About Kraft Search Associates

Healthcare Executive Recruiters for C-Level, VP and Board Positions

Kraft Search was formed in 2001 to become "The Quality Leader" among Healthcare Executive Recruiters. Our ongoing vision is to develop long-term client relationships by consistently executing a rigorous and thorough executive search process that delivers the highest quality outcomes.

Our Services

We are a national Healthcare Executive Search Firm with executive recruiting clients located across all 50 United States and Canada. We provide executive recruiting services for all senior level positions in the Healthcare industry, including C-Level, VP, SVP, EVP and Board positions.

We are versatile and experienced Healthcare executive recruiting experts with direct access and strong businesses relationships to corporate board members, senior executives and top performing senior managers throughout the following healthcare segments:

• Hospital Vendors and Outsourced Solution Providers
• Insurance & Managed Care
• Providers - Hospitals, Health Systems & IDNs
• Specialized Healthcare Services
• Medical Technology & Device
• Turnaround & Corporate Restructuring Organizations
• Venture Capital, Private Equity & Leverage Buyout Investment Firms
• Financial Services

We are Healthcare executive recruiting specialists. We understand the Healthcare industry, the people and the unique challenges facing our clients Healthcare business leaders. We possess, and we effectively apply, the precision knowledge and the skills needed to meet your Healthcare executive recruiting requirements.

Our Clients

Our Healthcare executive search partners have successfully completed more than 400 search assignments for a broad spectrum of clients, ranging from Fortune 500, Fortune 100 and Fortune 25 businesses, Healthcare systems and Healthcare IDNs, mid-cap growth companies, Private Equity and Leverage Buyout firms, and related portfolio companies, turnaround and restructuring firms and entrepreneurial Venture-Capital start-ups all throughout the Healthcare industry.

We have successfully completed search assignments for Board of Director, CEO, COO, CFO, EVP, SVP and VP-level assignments across most major functional areas.

Our Experience

We have an outstanding team of Healthcare executive recruiters with more than 65 years of combined experience in business development, search strategy definition, search execution, candidate identification, candidate recruitment, project management, and effective negotiation between candidate and client.

Because we are singularly focused Healthcare executive recruiters, Kraft Search Associates combines a wealth of industry and technical knowledge that brings a unique and educated perspective to our clients and searches. We have access to the country's leading healthcare executives and board members, we have deep healthcare industry contacts, and we are able to consistently identify both the proven veterans as well as the promising up-and-comers, depending upon your executive recruiting needs.

Our Extensive Resources

We continue to invest significant time and resources to develop our internal systems, IT systems, Internet presence, processes and relationships to allow us to thoroughly conduct and complete Healthcare executive searches for clients throughout the United States and Canada. Focusing our efforts within healthcare allows us to develop systems and contacts unmatched by other less focused executive recruiters.

To our client's benefit, our off-limits constraints are much fewer than old-line national executive recruiter firms, allowing us to recruit the very best leadership for your business. Additionally, we bring new energy and contacts to our clients not found from old-line retained executive search firms.

Community Involvement

We believe in bettering our community through Board affiliations and community service that allows us to give back. A few of the community organizations where we spend our time include the American Heart Association, Rotary Club of Nashville, Family and Children's Services, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Nashville Healthcare Council and Leadership Health Care, Rotary Club, Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital and The American College of Healthcare Executives.

The Bottom Line

Our extraordinary success as Healthcare executive recruiters can be attributed to our industry and technical knowledge as well as our ability to work one-on-one with each of our clients. As a boutique retained search firm, we assign multiple team members to each search and each member participates throughout the assignment's life-cycle. This approach offers continuity to our clients through a highly personalized search process. We're driven by quality outcomes and our all hands on deck approach helps us achieve the highest level of success with each executive search we undertake.