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The Brennan Group Advantage

Most boutique retained search firms focus on one role. Brennan Group is a long-term partner that places all executive roles for our clients. As a former operator and sales executive, Kate Brennan has called on all executive roles and understands what is required to connect with them.

  • At Brennan Group, we bring a different type of background and expertise than the typical “go-to recruiters.” Kate Brennan’s 20+ years of experience selling disruptive technology enables us to quickly grasp the product, market, and overall value proposition to deliver a compelling story for our clients.

  • On any given day, the Brennan Group bench seats the top 1% of executives across the nation, because we are the first phone call when they are ready to make a move.

    After 11 years of interviewing 1000s of candidates, our ever-growing bench of executive leaders trusts us to continue guiding them to the best opportunities.

  • 60-90% of engaged candidates are not actively looking for a new role, and after a thorough pre-engagement backchannel, we are able to convince 80% of our candidates to take an interview with our client.

  • No off-limits restrictions: larger search firms have off-limits agreements that prevent them from approaching employees of their current clients as candidates for other clients.

    Larger firms also tend to have junior associates do the work critical for success.

  • We are proudly a woman-founded and operated recruiting firm.

    We have interviewed, presented, and placed women for every single role: Board Director, CEO, CPO, CRO, Head of Engineering, etc.

Meet Kate Brennan

Founder, Kate Brennan founded Brennan Group to leverage her “operator” knowledge acquired as a top-performing sales leader while helping build tech start-ups working for Parametric Technology and Siebel Systems in the early days prior to them becoming mainstream.

She moved on to developing messaging and executing go-to-market strategies, hiring strong sales and marketing talent, and securing the first set of clients while consistently delivering revenue critical to start-up company success,

Kate has called on C-Level Executives her entire career and is comfortable approaching any executive at any company regardless of size or industry. She has sold to every C-Level role while running complex, strategic deals selling security, cloud platform solutions, application development, business applications, and digital marketing solutions, to name a few.

Kate spent half of her career in New York City and the other half in San Francisco. She now resides in Orange County. Kate is a graduate of the University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Business.

Meet the Team

  • Ritz Aspillera

    Strategic Assistant

  • Valerie Polines

    Strategic Assistant

  • Tracy Brennan

    Finance Coordinator