a strategic roadmap.

The leader of the firm’s Board practice, J. Veronica Biggins  brings more than 15 years of search experience to the firm—including several years working in the White House.

Biggins served as Assistant to the President of the United States and Director of Presidential Personnel under Bill Clinton, a role that tasked her with selecting and hiring all political appointees within the federal government. She worked directly with the President on appointments at all levels of the administration, including the placement of agency heads, ambassadors, and members of presidential boards and commissions.

Biggins has also served as Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. She also served as Chairman of the Czech Slovak American Enterprise Fund—a role that earned her a Points of Light Award from President George W. Bush for her leadership.

Biggins’ background also includes 20 years’ experience with NationsBank (now Bank of America) and its predecessor, The Citizens, and Southern National Bank. There, as Executive Vice President for Human Resources, she was one of the highest-ranking women in the banking industry.

Judy Boreham is a Managing Director at Diversified Search, where she manages a broad range of clients including those in the corporate and nonprofit sectors. As co-leader of the firm’s Human Resources practice, she specializes and is engaged in placing senior executives at the local, regional, national, and global level, and has gained expansive experience covering a wide variety of human capital related roles including CHRO, compensation/total rewards, talent acquisition and development, learning and development, organizational development, workforce planning, shared services, and business partnering assignments with such clients as LabCorp, Ametek Inc., AstraZeneca, Radius Health, Barnabas Healthcare, and JM Huber.

Prior to joining Diversified Search in 1995, Boreham worked for a search firm in Central London serving the consumer market. Working with a portfolio of blue-chip international clients such as Kraft, Duracell, McKinsey, AC Nielson, Guinness, and SmithKline Beecham, she managed key business assignments across the United Kingdom.

Prior to her search career, Boreham held various business and marketing leadership positions with the largest and fastest-growing division of Baxter Healthcare, Inc., where she was responsible for launching a range of product lines that gained worldwide recognition, and more recently as Business Manager for the Critical Care division at Johnson & Johnson, where she was responsible for the development of a patient monitoring technology product in the provider healthcare space.

Lyn Brennan joined Diversified Search as a Managing Director in the Healthcare Services practice in 2017, based in the New York office.

Brennan began her career in search in 1998 as a Vice President and Director at Isaacson Miller in Boston. Specializing in healthcare and life sciences, she subsequently worked in similar roles at Amrop Battalia Winston and, most recently, at Heidrick & Struggles. Prior to her career in executive search, Brennan, a registered nurse with degrees from both Georgetown and New York University, worked as a practice leader in healthcare operations at Ernst & Young, and as a director of health care operations and quality at Coopers & Lybrand.

Alison Byers, Psy.D., is a Senior Advisor at Diversified Search.  As a consultant, she can offer clients Assessment Services to gain a full leadership assessment of potential candidates and how they might fit within any given organization. Her main tool for this assessment is the Hogan Assessment System, designed to understand an individual’s strengths, weaknesses, values, and approach to problem-solving. Byers works across all sectors and practices and has a particular interest in the nonprofit sector. She often serves as a strategist on senior-level searches.

Prior to joining Diversified Search in 2012, Byers gained extensive clinical experience in juvenile rehabilitation and interpersonal trauma; she worked with the Adolescent Trauma Treatment Development Center and the Terrorism and Disaster Branch of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and coordinated the Police-Mental Health Project within the Department of Psychiatry at North Shore University Hospital in New York. Byers also consulted with the Suffolk County Juvenile Probation Department and served as Clinical Director for a community health center. She also served as the Assistant Director for the Psychological Services Center at Long Island University.

Byers has also worked in private practice as a Clinical Psychologist, and served as an Adjunct Professor and supervised doctoral students at LIU. She is a Co-Founder and Board Member at the Russell Byers Charter School, named for her late father, in Philadelphia; the school emphasizes Russell Byers’ belief in fostering academic excellence, civic responsibility, and community service. She also serves as a Board Member of the Richard King Mellon and Richard King Mellon Family Foundations.

Gerard F. Cattie Jr. is a Managing Director with Diversified Search, based in New York. His practice focuses on searches for senior leadership positions within prominent higher education institutions, nonprofit organizations, global NGOs, foundations, associations and membership societies, healthcare providers, and arts and cultural entities. He serves as the leader of the firm’s Development and Philanthropy practice, as well as for the Arts and Culture sector of the firm’s Education, Nonprofit, and Arts and Culture practice.

He has successfully conducted searches for a range of functional leadership roles, such as CEO, COO, CFO, CIO, president, provost, executive director, vice president, dean, director of development, director of major gifts, director of planned gifts, and more.

Prior to his career in search, Cattie spent a decade in key fundraising positions within a variety of leading arts, cultural, and educational institutions. He joined Diversified Search in 1999 from the University of Pennsylvania’s Office of Development and Alumni Relations, where he served as Regional Director of Major Gifts at the Wharton School. While at Wharton, Cattie served on the fundraising team that crafted the School’s historic $450 million Campaign for Sustained Leadership.

Sara Connolly is a Managing Director in Diversified Search’s Healthcare Services practice. She has over 20 years of senior executive search experience and has conducted searches on behalf of clients including national not-for-profit health systems, major academic medical centers, integrated delivery systems, physician organizations, community hospitals, managed care companies, and consulting organizations.

Connolly has worked on senior executive searches including board members, CEOs, COOs, chief medical officers, CFOs, chief human resources officers, and numerous searches at the senior vice president and vice president level in the areas of operations, quality and patient safety, health policy, diversity, and marketing.

During her career, Connolly has developed specific expertise in physician executive searches and has placed senior physician leaders in roles including CEO, hospital and medical group CEO, clinical chair and chief, chief medical officer, and chief quality and safety officer.

Connolly has had extensive experience in strategic role definition, organizational assessment, development and execution of search strategies, sourcing and interviewing of potential candidates, and facilitation of search committees and executive and governance-related search processes.

Prior to her career in executive search, Connolly served as a social worker in children’s services agencies in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

Leslie Cruz is the CEO of Stemconnector, a consortium of companies, nonprofit associations, professional societies, STEM-related research and policy organizations, government entities, universities, and academic institutions concerned with STEM education and the future of human capital in the United States. She joined STEMconnector, a Diversified Search company, in 2017.

A leader with deep experience in the technology field, Cruz spent the 20 years prior to STEMconnector as an executive with CEB, an Arlington, Virginia-based global professional services firm that assists business leaders in developing growth strategies and solutions. She boasts an impressive track record of growing businesses and delivering innovations that provide stellar returns on investment.

STEMconnector is both a resource and a service, designed to link “all things STEM” through comprehensive Councils and services that enable talent and jobs collaboration. STEMconnector client councils and services include: The Global STEM Talent Initiative(GSTS); Million Women Mentors(MWM); STEM Innovation Task Force; STEM Food & Ag Council; STEM Higher Education Council; and initiatives such as Day of Design and the 100 Leaders publication series.

Neysa Dillon Brown is a Managing Director with Diversified Search’s Healthcare Services practice. In her role, she partners with hospitals and healthcare systems on talent acquisition, executive and diversity recruitment, organizational assessments, and pipeline development.

Brown specializes in developing diverse healthcare management teams to meet organizational and business priorities. She has had success building partnerships, driving organizational change, and implementing innovative programs in the academic, healthcare delivery, association, and community settings.

Some clients include Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Duke University Health System, University of Maryland Medical Center, Northwestern University Hospital, American Cancer Society, Ascension Health, Catholic Health Initiatives, and Grady Health System.

Her passion for addressing health disparity issues has inspired her commitment to advancing the careers of minority healthcare professionals. She has developed community-based innovation strategies to address disparities in preterm births; conducted employee and community focus groups; and launched an organizational assessment of patient-centered communications that utilizes survey tools to determine if organizations practice culturally appropriate and respectful communication.

Kim Ennis specializes in the recruitment of senior-level executives for medical device, biotech, pharmaceutical, and healthcare IT companies.

Since joining BioQuest, which was acquired by Diversified Search in 2016, in 2001, Ennis has focused her practice on recruiting C-suite executives, board members, and other senior leaders in the medical device, consumer health and wellness, and health IT markets. Well-honed at assessing talent, she recruits for all functional leadership roles, including sales and marketing, R&D, operations and manufacturing, regulatory, clinical, quality, and finance. She has built an impressive roster of clients and works with companies of various stages of growth—from early-stage and venture-capital-backed to global public.

Ennis brings almost 30 years of healthcare experience to her search work. She has held positions in sales, training, and business development for leading medical device companies such as Mallinckrodt, Haemonetics, and Laserscope. She also spent a decade as a registered nurse, specializing in cardiovascular and open-heart surgery.

Edie Fraser is Founder and Chairman of STEMconnector, where she works to build the one-stop communications and best practices initiative for STEM. She also serves as a Senior Consultant of Diversified Search, where she previously directed the Washington and government business. She brings to her role over four decades of experience in supporting diversity at the most senior levels of corporations, organizations, and government in the U.S. and globally.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Fraser was Founder and CEO of Diversity Best Practices, a member service for diversity practitioners. There, she designed the CEO Diversity Leadership program, including the prestigious CEO Diversity Awards. She is also the founder of the Business Women’s Network, and Vice Chair of the World Affairs Council in D.C.

