Boutique, retained executive search firm partnering with middle market technology companies. In November, 2023, Savage Partners was acquired by Russell Reynolds Associates.Specializing in GTM and CFO searches.

Manage the investment portfolio of the Ramsey Beirne Associates family of funds. This technology-weighted portfolio consists of 8 investment partnerships comprised of four of fund of funds invested in 20+ venture capital funds, three funds comprised of direct equity investments in our clients, and one holding company comprised of equity holdings acquired in lieu of search fees.

Nationally recognized leader in retained executive search for early stage venture capital backed technology companies.Co-managed an extremely profitable, multi-million dollar, executive search and investment management firm from 1997 to 2001.Responsible for the daily management of a nine partner, twenty-three person firm. Led the ongoing professional development of ten associates, of which four were promoted to Partner within the firm and another three became founding partners of the subsequent firm. Member of a three person executive staff that oversaw the transformation and repositioning of a strictly retained executive search firm into a multi-dimensioned executive search and venture capital firm.Created and branded “human capitalist” by combining the expertise of our industry renowned search capabilities with early stage capital investments ranging in size from $100,000 to $2,000,000 per deal.Structured seven separate investment partnerships (partner owned and managed) resulting in the direct placement of over $38 million in over 100 technology companies.Worked closely with many venture capital partners including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark Capital, General Atlantic Partners, Summit Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, Global Retail Partners, Sequoia Capital and Oak Investment Partners to build out the executive level management teams for their early stage portfolio companies.Sold and successfully executed 120+ executive level searches resulting in over $11 million in consulting revenue. This includes over 20+ CEO searches, 20+ CFO searches, 20+ Sales searches, 20+ Marketing searches, 15+ engineering searches, and 15+ GM searches.Concurrently served as the firm’s Chief Technology Officer responsible for all technology including designing and managing the development of a proprietary 75,000+ candidate database.

Developed software for the management of troubled assets for regional community banks.