Media Executive SearcH
SAY
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Digital publishing spent a decade learning that an audience is not the same thing as a business.
Say Media built the technology and the advertising model behind a portfolio of digital titles, at the point where every publisher was trying to work out what came after the banner ad.
the engagement
The outgoing chief technology officer brought 33eleven Partners in to find his own replacement: a hands-on leader who could take an engineering team of ten to forty.
PLACEMENTS
Chief Technology Officer
PARTNERSHIP INSIGHTS
The best person to brief a search is often the one leaving ROLE.
An outgoing executive knows exactly which parts of the job were harder than the description suggested, and they have no reason left to oversell it. This search was faster and more accurate because the person being replaced ran the brief.
A departing leader who stays to find their successor is doing the company a service, and it is rarer than it should be.
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33eleven Partners places VP through C-suite leaders at Private Equity and Venture-backed AI and technology companies.