About the Firm
Built for the Complexity of Industrial Leadership
We are a contemporary breed of executive recruiting firm specializing in targeted talent acquisition dedicated to the logistics, infrastructure and energy sectors.
What Makes the Industrial Search Partners Experience Different
What makes the Industrial Search Partners experience better than working with other firms?
The most transparent search process in the industry
Using our online tool means you have real-time access to all candidate information and where they are in the process at any time.
We communicate your value proposition from an informed perspective
Our skill set lies in selling our clients' value proposition. We engage and engender interest in the right candidates. We advise candidates within the context of their own careers.
Veteran partners with deep industry experience
We understand your business. We engage with candidates at a deep level to assess competency and fit. The speed to placement and the success of our placed candidates reflects our success as a search firm. We present only the most qualified vetted candidates that will fit with your culture well.
A broad network of highly specialized talent
Thanks to our career-long relationships in the industry, we complete your search faster while capturing crucial collateral benefits of the professional search process, such as market insight, competitor intelligence and the voice of the customer.
Agility, speed and personal touch
Hands-on partners achieve faster than institutional/investor-controlled big firms. Clients have a dedicated experienced recruiter working on your search from beginning to end.
Unencumbered by the off-limits that big firms have
We deliver desirable candidates from companies large competitors dare not, because large competitors do business with so many targets — either directly in search or other HR RPO services. When you work with us, you have a more robust and diverse slate of qualified candidates to choose from. You select the best the market has to offer.
Our Team
Tap Into Our Expertise and Network
We are veteran partners with deep industry experience. We understand your business and can speak to candidates at the level needed to assess true competency and fit. We know the success of our candidate reflects our success as a search firm, and we present only the most qualified candidates that will work within your culture.
Jason Ward
Managing Partner
Jason has more than three decades of industrial and international business experience, with a focus on assignments across the industrial and transportation market segments, including heavy manufacturing, processing and converting operations, automotive, electronics, construction, all modes of asset-based transportation and 3PL, intermodal logistics, import/export, and supply chain. Earlier in his career, Jason led the industrial practice at RSR Partners, where he created and built a multimillion-dollar team. Prior to that, he was a Senior Client Partner at Korn/Ferry International (NYSE:KFY). He recruits executives within all functions, including firms’ CEOs, presidents, and senior level positions in operations, marketing, sales, finance, regulatory compliance and human resources, within both domestic and international markets. Jason also recruits for clients at the Board of Directors level. Prior to joining Korn/Ferry in 1999, Jason was the U.S. Commercial Manager for a prominent European-based owner of a fleet of modern double hull super tankers. Additional international business experience includes operations management for a privately held American/Brazilian import/export shipping joint venture. Jason was awarded his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut. Prior to this, he served as a Commissioned Engineering Officer in the United States Navy aboard a guided missile cruiser deployed to the Arabian Gulf. He earned his undergraduate degree in Logistics & Marine Transportation from the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
Sarah Stewart
Managing Director
Sarah has over 30 years of executive recruiting experience, most recently as a Partner with Boyden, where she conducted board search engagements for companies in a broad range of industries including industrial manufacturing. Prior to joining Boyden, Sarah served as a Senior Associate, Executive Director and Partner with two New York based executive search firms, Spencer Stuart and Boardroom Consultants. Her search execution work with those firms resulted in more than 300 director placements, about one-third of which were diversity candidates. In addition to her work for boards of directors, Sarah has managed selected recruiting assignments for CEOs and other operating executives, CFOs, CIOs, and senior human resources, investor relations and corporate communications executives. Sarah has spoken on governance issues at programs sponsored by Deloitte Board Ready Women, Stern Women’s Alumni Association, International Women’s Forum, the National Association of Corporate Directors, the AESC and the Forté Foundation. She has appeared in PBS’ Nightly Business Report, Investment News, Wall Street Journal, Crain’s New York Business, Directorship, Corporate Board Member, Institutional Investor.com, and Newsday. A graduate of Colorado College, Sarah also studied at the University of London. From 2003 to 2007, she was a member of the board of the Association of Executive Search Consultants, serving as Chair of the Governance Committee from 2006 to 2007.
Let's Talk About Your Search
We work with a select number of clients at any given time. If you're considering a C-suite or VP-level search, we'd welcome a confidential conversation.