For her role in these and several other enterprises, Fraser has won 45 major leadership awards, including the Mosaic Award from Diversity Woman, and an induction into the Enterprising Women’s Hall of Fame.

Joseph A. Frick joined Diversified Search in May 2011, where he held the role of Executive Vice Chairman until October 2016. Today he serves as Senior Advisor. During his tenure, he has provided advisory services to CEOs and conducted senior executive and corporate board searches for a range of clients in business, education, and healthcare. He has also been actively engaged in the firm’s business strategy, branding, and expansion initiatives.

Prior to joining Diversified, Frick served as President and CEO of Independence Blue Cross (IBC), where he spearheaded the creation of IBC 2010, a long-term strategic plan for the company. He formed a new senior leadership team and launched key initiatives to achieve company goals. Under his leadership, IBC enhanced its standing as a trusted and respected corporate leader in the Philadelphia community.

Before becoming CEO in 2005, Frick served as Independence Blue Cross’s Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Administration. In this capacity, he was responsible for corporate planning and business development, human resources, and administrative services. Today, he serves as a Board and Executive Committee member on IBC’s Board of Directors.

Hugo Fueglein is a Managing Director in Diversified Search’s New York City office and is a core member of the Global CIO practice for Diversified Search. Fueglein is also a leading member of the Global Technology practice at Diversified Search, a role that has allowed him to place technology executives in key positions across all industries. He specializes in the placement of chief information officers, chief technology officers, and technology executives in IT architecture, IT infrastructure, application development, and IT operations.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Fueglein was an Executive Vice President with DHR International, and formerly an integral member of the CIO and IT practice at CT Partners, where he served clients across industries, recruiting talent to fill critical roles in corporate technology functions. He has completed assignments for CIOs and key leadership positions in technology for a broad scope of clients that continuously utilize technology as a strategic initiative. Industry sectors he has served include technology, consumer goods, retail, energy, financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and industrial.

Fueglein’s search career also includes being a Principal with both Korn/Ferry International and Morgan Samuels. During his seven-year tenure with Korn/Ferry, he was instrumental in the creation of the CIO Center of Expertise. Earlier in his career, he was an economist with Chase Econometrics and the Wharton Economic Forecasting Associates (WEFA) Group.

Peter J. Gillin is a Managing Director in the Education, Nonprofit, and Arts and Culture practice, specializing in secondary education.

Gillin has spent his entire career in education, as a teacher, coach, administrator, and now as a search executive identifying and placing highly qualified professionals in key education leadership roles. He began his career at the Episcopal High School of Virginia, where he served in various roles, including as a teacher in the Department of English, dormitory head, and coach (lacrosse, soccer, squash). Later, he was part of the senior administrative team at the Pomfret School in Connecticut, where his titles included dean of students and director of residential life. While there, he served on the school’s Diversity Committee, taught American and British literature, and coached lacrosse and squash.

Using his deep roots in secondary education in an entirely new way, Gillin then entered the executive search industry. Before joining Diversified Search in 2017, he worked as a consultant for Princeton, N.J.-based Wickenden Associates, where as a senior search consultant he recruited and placed both heads of schools and divisions in independent schools around the country. He was also involved in working with boards to develop best practices and onboarding for senior leaders.

Martha C. Hauser is a Managing Director and the Healthcare Services practice leader at Diversified Search. Her experience recruiting leadership in the healthcare and higher education spheres is both deep and functionally broad. During more than two decades in executive search, she has recruited a vast number of key leaders for integrated delivery systems, medical groups, health systems, academic medical centers, health sciences centers, and colleges and universities.

Prior to joining Diversified in 2013, Hauser opened the Atlanta office of Witt Kieffer in 1997, and during her tenure there served as Regional Director and as a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. Her experience also includes leading the southern region healthcare practice at Spencer Stuart, and operational responsibility for Tyler & Company’s executive search practice.

Hauser is a frequent presenter, thought leader, and panelist at health conferences, including for the American College of Healthcare Executives and the North Carolina Organization of Nursing Leaders.

As a Diversified Search Senior Advisor, Gordon Hawthorne provides advisory services related to identifying, attracting, onboarding, motivating, and retaining premium leadership talent while aligning them with evolving market strategies and leadership models.

Hawthorne brings over 20 years of national experience in facilitating boards and executive teams. He has worked with health-related, multi-mission organizations that have a focus on health system design and integration, and executive and top team assessment and impact. His expertise also reaches into the areas of executive and physician performance, compensation and total reward, physician integration/value alignment, governance development and recruiting, and succession planning.

Hawthorne’s client list includes Jefferson Health, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Main Line Health, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and many more.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Hawthorne was National Healthcare Practice Leader for Hay Group, Inc., a global professional service firm where he led the development of client leadership and business solutions. His advisory expertise is supplemented by over 20 years of executive leadership in integrated health systems, with specific expertise in clinical operations, market strategy, system integration, managed care, and physician integration and alignment.

Gene E. Head is a Managing Director in the Washington DC office, where he conducts senior leadership assignments across a range of industry sectors specializing in higher education and nonprofits.

Head also serves on the Executive Committee of Washington, D.C.-based STEMconnector, a Diversified Search company that focuses on bridging the gap between higher education and industry needs. Through collaborative efforts with higher education, corporate, and healthcare organizations, as well as the U.S. Departments of Education, Energy, Agriculture, and Commerce, Head works to advance a jobs-driven economy throughout the country.

His clients include the University of Alabama System; University of California System; Samford University; UC Berkeley; California Baptist University; the International Justice Mission; the United Nations; the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and the Woodruff Foundation.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Head was a senior partner with a boutique search firm, where he orchestrated senior leadership searches in the higher education, nonprofit, and healthcare sectors.

Prior to entering executive search, Head enjoyed a 27-year career in advertising and marketing for a privately held business, where he led the company’s growth through the demonstration of exceptional customer service and innovation. During his time in this role, many of his clients were with him for 20-plus years

Cynthia Price Heckscher is a Managing Director with Diversified Search, and is the founder of the firm’s Healthcare Services practice.

Heckscher has developed a consultative search practice which focuses on senior executive, clinician, and governance searches for large, nonprofit, and/or faith-based healthcare systems, academic medical centers, and specialty hospitals nationwide. Most of her search assignments involve working with boards and search committees in the selection of chief executive officers and other C-Suite executives for multi-site organizations at the regional, statewide, or national level. She has more than 130 CEO searches to her credit. She has also worked closely with clients in their respective efforts to recruit, retain, and develop diverse leadership talent. In response to her clients’ interest in utilizing core competencies for leadership development and selection purposes, Heckscher has completed training in behavior event/core competency interviewing with the Hay Group.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Heckscher served as the Director of Research and Program Development for the Health Federation of Philadelphia, a nonprofit health planning organization, where she designed and implemented programs to address the healthcare needs of medically underserved and/or uninsured women and children in the city. In addition to her earlier experience as a case worker at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center’s Neurological Institute, she served as a social worker and the coordinator of the statewide Child Development Program for Dartmouth Medical School from 1976 to 1985.

Over the years, Heckscher has served on numerous boards with a focus on healthcare and children with developmental disabilities. A board member of the Daughters of Charity Foundation in St. Louis for 10 years, she also previously served on the boards of the Harriott O. Landenberger Medical Research Foundation and Chestnut Hill Health Care.

Ken Hirshman is a Managing Director in the Private Equity and Industrial Practices, based in Philadelphia. His global network allows him to conduct searches for C-suite executives, corporate board positions, and strategic functional leadership roles throughout the world.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Hirshman served as a CEO for more than 12 years in the building products industry, where he built strong executive leadership teams and came to truly understand and appreciate the importance of recruiting top talent to drive strategic initiatives forward.

His firsthand experience working with industrial organizations, private equity- supported portfolio companies, and family-owned businesses makes him uniquely qualified to lead searches where it is critical to align the corporate culture, current management, and the capabilities of candidates.

For more than a decade, Hirshman has served as an active board member for Habitat for Humanity in Philadelphia and has served in numerous other board positions, including most recently as Vice Chairman.

Hirshman attended Johns Hopkins University, where he earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He remains an active member of several university alumni organizations.

Julie Kanak serves as a Managing Director in the firm’s Chicago office, where she contributes expertise in global business, banking, and natural resources. She is active in the Industrial, Life Sciences, Consumer and Retail, and Natural Resources practices, as well as being a key member of the Board, CEO and CFO practices.

Kanak has recruited board, general management, and financial executives for public, private equity-backed and family-owned enterprises. Her clients range from Fortune 500s to emerging companies. Her banking activity encompasses senior level placements in coverage/corporate finance, treasury, risk management, investment banking, and capital markets for the world’s leading financial institutions.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Kanak spent four years with a leading global search firm and boutique global agribusiness firm. That work complemented her 26 years in banking and corporate finance, where she principally focused on agribusiness, food, and energy. The bulk of her global corporate and investment banking career was spent as North American head of AgriFoods at Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank. Her career also includes more than 10 years as a global banker and senior executive with Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, and State Bank of South Australia in New York and Chicago.

Marjorie Kean is a Managing Director in the Miami office of Diversified Search and the leader of the Consumer and Retail practice. Her practice is focused on the Latin American and U.S. Hispanic markets, and the majority of her clients are Fortune 1,000 multinational corporations.

