Thirty years on the phone.

I have been in recruiting since 1987. I learned the work the only way it can be learned, which is one conversation at a time. After a decade with an established international recruiting firm, I left to do it on my own terms and founded Harper Hewes in 1993.

Most of my clients are tech and SaaS companies hiring senior revenue leaders: Chief Revenue Officers, VPs of Sales, VPs of Marketing, and Heads of Customer Success, plus the occasional interim leader between full-time hires. I run a short list of retained engagements at any given time, which is what keeps the work white-glove rather than transactional. Every search is exclusive. The same person who picks up the first call writes the brief, makes the calls, vets the references, and walks the offer through to signature.

I am a Certified Personnel Consultant, and was one of the first professionals in the United States to earn the Certified Employee Retention Specialist designation. I am a graduate of Purdue. The mechanics of recruiting matter. The judgment behind them matters more, and I have been refining mine since 1987.

Outside the firm, I have served on the Rochester District board of the USGA, the first woman elected, and on the boards of the Rochester Women's Network and the Association for Women in Computing, where I received the AWC's National President's Award. I was a founding trustee of the Rush-Henrietta Education Foundation. I mention these because most of executive search is a question of judgment about people, and a track record of working alongside people on things that matter is one way to test it.

If you want to know what an executive search actually looks like when run carefully, I am happy to walk through one with you on a call.