John O’Reilly is President of WaterburyGroup and one of the founding members of the firm. Since joining the executive search arena in the early 1990s, Mr. O’Reilly has conducted executive recruiting assignments in numerous industry verticals to include: Professional Services, Information Technology/New Media, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Building Products. His experience covers a wide-array of domestic and off-shore assignments, ranging from President, Chief Executive Officer, and Partner positions to Senior-level operating and staff positions for some of the largest public and privately held organizations in the world.

Prior to founding WaterburyGroup, John was a founding member and Managing Director of a top 15 global executive search firm. Prior to his search experience, John was actively involved in large scale ERP systems development and financial reengineering consulting projects with a “Big Five” consulting firm. The majority of his consulting experience was focused on open-systems platform development, implementation, integration planning/testing, and enterprise network life-cycle planning.

In addition to his consulting experience, John spent a number of years in various finance, accounting and information systems management positions for Fortune® 100 companies within the manufacturing and technology industries. There his corporate initiatives were centered around accounting/business financial management, development of cost controls, operations analysis/planning, open-system development, and offshore/domestic vendor management.

John earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from the University of Dayton