Chase & Associates

Chase & Associates is a recruitment and executive search firm focused on the packaging industry, based in Austin, Texas. It says it has spent more than five decades helping packaging companies build leadership teams. It places executive and managerial staff, from middle management to C-suite level, and also covers EPC and power generation and executive search for private equity-backed businesses.

The firm is organised into commercial and operations practices. Alexis Chase leads the Commercial team, which fills sales and marketing director, vice president and C-suite roles. Michael Chase leads the Operations team, which places director, general manager and C-suite executives. Both are described as second-generation business owners. Clients range from early-stage venture-backed start-ups and mid-size privately held companies to private equity portfolio companies and large publicly traded corporations.

It also places senior packaging sustainability and EPR leaders for private equity portfolios. It reports that 95% of its retained searches are filled.