DGC Retained Executive Search, LLC is a boutique firm working on exclusive engagement for boards and chief executives. No parallel searches for the same seat, no resume forwarding — one committed team, one search, one outcome.
A search firm is judged by the mandates it declines as much as the ones it accepts.
DGC Retained Executive Search, LLC was built on a simple premise: a firm cannot run twelve searches with the diligence one deserves. We hold a deliberately small number of active mandates at any time, each led directly by a partner, not handed to a junior associate once signed.
Our clients are boards, private equity operating partners, and CEOs hiring their own successors or leadership teams — situations where the cost of a miss is measured in years, not weeks.
A retained search is a funded partnership with one firm, built around a single outcome.
We work your search exclusively. There is no race against three other firms sending the same three candidates — our incentive is fit, not speed.
We map the entire relevant market, including people who are not looking. Most placements were never on a job board.
Fees are staged to search milestones, and our work continues past the offer — through onboarding and into the first year.
A limited set of practices, chosen so every search is led by genuine sector fluency.
CEO, CTO, and VP Engineering mandates for venture and growth-stage companies.
Leadership search across banking, asset management, and insurance.
Clinical, commercial, and executive leadership for providers and biotech.
Operating executives for private-equity-backed and family-owned firms.
Brand, merchandising, and general management leadership.
Operating partners, portfolio-company executives, and independent directors.
The sequence is fixed. The timeline flexes to the seat.
We define the role, the mandate, and success criteria directly with the hiring executive or board.
We build a full map of the relevant talent market, active and passive alike, before outreach begins.
We approach candidates directly and discreetly under the firm's name, never through a public posting.
Structured interviews and reference work narrow the map to a formally presented shortlist.
We manage negotiation and counter-offer risk through to a signed acceptance.
We check in through the first year to confirm the placement is landing as intended.
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Leads mandates for venture and growth-stage leadership, and PE operating-partner placements.
Focused on CFO, board director, and audit-committee mandates for regulated institutions.
Runs clinical and commercial leadership searches for providers, payers, and biotech.
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They ran the search like it was the only one on their desk. It was, and it showed.
Every engagement begins with a confidential conversation, not a proposal template. We'll tell you plainly if we're not the right firm for the search.
partners@dgcretained.com
(555) 010-0142
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