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We help growth companies inspire, hire and retain top talent. Partner with a team that has deep experience scaling teams globally for leading private and public companies, using a proven talent acquisition process.

What Our Clients Are Saying

Why Us - Client Testimonials

Cooke & White have been an important business partner to JSI by helping us to build our top talent. They have made the extra effort to truly understand our needs and identified promising candidates to fill several of our key leadership roles.

— Dan Freiman, Chief Financial Officer & Tasos Tsolakis, Chief Executive Officer at JSI

Michael and the team at Cooke & White assembled an incredible pool of candidates for our CTO role. They took the time to understand our unique needs and brought a great group of technical leaders that fit our specific requirements to the table. I’d highly recommend Cooke & White for CTO searches!

— Trace Smith, Chief Executive Officer at Next Glass - Untappd

Cooke and White has the most unique and effective solution in talent recruitment that I have experienced in 25 years of investing. They truly ‘know’ the candidates and tailor profiles to situations with a precision that is remarkable!

— Laurens Goff, Managing Partner at Stone-Goff Partners

We have leveraged Cooke and White a few times now, and have been incredibly impressed with Michael and his team. They are a joy to work with and really take the time to understand what we are looking for. In both searches, the team surfaced a wide variety of both traditional and non-traditional candidates, and we ended up with multiple strong options thanks to his team's effort and tenacity.

— Aman Narang, Co-President, Co-Founder, COO & Director at Toast

Rarely have I worked with a firm as customer-focused and competent as Cooke & White. They listened to our needs and found prospective hires who were equal in their competence and integrity. We have filled three executive positions with the Cooke & White team and look forward to placing many more.

— Gregg Beloff, Co-founder & Managing Director of Danforth Advisors

Austin understands that a great talent strategy is a key enabler of company strategy. He can both design a robust talent strategy and effectively deliver on it. He continues to be a trusted advisor to me on executive recruiting, organization design, talent development, employee communication and change management. I couldn’t have been successful in my roles as BU President or COO without him. He truly is a game changer.

— Wenda Cebula, President and COO at edX

Michael and his team spent the time necessary to get to know our company and our culture, and then tailored their search to deliver a truly stellar roster of candidates form-fitted to our specific needs. That small investment of time on their end saved a ton of time and effort on ours.

— Dan Haley, SVP, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer

Michael successfully led two critical searches for my leadership team and I’m thrilled with the outcome. He was a true business partner throughout, putting in the time to understanding our story, listening to how I was trying to build my team and culture, while also pushing back appropriately. He was fully committed to getting a great outcome, and was an absolute pleasure to work with.

— Emma Barnes Brown, Chief People Officer, Agero

My company partnered with Michael at both Sapient and Endeca. In the recruiting and human resources fields, Michael is a rare visionary with a real passion for his work. For all the lipservice recruiting gets, the function is too often relegated to a business service and a cost center. Michael views recruiting as talent acquisition and human resources as human capital management. He understands that both are the lifeblood of business. In addition to being a pragmatic problem solver, Michael is an enthusiastic, engaging, and charismatic leader, one of the few 'executives' I have met in our industry that merit the title.

— John Hawley, Chief Technology Officer, Convention Data Services

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How We Help

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Talent Strategy

Bring a different thought process to your candidate search, and create a roadmap for the future.

Hire The Best

We’ve successfully placed C-Suite leaders in some of the top hyper-growth companies.

Find Your New Role

Searching for your next move? We’ll find the right company to utilize your strengths.

Our Executive Search Process

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Kickoff

Assess needs and develop a tailored search blueprint.

Identify

Identify target companies and potential prospects.

Develop

Attract and evaluate candidates.

Present

Present candidates in client interviews.

Complete

Complete the search and post-search follow-up.

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Work Directly with a Partner

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Austin Cooke

Co-Founder and Senior Partner

Michael White

Co-Founder and Senior Partner

Patricia Lopez

Partner

Charles Telep

Principal

Unlike large recruiting firms, you’ll work with us one-on-one to develop your talent strategy and source executive leaders. Together we help hyper-growth companies find, inspire and retain top HR, Tech, Sales, and Marketing talent. Cooke and White Advisors is an intentionally small, but highly experienced and results-driven team.

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Our clients are some of the fastest growing American companies.

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How is your organization positioned to attract future talent?

“Only 15% of global business leaders believe their companies do an excellent job cultivating and monitoring long-term relationships with potential future talent.”

— 2017 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends Report

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