Instrumentum

Changing the surgical landscape by offering reliable and efficient offsite instrument sterilization to Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Hospitals.

Chief Operating/Growth Officer

Cruxible Partners

Finding talent is a full-time job.  The best candidates aren't looking, they're performing somewhere else.  We'll find them. We've never failed to fill a role.  Period.

Chief Executive Officer

www.eatingcrowpodcast.com

If you are a leader or an entrepreneur this podcast will speak to you (well, I guess that's the point). These are stories of amazing people with the courage to lead and often admit they were wrong and challenge long-held beliefs to make change. Many of these everyday heroes have evolved into leaders and entrepreneurs, and most of their stories have never been heard, until now. Pete Durand interviews people from all walks of life - the military, finance, business, sports, government and education. We learn from their challenges, pitfalls, lessons and how, by eating crow, they used an open mind to adjust their way of thinking and lead others, including their families.

Host of the Eating Crow Podcast

Saebo, Inc.

Saebo, Inc. is a medical device company primarily engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of affordable and novel clinical solutions designed to improve mobility and function in individuals suffering from neurological and orthopedic conditions. With a vast network of Saebo-trained clinicians spanning six continents, Saebo has helped over 100,000 clients around the globe achieve a new level of independence.

Board Advisor

Netsertive

Chief Revenue Officer

RivalHealth

SaaS enterprise exercise and nutrition app.  Merged with gBehaivor to form www.gopivotsolutions.com

Integrian

Digital video solutions for public safety and transportation.  Sold to Catalyst Manufacturing

Entivity, Inc.

PC-based automation and control platform.  Sold to www. phoenixcontact.com

President and COO

Director of E-Business

ObjectAutomation

Director of Marketing

I'm fortunate to lead two great organizations.

After helping many companies scale with great talent, I've joined Instrumentum as their Chief Operating and Growth Officer, it was just too good to pass up.  My task?  Help the company scale profitably.  How?  People, Process, and Culture.  Fortunately, Cruxible Partners has provided the experience to do just that.

Instrumentum is doing great things - and Cruxible Partners is in the hands of an amazing team, so both are thriving.  Stay tuned as I share how Instrumentum is growing and changing the surgical landscape and how the leadership and talent lessons I've observed and shared over the last seven years at Cruxible are being applied.

Remember:

The average cost of hiring the wrong employee can go as high as $240,000, according to 2021 research from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Ouch.  Been there.

On the flip side, McKinsey & Co. states that hiring a ‘top performer’ over an ‘average performer’ yields up to 67% more productivity and profit.  

Been here too.  Much better place to be.

I've spent 30+ years in corporate America, worked at three startups, and founded two companies myself.  Building teams was and is the most challenging part of the job.

For the past five years I've been working with companies in the following areas:

-Product/market fit
-Marketing strategy and content
-Board advisory and consulting
-Attracting and retaining talent

If you'd like to learn more about how we can work together, please DM me or send me an email at

pdurand@cruxiblepartners.com

Pete Durand

Haven't posted in a while.  

Got me thinking:  "What am I doing here?"

I know many talented people who've used LinkedIn to build a brand or a business.  It didn't happen overnight.  They put in YEARs of work and tweaked their approach along the way.

To name a few:

Alex B Sheridan
Ravi Rajani
Darren McKee
Tom Simmons

I don't "do" business on LinkedIn, but I use it - to network, learn and when appropriate, offer insight into my POV and background, for those who care.

So why did I come back today?

The people I mentioned above keep putting out content I enjoy, learn from and find inspiring.  That simple.

I should do more here, and share what makes #Instrumentum such a great place to work.  I'm blessed - our team is incredible and we've built something special.  

Mishaps along the way, but that's the good stuff.  Mistakes, bad assumptions, pleasant surprises and lessons that help us steer the ship.

Hopefully your feed is full of smart people sharing their knowledge (and scars).

Check out Alex, Ravi, Darren and Tom; you will learn from them every day.

President, Instrumentum | Host of the Eating Crow Podcast | Chairman, Cruxible Partners

Joe Carbone

Eastward Partners Inc.

The standard in retained executive search for Private Equity and Professional Services firms. 

Home of ECHO™, our proprietary human capital data and analytics aggregator. 

