Roy King

About Roy King

Roy King is a Managing Director with ChampionScott Partners and serves clients in North America, EMEA, LatAm and APAC. Clients value Roy’s leadership and operating experience as a senior executive/board member in industry and management consulting partner. Roy was the CEO of 5 PE backed technology companies, CEO of a public B2B software company and GM for large tech/professional services companies such as IBM and CSC. Roy also served as a board member for mid-market technology companies and possesses governance experience working with standing committees and serving on the compensation/people committees.Roy focuses on digital engineering, software/SaaS/PaaS, business services, IT Services, security and next generation technologies. He provides clients with organizational and leadership advice, team buildouts, management assessments and executive search engagements with and for CEOs/Boards. In industry and with CSP, Roy led numerous search engagements that placed CEOs, Executive Leadership Teams, Business Unit/Geo leaders, Client Partners and other leaders in key positions. Professional & Career Highlights• Proven senior executive for public and private business services and technology companies• Consulting partner at KPMG, Booz Allen & GM of IBM’s global consulting and industry solutions business• Chairman/CEO of a public B2B software company, CEO of five (5) PE backed companies and BoD member for mid-market tech companies• Led businesses through transformation, growth and M&A activities• Senior Advisor in areas of digital transformation, re-engineering, operations & technology strategy and human resource management• Led large scale client assignments globally, lived in Europe while running $3B+ business across 24 countries for IBM and resided on the East Coast for most of his career. Born in Peoria, Illinois, Roy earned his BS in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University while working as a co-op engineer for John Deere & Co. After working for 4 years as an engineer, Roy moved east and earned a MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He and his wife reside in the Sarasota area and love to travel either pursuing more adventures in Italy or visiting their 4 children and 3 grandchildren in Portland, OR; Boulder, CO or Greenville, SC. Roy enjoys the outdoors and loves to fish, hunt and camp…and, the entire family has a great appreciation for culinary experiences influenced through their family trips and international travels.

Experience

1. Managing Director

   Championscott Partners

   Apr 2015 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   ChampionScott Partners is a premier retained executive search firm focused on the global technology industry and related sectors with offices in Atlanta, Boston, London, Silicon Valley and Washington DC.Roy\'s experience as a CEO, Board Member and Operating Executive encompassed leading businesses through significant growth and transformation while working closely with boards, HR communities, and leadership teams to achieve strategic, operational and financial objectives, as well as completing successful investor exits. He led critical recruitment efforts for senior executives across the C-Suite and market facing positions including sales and delivery with key account, geographic, industry, functional or business process responsibilities for business services, consulting and new markets. Additionally, he has personally led talent acquisition strategies for large scale programs in target markets and geographic regions worldwide. Roy will leverage his operating experience to assist clients of ChampionScott Partners build their leadership teams worldwide.

Education

• Iowa State University

  BS, Industrial Engineering

  1972 — 1976

• Harvard Business School

  MBA, Business

  1980 — 1982

Skills

• Human Resources
• Outsourcing
• Executive Search
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Strategy
• Business Transformation
• Mergers
• Contract Negotiation
• Start-Ups
• Strategic Planning
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Consulting
• Change Management
• Business Planning
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Entrepreneurship
• Business Analysis
• Strategy
• Saas
• Performance Management
• Management
• Team Building
• Project Management
• Enterprise Software
• Sales Management
• Management Consulting
• Program Management
• Leadership
• Process Improvement
• Business Development
• Negotiation
• Acquisition Integration
• Sales