New Board Members’ Diverse Expertise Helps Guide Growing Retailer As a board of directors plays a crucial role in guiding a company, its members must be chosen with utmost care. A diverse board helps ensure that those members steering the company offer a broad range of insights based on distinct skills and experience. Rent-A-Center’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Speese understood the importance of finding the right additions to […]
Pearson Partners Quickly Delivers First CIO for Newly Acquired Distribution Company When the global private equity firm Advent International completed its majority investment in Morrison Supply Company in November 2011, it planned to quickly double or even quadruple the size of the half-billion-dollar distribution company, which was already the fourth-largest distributor of plumbing and HVAC supplies in the United States. To achieve that goal, one of the first orders of […]
Pearson Partners Finds the Right Leader for a Private-Equity Portfolio Company In 2011, Chicago-based private equity firm Pfingsten Partners LLC invested in On Computer Services, a national power service and products company based in Terrell, Texas, and merged it with another company to create a new entity called Unified Power. Pfingsten Partners knew the business had enormous potential to grow into the premier independent company of its kind in North […]
Executives in Transition: Nothing But the Best for Greyhound’s Best and Brightest When Greyhound decided to move many of its shared service functions to its parent company, even top-level employees were not immune to the layoffs. Knowing that these valued executives would face a tough job market, Rhonda MacAndrew, Greyhound’s senior vice president, human resources, wanted to be sure they had every opportunity to successfully transition into new jobs. “I […]
The Right Candidate at the Right Time to Lead BMC Dallas/Fort Worth In the Western U.S., the building supply and materials market was booming in late 2012—especially in Texas, where the economy had taken less of a hit than the rest of the nation. The Boise-based building supply and service company BMC was making a strong comeback after rebuilding from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in 2010 and transitioning from public […]
Fast-Turnaround Search Fills Two Highly Strategic Roles at Reddy Ice Producing about 18,000 tons of ice daily for consumers and businesses, Reddy Ice is implementing company-wide transformation designed to firmly secure its position as the largest manufacturer and distributor of packaged ice products in the United States. As part of this organizational makeover, Angie Wallander, chief administrative officer for Reddy Ice, had two newly created jobs to fill: vice president, […]
Pearson Partners finds “perfect” candidate for “impossible” executive search As a $7.3 billion family of private equity funds that invests in energy companies, Natural Gas Partners does everything possible to ensure the success of the companies it sponsors. Because assisting those companies with risk management and environmental policies makes good business sense, in 2010 Natural Gas Partners created a new position to take on the task: Director of Portfolio and […]
A Unique Company With a Unique Hiring Challenge After getting by with a procurement management role that had been consolidated with another function, LSG Sky Chefs had grown to need a full-time vice president of procurement. Owned by the German company Lufthansa, LSG Sky Chefs is an internationally recognized in-flight services provider and airline catering company. “Filling this job was tricky, as we are in a space that isn’t really […]
