Liz Etkin joined the Villeneuve Associates Inc. team with over 15 years of retail management experience spanning both the U.K. and the U.S., with Next Retail Limited, Episode, Inc. and Henri Bendel. Following her work with Henri Bendel in New York, Liz joined Plummer & Associates, a national retained recruiting firm, later establishing an independent research practice providing research and recruiting to retained search firms serving the retail, e-business and foodservice industries. Clients such as eToys, Scient, Nordstrom, 1-800 Contacts, Crate & Barrel and Hollywood Entertainment have all benefited from Liz’s mastery at drawing top candidates from a limited talent pool. Her research and tracking skills allow precise targeting of candidates, resulting in shorter search times for clients. Liz and her team have designed a powerful Internet-based research tool to track the most current career moves of leading and emerging CEOs and to trace specific skill sets of senior-level executives. Liz holds a B.A. in business administration from DeMontfort University in Leicester, England. She is an active member of The Executive Search Roundtable.