The Lonergan SV150 - Looking Back Ten Years
A decade of change remakes the Silicon Valley landscape
Susan Lonergan, June 18th, 2019
Ten Big Changes in Ten Silicon Valley Years Total sales of the SV150 grew from $452 billion in 2009 to $1,085 billion today (2.4 x)Market cap of the SV150 grew from $1.4 trillion in 2009 to $4.9 trillion today (3.5 x)55 of the companies in the SV150 ranked on 2009 sales are still on the list ten years later in 2019; these
Interviews Aren't Enough
Understanding Lonergan Partners' F-18 Process
Michael Cunningham, May 17th, 2019
With so much discussion about the evolving interview landscape, we often get the question, how do recruiters evaluate if CXOs are truly qualified?
In our market I do see value in the classic interview dialogue, but more for judgment of personal characteristics, communication style and chemistry. These soft attributes matter, because if
The Unexpected Spike in CEO Recruitment
2019 Sees Dramatic Growth in Outside Appointments
Mark Lonergan, May 9th, 2019
Starting in the middle of 2018, the demand for CEO recruitment started to spike for all classes of tech companies: Public, Venture-backed and Private Equity-backed companies. As one of Silicon Valley’s leading executive recruiting firms, we have doubled the number of CEO projects in the past year.
Why is now the time when
Board Diversity in 2019
Lessons from the Front
Dotty Schaffer, May 7th, 2019
Since the passage of California State Law #826, my firm has heard from dozens of public companies as they try to diversify their boards. Often, this is the first time that these board have considered using a search firm for the effort. Our Managing Partner Mark Lonergan, who is also the Chairman of the Silicon Valley
California Mandates Women on Public Boards
Words of Advice from a Silicon Valley Board Recruiter
Dotty Schaffer, October 1st, 2018
On Sunday, Governor Jerry Brown signed California legislation mandating every public board in the state must have at least one woman board director by the end of 2019. The goals of the legislation are to advance gender equality and help break the corporate glass ceiling.
In our August 2018 blog on the top 150 public companies in