The Arcus Group’s partners are proud members of the executive search profession. We have worked as individual partners, as country and global practice leaders for the world’s leading firms. We have seen the promise of executive search fulfilled and, unfortunately, have observed that promise mishandled and under-delivered.
Both individually and as a partnership, The Arcus Group is committed to applying its best to the design, execution and delivery on every engagement we accept. We only accept your assignment if we see a clear path to success and see our ability to deliver it. We are a smart, dedicated and tenacious lot and to a person, we don’t accept failure as an option. The two sections to follow provide a summary of our partner’s representative search experience and our disciplined approach to ensuring that clients experience the value, the promise inherent in the best Executive Search has to offer.Experience
The Arcus Group’s partners have personally managed some of the largest client relationships in our industry and led hundreds of successful engagements for clients ranging from early stage venture backed to Global 10. While our experience and industry expertise is broad, we remain committed to a service philosophy mandating that every client receives extremely personalized and resolute support whether they are a small regional manufacturer or a huge vertically integrated conglomerate operating in 100 countries. The following is but a brief overview of representative engagements led by one or more of our Partners:| Company | Position |
| U$8 billion engineering and technical services company |
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| U$36 billion consumer products company |
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| U$104 billion global financial services company |
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| U$848 million international investment company |
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| U$36 billion broadcast media company |
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| U$17 billion pharmaceutical and medical products unit of global and diversified leader in materials science and biotechnology |
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| Various medical device and diagnostics business units of U$60 billion diversified leader in products and services that promote health and well being |
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| U$1 billion company in the farming, processing, packaging and global distribution of food products |
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| U$5 billion financial institution |
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| U$1 billion food manufacturer and distributor |
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| Government-private sector joint project (economic city) |
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| Start-up company developing IP network intelligent routing and service management software/systems – backed by Tier 1 venture investors |
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| U$1.5 billion media company |
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| Early stage company developing technology, content and service infrastructure for online consumer publishing play – backed by Tier 1 venture investors |
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| Early stage company receiving major investment from Tier 1 venture investors to develop technology and infrastructure for new contender in mobile consumer music services |
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| Private equity backed leader in interactive TV technology |
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| Major international wind development company |
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| Private US University |
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| Mid-size hospital information systems company |
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| Venture capital arm of regional investment banking firm |
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| Mid-cap energy and mining company |
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| Private equity backed U$700 million chemical company |
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| Chemicals subsidiary of major global oil company |
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| U$1billion Private Equity backed communications technology company |
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| Private Equity led roll-up in collocation and cloud computing services |
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| Private Equity backed U$4 billion IT services company |
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| Private Equity led spinout of U$240 million RF amplifier business from major global technology company |
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| U$700 million software company |
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| U$4 billion communications equipment division of $50 billion diversified industrial conglomerate |
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| Venture backed wireless service assurance software company |
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| Access network planning and design software spinout from major European telecom company’s labs |
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| Private capital backed leader in UAV aerostructures, composites and avionics |
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| Labs organization for a U$70 billion global technology company |
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| Private equity backed satellite based training and distance learning network |
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| Developmental stage nanotechnology company focused on security, forensics and anti-counterfeiting markets |
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| Venture backed OSS company focused on fraud management, mediation and event integrity |
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| Venture backed developer of end-to-end mobile network simulation and predictive analytics |
Approach — Leadership by Design
Leadership is capital; capital acquired and efficiently aligned. While the metrics that define and assess leadership capital efficiency may not be as clearly delineated as other forms of scorecards or ratios, it can, nonetheless, be addressed in a rigorous, disciplined and systematic fashion. Leadership capital’s allocative efficiency is exemplified by the alignment it creates across strategy, KPIs and the critical success factors underpinning strategy’s translation into execution.
It is this belief that has led The Arcus Group to push the envelope on applying the principles of both design and capital efficiency to the processes associated with executive and board search: from defining success outcomes, designing acquisition strategies, execution, assessment to the closing and alignment of this critical form of capital, Leadership.
Leadership by Design acknowledges the need for systematic, disciplined and ‘gated’ process in building-up leadership competency. Process and assessment rigor that delivers differentiated value in securing the leadership that is a necessary antecedent to achieving success along the continuum of aligning strategy with the complexities of executing that strategy.
The Arcus Group’s partners leverage these principles in a systematic manner to help clients optimize their organization’s leadership impact…by design.