Although she has experience in a vast number of industries, she has particular expertise in the areas of consumer products, telecommunications, retail, fast foods, life sciences, banking, and entertainment. Her current focus is on pan-regional searches.

Kean is formerly a Managing Director with Edward W. Kelly and Partners, which was acquired by Diversified in 2008. Prior to that, she served as Managing Director of the Caracas office of Korn/Ferry before becoming head of its Miami office. Kean lived in Mexico for 10 years and Venezuela for 16 years. In the latter location, she helped open Korn/Ferry’s Colombia and Puerto Rico offices.

With more than 20 years in executive search, Kevin B. Kelly is a Managing Director in our Atlanta office and co-leads the firm’s Industrial practice. He conducts senior-level assignments in general management, finance, sales and marketing, operations, security, and other functions for clients in the industrial and consumer sectors. Kelly is also an active member of the firm’s Board practice, and also works with private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Kelly was Executive Vice President & Managing Director with Slayton Search Partners, with oversight responsibility for the firm’s Atlanta and Washington, D.C. offices. Earlier, he spent 13 years with Russell Reynolds Associates, where he was a Partner in the firm and managed its Atlanta office.
Before entering the executive search, Kelly pursued a career in marketing and advertising, most recently in account service with the Atlanta ad agency Cole Henderson Drake. Earlier, he spent several years in marketing with the Coca-Cola Company. He began his career in the management training program at Universal Leaf Tobacco.

Managing Director Lorena Keough works in the life sciences, chemical, consumer, industrial, and diversity practices. She is also the practice leader for our Supply Chain field. Keough has a strong record in completing senior executive searches within the pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology, chemical, and consumer sectors. Her focus has been on recruiting world-class talent for U.S. and European multinationals in countries across the world and has worked with Fortune 500, and small- and medium-sized public and private companies. Several of her assignments have included the placement of entire senior management teams to help firms establish subsidiary companies in new countries.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Keough successfully headed up the Latin America Region practice for a global boutique search firm that focused on the life sciences and chemical Industries. Before entering the search profession, she was the General Manager and Vice President of Eastman Kodak’s Health Imaging and Clinical Diagnostics divisions for Latin America. Over her career at Kodak, she worked for the Canadian, U.S., and Latin American regions.

Jim Langston is a Managing Director and leader of the Financial Officers practice at Diversified Search. After beginning his career in public accounting, Langston spent eight years with Prudential Financial in audit, finance, and treasury operations. He later founded a consultancy providing succession and estate plans for business owners and high-net-worth individuals and families. His executive search career began in 1995 with an at-that-time boutique firm—now Kenexa—where he was instrumental in starting their retained Financial Officers practice. He was later a Managing Director with both Heidrick & Struggles and Korn/Ferry, continuing to focus on Financial Officer searches. Although his business has often focused on Fortune 1,000 clients, working at the director, VP, and C-suite levels, he also works with international early-stage and venture-backed organizations to identify and recruit world-class management talent.

Langston’s process is built on his varied and unique business experience. Using a consultative approach, insight, and intuition to understand an organization’s dynamics and operating environment, he identifies leadership that is best suited to its particular needs. Having built management teams for both domestic and international clients, he has been retained by such premier global clients as Genworth Financial, IMS Health, Sun Life Financial, Cisco, AmeriHealth Caritas, EMC, Saint Gobain, Ascension Health, Drexel University, and Cigna.

Sean Lee is a Managing Director in the San Francisco office of Diversified Search, where he works primarily in the Healthcare, Life Sciences, Consumer and Retail, Education, and Nonprofit sectors. With more than 10 years of global search experience, he has successfully completed leadership searches for organizations facing changing business climates and significant transformation. He joined the firm in 2018.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Lee was Head of Executive search at Blue Shield of California, a $17 billion healthcare organization. Lee most recently worked as Head of Talent Acquisition for Marin Health, a health system based in the Northern California.  Lee’s in-house experience on both the payor and provider side focused on innovative leadership that leveraged disruptive technologies and services to transform the healthcare ecosystem.

Lee began his search career in 2009 as a Managing Director at at a global boutique search firm headquartered in Singapore.  Based in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific, his clients included large integrated healthcare systems and multinational corporations in the consumer and hospitality industries.  Throughout his search career, Lee has worked with numerous organizations undergoing mergers and acquisitions.  Additionally, Lee continues to serve both domestic and global private equity and venture capital clients as an executive search partner to their portfolio companies.

Prior to his search career, Lee worked in fundraising for the University of California, Davis, his alma mater.

Tony Leng is a Managing Director of Diversified Search and leads the firm’s CIO/IT practice from its San Francisco office. He is also the Acting Practice Leader in the Innovation and Transformation Practice. Previously, he was Managing Partner of Hodge Partners. Leng has conducted many C-suite-level searches for organizations where leaders are transforming and/or building organizations that are taking advantage of digital technologies. His clients have included Aurora Healthcare; Axalta; Catholic Health Initiatives; Blue Shield of California; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan; Delta Dental; Dignity Health; Esurance; Kaiser Permanente; Novant Health; PG&E; Polycom; Sutter Health; Symmetricom; TE Connectivity; and Wellmark.

Prior to joining the field of executive search, Leng was a board member of three public companies and CEO of a $600 million public company. Prior to that, he ran a $1 billion division of a telephone company focused on corporate users and had responsibility for all data services and networking products. While at the telephone company, he was founder and chairman of its ISP and a board member of its two-million-subscriber cell phone subsidiary.

Leng uses his operating experience from being a CEO, financial background as a CPA and CA, and technical knowledge from the work that he has done for tech companies to drill down and understand at a nuanced level what his clients are seeking to achieve as they build their teams. He has written numerous papers on technology leadership and the challenges facing technology leaders today and authors a blog, Resources for the Modern CIO, at tonyleng.com.

The core of Leng’s consulting has been with senior leaders who are seeking to transform their organizations as they face a future of rapid change, digitization, regulation, shifting markets, and increasingly connected and informed customers.

For the past 12 years, Leng has facilitated the Fisher CIO Forum, a monthly venue where CIOs and CTOs discuss topics of relevance in their daily lives, and which affords such leaders the opportunity to develop a close network to discuss current challenges in a peer group environment on a confidential basis. Participating companies in the Forum have included Blue Shield, Clorox, Cost Plus, Delta Dental, Dignity Health, Esurance, Facebook, FitBit, Franklin Templeton, Gap, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, Levi Strauss, McKesson, Macys.com, Matson, Mulesoft, Okta, PG&E, Restoration Hardware, Ross Stores, Safeway, Salesforce.com, Schwab, Splunk, Uber, VMWare, and Williams-Sonoma, among others.

Jason D. León, MPA, CPA, is the Managing Director of the Washington, D.C. office of Diversified Search and specializes in Board, CFO, and nonprofit searches.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, León was the Senior Director of Corporate Relations & Programs for the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR), where he was responsible for developing and implementing comprehensive corporate relations strategies for increasing the representation of Hispanic executives in upper management and on corporate boards of Fortune 500 companies. His unique expertise in leadership development and nonprofit management led to the growth of both HACR’s corporate membership and leadership programs designed to provide companies a diverse set of platforms to enhance their external and internal diversity strategies in the areas of governance, procurement, employment, and philanthropy.

Prior to his role at HACR, León worked at National Urban Fellows (NUF), a premier leadership development organization and voice of authority on leadership diversity in the U.S., serving as the Alumni & Social Media Program Manager. A proud MPA alumnus of NUF, León completed his fellowship at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where his public finance expertise contributed to the success of an initiative to advance education, training and financial analysis in public health finance. He is a certified public accountant and worked five years as the Finance Director and Chief of Administration for the City of Isabela in Puerto Rico, where he made lasting contributions that restructured the cities’ financial structure, staff, and standing as one of the soundest municipalities in Puerto Rico.

León is a member of the Greater Washington Society of CPAs.

Senior Advisor B.A. “Mackie” MacLean Jr. joined Diversified Search in 1992. His previous work includes serving as President and CEO of another Philadelphia-based executive search firm, and Partner with one of the world’s largest executive search firms, Boyden International, Inc. His 25-plus-year search career has encompassed assignments for major investment and commercial banks, national consulting and investment companies, and senior-level work in manufacturing, technology, healthcare, education, and nonprofit. He has completed numerous C-suite searches and has had extensive experience in recruiting directors for both public and private company boards.

Prior to his career in search, MacLean spent more than two decades in finance, most recently as Senior Vice President and General Manager of New York operations of M&T Bancorp. Before that, he spent 20 years with Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., an international private bank headquartered in New York City. His tenure there covered assignments in lending, operations, treasury and foreign exchange management, and consulting. In his last role, he was Manager of the firm’s International Banking Division; he previously managed the banking operations in the firm’s Philadelphia office.

John Mestepey is the Managing Director of the Miami Office of Diversified Search. Earlier, he ran the Miami Office of Edward Kelley & Partners, and for 19 years was the Managing Director of the Miami Office of A.T. Kearney Executive Search.

