“Randy Bogue [Venator Partners' President] has an uncanny ability to consistently secure the best talent. Since we began our relationship with Venator (almost four years ago) Carbonite has grown ten-fold and Venator has placed 20 people at the company including 5 VP’s. Both Venator’s approach and results are well differentiated and they have had a very clear impact on our success.”

Swami Kumaresan
GM Consumer
Carbonite

“Venator Partners has proven to be an invaluable partner in helping to build Carbonite from a startup to a sizeable, rapidly growing business.

It’s been over 30 years since I started my first of now five companies. It wasn’t until Carbonite that I’ve found a recruiting relationship to be as valuable as the one we have with Venator. For over two years they have consistently exceeded my expectations. Whereas most recruiters take a job description and produce resumes, hoping one will stick, Venator is able to develop a deep understanding of the business, organizational dynamics and roles for which they recruit. That’s why they’ve consistently produced excellent candidates for manager-, director- and excecutive-level positions. And perhaps more importantly, they’ve trained my staff in the critical best practices needed to run a rigorous, disciplined and effective recruiting process. They’ve also served as an advisor to me and my executive team on issues not necessarily related to searches. They do a lot more than they’re paid for which is why they’re invited back time and again.”

David Friend
CEO
Carbonite

You guys do a great job, and I can’t tell you how grateful I am for your understanding of our business, your ability to find and assess great people, and your tireless efforts to make sure the project gets done right.

Kevin Walker
CEO
SimpleTuition

“The most effective search firms are those that clearly understand their client’s needs and bring depth and insight to assessing the quality and fit of the candidates under consideration. In my experience with Venator Partners, they have proven to be very insightful and effective in both of these critical areas.”

Jeff Bussgang
General Partner
Flybridge Capital Partners

“Venator Partners has consistently delivered exceptional value to Verdasys. We began our relationship at a time when Verdasys was growing rapidly and beginning to really scale our business. Randy Bogue and his team assessed our situation, put together a plan, executed the program, and we doubled the size of our sales team within our tight deadline and with exceptional talent.

More recently, we began work on adding a new technology platform to our solutions offering. We needed additional executive level engineering talent to build out our engineering team—again they devised and executed a successful program. Within the tight time lines we demanded, we have hired outstanding engineering management and senior engineering talent.

Venator Partners brings three highly differentiating elements that drive results. They are sensitive and comfortable around the chaos at small, high growth companies and they spent the time to understand our evolving business and to effectively navigate the whole organization (company, employees, recruits, managers, and shareholders). Finally, the firm is highly adaptable and capable to fill most searches from sales and BD to senior management and engineering positions.”

Seth Birnbaum
CEO
Verdasys

“Finding the best talent takes skill, finesse, focus and energy, and few firms can find the right balance of each. Venator just happens to be one of the few that has. This is the partner you always wish you had, and the company that just ‘gets it’.”

Dave Balter
Founder/CEO,
BzzAgent

“I truly enjoyed working with Venator Partners on this project. Your firm’s systematic process, good judgment and passion are unique. I look forward to working with your firm again.”

Yochi Slonim
CEO,
Identify Software

“I have now worked with Venator Partners for over a year and they have been instrumental in helping me build almost my entire senior management team. They added value at every stage of the process and helped me think through the issues of building an effective and cohesive team. Building the team is a CEOs most important job and clearly one of the most difficult. But as any CEO of a start-up company knows there are a multitude issues that need to be managed. I never had to worry about Venator driving the process and meeting their deliverables. That made a major impact on my ability to do my job effectively and I am very pleased with the team we have built.”

Yoram Salinger
CEO
Red Bend Software

“I enjoyed working with Randy and Eric on the search for our new CEO. Their diligence, focus and involvement made me feel like partners sharing one goal. The team worked very professionally, justifying the excellent reputation I heard prior to hiring Venator Partners.”

Amnon Yacoby
Chairman
Aternity

“When I was working with Venator Partners, I never felt like I was dealing with just a recruiter. Randy operated as a part of our team with the mutually aligned interests of placing the best possible candidate at our company. He conducted the entire process effectively and with integrity.”

Harmeet Singh
CEO
Optovia Corporation

“Venator Partners is a proven business partner in finding highly qualified people with special skills and excellent industry experience that hit the ground running at EqualLogic. With EqualLogic’s rapid growth over the last two years, the Venator team has become an extension of my staff.”

John Joseph
VP Marketing
EqualLogic

“We began speaking with Venator Partners while we were finalizing our Series A funding round. We had a critical need to bring in a VP of Marketing and Business Development that would lead the go-to-market activities of the company. PanGo Networks has the capability to deliver multiple applications to multiple verticals that each will require the formulation of a different value proposition. We are also creating a new technology category. We retained Venator Partners, in part, because they were able to quickly understand the complexities of our situation and our business model and translate that into a tangible strategy for conducting the search and defining the desired outcome.

