Brian Blackshaw founded the firm in 1975 after spending five years with the Singer Company in corporate recruiting at their international headquarters in New York. Brian is one of the few retained executive search practitioners in this country with 32 years of experience serving clients in a wide variety of industries. He has conducted over 600 assignments ranging from vice president to ‘C’ level engagements for Fortune 1000 and privately held companies. These clients include the Cendant Companies, (e.g., Avis, Coldwell Banker, Century 21, Orbitz, & Galileo), Blockbuster Entertainment, RJR Nabisco, Equitable Real Estate, Diners Club, Warburg Pincus, Schering Plough, Kmart, Warner-Lambert, Kimberly Clark, Lexmark, the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company and Dun & Bradstreet.

Brian has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Cerebral Palsy Foundation of Atlanta and as Chairman of the Woodruff Arts Center of Atlanta’s Advance Gifts Campaign.

He is a 1970 alumnus of the University of Missouri.