Bryce Murray Named Principal of Ignition and Head of Technical Recruiting Practice

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) December 22, 2010

Ignition Search Partners, a national talent acquisition and advisory firm, announced today that Bryce Murray has joined the firm as a principal based in San Francisco. Murray will lead the firm’s technical recruiting division and conduct executive level assignments.

“Bryce is a seasoned recruitment professional with an outstanding reputation. He has a track record of recruiting breakout talent and has architected highly strategic full-team build-outs at some of the most successful start-ups and public companies in the world,” said Mark Jacobson, Founder & Managing Partner, Ignition Search Partners.

“The talent market knowledge that Bryce brings to the table coupled with the relationships he has nurtured with premier technical talent make Ignition’s depth in this sector unique and unparalleled,” said Jacobson. “Adding Bryce to the team enables us to offer a comprehensive, service offering to our clients,” he continued.

Prior to joining Ignition, Bryce served as a director at Walker Talent Group, a boutique human capital firm focused on large-scale turnarounds and hyper-growth companies. There he led talent acquisition efforts for some of the firm’s largest clients.

An engineer by background, Bryce began his career in human capital management at Riviera Partners, where he successfully executed dozens of technical searches at the C, SVP and VP levels across the consumer internet, retail, mobile, wireless, enterprise software and appliances and eCommerce industries. Bryce also helped Riviera build and develop their contingent technical recruiting organization and formalize their best practices for recruiting and research process.

Bryce holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Bioengineering: Bioinformatics from the University of California, San Diego and was selected as a National Collegiate Scholar.

“Ignition is disrupting the paradigm of both recruiting and venture capital, said Murray. “It’s very stimulating to be in position to lead one of the key components of a business that I know will create tremendous value for entrepreneurs and future founders.”

Ignition Search Partners is a first of its kind talent acquisition and advisory firm that merges the best practices of executive recruiting with the perspective and commitment of a venture capital firm to build teams capable of breakout success.

Founded in 2009 by a collective of research-driven investors, entrepreneurs and executive talent scouts, Ignition Search Partners specializes in working with startups and emerging growth businesses in the internet/e-commerce, digital media, SaaS and mobile sectors to accelerate and improve their ability to attract senior leadership as well as key impact engineers and product managers.

Traits of Talent
Ignition has devoted significant resources to gain perspective on the optimal competencies and the key Traits of Talent that drive success in entrepreneurs. The team applies this knowledge in quantitative and qualitative measures to develop a talent profile tailored to each client’s stage-specific requirements and takes a systematic approach to identify world-class candidates that go beyond the obvious.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Ignition also has offices in Boston.

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