What We Do

Encore (formerly Synergy-Search LLC) is a highly regarded strategic talent advisory firm.

As long-term partners to our clients, we advise on human capital planning, talent acquisition, and the competitive business landscape. We provide the insights to help you make informed decisions about the leadership you need to build an organization that outperforms, inspires and grows. Our practice focuses on high profile searches for world class clients. We believe there is a true art and science in identifying the right executive for our client company searches and in matching for cultural fit. We serve the following sectors and functions.

• Private Equity - When our clients look to deliver operational and shareholder value in their portfolio companies, they need exceptional leaders who are able to build performance-based teams and organizations, and who can navigate rapidly changing market dynamics. We understand the importance in identifying the executives who can help them maximize the potential commercial value of their investments. We engage the most distinctive talent to strategically position the portfolio company for continued growth. Our focus is on the C-Suite and one level below. We attract talent that can grow a company organically or through acquisition, and can prepare the company for eventual merger, sale, or IPO. We also conduct searches for operating partners and Investment professionals for our PE clients.

• Professional Services - From the Big 3 to the Big 4, we have conducted countless senior level and partner level searches across industries, geographies and service lines. Our track record in attracting top talent offers our consulting firm clients opportunities to capture market share and expand service line offerings.

• Technology - From health care tech to tech enabled food service delivery, and ever evolving, we partner with the founders and leaders of our early entrant, and mid to large cap hi-growth tech clients to solve short and long term business objectives by attracting key executive level talent who can scale their organizations.

• Consumer & Retail - We have built global strategy teams for fortune 50 CPG clients, and identified CEOs and other C-Suite executives for retail clients.

• Financial Services - Investment banking coverage teams & sector heads; capital raising executives for asset management firms, partners for financial services practices at a Big 3 consulting firms, and technology trading leaders for a top hedge fund are some of the examples of searches we tackle in the financial services sector.

We earn our client’s relationships by providing sound advice, and through excellent execution building long term trust over decades. Our results are evidenced by the direct impact we have on clients’ extraordinary growth and increased shareholder value.