Pekarsky & Co. is an awarding-winning boutique executive search firm headquartered in Calgary and serving exceptional clients from Vancouver to Halifax. Adam Pekarsky is the Founding Partner of the firm. Adam has been recruiting executives, advising Boards and offering thought leadership in Western Canada for nearly 20 years. A frequent writer, commentator and speaker on topics of interest to the legal and business communities, Adam has achieved success as a member of the management team of a national law firm, a Partner in a global executive search firm and a practicing lawyer. In a feature article on Adam that appeared in Alberta Venture magazine, a senior partner from a global law firm’s Calgary office said, “ No one knows this market and its lawyers and law firms better than Adam.” Prior to founding Pekarsky & Co. in 2009, Adam was a Client Partner in the Calgary office of Korn/Ferry International, where he was a member of the Firm’s Global Industrial Market’s Energy Sector, as well as the Firm’s Legal Center of Expertise. Previously, Adam was the Director of Professional Development and Recruitment for Western Canada with a national law firm and he served as Division Director with Robert Half Legal, where he led a team that specialized in recruitment of lawyers for both law firms and corporations. In his final year with the company, Adam achieved the distinction of being Robert Half Legal’s top revenue-generating recruiter worldwide. Adam holds an LL.B. from the University of Alberta and a bachelor’s degree in political science with an emphasis on Canadian-American relations from Tufts University in Boston where he attained summa cum laude distinction for his undergraduate thesis. Adam spent five years on the Board of Directors of Tourism Calgary, and presently sits on the YMCA of Calgary Board of Directors, where he chaired the Strategy Committee, sits on the Governance Committee and leads the Camp Chief Hector Endowment Committee. Adam also sits on the Board of Directors of the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation where he serves on both the Audit Committee and the Human Resources Committee. Adam is also a sessional instructor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law where he teaches a wildly popular course that he calls “everything you didn’t learn in law school, until now.” Adam can be found most weekends, and perhaps some week days, enjoying some quiet time with his family at his home in Fernie, B.C. where he one day plans to retire, learn how to fly fish and run for Mayor.https://pekarskyco.com/about/adam-pekarsky/