$10 BILLION RETAIL CHAIN
$10 BILLION RETAIL CHAIN
Function: Corporate Development
Industry: CPG – Retail
Location: United States
Summary: OSI identified a Director of a leading Global Retail/ Wholesale business who led an optimization Practice for our client who needed a supply chain expert to transform their antiquated process. With 25 years of retail/ consumer packaged Goods experience, he brought significant methodologies to our client resulting in company savings of $15M in his first year. With both a highly tuned business and technology skill sets, he was able to successfully analyze, develop and execute significant changes including finding ways to increase productivity as well as profitability to create a more innovative service offering.
$3.5B PHARMACEUTICALS COMPANY
Function: C-Suite / Back Office
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Location: Long Island, NY
Summary: Retained by this $3.5B Pharmaceutical firm to find their new Chief Operating Officer. OSI delivered a noted former Pfizer executive who properly evaluated and produced the metrics to prepare the firm for sale to a $15B European Pharmaceutical conglomerate. After the acquisition, our candidate was promoted to President of one of their significant business units.
REVOLUTIONARY OBJECT-PROGRAMMING COMPANY
Function: Technology
Industry: Internet & Technology
Location: Global
Summary: Steve Jobs called upon OSI after Apple fired him. He started a new company, NeXT and having trouble marketing this new venture. Our founder worked directly with Jobs and instrumental in aligning NeXT’s relationship with Systemhouse, a US and Canadian Consulting firm. OSI was then retained to identify senior technology luminaries to implement their new platform at key clients. NeXT was a revolutionary upgrade that used object-oriented programming, “Objective C”, “OpenStep” and “Nextstep”operating systems. These new advances were the first of its’ kind and represented a quantum leap in the way programmers coded as well as how information was distributed. As NeXT prepared to launch their product in the mid-90’s our leader met Jobs in the UK and lent a hand in assisting their marketing effort. Ross Perot invested 20 million and in 1993 went to market. Jobs soon returned to Apple with a sweetheart deal that included $429 million in cash plus 1.5 million shares of Apple stock to buy NeXT This architecture became the foundation for all future Mac products that went to market.
$1 Trillion + dollar GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRM
Function: Multiple
Industry: FS – Banking & Asset Management
Location: United States
Summary: OSI placed more than a thousand technology and business professionals during its ten-year relationship with a global bank. OSI became their go-to source for the industries best and brightest. This massive financial company went through years of restructuring from a centralized to non-centralized business structure. OSI assisted hundreds of their newly formed micro companies flourish by implanting Business and Technology Leaders who would have ownership of their own P&L One such notable search was placing their Head of Future Technology. Our CEO convinced one of the head scientists at the Super Collider in Texas to move to New York. At the super collider, this candidate worked on such projects like the particle accelerator. When he joined, he conceived and implemented brand new technology that still remains their core platform today. OSI placed over 1,000 professional within this bank’s Capital Markets, Corporate, Retail, Commercial & Investment Bank, and Capital Markets & Securities and Private Banking divisions.
GLOBAL MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY
Function: Back Office
Industry: Media & Entertainment
Location: California
Summary: One of the largest entertainment firms in the world, headquartered in Burbank, California needed a new HR Head. OSI first recruited their competitors, but none were the right mix of technical, global and personality attributes. The finalist candidate we placed actually had no Entertainment experience, however did have the right mixture of attributes along with the right culture fit. She was a great communicator along with excellent time management, self discipline, impartial and objective reasoning with the the ability to train, develop and mentor teams. She was such a success that she was eventually promoted to a key Global Executive Leadership role. Thinking out of the box is an important ingredient and one of OSI’s highly attuned attributes.
$10B+ PRIVATE EQUITY FUND
Function: Middle Office
Industry: FS – Private Equity
Location: San Francisco, CA
Summary: This Asia-focused multi billion $ PE fund-of-funds hired our candidate responsible for overseeing all recruiting, benefits, and administration efforts, reporting directly to the Managing Partner of the firm. The search was challenging as they not only needed to come from an Asia focused PE firm, but also flawless fluently in Mandarin and Cantonese. Beyond that, they would need to be available at any hour overnight as their headquarters was located in the Far East . She was the first candidate recruited for this client and hired immediately and who has since become a major relationship with our firm, both here and abroad.
