Access Search Partners Advantages

We offer unique advantages to our clients.

Each firm has meaningful, real-time access to the others’ markets and the ability to reach potential candidates in any part of the United States. We share information that is not proprietary to our clients, but useful to one another’s search projects as though we were a single search firm with two offices. All of our search experience is open to both firms giving clients the benefits of our combined search experience. We can reduce client expenses by interviewing local candidates for the other firm. Each firm assists the other firm in expanding into new markets such as clean-tech and life sciences. We have a real-world view of two vibrant technology centers (Boston and Silicon Valley) and a bi-costal perspective.

We know your market, and what you are trying to do. Or, we intend to find out!

We have been around as the technology industry has blossomed from infancy into its current state. We know the full "food chain" from semiconductors and materials to sub-systems to capital equipment, to computing and networking, to wireless (infrastructure and mobility), to energy and clean tech. Yet we treat every situation as a brand new search, making no assumptions.

We have the range to handle early-stage, all the way to large public companies.

We are dynamic and operate like a startup, but very professional. You may see us around a startup water cooler, or in a billion dollar company’s Board room. We’re comfortable in either of these situations and these are complimentary skills. We apply the rigor and creativity required to succeed in the fast paced venture community to our public company searches, and our clients are astounded by our energy and speed of movement.

We can find the best candidates, wherever they are.

We're well-connected in your market space because we have history, and because chances are, we’ve already run at least a project or two in the category where you are operating. Sometimes dozens of projects. We know where to go. As the top technology executive search firms in the greater Boston and Silicon Valley/San Francisco areas, we have access to the best talent in the business.

We know how to build top management teams.

We have a great track record in finding Presidents and CEOs, as well as VPs of Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Business Development, Finance, Operations, and Professional Services. Our candidates’ success rates are extremely high, and we track them closely.

We only accept searches where we know we can win and deliver.

We are getting better every year at spotting situations where we know we can execute successfully. And if we think a situation is troubled or structured improperly, we discreetly consult with our clients to show them architectures we believe can lead to success.

We drive the process.

When you book a search firm, you should be able to relax and let them take on every detail of the project, and drive it from start to finish. Your work should be minimal. Everything from developing the working job description to the target list, to where to look and why, to scheduling all candidate meetings should be handled by the search firm.

We give you a full Partner’s, or Vice President’s full attention, beginning to end.

We NEVER hand off work to junior people and disappear, and we don’t misrepresent who is doing the “real work.”  Senior people run the search from start to finish, interview every candidate in person, and personally drive the project. A member firm’s partner run every search they book personally. If our client decides to use one of a member firm’s Vice President level professionals, they know clearly that that is the person who is running their project and they buy into them personally, completely.

We tell you exactly what's going on.

We keep you posted on the status of your search and any changes in its direction. And we alert you right away to any steps requiring fast action.  Weekly reports are standard, and comprehensive, and when a search gets intense—towards closure—we are available day and night, weekends, whatever it takes, communicating constantly with our clients and candidates to make sure it all comes together smoothly.

We deliver results.

We have a track record of delivering results to our clients. We don’t give up when searches get hard and stay with the search until it is successfully completed.