We built our firm on the pillars of objectivity, undiluted ethics, and enlightened aggression.
With a process that’s rooted in relationships, data, and intellect, we’ve provided professional judgments that have made a lasting impact on our partners.
Our judgements are simultaneously inspired by instinct and pragmatism, resulting in balanced outcomes designed to endure.
‘We sit in the mud...and reach for the stars’
- Ivan Turgenev, Fathers & Sons
Each in our own fashion, we sat in the mud in 2012. I had just retired from a 25-year career at Fidelity Investments and moved from Boston to New York. John had just completed his MBA without much of a clue as to how to build his career anew after having toiled for a decade on Wall Street.
With common resolution, an intergenerational conspiracy was hatched, one which allowed us to reinvent ourselves. We reached for the stars in creating a family business. I would find a new creative platform to ply a trade honed over three decades in Boston and John would get a fresh start in a business which he had witnessed me practice throughout his youth.
Thus, Occam was born. A fusion of hard-earned wisdom and amorphous creative vigor. Our collaboration has yielded a richly successful global search firm, one dedicated to helping entrepreneurs realize their vision. Occam’s culture is rooted in intuitive team play, mutual respect, warmth of spirit, uncompromising ethics and clarity of purpose – family values.
Driven by discipline
and objectivity
Guided by open
communication
Inspired by both improvised
and structured thinking
Fueled by an unrelenting
commitment to results
We built our firm on the pillars of objectivity, undiluted ethics, and enlightened aggression.
The medieval philosopher William of Occam serves as the firm's adopted patron saint. William spoke plainly and his thoughts were infused with rigor and humanity. These qualities yielded elevated ideas that advanced Western philosophy but also got him into a few punch-ups with the Vatican.
His enduring concept, Occam's Razor Lex Parsimonia - embodies an unrelenting focus on essentials in problem-solving. His and our solutions strive for elegant simplicity.
We are specialists in recruiting executives and board members for the life sciences but serve a variety of other tech clients as well as venture capital.
Occam serves clients in the UK, US, Continental Europe, and Asia.
Occam focuses on executive search and board placement for the life sciences, technology, and venture capital industries.
Occam is differentiated by its extensive network, comprehensive search process, enduring commitment to ethics, personal approach, and creativity.
Occam provides global executive recruiting, board placement and leadership advisory services.