Forward Search

Executive Search for Finance, Operations, Marketing, Sales, and Business Development.

We move with speed and precision to help high-growth companies scale faster. 

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Founding Partner

Robert Walters

Appointed to lead Robert Walters across the US and Canada. In addition to personally managing the San Francisco practice, I also oversaw the offices in New York, Toronto and Los Angeles.

Managing Director, US & Canada

Launched and built Robert Walters' first operation on the West Coast of the US from scratch.

Grew the business from 0 to 40 people, split over several functional specialist teams:

Marketing & Business Development
Finance, Operations and Strategy
Product Management
Sales
Software Engineering
Design
People Operations & Talent

Managing Director

Built and managed Robert Walters Japan's market-leading Commerce & Industry Division. Under my leadership, this became the largest and most profitable single division within the RW group, and remains the number one profit center for the global business to this day.

I built and lead an organization of 60 people, split across the following specialist teams:

Internet & Mobile
Infrastructure 
Finance & Operations
Consumer 
Industrial
Chemical
Supply Chain
HR & Support
Healthcare

Director, Commerce & Industry

Palmer Holt

Tasked with rolling out a major recruitment project for a UK based AAA-rated insurance that was launching their operations in Japan. Our team of 3 people successfully sourced and placed over 20 executives within a 4 month period.

Recruitment Consultant

Japan Exchange and Teaching Program(me) (JET)

I had the great privilege of spending two years doing grass-roots internationalization work in Ume, a small town in the countryside of Kyushu, Japan.

Coordinator of International Relationships

Executive Search for early and growth-stage technology companies.

Our team has helped make hundreds of needle-moving hires at companies such as Calm, CloudTrucks, X1 Card, Supergut, Wonderschool, Volley, ClassDojo, Houzz, Loop, Clubhouse, Output, Path, Intercom, OpenSesame, Medium, Honeybook, Gabi, Grammarly, Weights & Biases, Trusted, Luma Health, Phil, Route, Pilot, X1 Card, Machinify, DTravel, Section, Shippo, Udemy, Shift, TikTok, Rakuten, Neighbor, Flexport, Epic!, Springboard, Smartnews, Toca Boca, Castlight Health, Nutanix, Pilot, Sparrow, VComply, Instabug, Tapingo and many more.

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