Mentioned as one of the top 250 executive search professionals in the U.S. in “The New Career Makers,” Mestepey has focused his practice on key management assignments at the Board of Directors, CEO, COO and CFO levels across many industries, including the restaurant, retail, consumer products, financial services, healthcare, higher education, travel and leisure, technology, and biopharmaceutical sectors, among others.
Mestepey began his career in recruiting with AETNA Life & Casualty, where he was Director of Recruiting. He later co-led the in-house executive search firm, Career Development Corporation, at Lincoln National.

Following university, Mestepey was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, and served a tour in Vietnam, where he was a rifle platoon and rifle company commander. He was awarded the Purple Heart.
He is a trustee of the Board of Directors of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Orange Bowl Committee.

Since joining BioQuest, which was acquired by Diversified Search in 2016, in 2001, Dave Mildrew has teamed with CEOs, senior executives, and board members to find the right leaders for fast-growing healthcare organizations. His specialty is building leadership teams for emerging companies, with a mandate for fast growth.

Before entering the field of executive search, Mildrew spent more than 30 years working in the healthcare industry, including in senior-level roles and as a human resources executive for global corporations including Pfizer, Medtronic, CareMark, and Tokos Medical. As Vice President, Human Resources at CareMark and Tokos, Mildrew played a key role in growing the organizations from emerging startups into large public companies. He was also instrumental in hiring the senior leaders who led IPOs and subsequent strategic acquisitions.

As the leader of Diversified Search’s Life Sciences Practice, Henry Miller specializes in executive search for life sciences and healthcare organizations. He assists in identifying impactful key executives for high-level general management, commercial, operational, financial, and technical roles. Miller has successfully led global assignments in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, France, China, Philippines, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, among others.

Miller’s previous work experience includes serving as Senior Vice President and Global Life Sciences Practice Leader with the Solomon Page Group; managing director at a privately held search firm; and a member of the Healthcare & Life Sciences practice at Heidrick & Struggles International.

Dr. Kim Morrisson is a Senior Managing Director in Diversified Search’s Education, Nonprofit, and Arts and Culture practice.  She brings more than 20 years experience conducting executive search assignments for research universities, liberal arts colleges, academic medical centers, nonprofit associations, foundations, public agencies, independent secondary schools, and companies that serve the educational sector.

Dr. Morrisson also consults with colleges and universities about organizational structure, improvement of operations, and program development with a particular focus on residential planning, integrating academic and non-academic services, and enhancing student service delivery.

Before joining Diversified, Dr. Morrisson served as Vice Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, leading the Division of University Life for seven years, and serving as Vice Provost and Executive Director of the 21st Century Project for the Undergraduate Experience. As Vice Provost for University Life, she directed strategic, fiscal, and human resource planning for 26 departments and more than 300 staff, led facilities planning for the university’s residential system and acted as university spokesperson on student issues. In earlier roles, she was responsible for managing advising services to undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences, and for negotiating solutions to problems brought to the university’s Ombudsman’s office.

Mark Mulvanerty is a Managing Director in the Philadelphia office of Diversified Search, where he leads the Private Equity practice.

With over 17 years of experience in executive search, Mulvanerty has successfully conducted notable engagements in the placement of corporate leaders. Serving a broad spectrum of global clients, including Fortune 500, private equity firms and small/mid-cap public and private enterprises, his expertise spans industry sectors and functional disciplines, with special emphasis on general management and financial officer roles. Most recently, he served as a Senior Client Partner at Korn/Ferry, where he was a member of the Financial Officers Center of Expertise and Global Industrial Market. Previously, he held leadership roles in the Financial Officers practice with Heidrick & Struggles.

Before entering the field of executive search, Mulvanerty served as a professional recruiter for Systems & Computer Technology Corporation and ExecuTrain Corporation. He also served as a secondary school administrator, teacher, and coach in New York City. He began his career with M&M/Mars, where he managed retail sales territories in New York and Connecticut, and served as an on-campus recruiter.

Tracy Murdoch O’Such is a Managing Partner in the New York office of Diversified Search. Her responsibilities include the management of the firm’s New York office and its global Digital, Media, Entertainment, and Sports practice. She has extensive experience in executive search as well as direct industry experience in large media conglomerates.

Before joining Diversified Search, O’Such opened and managed the New York office for OdgersBerndtson. Prior to Odgers, Tracy founded and served as President of, LexMedia Solutions, a retained executive recruitment firm specializing in media industries. Previously, she was with Cablevision Systems Corporation, where she built the first in-house executive recruitment department. In 1997, O’Such established the Global Entertainment, New Media & Sports practice for Norman Broadbent International, a London-based search firm. She began her career in search with Bishop Partners, a New York-based media search firm. Earlier, she worked in sales and marketing in the entertainment, cable, communications, and publishing industries.

The convergence of the media, technology, and sports industries has broadened her client base to include Comcast, ESPN, WWE, Charter Communications, IMG, and Competitor Group, among many others. Her functional areas of expertise include chief digital officers, chief revenue officers, and executives working in corporate communications, branding, and advertising.

Denielle Pemberton-Heard is the General Counsel and Managing Director for Diversified Search, based in the firm’s Washington, DC office. She joined Diversified in 2018 following fifteen years as Group Counsel, Programming and Business Affairs at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the nation’s largest non-commercial media enterprise. There, she directed transactional work related to the production, distribution, and syndication of content across all platforms on behalf of PBS and its 300-plus member stations, and led negotiations between and among PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, on-air talent, program funders, and foundations. Before joining PBS, she served as Group Counsel for Thales, Inc., a French-owned communications concern, and as Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs at Time Life. She has also held in-house positions at Discovery Communications, Inc.

She began her law career in private practice with Connecticut’s Wiggin and Dana, and was subsequently associated with the New York firm of Cowan Liebowitz and Latman, where she focused on intellectual property litigation. Pemberton-Heard also serves as a senior advisor to STEMconnector, a Diversified Search company committed to increasing the number of STEM-ready workers in the global talent pool through its work with pioneering leaders across more than 200 organizations.

An alumna of the Columbia Graduate School of Business, she has served as a Regional Judge for Presidential Commission White House Fellowships; as a Trustee of the Toy Industry of America Foundation; and on the Board of Governors of the Case Western School of Law. Pemberton-Heard has also served on the professional faculty of the Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business, where she has lectured on business law.

Ivan Perry is a Managing Director at Diversified Search and is based in the Washington, D.C. office, where he partners with clients seeking executives possessing a diversity of culture and thought leadership at both the national and international level across multiple functional areas within the firm’s Innovation and Transformation, Human Resources, Industrial, and Life Sciences practices.

Prior to joining Diversified, Ivan was a Partner with Hanold Associates, a Chicago-based retained executive search firm where he focused on the recruitment of CHROs, leaders in talent acquisition and talent management, and human resources business partners. Before that, he was an associate with Heidrick & Struggles in Chicago, where he worked across several key practices, conducting searches focused on CEO, Board, Operations, and Financial Officers placements.

Ivan began his career in the United States Air Force prior to joining the executive search industry. He promoted to the rank of Captain, where he functioned as the Chief of Intelligence for multiple flying squadrons and as an Acquisitions Program Manager for multimillion-dollar systems. A proud veteran, Ivan served three tours in Afghanistan supporting the International Security Assistance Force during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Passionate in his efforts to give back to the veteran community, Ivan is a member of the Board of Directors of The Soldiers Project, a 501(c)(3) national nonprofit organization that provides post-9/11 veterans and their families with free, confidential, and unlimited mental health services. He also actively participates in veteran outreach programs within the Washington D.C. greater metropolitan area.

James Pruett is a Managing Director in the Healthcare and Life Sciences practices of Diversified Search. During his 15 years of experience in retained executive search, Pruett’s focus has been on leading national search assignments for senior leaders and other key executives within the healthcare, life sciences, professional services, and financial services industries. He also has eight years of experience in healthcare consulting with one of the world’s largest management consulting firms, where he focused on organizational change and human capital strategy as an advisor to senior executives in Fortune 500 companies.

Pruett joined Diversified from Morgan Samuels Company, a retained search firm where he established the Chicago office and was a Partner and National Practice Leader.  Prior to that, he was a Senior Client Partner at Korn/Ferry International, where he successfully completed retained searches for leading U.S. companies within the Global Financial Services practice. Pruett has also worked with Equinox Partners, a boutique retained search firm, and Russell Reynolds Associates in the Professional Services, Consumer, and Financial Services practices.

Pruett began his career with Accenture (Andersen Consulting), where he focused in healthcare and life sciences as a management consultant working directly with senior executives and other business leaders to address needs in human capital strategy, organizational change and development, and change strategy.

Zack Reynolds is a Managing Director in the Healthcare Services practice in the Chicago office. With nearly 20 years of executive search experience in the provider healthcare space, Reynolds plays the role of trusted advisor and consultant to his clients. He has served as a generalist with a heavy emphasis on C-suite and vice president-level positions across all functional areas, and has conducted national searches in a variety of environments with varying degrees of scale and complexity. His clients have included multi-state integrated delivery systems, large academic medical centers, schools of medicine, small rural healthcare providers, physician groups, and ACOs.