Featured in The Wall Street Journal (4x) | Private Equity International (PEI) | Private Equity Hub | Private Funds CFOs| Business Insider | Yahoo Finance! | Reuters | The Drawdown

Founder & CEO

ECHO

ECHO™ is Eastward’s proprietary analytics platform built to transform how private equity firms, professional services organizations, and high-growth companies evaluate leadership. 

By combining private and public data with advanced algorithms and AI, ECHO™ delivers actionable human capital insights at scale.

Founder

Press & Associates

P&A was acquired in June of 2024. Any business written through this entity is in direct conflict of the terms of the acquisition.

Majority Shareholder

Forbes Business Council

Business Council Member

GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group)

Council Member

HIIT House Long Island 

Garden City, Long Island's number one boutique fitness studio
Sold shares to Partner

Co-Founder/Investor

PageGroup

Director, Management Consulting & Technology Advisory

Wealth Advisory Group LLC

Financial Services Professional

New York Life Insurance Company

Insurance Agent

Merrill Lynch

Internship

While everyone is automating, we're busy putting the “human” back into "human capital".

Eastward Partners is a retained Executive Search and Human Capital Consulting firm with Consultants in New York City, Miami, Austin, Chicago, San Diego, San Francisco, and across Canada.  

Founded in 2015, Eastward Partners helps clients accelerate value creation by pulling the talent lever. Our research tool, ECHO provides human capital data and analytics insights on relevant themes across the entire human capital ecosystem for Professional Services, Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies. 

Our portfolio of work is focused on retained mandates for leadership positions - we are building capabilities for clients within the following areas of expertise:

Middle Market Private Equity Firms
Firm Level 
• Portfolio Operations/Value Creation
• Operating Partners
• Corporate Development
• Talent Partners

Portfolio Level ($100M - $1B+ revenue) 
• Office of the CEO/President | COO | CFO | Technology 
• Sector Focus: Industrials | Manufacturing | Health Services | Business Services | SaaS 

Professional Services 
• Restructuring | Turnaround | Accounting Advisory | Financial Advisory | Valuations Advisory | Management Consulting
• Digital Strategy | Technology Strategy | Cyber Strategy/Security

Middle Market Investment Banks 
• Buy & Sell Side M&A
• Special Situations

Most firms are currently grappling with the challenge of incorporating a digitally powered solution into their operations – one that is not just defensible, but also empirically grounded. This is a significant undertaking that requires careful consideration and strategic planning. 

The conventional methods of addressing issues in executive search are in need of a transformation. It's crucial to strike a balance between risk and return by developing a solution that can influence board and investor decisions, ushering in a new era of innovation. 

Analytical grounding, combined with the human in the loop, is the unlock that private equity firms desperately need to ensure their deal thesis reaches maturity without disrupting leadership along the way. 

Key metrics that need to be measured encompass both qualitative and quantitative aspects. They are shaped around transferable skill sets, familiarity with working in a high-pressure environment, followership, successful strategy implementation, and so on. 

Transparency and alignment are often the missing links in many failed attempts to integrate the right executive hire. 

-> When do you know it's the perfect time to hire or replace?
-> What is the right mix of skills and experience?
-> What are the attributes we are looking for?
-> Who can help guide us?

The ECHO platform is a game-changer, offering our clients an impartial, data-driven perspective that can significantly influence board decisions. With an Eastward search consultant + ECHO, you're not just moving forward, you're leaping ahead, arriving at the solution faster and with validated metric attribution. 

#WeAreEastward #ECHO

While everyone is automating, we’re busy putting the “human” back into “human capital”.

ECHO has been in the market for just over 8 weeks, and the feedback has been interesting (and extremely positive) in many ways. The forward-thinking firms are finding ways to leverage the platform by partnering with our search consultants; they see how underwriting a search can affect the timing, accuracy, and outcome most firms seek. 

On the other hand, some are still suck in their old ways, old relationships; if it ain’t broken, mentality… we continue to educate on the “why this matters” and advocate for the shift in how companies hire executives. 

What hasn’t changed is the need for a true partnership, one that aligns all parties and holds said parties accountable. If you are looking for a point of view without bias as well as relationships in the top quartile, look no further. 

#WeAreEastward #ECHO

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