About Hebard Search Partners
Hebard Search Partners offers our clients unobstructed and transparent access to the most qualified "C" level and board of director candidates in the marketplace. Our sole focus is on successfully completing searches with placements. Ensuring a positive experience for everyone involved in the search assignment – clients, candidates, and valued sources – matters to us, because every search has our name on it.
Our work is intimate, focused, relationship-driven, and highly communicative. Most importantly, as sophisticated users of executive search services are aware, we are able to avoid the frustrations and limitations of “off-limits” issues which is the inability to engage the best candidates because of conflicts with another client or even another internal colleague. We know the most qualified corporate talent available, and we have the assessment capabilities and experience to ensure the best fit for our clients.
About Our Founder and Top Executive Search Consultant
Roy F. Hebard Jr.
Roy has more than 30 years of experience in executive search. He has conducted senior-level assignments for general management, financial, sales, and marketing executives, and other functional specialists on a global basis, in the broadly-defined consumer, retail, health care, Industrial and private equity businesses. Roy was recognized by Business Week as one of “The World's Most Influential Headhunters.”
Prior to creating Hebard Search Partners, Roy was the Executive Vice President and Managing Director for Slayton Search Partners. Previously, he served as Managing Director for the Global Consumer Industries and Retail Practice at A.T. Kearney Executive Search, and as Managing Director of the Global Consumer Practice at Korn/Ferry International.
Before entering the executive search field, Roy served as Vice President/General Manager with LaSalle Partners, a Chicago-based real estate services company. He was also in marketing management with General Foods in White Plains, New York. At Walt Disney Productions, Roy worked first as a Product Marketing Manager in the consumer products division and then as a Financial Analyst for EPCOT Center.
Roy is an active member of various local civic and charitable organizations. He and his wife reside in Wilmette, Illinois, and have six children.
Education
Master of Management in Marketing and Finance, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Literature, Claremont McKenna College