Rob Huxtable

About Rob Huxtable

Rob exclusively advises top-quartile private equity firms on their most critical hires with a focus on portfolio company CEOs, CFOs and CROs along with fund-level Operating Partners. He is equally committed to his candidates and ensure their career decisions are sound and well-informed. As his firm\'s founder, he ensures his team only represents the best kind of private equity firms: tough but collegial, demanding yet shoulder-to-shoulder, etc. He will not represent any funds are not talent friendly, as defined by: strong track record of returns + constructive governance approach.His approach is to facilitate mutual due diligence between compelling parties and help each become an informed buyer of the potential employment partnership. He is a private equity asset class expert with an intimate understanding of middle market companies and their value creation levers. He works across several sectors including: software, tech services, industrials, business services, consumer and healthcare.Rob and his colleagues are also an aggregator of private equity trends and best practices. These insights are fueling the growth of - the world\'s largest community of PE-backed executives. Within the community, PE operators share content, best practices and networks in the spirit of driving top end MOIC outcomes.Finally, Rob and his PE-cxo colleagues continuously push the performance and innovation envelope to ensure their sponsor clients are rewarded with an unfair competitive talent advantage. They work closely with sponsors to create proactive, game-changing talent solutions that reduce their reliance on the treadmill of reactive, retained searches.As an ardent supporter of private equity, Rob has his own skin as an LP investor with a number of leading private equity firms.

Experience

1. Founder & Partner

   FALCON

   Jan 2010 — Present

   FALCON is a retained search firm built to drive top-quartile performance for private equity sponsors and their management teams. We execute assignments for for portfolio company CEOs and their direct reports. We also conduct fund-level Operating Partner searches.

Education

• University of Dayton

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Middle Market
• Board of Directors
• Executive Search
• Search
• Private Equity
• Recruiting