Reynolds is a hands-on professional who leads client searches at both a tactical and strategic level. His work is defined by a style that is collaborative, quality-focused, accessible, dependable, and consultative. He considers himself a true partner to his clients.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Reynolds served as a Partner at Quick Leonard Kieffer (QLK). In 2004, he left to serve in a corporate Human Resources position for a Fortune 500 company, and later was a Senior Associate for Slayton Search Partners. He rejoined QLK in 2007 and served as a Partner from 2011 until joining Diversified in 2016. Reynolds began his career in the late-1990s as a research associate with Norman Broadbent International, where he was responsible for search strategy and candidate development.

Gale Richards has built and developed senior leadership teams for fast-growing medical technology companies for more than 25 years. As both a seasoned executive recruiter and an experienced sales and marketing leader in the healthcare space, she understands a company’s DNA and adeptly identifies and places leaders that will help an organization grow and evolve.

A partner at BioQuest, a Diversified Search company, since 2003, Richards has become a key advisor to CEOs, venture capitalists, and senior executives as they search for high-impact talent to lead their companies. Her passion is finding those transformational leaders that can embrace challenges and develop a thriving company culture. Her search experience includes C-suite, board members, and senior executives for every cross-functional role, and her industry expertise includes work in the medical devices, healthcare IT, digital health, and diagnostics sectors.

Richards is a member and investor in Life Science Angels and is a featured speaker at industry events—such as the UCSF Entrepreneurship Center and HealthTech Capital’s annual conference—where she tackles topics such as leadership and building innovative teams.

Molly A. Robb joined Diversified Search in 2018, working primarily in the life sciences sector and with BioQuest, the subsidiary of Diversified Search based in San Francisco. Robb previously worked at Horton International, where she served as a Managing Director specializing in recruiting senior-level healthcare investors and operating leaders within Healthcare Private Equity and Venture Capital and both public and private Life Sciences companies. Previously, she worked in Korn Ferry’s Healthcare Private Equity and Venture Capital practice, splitting her time between the Los Angeles and Boston offices.

Robb began her search career in Los Angeles as a Search Consultant at Baeder/Murphy & Associates, and later worked as an Associate both at Korn Ferry and at Heidrick & Struggles, in San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively. She was then named Search Director at Ken Clark International in Newport Beach, California. Following that, she moved east, where she has lived for the past thirteen years.

Active in the healthcare ecosystem, Robb is a supporter for the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, is a member of New England Women in Science, and has worked a business mentor for C-Sweetner, a mentoring organization for women in the healthcare C-suite.

Michael Sarnoff is the leader of Diversified Search’s Financial Services Practice, and is based in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Diversified Search in 2018, he spent five years as Co-Founder and Partner at Highland Road LLC, a boutique executive search and capital advisory firm in Los Angeles, where his clients included asset and investment managers, hedge funds, private equity and private debt funds, and investment banks, among others. The roles he has filled include senior leadership (CFO, COO, General Counsel), investing and investment research, origination, capital raising, investment banking, and sales and trading.

Prior to co-founding Highland Road, Sarnoff served as a Partner at Heidrick & Struggles, where he concentrated on capital markets in the financial services sector, and as a Client Partner at Korn Ferry International, where he helped build the firm’s global markets business. At Korn, he became the first senior associate under the age of 30 in the Financial Services Practice to ever be promoted to Client Partner.

Before entering the executive search industry, he was a manager of human resources for the University of Southern California, and began his career as the head of human resources at PBJ Digital, a North Hollywood web development and consulting start-up.

Guy A. Sava is a Managing Director at Diversified Search and Leader of the Natural Resources practice. He focuses on assisting the process industry, manufacturing, energy, and other industrial sector clients with executive searches for their corporate boards, as well as executive, general management, and functional leadership positions. The focus of his search experience has been global including venture capital, private equity, and public/private companies worldwide.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Guy served as President of the Industrial, Chemical, Energy, and Materials Practice for a large global executive search firms, where he was responsible for business development and executive recruiting within these sectors. He also led the Board Service Practice in North America. Previously, he spent 20 years in the industry serving in various senior leadership roles.

Dr. Marie Savard is Physician Advisor in Diversified Search’s Healthcare Services practice, and co-leads the Physician Services practice within it. A trusted voice in women’s health, she is an internationally recognized internal medicine physician, health educator, and speaker on women’s health, patient empowerment, and collaborative doctor-patient partnerships. She is the author of four bestselling books on personal health management and wellness.

As a former corporate medical director of a leading long-term care provider, Dr. Savard brings a deep expertise in the design and development of post-acute care, affordable senior housing, and population-based care. As an RN and MD, she has a personal interest in the emerging integrated models of care delivery and the need for more interdisciplinary team-based clinical leaders to support them. As an advocate for patient empowerment, she brings a crucial perspective to the need for outcomes management, evidenced-based decision-making, and the value of personal health records, patient safety, and personal health management.

Formerly, Dr. Savard was the director of the Center for Women’s Health and Associate Professor at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. She was Technical Advisor to the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women, and served on the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Subcommittee on Clinical Competency in Women’s Health. Previously, she was Director of Quality Management at Pennsylvania Hospital, and has been a health columnist for Woman’s Day magazine. She is currently a part-time contributor for ABC News.

Terry Scherck brings more than 20 years of experience in the areas of general management, strategy development, marketing and sales leadership, and consulting services. Since entering retained executive search, Scherck has recruited senior executives in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and device industries for a range of positions, including chairman of the board, president, chief executive officer, and CHRO. In December 2008, he was recognized by Businessweek magazine as one of “The World’s Most Influential Headhunters.”

Prior to joining Diversified, Scherck was the Global Leader of A. T. Kearney’s Healthcare/Life Sciences practice and a senior member of its Board of Director practice. In addition, he served on ATK’s Executive Committee.

Before entering executive search, he spent more than 15 years in the pharmaceutical and consumer products industries as a senior executive with Bristol Myers Squibb, Guerlain, SA, and Warner Communications (Cosmair).

Dr. Harvey Schiller is Vice Chairman of the Digital Media, Entertainment, and Sports practice at Diversified Search. From 2005 to 2013, he served as Chairman and CEO of GlobalOptions Group, an international risk management and business solutions company.

His previous leadership positions include Chairman of Assante U.S., a leading provider of financial and life management products; Chairman and CEO of YankeeNets, an integrated sports-based media company with ownership of the New York Yankees, New Jersey Nets, and New Jersey Devils; Vice President of Sports Programming for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.; President of Turner Sports, Inc., a division of Time Warner; and President and Governor of the NHL expansion franchise the Atlanta Thrashers.

Lauren Smith is a Managing Director in the Miami office of Diversified Search. She conducts senior-level executive search assignments for clients ranging from high-growth early-stage organizations to multinational corporations, specializing in working with companies that are growing and/or transforming into new markets and businesses.

Smith is valued by clients for her ability to understand an organization’s strategic direction, her skills at assessing the cultural fit of candidates, and her dedication to quality and timeliness. She has placed executives and/or board members at clients such as Apple, Citrix, Comfort Systems, DHL, Kaplan Inc., Novell, Office Depot, Polyconcept, Ryder, Sheridan Healthcare, Tupperware, and Winn-Dixie. She has recently co-led board searches for a number of Fortune 500 boards, including Jacobs Engineering Corporation, Fifth Third Bank, and Navient Corporation.

She started her career in executive search in 2000 with Egon Zehnder. Before moving into the search field, she had 12 years of experience leading marketing and strategy at two Fortune 50 companies, Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Motorola Inc. During her time at Motorola, she led marketing and customer operations for a wireless joint venture in Bogotá, Colombia.

Smith is an active member on numerous boards of directors. Some of these include the American Red Cross South Florida Chapter, the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship of Nova Southeastern University, and the Women Executive Leadership. A Governance Fellow at the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), she is the President of the Florida Chapter and is an active member of the Thirty Percent Coalition and Women Corporate Directors.

Smith has been quoted as an expert on executive and board recruiting a wide range of publications, including NACD Directorship, Entrepreneur magazine, American Way magazine, the Miami Herald, and South Florida CEO Magazine. She has served as a guest lecturer at Nova Southeastern University and as a speaker for the National Association of Corporate Directors. In 2010, she was named a Most Influential Business Woman by the South Florida Business Journal.

Dr. Charles Taylor is a Senior Advisor at Diversified Search.

Over the past decade, he has successfully completed more than 125 executive search assignments in the academic, corporate, and nonprofit areas. Those assignments have included, among others, university presidents and other senior university officials; public school superintendents; foundation and association executives; chief financial officers; chief information officers; chief legal officers; members of boards of directors; and public officials.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Dr. Taylor was with The Prout Group, where he served as Managing Director in the Education, Government, and Nonprofit practices. His career spans nearly 30 years in a variety of corporate and academic management positions, including serving as President of Morris Brown College and Wilberforce University, President of BP (British Petroleum) Shipping, Director of Corporate Contributions for the Standard Oil Company, and managing partner and senior partner of two global retained executive search firms.

Barry is a Managing Partner based in the Atlanta office of Diversified Search. As a senior member of the Higher Ed and Healthcare Practice, Barry leads executive level searches for higher education institutions, academic medical centers, research institutions and integrated healthcare delivery systems. Barry’s passion is identifying strategic hires while providing practical guidance in succession planning. Barry brings over 25 of experience where he has been deeply involved in leadership searches for technology companies, healthcare centers and academic medicine institutions.

