Pre executive search

Screw the $150k

What is Pre-Executive Search?

It’s the thing you do before you pay an exec search firm $150k…

You ask us if we got any A players.

We tell you if we do.

If not, then go with the other guys.

Oh… and it’s 1/3 the cost.

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Save time.

Save money.

Hire champions.

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Example 1: I got someone.

You: “Hey Durkin. Got any Heads of Product?”

Me: “Yep. Three.”

You: “Nice. Let me know if they want to talk.”

Me: “Will do.”

Example 2: I don’t got someone.

You: “Hey Durkin. Got any killer CTO’s right now?”

Me: “Nope. Not right now.”

You: “Cool. No worries.”

Me: “I’ll let you know if/when I do.”

A few of Our Operators

Our Operators are domain experts with 10+ years of experience.

They’ve led high-growth companies. They’ve IPO’d companies. They’ve founded companies. They are champions.

Our Operators

Pat Twomey

An analytical powerhouse, Pat Twomey grew up outside Boston, attended BC, and joined Summit Partners upon graduation. After HBS and interning at Uber (then a 70-person startup exclusively providing on-demand limos), he stayed on while back in school leading the Pricing team…

Jen Raines-Loring

Jen is the perfect match of strategy & execution. She is leading one of the fastest growing companies in the country… a Y-combinator company growing at 300+% YOY growth and scaling a team just as fast. She moves quick, pushes on others to win…

Sasha Turkovich

One of the strongest Marketing leaders I know in Boston. Period. Full stop. Ianacare won the lottery with this one. She’s a quant marketer, with channel acquisition experience to the max + a dirty combo of CRM experience across…

Dan Smith

Veteran Chief Marketing Officer with multiple B2C successes in Boston. Awesome dad and coach. And one hell of a point guard. I’ve known Dan for over a decade, watching him build small and large Marketing teams and scale businesses…

Kelly Harding

Quant marketer to the core, who runs at the speed of light. Her bar is of the highest caliber, and let’s just say if I was starting a company tomorrow… she would be in my roster. She sets big goals, sets high standards, and sets the tone…

Brendan Caine

Brendan is an analytical powerhouse. Top 10 Data Science Leaders in Boston. Full stop. Former Marine Corps Intelligence Officer. Booth MBA graduate. And seven years of ecommerce experience leading Data Science and Analytics teams…

Deborah Poole

Builder of big teams and big businesses from scratch. Most recently served as Chief Business Officer at WHOOP leading enterprise sales, bizdev, customer service and government affairs during a period of 6x growth…

Jeff Caron

Scrappy, roll-up-the-sleeves, “get shit done” kind of dude. Wearer of many hats (finance, ops, people, legal), spinner of many plates, and a serial executor. Loves to build from the ground up (Seed/Series A)…

Nidhi Kumar

Lawyer turned in-house Exec & General Counsel. Nidhi may have been born in May, because she’s the perfect mix of bad-ass intensity lawyer + nicest soul on on the planet. She’s known throughout the community as someone who champions founders, teammembers, and the law, all at the same time.

Mike Brown

Mike is a talent mastermind and one of the most well connected people ops leaders in the business. With over 10 years of hypergrowth startup experiences Mike has built some of Bostons' most successful tech companies…

Diana Cino

She has scaled consumer tech Marketing organizations since she was born. A killer player coach with killer instincts. And she’s an Analytical powerhouse to boot. Diana is one of the strongest Marketing leaders on the East Coast.

Charlie Pino

Charlie has spent 10+ years in early-stage startup life. He understands what it takes to create a successful career for yourself and the value design can have in the fast-paced environment of a startup. Having experienced two acquisitions (FlipKey/Drizly) and a unicorn-level growth company (Toast)…

Alo Mukerji

Alo is a seasoned product management, market research, and operations professional with a marketing bent experienced in scaling Saas start-ups and driving growth through innovative products and business/pricing models…

Adam Conrad

From acquisitions like Draft, to unicorns like Indigo, to publically traded companies like Microsoft, Adam has seen it all. His talent + hustle + high standards push not just himself, but others to perform with absolute excellence. He gets results and adds massive value for engineering organizations…

Emily Levada

Emily is a customer-focused, collaborative and creative senior product exec focused on delivering value through delightful & intuitive ecommerce products and tools. She has a track record of success driving change management through rapid scaling…

Aaron Bieber

Aaron has worked in engineering teams from 5 people to 1,000+ people, launched new businesses and products from scratch, built out repeatable and scalable engineering practices, coached managers just starting out and counseled experienced technical leaders. Aaron merges 20 years of software experience with formidable writing and coaching skills to create powerful teams centered on sustainable and empathetic practices that people love working in.

Colleen Tartow (PhD)

A data nerd in the truest sense, Colleen focuses on the full lifecycle of data, from collection through analytics and data science. She's built teams from the ground up, revamped product analytics offerings, and now focuses on…

Meredith Mahoney

An experienced digital exec with a demonstrated record of building lucrative brands from the ground up (Wayfair, Follain, Drizly/Lantern). Thriving best in teams with strong creative and product DNA, she brings discipline and rigor to a team to drive vision….

Mark Seu

Passionate about data, math, and science, Mark Seu grew up in Hawaii and attended Dartmouth where he studied engineering physics. He graduated early to rejoin the Web Analytics team at Wayfair, where he had previously completed a summer internship. In 2017, Mark joined Drizly to lay the early foundations of Product Analytics, and since then he's been working to expand Drizly Analytics on both the infratructure and talent fronts.

Ari Sussman

A true player-coach in Product, Ari is measured, goal oriented, moves with urgency, and has scaled some of Boston’s fastest growing companies. He can do early: OwnUp as one of their first 10 employees. He can scale companies through growth (Vistaprint, Catalant)…

Ryan Durkin

An uncaged animal that will destroy anything that slows him down. He's started companies, he's exited high growth companies (Drizly acquired by Uber for $1.1 Billion), worked at multi billion orgs, and he's helped others raise tens of millions of dollars…

Andy: I understand you're a man who knows how to get things.

Red: Yeah, I've been known to locate certain things from time to time.

Pre executive search

What is Pre-Executive Search?

A few of Our Operators

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