Throughout Peter’s business and executive search career he has been a pathfinder for high performance, delighting customers and revenue growth.
Peter is driven by a passion to help his clients be more successful through GameChanging Leadership… increasing their creativity and innovation, unleashing ingenuity, embracing uncertainty and thriving in unpredictable and opportunistic markets… making a big difference to their customers, and increasing market capitalization.
As one of the founding Managing Partners of Top Gun Ventures, Peter focuses on executive recruitment and development of GameChanging leaders, teams, and organizations and the impact this has on making companies successful.
Utilizing his mastery of business transformations, digitalization, disruptive technology, and adoption of new business models, Peter specializes in recruiting proven top-performing CEOs, senior leadership teams, and executives for large and midsize corporations, venture capitalists, and private equity clients. His searches regularly include a higher number of diversity candidates than the industry norm.
In addition to multiple successful U.S. searches, Peter supports global clients in recruiting top executives to lead their Americas, Asian, European, and Middle East operations.
Peter covers the full range of leadership, functional, and regional positions, from the C-suite to senior Vice President leadership roles with domain expertise in a broad range of digitalizing industries that are blurring their physical and digital worlds, including technology, media, telecom, business and professional services, consumer, retail, ecommerce, energy, greentech, healthcare, hospitality, and entertainment.
Peter is seen by his clients as a trusted advisor. He imbues every executive search with his curiosity, strategic insights, best-practice search expertise, and transformational know-how to help his clients be the leaders in their target markets.
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A Passion for Making His Clients Successful
Peter’s clients are established or emerging companies in need of leaders to seize new opportunities, solve business problems and transform a department or the entire company to take them to the next level of growth and increase market capitalization, and to be able to accomplish this in both good and bad market environments.
Peter knows the questions to ask to get his clients to their endgame. This defines the type of “GameChanging” leaders he acquires, that can go beyond the status quo, navigate through unpredictable and opportunistic markets, to lead and develop their organization to be more adaptable, creative, bolder and all with a sense of urgency.
For established and emerging companies, he has helped his clients digitalize their organizations, leverage disruptive technology and adopt new business models to transform their organization through all phases of “Growth”:
- Start and Scale Growth: Finding leaders that can startup a business idea, drive proof of concept and profitability. Then scale revenues, increase valuation, and secure a successful M&A or IPO.
- Accelerate High Growth: Providing leaders that can accelerate business growth and financial performance by getting the best out of people, process, technology.
- New Revenue Growth: Through leaders that can launch a new product or capability that drives new growth and revenue streams and/or defends against disruptive innovation from new entrants.
- New Path to Growth: To bring in leaders that can transform a company to deliver a new strategic offering, reinventing or repositioning the business to meet future customer needs and a new path for continued growth.
Global Business Innovator and Executive Search Expert
Peter strategically partners and collaborates with his clients’ decision makers on leadership and talent management and advises on building high-IMPACT GameChanging Teams and Organizations.
Peter covers the full range of leadership, functional and regional positions, from C-suite to all Senior Leadership Vice President roles with domain expertise in a broad range of digitalizing Industries that are blurring their physical and digital worlds, technology, media, telecom, business and professional services, consumer, retail, eCommerce, energy, greentech, healthcare, hospitality, entertainment, venture capital and private equity.
From knowledge gained over more than two decades of global technology and executive management experience in both startup and Fortune 500 business environments, Peter looks for leaders with FIT, both cultural and organizational and EXPERTISE, for position and task ahead, to ensure that hired candidates will excel in their on-the-job performance.
He has studied the traits of leaders that have succeeded and those that have failed (Capability, Heart, Endgame, Culture, and Keeper). He has gained empirical knowledge and seen cultural nuances first-hand by living and working on 3 continents, Europe, the Middle East and America, and through several global vice president positions at both European and American multinational companies.
Peter is an expert in recruitment techniques that seek out, engage, qualify and attract those few GameChanging executives that are not in anyone’s database, don’t normally talk to search firms, may not have a current résumé, are performing exceptionally well in their current role and not looking to switch companies. These are the top leadership candidates in the talent market.
Thought Leader
Peter is a recognized GameChanger with a natural inclination to be the best at everything he does. To continuously seek out new learnings, bring new ideas and apply best practices to do better work for his clients. He is a strong lateral thinker and change agent who brings fresh insights to his clients to help them break through their challenges and take the leap to the next level of growth and differentiation.
As a Fortune 500 corporate executive Peter consistently overachieved his objectives and won many awards such as the President’s Award for ‘Strategic Impact’. As an entrepreneur Peter is a certified Startup Mentor and advises many founders and emerging company executives.
With his customer experience (CX) knowledge and use of econometric modeling of the linkages between employees, customers and financial results, Peter led his team at a Fortune 500 company to win, two years in a row, the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) Industry Award for “Innovation in Customer Value to Drive Strategic Business Advantage.”
Known as a strategic thought leader with broad business knowledge, Peter is co-author of the book Delighting Customers: How To Build A Customer-Driven Organization, published worldwide by Chapman and Hall. He has been interviewed online by CBS MarketWatch and quoted in various publications including Chief Executive Magazine.
Peter is a member of the Human Capital Institute (HCI), a catalyst for innovative new thinking in talent acquisition, alignment, development and retention. The HCI has awarded Peter the Master Human Capital Strategist (MHCS) designation for his knowledge and application of effective talent management practices.
Peter is a certified GCologist (thegcindex.com), pioneering the application of a new “Game Changer Proclivity Impact” organimetric assessment tool for the digitalized world.
Peter says that “We won’t see business as usual for many years ahead so companies will need more GameChangers on their teams and in leadership positions.” Through the application of The GC Index assessments, debriefs and workshops Peter has helped his clients to better select, assimilate and align GameChanging Leaders, Teams and Organizations to thrive in unpredictable and opportunistic markets.
Trusted Advisor
All clients worry about making a bad hire. Liking a new leadership candidate and their ability to get the job done in a new organization, culture and market conditions is not the same thing.
When asked, what one question could prevent you from making a mistake on hiring? Peter says you should ask yourself “Is this a leader that is as good as or better than your current top performers?”
Peter is seen by his clients as a trusted advisor and brings, to every executive search, his curiosity, strategic insights, best practice search expertise and mastery of business transformations, digitalization, disruptive technology and adoption of new business models to help his clients thrive in unpredictable and opportunistic markets, make a big difference to their customers and increase market capitalization.