Venator’s approach is very consultative and was oriented toward the long-term good of the company, not just on filling the position. They were very committed to the project and really drove the process and the deliverables. I also came to really value the depth of their ability to understand and assess candidates. Ultimately I think what impressed me most was their work ethic, the tenacity demonstrated when things got tough and the discipline they brought to the execution of the project. Venator was absolutely instrumental in helping us recruit a great candidate that is the right fit for the company.”

Michael Campbell
CEO
PanGo Networks

“Dear Randy:
I felt that it is very important for me to tell you how impressed I was by you. It isn’t often that one finds the combination of a ‘real’ human being and a ‘pro’ in the proportions that make for a successful personal and business relationship. Your dedicated efforts and perseverance in finding the right person for the job, in my mind, means that the Virtue 3D, Inc.’s U.S. subsidiary is now being headed by a superbly qualified individual. You have our deep appreciation for this accomplishment.”

Eyal Zagagi
President and CEO, Virtue 3D

“Randy,
I believe the company’s buildup of our U.S. sales organization was a great success. The team I met at the sales meeting in New York last week is of high calider in both experience and potential. I want to thank you for Venator Partners’ considerable contribution to this buildup, and I look forward to contuining our partnership.”

Gideon Rottem
CEO, Extricom

“Recruiting sales people overseas requires additional challenges. Venator Partners’ knowledge of business, recruiting and our industry as well as the various nuances of overseas markets, made my job of staffing a European sales executive easier and more productive than I had previously experienced. Venator Partners provided me with more quality candidates and had a better understanding of the types of candidates that would fit in the culture of a U.S. company than the European recruiting firms I have used in the past. In particular, Randy Bogue provided me with valuable counsel throughout the process and was an effective intermediary. I am very pleased with the candidate I hired and as I continue to grow European operations I will again turn to Venator Partners for assistance.”

James A. Carson
Managing Director, European Operations, Digital Sound Corporation

“Natural Standard’s mission is to provide objective, reliable information that aids clinicians, patients, and healthcare institutions to make more informed and safer therapeutic decisions. Our doctors, pharmacists and researchers rely on those with strong business acumen to represent our products in the marketplace, supporting our trustworthy reputations. Bruce Allen meets our high standards. He is responsible for helping Natural Standard attract and retain the highest caliber staff in our executive, sales and client service departments, assuring that our exceptional quality healthcare information is successfully delivered to international end-users. He has become an integral part of our team. He continues to help us scale our business expanding our team with talented individuals and working with us to help them succeed. In addition to his recruiting skills he provides counseling on a myriad of topics, from hiring strategies and compensation plans to refining roles and onboarding recommendations. His wealth of experience in sales and business management enables him to understand and address our business needs in a thorough yet timely fashion. We are very thankful and loyal to him as he is to our organization.”

Dr. Catherine Ulbricht
CEO, Natural Standard

“Bruce…I thank you for being more than a vendor, but a partner to us here at WeatherBug and to me—Looking forward to working together more in the future…”

Michael Lombardi
Vice President, Advertising and Marketing
WeatherBug

“As a fast growing company we’re continuously hiring and looking for great people. Venator Partners has been a valuable partner in our recruiting efforts.”

Ben Kaplan
COO
Mall Networks

“I have worked with a number of recruiters over the years. When it comes to finding quality talent that always meets the specification, Doug Combs of Venator Partners is in a league of his own.”

Michael Braatz
VP Marketing
Bluesocket

“This year, we were presented with a unique opportunity to rapidly accelerate our growth, hiring senior positions that would play key roles in the company’s future. After unsuccessfully using other internal and external resources, we challenged Venator Partners to source candidates. I was pleased with their response. They not only invested the time necessary to truly understand our internal and market needs, but were very focused in their sourcing process. By presenting candidates that fit our profile, Venator Partners saved Scali significant internal time and accelerated the time to hire. Doug Combs also played a key role in assisting us with reaching a mutually acceptable agreement with our top candidate, who has performed well since his hire.”

James C. Biggs
Senior Vice President Sales, Marketing, and Services General Manager, Americas
Scali, Inc.

“Venator Partners worked on a tough recruiting assignment for us—a position that we had been trying to fill for over a year. Thanks to persistence and professionalism they came through with an excellent candidate that has worked out very well for us. I highly recommend this team. They are direct, clear, do a great job of screening candidates. They produce results!”

Bill Thornburg
VP Product Management
mValent

“Bruce has been a great asset in identifying and securing several critical candidates for my leadership team…He is both thorough and quick in delivering results. He truly listens and understands our objectives and then is able to seek out the best candidates…I highly recommend Venator Partners.”

David Klein
Vice President, Advertising
NAVTEQ Media Solutions
www.navteq.com

“I worked with Sam Onyemelukwe to fill a senior manager position within my group where we were looking for a candidate with a very specific and hard-to-find skillset. Sam developed a deep understanding of my needs and provided us with a high quality pool of candidates. As a result, I would highly recommend Sam’s services.”

Eric Horndahl
Vice President, New Business Group,
BuyerZone (division of Reed Business Information)

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