Jesse Hershman

About Jesse Hershman

Jesse is a Managing Partner and founding member of Park Square Executive Search, where he works with organizations at the forefront of science and technology to help solve critical issues relating to human capital. He specializes in leading searches at the Board level and across the C-Suite for companies in the life sciences, digital health, and sustainability sectors. Jesse is based in Park Square’s Boston office, and previously spent five years in San Francisco where he helped to build the firm’s presence on the West Coast. Prior to joining Park Square, Jesse served as a Researcher at J. Robert Scott, a global retained executive search firm, where he supported projects in technology, financial services, life sciences, and higher education. Jesse is a graduate of Brandeis University, where he majored in Psychology and minored in Economics. He also served as Captain of Brandeis’ Varsity Swimming and Diving team. Jesse currently resides in Somerville, Massachusetts with his wife Kayla and daughters Ari and Chloe. When not in the office or another country, he can likely be found hiking, running, or engaging in some aquatic-based activity. He also enjoys reading, particularly U.S. history and historical fiction, as well as baking, and watching his beloved Celtics. Jesse and his two brothers grew up working in their family’s business; specialty educational toy stores named after each of them.

Experience

1. Managing Partner

   Park Square Executive Search

   Jul 2024 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Park Square Executive Search is a retainer-based executive search firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in Menlo Park, California. Park Square serves clients and institutions that are changing the world through discovery, innovation, and growth. Park Square combines a rigorous, transparent search process with deep industry expertise in the life sciences, technology, sustainability, and education sectors. We place board members, chief executive officers, C-suite executives as well as academic and physician leaders.The Managing Directors of the U.S. business of J. Robert Scott, a global search firm founded in 1986, spun out to form Park Square Executive Search on April 1, 2012, the 26th anniversary of the original firm’s founding. As we have for 26 years, Park Square continues to work with leading biotechnology and high technology companies, major research universities and healthcare institutions, and venture capital and private equity firms, as well as their portfolio companies.

Education

• Danish Institute for Study Abroad

  Applied Psychology; Counseling

• Brandeis University

  B.A., Psychology, Economics

Skills

• Talent Acquisition
• Lifesciences
• Candidate Assessment
• Entrepreneurship
• Disruptive Technologies
• Candidate Development
• Candidate Searching
• Candidate Selection
• Venture Capital
• Candidate Generation
• Business Strategy
• Research
• Coaching
• Candidate Screening
• Staff Development