Founded in 2003, the Charles Aris Strategy Practice has developed deep expertise in the world of strategy and has global connections with elite consultants from firms like McKinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company and other top management consulting firms.
Our search team has a refined network of over 87,000 current and former consultants and places strategy leaders in roles ranging from chief strategy officer to associate. As of January 2022, our practice has completed over 1,100 searches.
We partner with Fortune 500 companies, private equity firms, asset managers and other professional services organizations to help meet mission-critical hiring needs across industries. Whether you’re looking to hire talent from one of the Big Three management consultancies or a boutique specialty firm, our practice stands ready to help build your world-class team.
Chad Oakley serves as the chief executive officer of Charles Aris Executive Search. He joined the firm in 2003 and founded our Strategy & Corporate Development Practice, a practice that has to date completed over 1,000 searches.
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Steven Stewart is a strategy vice president with an industry focus on technology. Prior to joining Charles Aris Executive Search, Steven spent 14 years in various business development and recruiting roles in the technology services industry.
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Jill Jitima is a vice president in the Strategy Practice at Charles Aris Executive Search, leading the Consumer, Retail & Hospitality Practice. Since joining the firm in 2011, Jill has worked with multiple Fortune 500 companies across food and beverage; health and beauty; household goods; consumer durables; apparel; and retail.
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Ashlee Wagner is a vice president who leads the firm’s financial services / asset management and private equity recruiting practices across banking, insurance, wealth/asset management, credit card, payments, fintech, real estate investment clients, hedge funds, growth equity, venture capital and private equity.
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Jody Bischoff is a strategy vice president who leads the firm’s Healthcare Practice serving payor, provider, pharma, biotech, medical device, healthcare services and health tech clients.
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Julia Opaleski is the director of the Consumer, Retail & Hospitality Strategy Practice at Charles Aris Executive Search.
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Kevin Stemke is a senior associate practice leader at Charles Aris Executive Search who focuses his recruiting efforts in the strategy function and industrial manufacturing industry.
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Derek Terry is a senior associate practice leader in the Consumer, Retail & Hospitality Strategy Practice at Charles Aris Executive Search
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Jacob Watkins is a senior associate practice leader who primarily focuses his recruiting efforts in the strategy and corporate development function for financial services firms.
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Clifton Vaughan is a senior associate practice leader who co-leads the private equity recruiting practice at Charles Aris Executive Search. His work is focused on placing current and former management consultants into investing and operating roles with private equity firms.
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Jonathan Goffredi is a senior associate practice leader who co-leads the private equity recruiting practice at Charles Aris Executive Search. He specializes in placing current and former management consultants into investing and operating teams at private equity, growth equity and venture capital firms.
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Clearly, Charles Aris is knowledgeable in the strategy and corporate development space. The team has their [finger on the pulse] for individuals in that space and found really good talent.
Since 2003, the Charles Aris Strategy & Corporate Development search team has placed more than 1,100 candidates at multiple levels in client organizations — 429 in the past three years alone.
The Charles Aris Strategy & Corporate Development database includes more than 40,000 potential candidates from Tier 1 strategy consulting firms.
Depending on where candidates are in their consulting careers, they will excel in different areas of the consulting toolkit. As you can see in the illustration below, the time spent on each of the four consulting competencies evolves as a consultant progresses from Analyst to Partner. The Charles Aris search team helps hiring authorities determine the right level of consultant to address each organizational need.
We're confident this report will serve as a useful resource as you address your organization's mission-critical hiring needs and manage your own career trajectory.
Over the course of Q4 2022, Charles Aris team members surveyed more than 2,300 professionals, 1,074 of whom are former strategy consultants.
The report organizes offers by level, highlights compensation, title and previous employment details, plus whether or not the offer was accepted or declined.
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