Page-Wheatcroft & Co., Ltd. is a North America and United Kingdom-based Senior Level Executive Search firm. Established in 1981, we assist our clients by identifying "leaders" to manage geographies and/or practices, primarily for Professional Services Firms. We are driven to turn our clients’ growth/management objectives into reality. We enable high-level business transformation by functioning as "Senior Counselors" to client management and assembling high-performance executive teams to formulate and implement our clients’ missions, objectives, strategies and tactics. Our focus is to identify senior partners to lead and manage industry/practice specific groups for Management Consulting and Law Firms, and senior executives for global Technology and Financial Services companies.

Our Philosophy

Client relations are a sacred trust. Give our clients the best possible service and advice so they can achieve long-term success. Our client service philosophy was defined by the individuals who founded our firm: "Do whatever is needed to help our clients generate increased bottom-line results, improve their competitive position, and achieve long-term, corporate success."

To Accomplish This We Will:

As Individual Practitioners And As A Firm We Will:

Our Mission

Our mission is to become the executive search vendor of choice to the world's best Professional Services companies and technology-driven businesses.

Our Objective

Our objective is to develop long-term relationships with the best managed/most profitable global firms, whose management seeks to constantly grow/upgrade the quality of its management in key practice, technology, and/or geographic areas.

Our Approach

Since 1981, we have generated a strong record of repeat business within client firms wherein we have enjoyed multi-year relationships. Our "client loyalty" stems from three distinctive elements to our service approach.

First, we are well qualified to render quality executive search/consulting assistance to our clients. Our Principals' diverse industry experiences enable us to evaluate senior-level candidates with a penetrating assessment of past performance and stated accomplishments. We have historically led major organization Business Process Re-engineering efforts and have first-hand experience with substantial Business Transformation implementation. Our Principals strive to bring this value-added perspective to each and every recruiting assignment.

Second, Page-Wheatcroft & Co., Ltd. uses a stylized personal approach to deliver executive search consulting services. By way of example, most recruiting firms delegate the painstaking research process to junior-level research personnel. At Page-Wheatcroft & Co., Ltd., the firms' Principals complete the sourcing and candidate development research themselves. In this way, we believe we dramatically improve the quality and effectiveness of the candidate-sourcing process. Ultimately, we are able to bring candidates to the table who might otherwise have said "no."

We have been told repeatedly throughout our eighteen-year history that the principle reason a specific candidate elected to go forward with an interview process on behalf of a client was the quality of the initial screening call that caused them to be effectively promoted to a specific client opportunity.

We have found that intense, personal involvement in every element of the search process has led to better candidate identification and increased client satisfaction. Ours is the ultimate service business. A direct outgrowth of this high level of client satisfaction is a significant record of repeat business with clients who feel they have been well served.

Last, clients find our fee approach refreshingly different. Most national firms charge one-third of a selected executive’s first year’s annual compensation to complete a search assignment. The fee is charged in three equal payments: the initial payment at the start of the assignment, the second and third payments, one and two months into the engagement. At the end of ninety days, the client has no leverage to insist that a selected firm complete the assignment.

At Page-Wheatcroft & Co., Ltd. we charge the same fee, but with a different, performance-based structure. Page-Wheatcroft & Co., Ltd. and the client estimate first year compensation for the selected candidate. PW's initial billings are based upon one-third of that amount. PW bills one-third of the estimated fee at the start of the engagement. The second third is billed when PW presents two candidates accepted by the client for interview. The final third is billed upon completion of the search engagement (i.e., a candidate is selected, a job offer made and accepted). The final one-third billing is based upon the prior year paid or first year compensation offered, whichever is greater. For an average search engagement, this billing approach puts approximately 60% of our fees at performance based risk.

Summary

Page-Wheatcroft & Co., Ltd. works extensively with Professional Services Firms. We serve four primary industries: Consulting, Legal, Technology and Financial Services.

We focus solely on completing senior-level retained search assignments. We develop long-term, "institutionalized" relationships with our clients. We feel that both parties benefit from the development of an in-depth understanding of each other’s capabilities, and long-term strategies and goals. We treat the proprietary knowledge developed during the course of our engagements as a sacred trust.

Give our clients the best possible service and advice so they can achieve long-term success. This is always the focus of our services, our knowledge, and our energies. We are in business to build lasting professional relationships on the basis of trust, outstanding performance, and superior results.