In addition to his achievements in executive search, Barry brings progressive and successful leadership experience earned in major corporate and academic environments, including AT&T, UAB Health System, Memorex Telex, Cisco Systems, and software giant Computer Associates. Barry led the emerging markets efforts at Cisco, where he developed a team of business leaders in strategic sectors to drive emergent business markets. His experience in corporate environments has proven to be invaluable in leading searches, given the business imperatives to differentiate and excel in today’s environment.

Barry builds effective leadership teams capable of moving mindshare and market share, who in turn create a marketplace advantage on behalf of the organizations he represents. He is instrumental in providing successful outcomes recruiting diversity candidates on behalf of his clients. Barry also served on the NCAA Inclusion Committee. Currently, Barry is an active member ACHE, HIMSS, AONE, and many state hospital associations.

Andrew C. Wheeler is Managing Director and Leader of the Education, Nonprofit, and Arts and Culture practice at Diversified Search, and is an active member of the Healthcare Services practice. Previously, he served as the firm’s Chief Lean Officer, driving process improvement initiatives to deliver more value to clients.

Wheeler’s clients have included research intensive institutions, medical schools, liberal arts colleges, and museums. Prior to joining the firm in 2003, he spent four years with Heidrick & Struggles.  Passionate about finding the right individuals who can make a significant impact for mission-driven organizations, Wheeler has spent his entire career discovering and assessing leaders.

Wheeler began his career in undergraduate admissions at Bowdoin College in Maine, where he managed student volunteers, reviewed applications, and recruited prospective students. He then worked in the creative and technical staffing industry for HireKnowledge, effectively leading its Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco offices.

Kyung H. Yoon is a Senior Advisor at Diversified Search, joining the firm in 2018 and working primarily in the technology and consumer and retail sectors, with a particular emphasis on CEOs and boards. A former vice chairman of Heidrick & Struggles, Yoon is the CEO and founder of the Silicon Valley-based Talent Age Associates, where she has developed talent strategies for the Fortune 500, multinational corporations, and mid-cap/venture-backed companies in the technology, fashion, consumer, lifestyle, and financial sectors.

While at Heidrick, Yoon led the firm’s expansion in Asia, managing its Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, and Seoul offices. At Diversified Search, she works closely on cross-border search work through the firm’s membership in AltoPartners, the leading international alliance of retained executive search and leadership consulting firms.

Prior to joining Heidrick, Yoon served as President of Benten Investments, Inc., in San Francisco; President of Pacific Union Management in San Francisco; and Vice President of Dillingham Development Co. in Honolulu. She began her career at BNP Paribas. She is also the Co-Founder and Partner of the Executive Board Exchange (EBX), the premier community for corporate director and board engagement. She currently serves as a board director of the global fashion group MCM Worldwide, board director of Give2Asia, council member of the Stanford Center on Longevity, and as an advisory board member of Translink Capital. Previously, she served on the boards of Silicon Valley Bank; several venture-backed technology companies, including Mobile Money Ventures (a joint venture between Citi and SK Telecom); and several nonprofits, including Harvard University’s Kennedy School Women’s Leadership Board. Born in Seoul, Korea to a diplomatic family, she grew up in Seoul, Washington, D.C., and Paris, and is fluent in English, French, and Korean, with literacy in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.

Carrie Baker is a Vice President and Senior Associate at Diversified Search, working mainly in the Life Sciences Practice. She boasts strong expertise in the talent acquisition process, and has a deep background in both client and project management and global partner support.

Prior to joining Diversified Search in 2018, Baker was most recently a Practice Analyst for Korn Ferry International, based in Dallas, Texas. There, she managed both executive search and market intelligence operations, monitored department goals and objectives, contributed to marketing content, and was responsible for global research and knowledge management initiatives within her practice. In 2016, she was recognized by the firm as the Best Research Knowledge Management Team Player in North America.

Baker began her career in the executive search industry as a practice coordinator at EWKP, previously Ray and Berndston/A.T. Kearney Executive Search, in Fort Worth. While there she served in the key role of coordinating data, strategy, research, and daily operations of the life sciences recruitment team.

Holly Bowers is a Vice President and Senior Associate in the Philadelphia office of Diversified Search, where she supports the Education, Nonprofit, and Arts and Culture practice.

Prior to joining Diversified Search in 2015, Bowers spent 11 years in executive search, principally with Heidrick & Struggles. There, she served as an associate and participated in the successful placement of over 74 C-suite and VP level positions—many of Fortune 500 companies. She also worked for Russell Reynolds Associates, in Washington, D.C., where she supported the health care practice team. In her most recent role, Bowers worked at Booz Allen Hamilton as an executive recruiter.

Prior to her move into executive search, Holly served as Assistant Vice President of Alumni Relations at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She spent five years in that role working with alumni volunteers, alumni clubs, and the Board of Governors.

Brad Buehler joined BioQuest in 2002, and remains with the firm after its acquisition by Diversified Search in 2016. He recruits cross-functional VP and C-suite level individuals for emerging and established clients in the Medical Device and Digital Health sectors.

Buehler’s expertise is built around deep industry and domain knowledge; he has developed and cultivated a broad network of established and emerging leaders whom he calls upon frequently to vet candidates.

Prior to joining BioQuest, Buehler spent 10 years with a retained executive search firm, staffing senior level leadership for healthcare information technology companies, including startups, health IT vendors, and systems integration and consulting firms.

Kari Donovan is a Vice President and Senior Associate within Diversified Search’s Healthcare practice. She brings to the team more than 25 years of progressive healthcare search and consulting experience, with several top-tier firms.

In addition to co-leading numerous C-suite searches in the health provider space, Donovan brings extensive experience in physician executive and medical group management searches. She has particular strengths in the areas of organizational dynamics, candidate assessment, and capturing relevant market intelligence. She has additional expertise in coaching, personality, and organizational assessment, and is a certified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator practitioner.

Her previous experience includes running her own consulting firm specializing in retained physician search, as well as roles with Witt Kieffer and Cejka and Company.

Dianne Downey is a Vice President and Senior Associate with Diversified Search. A seasoned executive search consultant, Downey has been with the firm for over 20 years and works primarily in the Healthcare Services Practice, in both the provider and payer sectors. She has worked on numerous senior executive searches, including those for: president and CEO, COO, CFO, chief human resources officer, and chief physician executive. Clients she has represented include Ascension Health, SSM Health, Geisinger, Independence Blue Cross, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, AmeriHealth Caritas, and Devereux. She has extensive experience in developing and executing search strategies, sourcing and screening candidates, referencing, and facilitating the search process.

Downey joined Diversified Search in 1993, bringing over 10 years of recruiting experience to the firm. She began her recruiting career at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and then gained experience in the information technology industry as a recruiter for EDP Contract Services. Prior to joining Diversified Search, she worked in human resources for Systems and Computer Technology Corporation (SCT).

Stephanie Franklin is a Vice President and Senior Associate at Diversified Search, and has over 20 years of experience in executive recruitment, specializing in the healthcare, nonprofit, and academic sectors.

Franklin regularly conducts searches for CFO, CEO, COO, CNO, CMO, CHRO, and Vice President roles. Her clients include healthcare systems, hospitals, insurance companies, and universities, with particular passion for faith-based organizations. Stephanie is known for taking a partnership approach with her clients and for her dedication to mission-driven companies.

Prior to consulting with Diversified Search, Franklin’s experience as Managing Partner for a recruiting research practice included clients in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. With her initial focus in healthcare, she quickly grew her clientele to include a broad spectrum of industries, including oil and gas, industrial chemicals, technology, and higher education.

Franklin’s clinical background as an RN affords her a unique perspective to the healthcare arena. Prior to her career in executive recruitment, she worked as a nephrology nurse serving dialysis patients and families. After an introduction to executive recruitment and recognizing the opportunity to make a national impact, she turned her dedication in healthcare over to executive search.

Mahalia Gauld is a Senior Associate for Diversified Search in the Healthcare Services and Education, Nonprofit, and Arts and Culture practices. She has experience in developing and executing search strategies, sourcing and screening candidates, referencing, and facilitating the search process. She also works closely with consultants and research associates to develop search strategies and principles while utilizing resources to further candidate development.

Gauld has been with Diversified Search since 2011. Prior to becoming an Associate, she was a Senior Research Associate, specializing in the healthcare and higher education sectors.

Sandra Goldman is Vice President and Managing Associate of Diversified Search. As a multi-industry specialist, she has been engaged in assignments in the U.S. and globally in the sectors of financial services, technology, life sciences, consumer products, manufacturing, nonprofit, healthcare, and higher education.

She has led the firm’s efforts in the identification, selection, contracting, and training for research-oriented products while also being actively involved in senior-level executive search assignments.

Goldman joined Diversified Search in 1988, after selling a successful retail business in Philadelphia, which she established and operated for six years. Since joining the firm, she has utilized unique and creative approaches to the selection, recruitment, and screening of executives.

Vice President and Senior Associate Manuel A. Gongon Jr. has conducted searches for senior leadership positions within prominent higher education institutions, including Ivy League and AAU universities, nonprofit organizations, and government entities. He has successfully conducted searches for a variety of functional leadership roles, including chancellor, president, provost, chief of police, and executive director.

His vast client list includes Ivy League universities such as Harvard, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell, as well as nonprofit organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and the Jackie Robinson Foundation.

