Notch Partners Brings on Search Veteran Roger Chen

August 2008 - Notch Partners Brings on Search Veteran Roger Chen

Executive Search Professional Joins Leading Private Equity Human Capital Services Firm to Enhance Backable CEO Initiatives

Short Hills, NJ - - Notch Partners, a human capital services firm that helps private equity firms maximize investment returns by cultivating meaningful CEO relationships to source and enable buyout transactions and lead portfolio companies, has added Roger Chen to its growing team of private equity-focused professionals.

The announcement, effective immediately, was made by founders Andrew Thompson and Mei-Mei Tuan.

An executive search veteran with more than 10 years experience in recruitment of CEOs and other senior executives, Chen most recently served as Director of Executive Search for Merrill Lynch & Co where he was responsible for implementing senior-level executive searches across the company's business and functional organizations.

Prior to Merrill Lynch, he served as a Principal with Heidrick & Struggles International, where he executed searches for general management, functional leadership positions and Board members for clients in industries ranging from discrete and process industrial manufacturing to high tech, hospitality, telecommunications, defense and aerospace, media, transportation and business services.

Chen, a native of Hong Kong and a graduate of the Rutgers University School of Business with a Finance degree, brings to Notch Partners diverse industry knowledge and a broad network, deriving from his extensive work with private-equity firms and their portfolio companies, as well as through his numerous assignments with Fortune 500 companies. He began his retained executive search career with a boutique firm that focused on financial services, consumer products and technology verticals.

"As we focus exclusively on serving private equity firms through all phases of the transaction cycle, the demand for our CEO search services has expanded dramatically" says Thompson. "Roger brings world-class capabilities to Notch Partners, not only in traditional CEO search, but also in his unusually thoughtful approach to cultivating relationships on behalf of private equity firms with the most accomplished CEOs in the world."

Ms. Tuan commented, "Buyouts have become fiercely competitive over the last few years. Roger truly understands the role of CEO relationships in helping our clients to differentiate themselves from the competition and deliver outsized returns for their limited partners."

Founded in 2002, Notch Partners serves buyout clients by cultivating high-impact CEO relationships for operating partner programs and other deal-leadership roles on an ongoing basis. Utilizing a highly-customized approach for each client, Notch Partners combines an in-depth understanding of the dynamics of private equity deals with unparalleled access to top-tier CEOs from a wide variety of industries. Notch Partners clients benefit through increased proprietary deal flow, "on-demand" portfolio leadership and broad domain expertise for due diligence. Notch Partners works with accomplished CEOs to help them understand the unique combination of success factors required for private equity backing and to develop deal concepts through which they partner with Notch Partners' private equity clients.

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