ERIC GUSTAFSON

Eric founded the firm in 2010 and has over twenty five years experience in senior executive recruitment for private and public multinational organizations, nonprofits, USA subsidiaries of Asian and European companies, and the operating holdings of private equity firms.  The firm has been named a Forbes America's Best Executive Search Firm based on Forbes' survey of clients and executives. 

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MULTIPLE INDUSTRIES | MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS

Eric recruits in technology, industrial, consumer markets, and adjacent others.  Clients are advantaged by his multiple function and industry expertise for recruiting superior talent from leading competitors and/or those portable from relevant industries. 

 

He recruits CEOs, Presidents and General Managers and their direct reporting C-level functional heads including CFO's, Chief Accounting Officers/Controllers, CMOs, Sales, and their key subordinates at Director and Senior Director levels. 

 

Eric's clients often engage him for newly created positions which require a multi-functional and omni-channels understanding of the future-state business objectives in order to successfully identify, attract, and assess talent capable of thriving in critical, less well-defined circumstances.  

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EXECUTIVE SEARCH & INDUSTRY CAREER

 

Prior to founding Access Point Partners in 2010, Eric was EVP of a senior search and M&A advisory firm and a pre and post-IPO Senior Partner/Practice Leader in the New York City office of Korn/Ferry International. 

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At K/FI, he was a Consumer and Industrial Practice member and NA Leader of the Technology Electronics & Systems Sector.  He was K/FI certified in Management Assessment consulting and executed searches as a hands-on search consultant without delegating strategy and execution to the firm's junior recruiters. 

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Before executive search, Eric's was CEO of a private PC and IT solutions firm. His career began HQ Human Resources at Fortune 40 Ashland Inc. and in Sales/Marketing at its Valvoline Brand subsidiary.

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COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Eric has been a member of the Japanese-American Chamber of Commerce & Industry of New York, the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, and serves on the Advisory Board of B.R.A.V.E. a Gold Star Parent-founded nonprofit that advises military veterans on career goals and entrepreneurial ventures.  He and his family have served on city leadership committees, supporters and officers in A Better Chance, the non profit educating disadvantaged city youth, and with other charities.

 

PERSONAL

Born on a USAF base in France, Eric has lived and worked in the northeast, southeast, and mid-west regions of the United States.  He is a graduate of Lafayette College where he played Div. 1 basketball and served as a fraternal organization officer.  He and his wife reside in northern Virginia and have two young adult daughters who have begun their own careers. 

 

BA, Economics w/concentrations in accounting & sociology, Lafayette College

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