Member Since June 2014
About
Highlights: • Identified and acquired a small business with 1-2 Fortune 500 clients utilizing a search fund approach. Within 4.5 years, we had added new clients such as Google, GE, Weight Watchers, Harley Davidson, MillerCoors, and grown revenue 26x. • Moved from established Fortune 500 Financial Firm to ERA Pre-Series A Startup in Parking Industry and within 6 months launched multiple cities, and brought in two of their largest partnerships. Achieved 135% of annual goal, and increased total active properties on platform by almost 40% (100+). • Managed 80+ account relationships for McGraw Hill Financial (S&P Capital IQ, a SaaS financial data company), including some of largest financial firms in US, representing over 800 active users and $8.5M in Annual Contract Value. • Placed 23 VP and C-suite executives across Finance, Operations, Product, Marketing, and Sales within 17 months at Safire Partners.
Simon Casuto
Published content
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Jul 12, 2017
Leading from a monolithic mindset based on stereotypes or research data will only create missed opportunities for individual progress.
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Turning your team into intrapreneurs will bring out the best in your employees while also strengthening their leadership capabilities.
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These three components are critical to achieve the highest satisfaction rating from your customers.
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Mobile learning -- like mobile everything else -- is on the rise.
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For executive-level hires, your culture can be the distinguishing factor that attracts the best of the best.
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Aug 22, 2014
The biggest mistake most startups make as they grow? Forgetting where they started.
Company details
Safire Partners
Company bio
Safire Partners is the leading technology executive search firm in Southern California with a rapidly expanding national footprint. We work primarily with emerging growth companies and more than half of our clients continue to leverage our services on multiple searches, proving that the value Safire Partners provides is unmatched in the marketplace. Our clients range from disruptive venture-backed companies to multi-billion dollar public enterprises. No matter the size of the organizations we support, our process remains the same — extreme attention to detail, complete transparency with regular status reports of all our activities, a thorough canvassing of the marketplace, and in-depth, data-driven analysis to unearth the best possible talent for our clients. Safire Partners continually looks for opportunities to invest in their clients, and since 2006 has invested in over 40 clients by deferring search fees for equity. Since the firm’s founding, Safire Partners has successfully recruited more than 700 executives.