Founder, Position | Exec Talent Acquisition | Fintech & Foodtech Expert | Future of Organizational Design

Position is a retained executive search firm focused on seed to late-stage startups. Our business is built around understanding companies and the people who make them succeed.The “I know a guy” approach of legacy search firms is outdated in a world of ever expanding startups, and most of all, from a D&I perspective. Executives with specialized knowledge are hard to hire and at record low unemployment, they're hard to keep. Additionally, over 50% of executives fail within 18 months according to Harvard Business Review. The cost of a bad hire is not just in the salary, but in lost time, lagging morale, and missed objectives.We believe that because it’s hard to hire and keep the right execs, the new rule should be to truly learn the company -- how they operate, who is leading, what they value, and where they’re going. We then utilize our market knowledge supported with AI tools to look at the entire labor force and target candidates who have been at our client’s stage of growth and have faced similar problems. The candidates who make it through our vetting process will have a proven track record of taking their companies to the next stage of growth and are excited to do it again. Through seeing and understanding the market of talent, our clients are able to move past gut feelings and make better quality hires through data-informed decisions.As a team, we’ve placed over 150 executives at startups across the country. We’ve supported a wide array of startups in industries such as consumer goods, enterprise SaaS, fintech, foodtech, crypto, media, healthcare, education, cleantech, entertainment, and more. Similarly, our team hails from diverse industry backgrounds with collective experience in founding startups, sales, learning & development, people operations, business development, and onboarding. Building the right team is hard work and we don’t give up on difficult searches.
    
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Safire Partners is an executive search firm. See more @ www.safirepartners.comClients include (partial list): Accurate Background, Adconion, Advanstar, AEG Live, AirMap, Airpush, AssetAvenue, Beautycounter, Betfair, Brighter, Business.com, Cake Marketing, CBS Interactive, Central Desktop, CitizenHawk, Clique Media Group, CloudVirga, DataScience, DealScience, Defy Media, Demand Media, DigiTour, Docstoc, Dogswell, DogVacay, Emagispace, Evolve Media, FanConnect, First Advantage, Fox Sports Media Group, Funny or Die, Gehry Technologies, Goldstar, Gravity, GumGum, Happiest Baby, HauteLook, Headspace, Health Data Vision, Hopscotch, HopSkipDrive, ICON Aircraft, Idealab, Inspire Energy, Instantly, Interset, Invoca, Ipsy, JumpStart, LA Times, LegalZoom, Lifescript, Live Nation, LiveOffice, Loot Crate, M-GO, Machinima, Maker Studios, Manduka, MarketShare, MD Insider, Mindshow, Mobile Majority, MVMT Watches, MyLife, Nasty Gal, NuORDER, Omaze, Onestop Internet, OpenX, Oversee.net, Paciolan, ParkMe, Pathmatics, PatientPop, Payoff, Razorgator, RealtyMogul, RealtyTrac, Reformation, Revolution Prep, SaatchiArt, Science Inc, ScoreBig, Scorpion Design, Seedling, Sense360, Shift Technologies, Shift.com, Shopzilla, SignedIn, Sole Society, Soothe, Spark Networks, SpinMedia, Stardoll, Startplug, SteelHouse, StudyMode, Team Coco, The Search Agency, The Virtual Reality Co, Thrive Market, Ticketmaster, TigerText, TouchCommerce, TrackR, true[X], TrueCar, Turtle Beach, Twenty20, UCode, United Online, Upfront Ventures, Vertical Mass, Victorious, Violet Grey, Wilshire Axon, Wiredrive, WME-IMG, Yandy, Zebit, Zowdow. We have searched for every role in org including Board Director, CEO, COO, CFO, Co-founder, CRO-VP Sales, CMO-VP Mktg, Head of Biz Dev; CPO-VP Product; CTO-VP Engineering, GMs for P&Ls; Head of Operations, General Counsel, VP People. Safire Partners has also invested in our clients, and since 2006 have deferred ~$4M in fees for equity.
    
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Leading the F# sales team across North America, Europe, LATAM, and Asia-Pacific. - We develop advertising solutions for Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, SoundCoud, and other music service providers that drive engagement between brands and music fans. - F# has created over 500 advertising campaigns in over 25 countries.
    
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About us

  F Sharp is a boutique agency with proprietary technology for advertising across the audio landscape.  Our knowledge and expertise covers both creative and media to better serve our clients across every aspect of a campaign for greater performance and optimization.  By working with F Sharp, advertisers can engage their listening audience in an authentic way, spend less money, and see greater results.


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Music Interactive is an advertising solution that drives brand awareness and engagement through the appeal of digital rewards such as music downloads or movie tickets.We work with all major record labels and most indies allowing brands to leverage the appeal of top artists. With our own content delivery networks and ad server our turnkey ad units increase the effectiveness of a brand's paid, earned, and owned media spaces.In 2014, F# acquired Music Interactive.
    
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Founder at Position

Position

Founder

Techstars

Mentor, Techstars Music

Safire Partners

Executive Recruiting Partner

F#

Head of Sales

Music Interactive

Founder, CEO

Vanderbilt University

Communications

Bachellor of Arts