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Executive Team
About Hammer Haley
Hammer Haley Pioneered the 'Candidate Elite' Segment of Executive Search. The firm was founded in '01. Today, our world revolves around client relationships, horizontal across industry, with the finest firms in Corporate America and middle market private equity. Our extensive candidate community, the 'candidate elite', is comprised of individuals with the finest academic and employment pedigree best suited for roles in corporate strategy, corporate development and investment execution.
Mike Gozon and Chris Todd, the managing partners based our firm's thesis for confining our endeavors to the market's elite, from both a 'candidate elite' and best-of-breed client perspective on the premise that there was an unmet market demand for these services. The early days of Hammer Haley are best summed up from a quote attributable to Marvin Bower of McKinsey fame, 1957,
"Our optimism about the future was based on a solid belief in the need for our type of service and our capacity to deliver it. We had seen the value of our work and had observed that client executives recognized it...Although we made no formal declaration of our goal, we did discuss these lofty ambitions almost constantly among ourselves. Indeed, if we had not been ambitious, optimistic, and somewhat visionary, we would never have had the courage to go ahead at all."
Delivering on our unique value proposition is both a differentiator and paradigm shift.
We know our candidates: Exceptional educational pedigree, history of performance spanning multiple verticals and broad, transferable functional skill sets that grow companies. We know their drivers...desire to put into practice those skills in the form of making decisions rather than recommendations, continuity of impact, C-level trajectory and work/life balance.
We know our clients needs: Seeking the best and brightest individuals with history of quickly flattening learning curves, adding immediate value and serving as the organization's future thought leaders once assimilated into the nuances of industry/company specialization.
We know how to communicate: Long-term, strategic relationships with clearly defined parameters delivered through efficient, low touch and no pressure means.
Our success and passion for this business are grounded in business principles that have served us well in achieving the current state and guiding our directional north, Project 2010.