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Marina Shakhnazarova

Marina Shakhnazarova

Managing Director

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

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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VP Ad OperationsYahoo!Consumer / Internet
VP Business DevelopmentPubmaticConsumer / Internet :: Enterprise / SaaS
VP Business DevelopmentTerosEnterprise / SaaS
VP Business DevelopmentTurnConsumer / Internet
VP Customer ExperienceYahoo!Consumer / Internet
VP MarketingAmitiveEnterprise / SaaS
VP MarketingFaceTimeEnterprise / SaaS
VP MediaAdchemyConsumer / Internet
VP Product ManagementSymantecEnterprise / SaaS
VP Product ManagementTurnConsumer / Internet
VP Product MarketingBEAEnterprise / SaaS
VP Product Marketing, Consulting SvcsSymantecEnterprise / SaaS
VP ProductsGuardianEdgeEnterprise / SaaS
VP Professional ServicesMarkMonitorEnterprise / SaaS
VP Professional Services, Media MarketMarkLogicEnterprise / SaaS
Head of Professional ServicesZone LabsConsumer / Internet :: Enterprise / SaaS
VP Publisher ServicesPubMaticConsumer / Internet :: Enterprise / SaaS
VP RMX/Ad PlatformYahoo!Consumer / Internet
VP SalesAmitiveEnterprise / SaaS
VP SalesTerosEnterprise / SaaS
VP SalesZone LabsConsumer / Internet :: Enterprise / SaaS
VP Strategic SalesPSS AtlasEnterprise / SaaS
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Director Product ManagementUntangleEnterprise / SaaS

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  • Tom Callahan
    Tom Callahan
    Managing Director
  • 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
Tom Callahan
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