Before joining Diversified Search in 2008, Gongon worked for 12 years with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, leading government affairs and community and economic development initiatives on behalf of the Archdiocese.

Nancy Helfman is a Vice President and Senior Associate in Diversified Search’s Education, Nonprofit, and Arts and Culture practice. A seasoned executive search consultant, she works primarily on senior-level searches in higher education for academic leaders with a focus on presidents, provosts, and deans, as well as administrative leaders including CFOs, CHROs, and VPs for Student Affairs. Helfman also works on leadership searches for independent schools and a variety of nonprofit organizations.

Her representative clients include Florida International University; George Washington University; Villanova University; Columbia University; Northeastern University; Hampshire College; University of Nebraska; University of Oregon; Germantown Friends School; and a variety of faith-based institutions. She has expertise in developing and executing search strategies, sourcing, screening, referencing, and facilitating the search process.

Helfman joined Diversified Search in 2004, after a successful 12-year run with her own search consulting practice subcontracting to a number of executive search firms, including Diversified Search. Her executive search career began with a boutique firm focused on physician leadership searches. Prior to her career in search, she worked in human resources management and commercial banking.

Alison Lebonitte is a Vice President and Senior Associate at Diversified Search, working in the Healthcare Services Practice.

Lebonitte’s career in investment research began at Citigroup, where she was part of the Washington, D.C.-based team performing analysis of legislative and regulatory issues concerning publicly traded healthcare companies. In 2008 she joined Marwood Group, a healthcare advisory firm based in New York and Washington, D.C. In the role of Vice President, Healthcare Research, she offered clients strategic analysis and insight on payment and policy issues affecting hospitals, post-acute providers, and managed care, including issues relating to the impact of the Affordable Care Act.

Her career in executive search began in 2015, when she joined Korn Ferry as a Senior Associate in Healthcare Services. There she led search execution for clinical executive leadership and C-Suite positions within not-for-profit integrated delivery systems, academic medical centers, schools of medicine, faculty practices and employed medical groups, and community hospitals, among other duties.

Lebonitte began her professional career as a human resources assistant at Boston Children’s Hospital before joining Johnson & Johnson in its U.S. Government Affairs group in Washington, D.C. There, she coordinated company outreach with healthcare advocacy groups, thought leaders, and government representatives.

Heather Linehan focuses on cross-functional VP and C-suite level assignments, working with venture-backed, development stage, and high-growth publicly held companies in the medical device, biopharma, diagnostic, digital health, and health IT markets. With her collaborative approach to recruitment and a deep background in research, Linehan is adept at identifying, tracking, and aligning top talent with top companies. She is highly regarded for her work on key technical searches in R&D, clinical operations, regulatory affairs, and quality assurance, as well as on commercial searches in general management, sales, marketing, and business development.

Prior to joining BioQuest in 2007, which was acquired by Diversified Search in 2016, Linehan held leadership positions at retained search firm McCormack & Farrow,  where she specialized in recruitment strategy and candidate development and evaluation.

Linehan is the founding President of the Southern California Chapter of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, where she led the establishment of the organization’s Advisory Board.

Pam Lisle is a Vice President and Senior Associate with Diversified Search. She possesses deep experience in multiple industries, with an emphasis in Healthcare Services and Life Sciences. With over 15 years of retained search experience, she has conducted senior-level searches within healthcare systems, academic medical institutions, research institutes, pharmaceutical companies, device and biotech companies, as well as sports, media, and entertainment organizations.

Lisle joined Diversified Search in 2012. She began her search career in 1999, with Ray & Berndtson; previously, she was with A. T. Kearney, Korn Ferry, and Lisle Associates. She also served as Vice President, Recruiting and Training, for Pegasus Golf Management, a Carlyle Group company. Lisle began her career with Burlington Northern Railroad, in human resources and sales.

Carla Logan is a Vice President and Senior Associate in the Atlanta office of Diversified Search. She has more than 15 years of experience in executive search in the industries of consumer-packaged goods, retail, transportation, financial services, and more.

As a Senior Associate, Logan collaborates with members of the search team to execute the search. Her responsibilities include search strategy development, direct candidate recruitment, and development. Utilizing various internal and external resources, she also contributes to business development by providing detailed market analysis and company information.

Before coming to Diversified, Logan spent 12 years as a Senior Associate with Heidrick & Struggles. Prior to that, she was the Project Manager for the boutique research firm Innovative Search LLC, where she was responsible for business development, client management, and candidate development.

Logan began her career executing C-suite search assignments for Fortune 500 corporations with Egon Zehnder International.

JoAnn “Jo” Mahaney works within the Medical Device, Biopharma, and Healthcare Technology practices at BioQuest, a Diversified Search company. A seasoned professional with more than three decades of experience in retained executive search, she has consulted with a diverse range of clients—from emerging private companies to public global leaders.

Mahaney’s breadth and depth of experience give her a keen eye for recruiting executives that align with her clients’ corporate cultures. She partners with senior management to understand a client’s challenges, competitive landscape, mission, culture, and plans for growth. She finds that the excitement and satisfaction of her work are in identifying the right skill set and personality in candidates, effectively communicating the opportunity to potential candidates, and successfully placing that essential team member to help clients achieve their strategic goals.

Prior to joining BioQuest, Mahaney held executive recruiting positions in global firms such as Heidrick & Struggles, SpencerStuart, and Ward Howell International. She also led her own retained search consultancy, The Mahaney Group, which focused on building executive teams for emerging growth companies.

Jennifer Muller is a Vice President and Senior Associate in the Philadelphia office of Diversified Search. She boasts deep experience in developing and executing search strategies, sourcing and interviewing candidates, referencing, and facilitating the overall search process. As a multi-industry specialist, she has been engaged in assignments in the healthcare, nonprofit, higher education, and consumer and retail sectors.

Prior to joining Diversified Search in 2018, Muller spent over five years in legal search for a national legal search firm. There, she served as a search consultant and participated in the successful placement of partner, associate, and in-house counsel level positions. Previously, she practiced law as a corporate associate at Dechert LLP in Philadelphia and New York, where she counseled institutional and corporate clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, workouts, and restructurings.

Muller currently serves on the Brooklyn Law School Alumni Admissions Board. She is fluent in Dutch and proficient in French.

Joyce Ort has deep experience in executive search, with a proven track record of successful candidate development, sourcing, strategy, and research. She has conducted executive-level searches for premier companies across the consumer, industrial, technology, professional services, and life sciences industries in Canada, the U.S., and Latin America.

Before coming to Diversified, Ort worked as a consultant and analyst in the Technology & Business Professional Services practice for A.T. Kearney Executive Search. Prior to that, she worked for Ray & Berndtson as Coordinator in Research, supporting its Global Technology Practice.

Beth Reeves is a Vice President and Senior Associate with Diversified Search, and a member of the Education, Nonprofit, and Arts and Culture Practice. With over 20 years of experience in retained executive search, she has conducted searches for senior leadership positions within prominent higher education institutions, associations, foundations, arts and culture organizations/institutions, and professional and social service organizations. Beth is also a senior member of the firm’s Development and Philanthropy practice, and has placed numerous fundraising leadership professionals across the sector. Clients she has represented include The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Columbia University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, Museum of Arts and Design, New York Philharmonic, NPR, The Old Globe Theatre, The Pennsylvania State University, Public Radio International, The Public Theater, Smithsonian Institution, The University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. Beth has expertise in developing and executing search strategies, sourcing, screening and referencing candidates, and facilitating the search process.

Beth joined Diversified Search in 2007. She began her search career in 1994 with The Howard-Sloan-Koller Group, a New York-based boutique firm serving the media industry. Prior to executive search, Beth worked in New York in advertising sales management in the magazine publishing industry, and prior to that in advertising agency account management.

Jeannine Sommer is Vice President and Senior Associate in the New York office of Diversified Search, where she supports the Digital Media, Entertainment, and Sports, and Technology and Innovation practices.

Sommer began her career in executive search in 1995 as a Research Assistant with Bishop Partners. After two years she joined Norman Broadbent International as Director of Research. There she assisted senior management in launching the firm’s Entertainment and New Media practice while putting together a research team responsible for a wide variety of database projects.

More recent positions include Senior Vice President of Search Management at Carlsen Resources, where she was responsible for overseeing the search process, as well as managing Carlsen’s clients and candidates; Director of Executive Recruitment for Cablevision Systems, where her responsibilities included executive-level searches for all 26 properties owned and operated by the company; and consulting for ThinkBRQ.

Kim Walker is a Vice President and Senior Associate with Diversified Search. She has over 16 years of recruiting experience as a multi-industry specialist in the consumer products, industrial, manufacturing, education, life sciences, financial services, and healthcare sectors, and has placed leaders in numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Walker began her search career with Ray & Berndtson Executive Search. She then spent five years in recruitment management with KPMG, one of the “Big Four” accounting firms, focusing on critical experienced hire needs. She moved back into retained executive search with A.T. Kearney, and, prior to joining Diversified Search, worked for Carlyle Group and The Dow Group.

Devyn Zachary is a Vice President and Senior Associate in the Philadelphia office of Diversified Search, working primarily in the Human Resources Practice. She boasts deep experience in developing and executing search strategies, sourcing and interviewing candidates, referencing, and facilitating the search process. In addition, Zachary calls upon her teacher education background to train and develop the skills of the firm’s researchers and associates, and also serves as a mentor in the internship program.

