About the firm

Operators who became recruiters.

Our four founding partners came from the corner office, not the recruiting floor. We've been the candidate, the hiring manager, and the board member trying to make a key decision. Now we use that experience to find the people who'll do those jobs next.

Why we exist

A search firm built like a law firm.

Most search firms are organized like sales teams — a recruiter at the top, a stack of researchers below, and a quota at the end of the month. We were exhausted by the experience as candidates and disappointed by it as clients.

So we built Trifecta the way the best law firms operate. Each engagement has a partner-in-charge who stays on the search end-to-end. We take fewer searches per partner than the industry average. We refuse contingent work. And we publish our retention numbers because we'd want to know them too.

Leadership

The partners.

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Anika Reyes

Managing Partner · Health

Former COO at Mercer Health. 18 years in clinical operations.

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David Hartwell

Managing Partner · Finance

Former CFO at two PE-backed health-tech companies.

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Priya Kothari

Managing Partner · Legal

Former GC at a Fortune 500 healthcare company; AmLaw 100 alum.

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Marcus Bell

Founding Partner · Firmwide

25 years in executive search. Founded the firm in 2014.

2014
Founded
304
Senior placements
94%
Retained at 24 months
4
Cities · NYC · CHI · BOS · SF
Our principles

Five things we believe about good searches.

01.

Retained or not at all.

Contingent search rewards speed over fit. We refuse it.

02.

Partner-led, end-to-end.

The partner you meet on day one runs the search through close.

03.

Fewer searches, deeper work.

Six active searches per partner. The rest of the time is for the work.

04.

References we found ourselves.

Anyone can call the names on a résumé. We call the ones that aren't.

05.

Twenty-four-month measure.

Success is the candidate still thriving two years on — not signing day.

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