Forte Search Partners
Specializations
About Agency
Overview
- Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California with 2 employees
- Specializes in culture-based executive search addressing 5 industry issues: overemphasis on hard skills, junior staff reliance, salary inflation, weak closing skills, and lack of cultural insight
- Developed proprietary Culture Quotient Report (CQR) to benchmark organizational culture for leadership alignment
- Operates exclusively in the staffing & recruiting industry with focus on startups and venture capital sectors
- Founded by talent acquisition veterans with prior in-house experience emphasizing cultural fit in hires
Specializations
- Executive search for Startups & Entrepreneurship environments
- Leadership recruitment for Venture Capital & Private Equity portfolios
- C-level placements including CEO, CMO, CFO, CHRO, COO, CSO, CRO, and Chief of Staff roles
- Board member recruitment and founder-level talent acquisition
Services & Approach
- Retained executive search services emphasizing cultural alignment
- Executive placement using Culture Quotient Report (CQR) for cultural benchmarking
- Leadership recruitment for go-to-market strategies and growth phases
- VP and C-level search across technology, operations, revenue, and people functions