Spectrum Search Partners

Spectrum Search Partners, LLC is a retained executive search firm headquartered in Denver, Colorado, that solves executive and functional leadership needs for the private equity community and their portfolio companies on a national basis. The firm states that 95 percent of its business serves private equity firms, with 60 percent of its searches for C-suite roles.

Spectrum evaluates candidates against what it calls a Spectrum Scorecard, a customised tool the firm uses to objectively assess talent and determine the strongest hire for a role. The firm reports a 99 percent successful fill rate across its assignments, more than 480 portfolio company placements, and over 85 years of combined executive search experience across its team, which works primarily across six core verticals while remaining able to work in industries outside, emerging in, or new to private equity.

Spectrum has clients and partners throughout the United States and Canada. The firm's leadership team includes Tom Shahnazarian as Chairman and Founding Partner, Kevin Hahn as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner, and Jay Lane as President and Managing Partner, supported by a wider team covering recruiting, client partnership and operations.