Marina Shakhnazarova

Managing Director

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Marina brings a unique blend of creative and analytical recruiting management expertise from her experience recruiting across various industries. As a dedicated and passionate executive talent partner, she excels in building and executing effective talent strategies. Marina’s commitment to excellence drives her success in delivering top-tier talent to organizations.

Most recently, Marina served as the Director of Talent Acquisitions at one of the largest Fin-tech providers in AP & AR (NYSE: BILL), where she was able to leverage her extensive TA background and expertise to lead hiring top performing professionals across G&A and GTM Executive level functions. Prior to that, she partnered with a mission driven company as the Director of Talent Acquisitions at Sunrun (NASDAQ: RUN) to help scale G&A, GTM, Engineering and Executive level functions. Earlier in her career, Marina held various roles within talent acquisition across multiple industries.
Marina holds a B.A. in Business Management from San Francisco State University.

We retained Vantage Partners for a critical vice president search that had a very high bar and, heretofore, had been extremely difficult to find. In record time and with incredible attention to detail regarding our needs for the right executive, Audrey Shuster and Gene Zaccor brought us the talent, quality and experience that we were looking for in our VP of Media Consulting. I highly recommend Audrey and Gene—The Vantage Partners Team—for key executive hires, particularly those with a high bar and critical time needs.

Former EVP, COO, MarkLogic

One of our clients refers to Gene as “Genius,” a word that amply describes both the man and his search execution.

A Vantage colleague

Gene has been an amazing executive recruiter over the last few years. He is very good at interviewing the client very carefully, calibrating and then doing the hard work of getting candidates with the right profile. He is very good at creating a sourcing report each week which is very structured and thorough. Gene also has deep expertise in product marketing and management.

CEO, Findly

We greatly appreciate the passion that went in to finding the right candidate for our services leadership. Audrey and Gene have adopted Intapp as their own and we are fortunate to have this dynamic team looking out for us. We truly value our relationship with them and the fantastic talent they help us find.

COO, Intapp

Recent Placements

VP Media Consulting

January 21, 2017

SVP Product

January 12, 2017

VP Engineering

October 11, 2016

SVP Business Development & Sales

October 14, 2015

VP Finance & Operations

February 17, 2015

VP Professional Services

February 17, 2015

President

February 17, 2015

VP Engineering

February 17, 2015

Director of Product Marketing

April 26, 2014

VP Marketing & Sales

February 17, 2013

Director of Analytics

August 17, 2010

Fulfilled Searches

• CEO, Razoo
Social Enterprise Connecting Consumers to Causes
(Legatum Capital)

• CEO, Inigral
Schools on Facebook
(Retro Ventures, Founders Fund, Gates Foundation)

• CMO, SVP Products, and SVP Business Development, CourseSmart
eTexbooks
(Joint Venture)

• VP Marketing, 10Gen – MongoDB
Document Oriented Database
(Sequoia Capital, Flybridge Capital, Union Square Ventures)

• VP Products, FanSnap
Ticket-Comparison Shopping Site
(Highland Capital Partners, General Catalyst Partners, Harrison Metal Capital)

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Role	Client	Sector
CEO	Razoo	Consumer / Internet
CRO	Snapvine	Consumer / Internet
President	Criteo	Consumer / Internet
GM Consumer	RealNetworks	Consumer / Internet
Group Product Manager Education Svcs	Symantec	Enterprise / SaaS
SVP Online Sales & Marketing	Untangle	Enterprise / SaaS
SVP Sales & Marketing	RealNetworks	Consumer / Internet
VP Ad Operations	Yahoo!	Consumer / Internet
VP Business Development	Pubmatic	Consumer / Internet :: Enterprise / SaaS
VP Business Development	Teros	Enterprise / SaaS
VP Business Development	Turn	Consumer / Internet
VP Customer Experience	Yahoo!	Consumer / Internet
VP Marketing	Amitive	Enterprise / SaaS
VP Marketing	FaceTime	Enterprise / SaaS
VP Media	Adchemy	Consumer / Internet
VP Product Management	Symantec	Enterprise / SaaS
VP Product Management	Turn	Consumer / Internet
VP Product Marketing	BEA	Enterprise / SaaS
VP Product Marketing, Consulting Svcs	Symantec	Enterprise / SaaS
VP Products	GuardianEdge	Enterprise / SaaS
VP Professional Services	MarkMonitor	Enterprise / SaaS
VP Professional Services, Media Market	MarkLogic	Enterprise / SaaS
Head of Professional Services	Zone Labs	Consumer / Internet :: Enterprise / SaaS
VP Publisher Services	PubMatic	Consumer / Internet :: Enterprise / SaaS
VP RMX/Ad Platform	Yahoo!	Consumer / Internet
VP Sales	Amitive	Enterprise / SaaS
VP Sales	Teros	Enterprise / SaaS
VP Sales	Zone Labs	Consumer / Internet :: Enterprise / SaaS
VP Strategic Sales	PSS Atlas	Enterprise / SaaS
Sr Director of Analytics	Tagged	Consumer / Internet
Sr Director Business Development	MarkMonitor	Enterprise / SaaS
Sr. Director Online Support	Symantec	Enterprise / SaaS
Director of Product Marketing	Human Concepts	Enterprise / SaaS
Director of Security	Tagged	Consumer / Internet
Director Product Management	Untangle	Enterprise / SaaS