Prior to joining Diversified, she spent over three years in legal search, principally with Major, Lindsey & Africa (MLA), the world’s largest legal search firm, in both the Washington, DC and Philadelphia offices. As a former practicing attorney and director of recruiting within the Solutions Practice Group of MLA, she provided staffing solutions to law firms and in-house legal departments. An attorney herself, Zachary also assists in General Counsel and other legal searches.

Jill Boccuto is the Director of Research at Diversified Search, where she oversees all aspects of the firm’s research functions. Boccuto also serves as a multi-industry specialist for a range of clients, including those in the Life Sciences, Financial Services, Industrial, Manufacturing, and Healthcare sectors. She has vast experience utilizing sophisticated resources and participates in identifying cutting-edge primary and secondary methods in e-research. Boccuto’s participation is integral to the search process, in which she develops unique strategies that have proven to be highly effective in helping identify unknown resources for particularly complex search assignments.

In addition to her research, Boccuto is an active member on a variety of internal practice teams, keeping abreast of pertinent external information utilized in business development activities and candidate selection.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Boccuto served as a research manager at a global boutique search firm focusing on the life sciences, industrial, and chemical industries.

Nicole Cassidy joined Diversified Search in January 2012. As a multi-industry Senior Research Associate, she assists both managing directors and associates who are working for a range of clients, and aids in the development of search strategies and candidate identification. She presently works mainly in searches around the financial officers’ function.

She has her certification as a research associate from the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC).

Corina Benitz is a Research Associate at Diversified Search, joining the firm in 2018.

Prior to entering the executive search field, Benitz worked as a Development Associate for the Board of Directors of the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. There she was responsible for, among other things, the planning and execution of quarterly board meetings, preparation of collateral for board presentations, major gift donor engagement strategy, and assisting with the planning of fundraising events and the annual orchestra gala. Her research experience in this role included the identifying, researching, and profiling of prospective donors.

Benitz began her professional career in the arts world, first as a Sales and Client Relationship Manager for a prominent Virginia sculptor, and subsequently as a Sales and Auction Associate at The Potomack Company, an Alexandria, Virginia antiques and fine arts auction gallery.

As a Research Associate in Diversified Search’s Atlanta Office, Dawn Biggins works in the Board of Directors and CEO practices.

Before joining the company in 2015, Biggins served as a career advisor at the City of Atlanta’s Workforce Development Agency. She has also served as a research associate with the United Negro College Fund.

Research Associate Laura Brown joined Diversified Search in 2016 and works primarily in the Technology and Telecommunications practice.

Her previous employment experience includes working as a recruiter for the tech startup BlueCart, and serving as a member of the City Year Corps, an education nonprofit that allowed her to provide teaching assistance at two elementary schools in Washington D.C.

Vanessa DeCollibus is a Research Associated based out of the Atlanta office of Diversified Search, working primarily in the Life Sciences sector. Prior to joining Diversified in 2015, Vanessa worked as a research assistant for a local not-for-profit economic development organization, followed by a period working as a business development coordinator for a technology public relations firm. There she targeted potential consumer and enterprise tech clients.

Vanessa holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration, specializing in Community Development as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations. She is fluent in Spanish.

Moira Gallagher is a Research Associate in the New York office of Diversified Search. She joined the firm in 2014 and works primarily in the Human Resources and Digital, Media, Entertainment & Sports practices. Prior to this role, Moira served as the Project Director, Office Manager, and as an Executive Assistant for the New York office.

Prior to joining Diversified Search, Moira served as an Account Manager on the Speaker Relations team at the Harry Walker Agency, an exclusive speakers’ bureau and lecture agency representing top motivational and keynote speakers. She began her professional career as a Production Coordinator at the Urban Zen Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by the iconic fashion designer Donna Karan.

Moira concentrated in Public Policy and American Institutions and graduated from Brown University. During her senior year, she was also named a captain of the Brown University varsity volleyball team.

Connor Gebhardt is a Research Associate at Diversified Search, working primarily in the Education, Nonprofit, and Arts and Culture Practice. He joined the firm in 2017.

A graduate of Penn State, where he earned his B.A. with a concentration in macroeconomics, money, and banking, he was also an intern at Moorestown, NJ-based A&S Asset Management, where he aggregated economic data for weekly reports, researched IPOs, and assisted in the development of a new marketing program. While a student, he also hosted a regular radio program on The Lion 90.7 FM, the campus student-run radio station.

Caitling Hering is a Research Associate at Diversified Search, working primarily in the healthcare sector. She joined the firm in 2018.

Prior to Diversified Search, Hering worked as a commercial associate for The Advisory Board Company in Washington, DC, where she helped generate more than $5 million in revenue for the national healthcare consulting firm. While there, she also served as a representative on the company’s partner services culture committee, working on events that promoted team unity and cohesion.

Kelly Keough is a Research Associate at Diversified Search, joining the firm in 2018. She works primarily in the consumer and retail, energy and natural resources, and industrial sectors.

Keough boasts a deep knowledge of Latin America. She studied in Bolivia and has written extensively on Latin American business, politics, and culture. A native Spanish speaker, she also has broad experience as translator and served as an intern for the America Society/Council of the Americas, where she prepared policy briefs for the senior director as well as providing logistical support and event planning assistance for various programs and forums.

Erin Kneeley joined Diversified Search as a Research Associate in 2018, working primarily in searches in the higher education and nonprofit sectors.

While an undergraduate, Kneeley served as chapter president of her sorority, Delta Gamma, and also worked as an intern for Diversified Search in 2016 and 2017. She also worked as an intern for the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Jae Zhong is a Research Associate in the San Francisco office of Diversified Search, where she works primarily in the life sciences and biotechnology sectors.

Prior to joining the search industry in 2018, Zhong worked as a research assistant for the University of California – Davis, first at the Personality and Self-Knowledge Lab, and then in the Translational and Comparative Affective Science Lab and the California National Primate Research Center, where her duties included data analysis, project assistance, and independent academic research. Her work in the Primate Center also included assisting in the exploratory stage of the ZIKA virus project.

As part of her pre-health curriculum, Zhong also served as a clinical intern at Sutter Davis Hospital in Davis, California, and before that as a medical intern in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Suqian People’s Hospital in Jiangsu, China.

As the Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Michael Callahan is responsible for the internal and external communications, public relations, marketing and events, advertising, and thought leadership of the firm, including oversight of Diversified’s website and social media channels.

Early in his career, Callahan worked as a public relations writer at the Philadelphia Gas Works before spending the next two decades in magazine publishing, most notably as a writer and editor at Hearst and Condé Nast. Before joining Diversified he served as an editorial consultant at ChatterBlast Media, a Philadelphia-based social media marketing firm. He is currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine, and his articles have appeared in such magazines as Bloomberg Businessweek, Worth, and Fortune Small Business. He is also the author of two critically-acclaimed books of historical fiction.

Callahan has served as an adjunct professor of journalism at Fordham University and Temple University and has received numerous journalism awards. His work has also been anthologized in The Best American Legal Writing 2009 and Vanity Fair’s Writers on Writers (2016).

As Vice President, Database and Technology, Millie Francis is responsible for managing all of Diversified Search’s technology infrastructure and data systems.

She has been with the firm for more than a decade. Before that, she spent 13 years working for a variety of executive search agencies, including three years with LexMedia Solutions, are retained executive search firm specializing in media industries. She has also worked as an independent database consultant, and spend years at Smith and Sawyer, a New York-based executive search firm.

Liz Magnotta is Diversified’s Vice President-Finance and manages all financial reporting and operations. She handles all of the day-to-day operations for the firm’s nine offices nationwide, including financial reporting, insurance, audit and tax compliances, and accounts receivable and accounts payable functions. She also serves on the firm’s Finance Committee.

Magnotta has over 35 years of financial executive experience, including in not-for-profits, professional services firms, privately held businesses as well as for-profit enterprises. She began her career with the accounting firm Elko, Fischer, McCabe & Rudman, where she served as a Manager in the Accounting and Auditing Division.

Anne Ravert is the Vice President, Human Resources at Diversified Search. Prior to joining Diversified in 2017, she served as the human resources manager at both law firm Simon and Simon, and AC Lordi, a consulting firm. Prior, for more than nine years she worked at Campbell Soup Company, where she began as a member of the tax practice, eventually shifting her focus to employment issues, specifically around the issues of employee and executive compensation, the employee stock plan and its structure, and, additionally, communications related to global compensation and talent management.

An active supporter of the arts, Ravert recently completed a term as a member of the Board of Directors of BalletX, the contemporary ballet company in Philadelphia; she has also served as a member of the steering committee of the Crescendo Club, a young friends’ philanthropic arm of the Curtis Institute of Music. She is currently actively involved as chair of the annual fundraiser of The Print Center of Philadelphia, a nonprofit gallery that encourages the growth and understanding of photography and printmaking in contemporary art. Ravert is also an associate producer of Shaking Through, a documentary series produced by Weathervane Music, a nonprofit that supports independent music and the greater Philadelphia recording community.

In addition, she serves as an adjunct professor of business at Drexel University.