Advantage Partners Picks up a Pair
Advantage Partners, the executive search firm, is adding Steve Price in Cleveland, Ohio, and James Hegret, who will also join the company’s Cleveland office.
PRESS RELEASE:
Steve Price Joins Advantage Partners, Inc.
Specializing in Executive Search for Private Equity Portfolio Companies
Cleveland, Ohio……Steve Price has joined Advantage Partners, Inc., an
executive search and human capital advisory services firm for middle-market private equity
portfolio companies. Price is an outstanding business leader with over thirty years of
successful management in operations, process improvements and strategic value
enhancement for automotive, general aviation, consumer products, and food/beverage
companies as well as service businesses. He has been Managing Director for
both American Capital, LTD and Corban Advisors. Price states, “I built and led a team of
operating executives and helped them focus on mergers and acquisitions, operational due
diligence, along with process/profit improvement in a broad portfolio. I am
also proud to have raised a fund for lower middle-market mergers and acquisitions,
providing operational help to a small portfolio of companies.”
Price comments, “I look forward to working with the Advantage Partners team of
professionals. Advantage Partners listens closely to the needs of the client and builds
in-depth understanding of the business and its culture. My expertise will bring a broad
and deep operating perspective to executive search and human capital advisory services.
Advantage Partners helped me strengthen management teams in over 75 companies during
the past 16 years. I can now add my operating perspective to the firm’s proven recruiting
process to help Advantage Partners’ clients.”
Price discusses the dynamic job market and comments, “Finding the right person to fill
a senior management organizational need will be more challenging in the future. However,
by performing detailed, candid assessments, Advantage Partners has an excellent success
rate in finding talented, experienced leaders that drive revenue and profit growth.”
Price has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Brown University. He currently serves
on the boards of Halex Corporation and Fruit Patch LLC, and previously with numerous
public and private boards in the United States. He is an active volunteer with CASA– Court
Appointed Special Advocate group. Price remarks, “CASA is a special organization that
helps abused and neglected children make sure they don’t get lost in the overburdened legal
and social service system or languish in inappropriate group or foster homes.” Price is
also active with Young Life, a non-denominational non-profit Christian Ministry that
reaches out to adolescents through volunteers, staff and camps.
Since 1996, Advantage Partners has completed successful searches for CEOs,
Presidents, Chief Financial Officers and senior operations, sales and marketing executives
for companies with revenue ranging from twenty million and up. Some of the recent
private equity clients include: American Capital, Sterling Partners, Capital Partners, Sun
Capital and Wingate Partners. Nikki C. Bondi, CEO states, “Over the last five (5) years,
we successfully completed 99% of searches and these searches were completed on an
average of 118 days. Our signature process ensures consistent high quality with
systematized attention to detail, rigorous due diligence and continual refinement. We
bring the business and human capital expertise for accelerating growth and maximizing
investment returns. Steve Price will be an outstanding addition to our
leadership team.”
James Herget Joins Advantage Partners, Inc.
Specializing in Executive Search for Private Equity Portfolio Companies
Cleveland, Ohio……James P. Herget has joined Advantage Partners, Inc., an
executive search and human capital advisory services firm for middle-market private equity
portfolio companies. Herget states, “With over thirty (30) years in retained search—I have
worked on all types of situations and understand how to connect information to actionable
intelligence. I am proud to join Advantage Partners as it is a good DNA match with the
company’s leading executive search practice here in the United States.”
Herget is a native Clevelander and a graduate of Holy Cross College with an MBA
from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.
His successful business background includes impressive careers with Xerox Corporation,
partner with three (3) of the top five (5) global search firms– Lamalie/Amrop (LAI),
Spencer Stuart and Korn/Ferry. Herget then founded his own boutique search firm,
James P. Herget Limited, serving a wide range of clients. His valuable expertise
“helps clients reconcile their ‘head and heart’ and match the required skill sets
and experience for an emotionally satisfying relationship,” states Herget. When asked
about today’s changing job market Herget states, “ One needs to take personal
responsibility for one’s career and needs to think like an entrepreneur.” He comments
“Adversity does not build character, it reveals it. Hire quality people and good things
happen. It is important to understand how to match people and cultures to improve
outcomes.”
Herget is nationally known for his civic and community outreach and has received
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numerous awards from organizations such as the National Center for Voluntary Action, the
Small Business Adminstration and Cleveland Jaycees. The City of Cleveland twice
awarded Herget with prestigious Keys to the City. He also has a passion for physical
fitness and has completed fifteen (15) marathons and one Ultra marathon.
Since 1996, Advantage Partners has completed successful searches for CEOs,
Presidents, Chief Financial Officers and senior operations, sales and marketing executives
for companies with revenue ranging from twenty million and up. Some of the recent
private equity clients include: American Capital, Sterling Partners, Capital Partners, Sun
Capital and Wingate Partners. Already for the 2012 year, Advantage Partners has
successfully completed four (4) CEO searches. Nikki C. Bondi, CEO states, “We are off to
a strong 2012. Human capital is the differentiator for driving repeatable, sustainable
value creation in portfolio companies. We bring the business and human capital expertise
for accelerating growth and maximizing investment returns. Jim Herget is a great addition
to our leadership team and we look forward toward a successful relationship.”
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