At Hitch, we are focused maniacally on delighting our client partners by providing them with clear, actionable insights and data.

We are not your typical retained search firm; we are a team of people who like to have fun while making magical things happen. When you check out our LinkedIn profiles, you will not find the typical corporate background bios, and here's more that you won't see…

Jason is our overachieving data guru and resident vegan whom we rely on to articulate "Vegas Odds'' and predict various future events. He uses his wizardry to create a data story for our clients through intelligent research, data analysis, and leveraging internal and external information. When Jason is not enthralling us and making us laugh, he is planning vegan meals, dominating the Men Over 40 Vegas tennis circuit, and harassing Michael to substitute his meat-eating ways to join the plant-based revolution.

Karen, the architect of “Team Colorado”, focuses on candidate identification and development; and is our clients’ tour guide throughout the search process (basically, she does everything relating to making magic happen.) Her success lies in her experience raising four children, being a part-time CrossFit instructor, and her accomplished professional career; we're still wondering why she chose to mess around with us. She is the snarky adult in the room, so we all do what she says, or else… Burpees... LOTS OF BURPEES.

Jamie, the “un-snarky” alter-ego powering “Team Colorado”, also focuses on candidate identification and development and somehow manages to do this in between owning a CrossFit gym and taking care of two youngsters (three if you count her husband.) With her background in Health Informatics and nursing, nothing we can throw at Jamie will phase her. We secretly relish the idea of Jamie bossing Karen around at the CrossFit gym.

Donna was brought on as the “Adult” to keep the train on track with “Team Austin.” That task has proved challenging but much less so than raising four incredible children, starting a lacrosse league, and competing hardcore on the Peloton every morning. Donna is fearless in how she seamlessly manages “non-standard” personalities (see Brett below) and keeps smiling while she runs circles around all challenges.

Amy AKA Calendar Assassin, will annihilate any open slots you have available with precision. Amy is a soccer mom X3 with amazing daughters playing at the highest competitive levels, so she spends her weekends (and many weekdays) crisscrossing the country to catch her girls in action. Amy's eldest is a starter for the Air Force team; she will jump out of planes for breakfast and head to soccer practice for lunch. Amy does nothing halfway; if you are fortunate enough to partner with her, it will be correct (meaning her way is better than your way, trust her).

Kellie brings years of external and in-house recruiting wisdom to Hitch and always with grace and poise. She identifies top-notch talent while working behind the scenes on marketing and operations and providing daily sanity checks. Kellie is the person you want to know if you are looking for Hitch swag. In her spare time (and we’re not quite sure where she finds it), Kellie is out running at the crack of dawn, dominating a HIIT class armed with her battle ropes (registered as lethal weapons), driving her two daughters to multiple sporting events, and perfecting her morning Matcha Lattes.

Charrese AKA Happy Hunter, could also be called Annoying Person Who Insists We All Speak The Queen’s English, which is a little too long. Under her purple coat, you will find years of in-house technical recruiting and time in the Air Force (US not Royal), so she brings a unique perspective to the team. When she is not grammar-checking the team, she can be found halfway across the globe or hiking with her two dogs.

Brett lives (literally) by the mantra of hire (beg) people cleverer than you and then move out of their way so they can get the real work done. When Brett is not standing to attention as he is told what to do by the Hitch team or his wife, you will find him failing to keep up with the youngsters at UMC Boot Camp or schlepping (think unpaid Uber driver) his kids to various activities.

Michael AKA “CISO Whisperer.” No one works harder, talks more, or is as concerned about our CISOs and our client’s success. Michael has an extraordinary passion for people and security technology, and the combination is electrifying. He’s an obedient husband, a caring dad, a below-average fisherman, and a world-class meat smoker (his words). Michael is our favorite target for burpee challenges because he will do anything to avoid exercise and the associated physical pain.

Heather is a trusted advisor to the Hitch Team and go-to partner on all engineering leadership search related. Heather has built Code Search Partners into a practice that we greatly admire and is one of the most well-respected, intelligent, hard-working, client-oriented search professionals we know. As you can see, the Hitch Team’s secret to success is chemistry.  It’s something we hope to help our client-partners achieve with high impact hires.

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The Hitch Partners Way:  

As you can see, the Hitch Team’s secret to success is our chemistry which we will use to help our client partners achieve with their high-impact hires.

Many of the Hitch Partners team grew up or spent time in the “DMV” area (MD/VA/DC ) admiring Cal Ripken Jr, who “just showed up” again and again and again, quietly DELIVERING at a world-class level. As a player, Carl was not flashy, had lots of pride in his work, and was a positive role model with great values who did fantastic things for his fans both on and off the field. This type of consistent excellence is what the Hitch Team aspires to.