Kim Finch Cook & Company Executive Recruiters and Consultants

Executive Recruiters for West Coast & Seattle Corporate Search

The cost of hiring the wrong person is incalculably high with business disruption, organizational havoc, and lost opportunity cost. Why quantify that high cost when you can just choose the “right fit recruiters” at Kim Finch Cook & Company Executive Recruiters & Consultants? In 23 years of recruiting, our clients have retained 99.5% of the people we placed into their organizations. Who else boasts that kind of record? Recruiting for great team building is as much art as it is science. In order to hunt for and place the perfect candidate in your organization we need to understand you, what you need, and the company culture. We take the time to study your team to find out the profile of the perfect fit. What capabilities and which personalities will drive your team to new heights? We’ll find out.

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The Right Fit Recruiters

Cultural fit is critical to retention. What capabilities and which personalities will drive your team to new heights? Who will fit into your corporate culture? We take the time to study your team to find out.

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They Call Us Headhunters...

…for a reason. It isn’t easy to find the perfect fit, but we do. We hunt, and 99% of our placements stick. Plus, 95% of our candidates aren’t currently searching for a job. That’s impressive by any standard.

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A Different Perspective

Each candidate we propose to you will strictly fit your requirements, but we don’t stop there. We often uncover hidden strengths in candidates that can strengthen your organization in unforeseen ways. That’s another reason our retention rate is so high.

Kim Finch Cook, CEO

Kim Finch Cook is a long-time entrepreneur with a life-long focus on business. Formerly a business broker, Kim has enjoyed a successful career for the last 25 years in executive recruiting. She started at Management Recruiters International, and then ran the accounting department of four branch offices for a national accounting service. Kim launched Kim Finch Cook Executive Recruiters in 1993, capitalizing on her extensive business background, networking capabilities, and substantial reputation in the field.

Kim has personally interviewed several thousand candidates, and therefore has a significant proprietary database from which she works to recruit. Kim has placed candidates from all parts of the United States and the world, including as far afield as Australia, Germany, and Chile. She mostly works with companies on the West Coast (especially Seattle), but has placed candidates in companies all over the US, including Hawaii.

Kim supports Kiwanis International and Mary’s Place of Seattle.

Kim@KFCook.com
(206) 890-4817

Josh Leichtung, Vice President

Josh is VP of the Technology & Marketing Practice at Kim Finch Cook & Company, which includes both recruiting and consulting. Josh’s deep business experience in successful turnarounds and startups as a CEO, CMO, COO, and Division GM, gives him a unique ability to quickly identify successful strategies and tactics that are achievable.

Josh’s clients have included Intel, Intuit, The Body Shop, Key Bank, M. LaHart & Company… on both marketing strategy and execution, as well as new product development. He partnered with Jay Walker, (later founder of Priceline) to bring FedEx overnight shipping to the catalog industry. He also helped sell his company for over $100 million to Kevin O’Leary of Shark Tank fame (and subsequently worked under him).

Josh has held key C-level and division GM positions with Fortune 500 companies and with a number of tech startups reporting to officers and boards. Josh led his company to place on the Inc. 500 List of Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies three consecutive years.

Josh@KFCook.com
415.766.7236