Advisory Board

Maggie Yen Smith is a member of the firm’s Technology Practice, with a concentration in the Semiconductor sector. She does extensive cross-border work in the Asia-Pacific region, both for companies based in Asia and North American-based companies with operations in the Asia-Pacific region.

Maggie’s senior-level recruiting experience covers the entire technology industry spectrum. Her clients have included software, telecommunications, semiconductor, consumer electronics, entertainment, and digital media companies.

These companies have ranged in size from global corporations to start-ups. She has completed assignments for CEOs, Presidents, and functional executives in Engineering, R&D, Product Development, Finance, Human Resources, Sales, Marketing, and Professional Services technology industry experience. Her clients have included Asknet, AT&T, Baxter, BET.com, Boeing, Brocade, CompuServe Interactive, Creosys, Cymer, Disney Interactive, Electronic Data Systems, eHelp, GeoCities, Hewitt Associates, Integrated Research, Lutron Electronics, Netus, Niku, Nitto Denko America, MSC.Software, Motorola, Qualcomm, Science Applications International Corp, Samsung Electronics, Satyam Computer Services, Telamon, TSMC, WebMD, Western Digital, Western Union, and XO Communications.

Maggie’s experience in executive search extends back 15 years. Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, Maggie worked with two leading global executive search firms. Before entering the search profession, she worked at the First National Bank of Boston.

Maggie holds a bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Central Oklahoma. She grew up in Taiwan, and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese

Contact Information:
Direct phone: 650.234.1531
Email: myensmith@heidrick.com
Heidrick & Struggles, Inc.
2740 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, California 94025

http://www.swatrecruiting.com/ Mark has been in recruiting and staffing since 1979. He is currently the proprietor of Swat Recruiting (www.swatrecruiting.com), a firm supporting the technology needs of the recruiting and staffing industry. He has been heavily involved in Internet recruiting since there was Internet recruiting and has become an expert on recruiting and sourcing products and services available to the recruiting industry. Mark also authors the Internet Recruiting column appearing monthly in The Fordyce Letter and is a frequent contributor to other recruiting industry publications. He has obtained both his CPC and CIR professional designations. Mark is also on the board of directors for the Mid-America Association of Personnel Services.

Jim is a managing director and leader of the recruiting function for Huron Consulting Group; one of the nation’s premier financial and operational consulting firms, headquartered in Chicago, IL.   He is charged with building the infrastructure to support the organizations strategic talent needs while driving the company’s nationwide growth, tracking competitive industry trends, as well as identifying, hiring, developing and retaining the most qualified experts in professional services.

Jim joined Huron in 2006 with over 20 years of experience in developing solutions for leadership in the areas of human resources and recruitment, as well as building infrastructure to support the needs of business.  He was most recently the vice president of human resources with Edward Don And Company, the nation’s largest foodservice supply and equipment distributor where he was responsible for the entire human capital function.  He was formerly the national director of experience recruiting for Arthur Andersen’s business consulting practice. Jim’s emphasis at Andersen in addition to overseeing the development of their nationwide recruiting pipeline was building the infrastructure to support an aggressive executive (partner) recruiting campaign.

Prior to Andersen, Jim was with the Internet consultancy, Lante, where he ledtheir global strategic staffing function, contributing to their rapid global growth in preparation for their IPO (Lante scaled from 4 to 14 offices and 140 to 700 consultants in an 18 month period). Prior to Lante, Jim served as a search consultant with the global retained executive search firm Ray & Berndston, where he sold and executed numerous client projects. He served as national director of human resources for Deloitte & Touche and has also worked for the Havi Group L.P., a diverse multinational supplier to McDonald’s Corporation, as a leader in their human resource group in two of their divisions. Jim began is professional career while still pursuing his undergraduate degree with United Parcel Service where he spent nearly six years in operations management and HR.

George Bradt
Managing Director
PrimeGenesis

George Bradt has a unique perspective on helping leaders accelerate transitions based on his combined senior line management and consulting experience.  After his education at Harvard and Wharton, George progressed through a series of sales, marketing and general management roles around the world at Fortune 500 companies including Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and then J.D. Power and Associates as chief executive of its Power Information Network spin off.  Now he is Managing Director of PrimeGenesis, the executive on-boarding and transition acceleration group he founded in 2002.  Since then, George and PrimeGenesis have been able to reduce the risk of failure fourfold for executives they have worked with—from 40% to 10% by helping them and their teams deliver better results faster.

