Stark Recruiting Partners

Stark Recruiting Partners is a recruitment firm that works in biotechnology, chemicals, industrial and engineering services, machine learning and data science, manufacturing, and oil and gas. Within biotechnology it covers diagnostics, pharmaceutical and therapeutic companies. In oil and gas it recruits for upstream and downstream operations, for both operating companies and service companies.

The firm describes its team as executive search professionals who find leaders and next-generation employees, or carry out confidential strategic searches. Its services include contingency search, strategic search and tailored searches. Its oil and gas division says it has placed individual contributors, department managers and executive leaders.

Frank Walsh co-founded the firm and is its chief executive officer, and Jennifer Jones is chief operating officer. Hudson Chen, the director of business development, is a former engineer at DuPont and Schlumberger and has placed hundreds of mid to senior professionals.