Clients and Friends,

In recent months, Nosal Partners has celebrated a number of key milestones and marquee assignments, including the placement of James Whitehurst as Chief Executive Officer at Red Hat, Inc., and Michael Boustridge as President of BT Americas. We are currently conducting C-Suite assignments for some of the world’s leading brands and look forward to announcing our placements over the next few months.

During the first quarter of 2008, Nosal Partners experienced strong growth across sectors in North America and Brazil. Through our alliance partners Alexander Hughes (in Europe, the Middle East and Africa) and SES (in Asia), we also conducted numerous high-level strategic assignments on behalf of clients with operations around the globe.

To keep pace with client demand, we have continued to add bench strength in key markets and industries with several strategic hires, including:

• Noboru (Bob) Kobayashi, Senior Partner: Based in our New York office, Bob conducts senior-level assignments in the financial services industry and has over 30 years of international business experience in the financial services industry. His client experience includes financial services (commercial banks, asset management firms, broker/dealer, investment banks, and insurance companies), industrial, international trading, telecommunications, entertainment, consumer electronics, and transportation organizations. Before joining Nosal Partners, Mr. Kobayashi served as Managing Director of Financial Services and Japanese Business in the New York office of a retained executive search firm. Prior to his career in executive search, Mr. Kobayashi held several senior executive positions during his 20+ year tenure at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, where he managed the Corporate Banking Divisions in Tokyo and Chicago, the Human Resources Department in New York, and the European Credit Division in London.
• Cindi Roberts, Partner: Based in our Atlanta office, Cindi focuses on senior-level assignments in the life sciences industry. Cindi has more than 20 years of experience in executive search for organizations across all corporate and non-profit sectors. Since 1998, she has focused her efforts in the life sciences industry, delivering top talent for clients in sub-sectors ranging from medical devices, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and integrated delivery systems, to healthcare technology and academic institutions. Prior to joining Nosal Partners, Ms. Roberts was a vice president and founding member of a highly-specialized executive recruiting firm—Life Science Partner, where her clientele included a variety of emerging and established companies, as well as academic organizations.
• Nancy Zwiefelhofer, Client Partner: Based in Nosal Partners’ Minneapolis office, Nancy has a strong track record of recruiting for functions ranging from marketing, product management and sales to information technology and security. She has deep knowledge of the advanced technology, consumer goods, government, healthcare, manufacturing recruiting, retail, services and telecommunications industries. Prior to joining Nosal Partners, Nancy served as Senior Executive Sourcing Strategist at the UnitedHealth Group. She was previously a staffing specialist at NCS Pearson/Transportation Security Administration. Ms. Zwiefelhofer also held positions in sales at InterCall, after working as a recruiter for AmerAvail, Inc. and later Techies.com.

We thank you for your ongoing support as we continue to build the best brand in the business.

All the best,

David Nosal
Chief Executive Officer