William McKinnon

About William McKinnon

Will McKinnon is a Partner at Russell Reynolds Associates, a leading global executive search and leadership advisory firm. Will runs the Americas General Counsel Practice and personally leads GC and CLO searches for public companies, PE portfolio companies and for GCs of Private Equity firms. Will is also a member of Russell Reynolds\' Technology Sector, where he leads CEO searches for technology-enabled services companies. With over 25 years of experience in building and managing B2B services organizations in law and business services, Will has a proven track record of driving growth, innovation, and performance across diverse sectors and geographies. He has deep relationships with both Private Equity and Fortune 500 CFOs, GCs, CHROs, and CEOs. As a member of the ELT of both Axiom Law and Corporate Executive Board (CEB), Will built and ran high performing global sales organizations. He is passionate about helping his clients broaden and diversify their leadership teams through recruitment of exceptional talent.Russell Reynolds Associates is a global leadership advisory and search firm. Our 470+ consultants in 46 offices work with public, private and nonprofit organizations across all industries and regions. We help our clients build teams of transformational leaders who can meet today’s challenges and anticipate the digital, economic and political trends that are reshaping the global business environment. From helping boards with their structure, culture and effectiveness to identifying, assessing and defining the best leadership for organizations, our teams bring their decades of expertise to help clients address their most complex leadership issues. We exist to improve the way the world is led.

Experience

1. Managing Director

   Russell Reynolds Associates

   Apr 2017 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Will leads the Americas Legal, Risk and Compliance Practice for Russell Reynolds, is on the Americas leadership team and is a member of the Technology Sector where he advises both privately held and publicly traded high growth technology and business services companies.For the last 8 years Will has led and helped build the legal practice at Russell Reynolds, including guiding the practice to an annualized growth rate of more than 10% and more than 200 legal searches annually. He has personally led more than 100 Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer or deputy CLO searches in public and PE-owned companies. Additionally he has led CEO assessment and recruitment within numerous PE-owned legal and business services companies. Earlier in his career, Will was one of the principal architects of the sales organizations of Corporate Executive Board and Axiom Law, driving 30% annualized growth and hiring a high performing team of professional services sales leaders. Will is based in Washington, DC.

Education

• Duke University

  BA, Economics and Public Policy

  1986 — 1990

Skills

• Team Building
• Management
• Performance Management
• Financial Services
• Start-Ups
• Marketing
• Leadership
• Training
• New Business Development
• Sales
• Strategy
• Sales Management
• Business Strategy