1. GF Partners
Executive Search Consultants
We help companies find and attract world
class-game changing Sales and Marketing
talent.

2. Search Process
 Thorough needs analysis with the client to pinpoint
goals, culture and deliverables.
 Candidate qualifications, abilities, competencies, and
preferred industry segments are determined.
 Candidates identified, approached, and assessed.
 Qualifying and candidate presentation to the client
for interviews.
 References checked, followed by offer negotiation.

3. 1. Clearly understand and present the position and
your organization in the best possible way, and
highlight key components about:
• Your organization
• The people in it
• Specifics of the position
• Future career prospects
• Compensation components
• Location of the job
Our candidate search and attraction
process focuses on two key principles:

4. 2. Clearly understand each candidate’s reasons for
being interested in pursuing your opportunity,
and their qualifications including:
 Current situation
 Motivations and interest
 Management and leadership ability
 Technical skills and knowledge
 Interpersonal skills

5. Candidates are actively involved in the selection
process to insure their interest and confirm
qualifications.
We look for specific examples of successful
problem solving and leadership style.
We drill down on the criteria of the position
and ask for examples of capabilities.

6. Your company is helped to achieve higher
performance by attracting great talent.
 You are helped to carefully select the right candidate to
fill your high priority jobs and we pro-actively go after
the most desirable passive candidates who aren’t
looking.
 The Right Candidates are targeted and found who will
bring an improvement to the tangible and intangible
bottom lines of your business.

7. A long term partnership with balance is
achieved.
 You get a highly productive employee who will
contribute to the long term growth of the company.
 The candidate gets an employer where their career can
flourish and they can achieve professional growth.
 A long term relationship founded on trust and
commitment is built.

8. Positions we have placed include:
Sales
General Manager
Director Sales
National Account Manager
Team Leader
Sales Manager
Director Channel Sales
Corporate Account Manager
Dir Market Development
Director Gov Channel Sales
Director Gov Sales
Marketing
Global Marketing Lead-Practice
Americas Marketing Lead
CMO
Director Marketing
Dir Innovation
Dir Consumer Insights
VP Manager Marketing &
Communications

9. Consumer Packaged Goods
 Fiskars/Iittala
 3M
 Igloo
 Colgate
 Newell Rubbermaid
 Clorox
 Church & Dwight
 Kellogg
Tyson
 Schwan’s
 SC Johnson
 L’Oreal - Maybelline/Guarnier
 Revlon
Turtle Wax
 Fleming Co
 Givaudan
 Herman Miller
 O’Sullivan
Companies we have worked with include:

10. Companies we have worked with:
 Professional
Services
 Marsh & McLennan
 Mercer
 Nera
 Towers Perrin
 Aon Consulting
 Evaluation Associates
 ICT Group
 Milliman
 CIAO
Manufacturing
 Pitney Bowes
 Motorola
 Ingenix
 Covidien
 Circuit Wise
 Pacesetter
 Chemtrak
 Straumann
Insurance
Ullico
Telecom
 Nextel
 ATT Wireless
 Frontier
 ESPN Mobile
 XO Communications
 Mitel
Vixxi
Transwire
 Berliner
 Unisite
 Covad

11. Brian Gardner
 26 years executive search experience.
 Nationally focused retained executive
search firms.
 4 years innovation and consumer
insights focused projects.
 Search assignments completed at the
Vice President, Director, and Manager
levels.

12. Contact
Brian Gardner
bgardner-gfp@sbcglobal.net
GF Partners
585 Park Road
Suite 2-12
Waterbury, CT
06708
203-596-9624