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VANTAGE PARTNERS.
Precision Executive Recruiting
for Big Data.

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VANTAGE BUILDS THE MOST EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAMS

By understanding company and candidate intricacies, Vantage creates all-star teams.

Vantage Partners is the premier executive search firm servicing market leading high-tech clients. We excel in bringing high profile executives into a winning executive team to achieve break-though performance results. Every Vantage services three High-Tech markets: Consumer & Internet, Enterprise SaaS, and Cloud & IT Infrastructure.

Our team places the top 5% proven leadership talent who are recognized for their Marketing, Product, Design, Engineering, Human Resources, Operations and Sales performance.

VANTAGE KNOWS WHAT BIG DATA COMPANIES NEED IN EXECUTIVES

A new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC ) sees the big data technology and services market growing at  23% CAGR through 2019, with annual spending reaching $48.6 billion. Businesses are appreciating the advantages from big data, and have created a need for new and incumbent suppliers to design low cost and easy to leverage data ecosystem.

Vantage Partners has had the privilege to hire executives in the three major sub-markets – Infrastructure, Software, and Services, since the turn of the century. Vantage understands the business drivers and initiatives the industries are undergoing and knows how to find and hire the right executive. Some of Vantage’s Big data and analytic clients include Pure Storage, Paxata, Mark Logic, SilverSprings Network, and Actian to name a few.

COMMON QUALITIES BETWEEN VANTAGE’S CLIENTS

Vantage works best in high-pressure situations, like helping a client find the best candidate while delivering fiscal growth in a hyper-competitive market. Common client culture when recruiting executives are:

FAST-GROWTH EXPECTATIONS

Vantage’s clients have a fast-growth revenue plan, with high financial performance expectations.

Vantage clients are either public companies, or are venture/ private equity backed.

DISRUPTIVE INNOVATORS

Vantage’s clients are recognized for their solutions within their industry, recognized as either being market-leaders, break-through technology innovators, or market disruptors.
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COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT

Vantage’s clients are typically within high-growth, highly competitive sectors.

Executive recruiting requires a highly skilled service that cuts through the challenging conditions to attain the top talent.

GEOGRAPHICALLY DIVERSE

Tech companies today are not just based in Silicon Valley. Vantage Partners’ recruitment practice identifies candidates from all geographic regions, and service client companies who are located throughout the US, Europe and the UK.

THE VANTAGE DIFFERENCE

SEARCH EXECUTION

99.1% search completion rate

TIME-TO-MARKET

89 day average from search-to-close

TRACK RECORD

Completed nearly 1,000 searches

QUALITY

87% of clients request us to lead a new search

Meet the Team that Services Big Data Companies

  • Marina Shakhnazarova
    Marina Shakhnazarova
    Managing Director
  • Richard A. Lear
    Richard A. Lear
    Managing Partner
  • Jodi Shah
    Jodi Shah
    Managing Director
  • Christine Kull
    Christine Kull
    Managing Director
  • Julie Locke
    Julie Locke
    Managing Director and Vice President Executive Coaching
  • Gene Zaccor
    Gene Zaccor
    Managing Director
Marina Shakhnazarova
Managing Director

Managing Director

Richard A. Lear
Managing Partner

Managing Partner

Jodi Shah
Managing Director

Managing Director

Christine Kull
Managing Director
Julie Locke
Managing Director and Vice President Executive Coaching
Gene Zaccor
Managing Director

Managing Director