Senior Management
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operations Officer, President, Managing Director, General Manager,...

ART recruits individuals capable of serving as CEO's and COO's of companies in a vast array of high technology, industrial, and service industries. A large-scale worldwide expansion and reorganization of businesses has created a tremendous need for every type of CEO, COO, President, Managing Director and General Manager. Specializing in all the key disciplines necessary to start up a firm and make it take off -- sales and marketing, finance, supply chain, manufacturing operations, quality, R&D, engineering, and information technology-- ART recruiters are able to understand their clients' management structures, business cultures, and business objectives. Understanding these variables, we then set out to identify the type of person and experiences needed to run a client's operation.

Below is a partial list of the varieties of CEO's and COO's that ART recruits:

The Multinational - level CEO or COO. The supreme coolheaded diplomat, general and politician whose conversational aside could make the Dow Jones tumble.Could come out of a business, sales, finance, technical, or operations background, but most commonly has held titles in multiple disciplines. Are you ready for this job? Do you want this job? These days, some of the most accomplished MNC-level CEO's prefer to start their own companies. We can handle either option.

The President who is really a business-unit CEO or COO, with near-total autonomy, and full control of functions such as Product Development, Operations, Finance, Sales and Marketing and Purchasing. This type of President may be in charge of a large corporation's division, operating unit, new startup venture, joint venture or other entity. The business unit may even issue its own stock. Full Profit and Loss responsibility is the norm. An unusual type: the corporate animal that thinks and acts like an entrepreneur.

The CEO or COO of a Small or Medium-Sized Firm. This type of CEO should be capable of creating a management and staff ethos that "small is fine" but that "we can all do better by growing and need to grow in order to survive." This person is able to operate in shirtsleeves on the manufacturing floor and convince Wall Street that his or her company is capable of real success.

The CEO or COO of the Startup Firm. This highly flexible type of entrepreneur may be the business' founder or may be a skilled outside G.M. brought in to establish accountability, viability and growth of the firm's kernel of a product or service. This person must be able to convince venture capital firms, banks and other investors that the firm knows what it is doing with other people's money. This person must be able to inject capable managers at the right places and time without making the R&D gurus and grunts feel they have lost total control of their baby. A startup firm may require two or more different generations of CEO's as it passes from the R&D (and possibly financially hungry) stage to a pilot-run stage to a sales and marketing stage to a thriving company stage where the startup, now out of the red, needs a person who knows how to make the company a $50-100M+ firm. Some Startup CEO's are amazingly able to go from the garage stage to the Inc. 1000 or Fortune 500 stage, while others are limited due to their personal career focus or employment experiences. ART has candidates at each of these levels in a large range of technologies and services.

The Turnaround CEO or COO.  Sometimes a company experiences sluggishness in its product development, its manufacturing efficiency, financial stability or sales and marketing competetiveness. In some cases, all or some of these issues can begin to be addressed by the bringing in of an outsider to serve as CEO, COO, General Manager or President.

ART candidates are available for this difficult but challenging assignment, either as full time employees or as part time Interim CEO's, Interim COO's, Interim Presidents or Interim Managing Directors.