Client Testimonials
MarketTools
“The Pacific Firm’s outstanding research-based methodology allows them to source candidates other search firms seem to miss. Their ability to deeply understand our business needs and environment has resulted in several excellent placements, of which I am proud to be one. As a candidate, I found their approach refreshingly informed, responsive, and straightforward.”
Jon-Paul Ales-Barnicoat
Director, Global Staffing
MarketTools
The Doctors Company
"Their knowledge of our industry, understanding of our company, and assessment of our existing team was outstanding."
Bryan Lawton, PhD
Chief of Corporate Development
The Doctors Company
Bebe
"I truly value the relationship with Pacific Firm that we have built over the last nine years."
Patricia Quartini
Manager, Corporate Recruiting
Bebe
VendareNetBlue
“As a candidate, I found working with the Pacific Firm to be a unique pleasure. They were very responsive, able to skillfully communicate the needs of their clients and understand how my expertise suited the opportunity.”
Lynn Johnson
VP of Human Resources
VendareNetBlue
GoSmile
"We have worked with the Pacific Firm on an ongoing basis to fill a number of key roles within our company. They are our preferred long-term, outsource staffing solution, always connected, available, and informed."
Josh Shaw
COO
GoSmile
Bayhill Therapeutics
“The Pacific Firm has always generated quality leads in a cost effective manner. Their response time, communication and efficiency has been excellent, and we have used the firm for a variety of different searches over the years.”
Mark W. Schwartz, Ph.D.
President & CEO
Bayhill Therapeutics
MarketTools
“I have worked with the Pacific Firm since the early ‘90’s because they deliver outstanding results cost effectively. The team at Pacific Firm works closely with our recruiting staff and hiring managers to understand our human resource needs in the context our business, and this, along with their expertise and and recruiting resources, enables them to deliver the right panel of candidates every time. I trust them to deliver not only end results, but to act as an organizational partner - helping us to refine profiles and effectively manage candidate communications. Pacific Firm candidates we have hired have invariably become our best performers.”
Linda Esperance
Vice President, Human Resources
MarketTools
VendareNetBlue
“We’ve retained the Pacific Firm to fill several senior positions in our company. It was important to us to work with a firm that understands the needs of a fast-growing, agile software company. They delivered results, with resources and talent the caliber of the big search firms without the price tag and red tape.”
Art Shaw
CEO
VendareNetBlue
Method Products, Inc.
"We have used the Pacific Firm for the last five years — a period of tremendous growth for our company. One of the major challenges for us has been recruiting the right talent to deliver this growth and to shape the company. The Pacific Firm has been very valuable to us as we transitioned from raw start-up to a more established growth company. What has been particularly helpful is their ability to combine a clear definition of the open position with a deep understanding of our culture; this has resulted in a more focused, timely and cost-efficient search with outstanding outcomes."
Alastair Dorward
President & CEO
Method Products, Inc.
Genentech
“Having worked with the Pacific Firm’s knowledgeable team for many years, I know I can rely on them for the full range of all our outsourced senior staffing needs. From standalone research and name generation, to full-on executive recruiting, they are a frontline partner in executive search.”
Natalie Fleury
Staffing Manager
Genentech
JH Partners
“We have used the Pacific Firm to successfully fill several C-level and executive roles across our portfolio of companies. Their unique research-based model has allowed them to deliver the results of the big search firms at a fraction of the cost.”
Jeff Hansen
Principal
JH Partners
Free People
“Stacie took a real interest in learning about me, both professionally and personally. It was a more long term approach. When she presented opportunities she didn't waste my time and I could tell she had thought through both skill set and fit."
Chris DeWitt
Free People
Red Envelope
“The transparency of the Pacific Firm’s process allows us to participate in the process at any step along the way. We can stay efficiently engaged in recruiting and benefit from the Firm’s expertise.”
Christopher Nordquist
General Counsel
Red Envelope
San Francisco Equity Partners
“As a private equity firm, we understand the value of working with a search firm that is as cost conscious and flexible as we are, while delivering top-tier results. We have introduced all our portfolio companies to the Pacific Firm. They have delivered time and time again.”
Scott Potter
Principal
San Francisco Equity Partners
WhiteHat Security
“I worked with the Pacific Firm in my previous company and now with my current firm. Stacie and her team have a focused, flexible approach that is conducive to finding the best candidates in the least amount of time. I have always been pleased with their results.”
Stephanie Fohn
President & CEO
WhiteHat Security
Tides
“The Pacific Firm’s thorough research process facilitated and supported contact with candidates from our own network; those who were perhaps two or three degrees away landed squarely on our radar. It was important to us to work with a firm that would be sensitive to our values-based mission while delivering outstanding results. In the Pacific Firm, we found a perfect partner — not only responsive to our unique culture, but able to bring their exemplary, results-oriented business practices to bear, delivering top quality candidates in a very cost effective framework.”
Danica Remy
Managing Director
Tides
NapaStyle Inc.
“Stacie Blair and company have been instrumental in NapaStyle’s successful growth by knowing our brand, bringing the skill set required for success in high growth and delivering to us top tier talent that continue to lead our business forward.”
Michael Chiarello
Founder & CEO
NapaStyle Inc.