BRIAN BLACKSHAW

ceo/founder
managing partner, north america

Brian Blackshaw is the CEO/Founder of Blackshaw Partners and the Managing Partner, North America. Brian founded the global executive search firm in 1976 after spending five years with the Singer Company in corporate recruiting at their international headquarters in New York. Blackshaw Partners relocated its headquarters from Atlanta, GA to Frisco, TX in 2021.

Brian is one of the few retained executive search practitioners in this country with over 25 years of experience serving clients in a wide variety of industries. He has conducted over 600 assignments ranging from vice president to C-suite executives for Fortune 1000, private equity firms, and non-profit organizations. These clients include Home Depot, Avis, Coldwell Banker, Century 21, Orbitz, Galileo, RJR Nabisco, Equitable Real Estate, Diners Club, Warburg Pincus, Guggenheim, Schering Plough, Kimberly Clark, Lexmark, the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company, Sotheby's, AIG, Dun & Bradstreet, and Wyndham Worldwide.

Brian is very active in the Arts community in Atlanta and has served as a member of the Boards of Directors for the Woodruff Arts Center of Atlanta and Chairman of the Arts Center’s Advance Gifts Campaign. Brian is also a Board Member of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation of Atlanta.

Brian is an alumnus of the University of Missouri and now a proud resident of Frisco, TX.