George is the author of The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan (Wiley, 2006) and of Back to School Chats - Advice from Fathers to Sons (Durban House, 2006).

About PrimeGenesis
PrimeGenesis is an executive on-boarding and transition acceleration group that helps leaders in new and challenging positions deliver better results faster and reduce the risk of failure.  Its expert specialists provide hands-on facilitation of practical tools based on their own senior line management and organizational development experience with leading companies around the world. There’s more about them at www.primegenesis.com.

Paul Henneman
President
ValuEngine, Inc.

Mr. Henneman entered his career in financial research in 1998 following graduate studies in history at the University of Florida. In June of 2000, Henneman joined ValuEngine as Director of Business Development, and became President in 2001 during a company wide re-organization.  Under his leadership, ValuEngine solidified partnerships with companies such as CBSMarketwatch, Reuters, Thomson Financial, Hoovers, UBS Warburg, numerous hedge funds, and others. These relationships have made ValuEngine a recognized leader in independent research; distributing thousands of research reports through dozens of distribution channels each month, in addition to online subscription, software, and customized data feed products. ValuEngine is a major provider of research as part of the Global Settlement for UBS Warburg and Deustche Bank. Current research efforts include the building of financial research models for international markets.

Donald A. Mitchell
Financial / Business Consultant; Business Development Consultant
American Stock Exchange (AMEX)

Mr. Mitchell has more than 35 years of diversified leadership experience with major U.S. and international corporations.  His principal areas of expertise are in Finance, International Business Development, Business Organization and Sales.  He served as an officer and director of several international companies. In this capacity he has directed several multi-million dollar sales and marketing programs. Mr. Mitchell began his business career with Parke, Davis & Company where he conducted field research and assisted in developing domestic and international sales.  As Vice-President of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), he directed federal programs for the CBS Educational Group, covering all Washington, D.C. governmental agencies and interfacing with state agencies for the 50 states. Beginning in 1968, Mr. Mitchell began to specialize in the development of bank line financing and capitalization for small and mid-range companies.  He has developed and managed small IPOs and Private Placement Investment vehicles.  He has consulted in international import-export and government relations for small and large corporations.  His expertise ranges from the development of comprehensive business plans for corporate implementation to mergers and acquisitions.  Currently Mr. Mitchell is a consultant to the executive staff of the American Stock exchange, (AMEX), and serves as Chairman of the Advisory Boards of three U.S. corporations and one international corporation.

Laurence E. Sheehan
COO, Solaris Trading

In March of 2007 Laurence Sheehan was appointed as the COO of Solaris Trading, a.v.v.  an international securities firm which is headquartered in Oranjestad, Aruba. Previously he was the President of Laurence Sheehan Associates (LSA) an international high tech strategic consultancy.
LSA has over the years provided strategic consulting, build-out and management to the banking and securities industry. Previously Mr. Sheehan was the Chairman of the Cambridge Assessment Centre, Founder and President of Corporate Development Systems, Founder of the venture capital firm of Anthonyson & Sheehan and before that was for many years at the Information Services division of The Chase Manhattan Bank with international responsibility for the staffing and build-out of Interactive Data, Chase Econometrics, Dynamics Associates, and Chase Cash Access. Within the information services division he served on the executive steering committee. Mr. Sheehan began in the securities industry with EDS on Wall Street where he worked on both the DuPont Glore, Forgin and Dominic & Dominic accounts.

Mr. Sheehan has a master’s degree from Harvard University, was the President of the alumni association and has served on the Board of Directors of HAA. He has a bachelor’s degree in Business from Boston College. Currently as the President Elect of Rotary International of Wellesley, he serves on the Board of Directors and is a Harris Fellow.

As a frequent speaker for industry he has presented at IBM’s World Wide OO Conference in Orlando, Florida and the Annual TPM Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. Twice he has presented at the prestigious Financial CIO Forum onboard the QE2, once as the Keynote Speaker.

Over the years Mr. Sheehan has served on numerous Boards of Directors: academic, corporate and public.