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Top 25 Hospitality executive search firms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 5,544 hospitality executive search firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 112,029 professional contacts across them, including 27,176 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers hospitality executive search firms headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest hospitality executive search firms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,367 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Restaurant Associates is a chef-driven hospitality company known for elevating culinary and brand experiences for our clients and guests across the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 4,786 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Aimbridge, hospitality is at the heart of everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 3,376 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Heidrick & Struggles is the premier provider of executive search, corporate culture and leadership consulting services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 3,238 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Beacon Hill was founded to set a new standard in search, career placement and flexible staffing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,889 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 2,493 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “White Lodging, established by hospitality icon Bruce White in 1985, has evolved into one of the country’s largest privately held hospitality companies focused exclusively on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,543 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1984, Sage Hospitality Group is an experiential hospitality company headquartered in Denver, Colorado.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 973 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With over a decade of experience, we specialize in Finance, Accounting, Administrative, and Executive staffing markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 969 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 955 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Career Strategies is a full service staffing firm specializing in Property Management, Healthcare and Professional Services recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 790 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Schulte Hospitality Group is a premier hospitality management and development company, overseeing a global portfolio of more than 240 hotels, restaurants, and other related…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 766 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Great organizations need exceptional leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 687 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1990, Solomon Page is a leading staffing and executive search firm headquartered in New York City with offices across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 660 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For big dreamers with a love for creating exceptional experiences, Columbia Hospitality delivers unparalleled service and entrepreneurial energy through a values-first…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 656 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For more than 35 years, DHR has been a leading provider of executive search, leadership consulting and emerging leader search solutions, serving more than 60 markets around the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 656 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Today, Hospitality Staffing Solutions is recognized as the industry leader.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 606 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ZRG is a global talent advisory firm that is changing the way companies hire and manage talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 545 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Headquartered in Tampa, FL, McKibbon Hospitality creates memorable hospitality experiences that inspire brand and property loyalty.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 532 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Union Square Hospitality Group has created some of New York’s most beloved restaurants, cafes, and bars, which offer outstanding food delivered with our signature warmth and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 498 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Options Group is a leading global executive search and strategic consulting firm specializing in financial services including capital markets, global markets, alternative…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 472 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “First Hospitality is a nationally recognized hospitality development and management company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 458 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Atlantic Group, founded in 2006, is an industry leader in executive and professional search & staffing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 442 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “People-first hospitality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 442 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Valor Hospitality Partners is a leading global full-service hospitality underwriting, acquisition, development, management, and asset management company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 442 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JJA is a team of executive headhunters specializing in swift, discreet, drama-free placements across the innovation economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: hospitality executive search firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names hospitality executive search firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of hospitality executive search firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name hospitality executive search firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Hospitality executive search firms based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 5,544 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among hospitality executive search firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “hospitality executive search firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names hospitality executive search firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among hospitality executive search firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 27,176 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Hospitality executive search firms by metro
- Hospitality executive search firms in New York481
- Hospitality executive search firms in Chicago163
- Hospitality executive search firms in Atlanta147
- Hospitality executive search firms in Los Angeles141
- Hospitality executive search firms in Houston124
- Hospitality executive search firms in Dallas119
- Hospitality executive search firms in Miami112
- Hospitality executive search firms in San Francisco88
- Hospitality executive search firms in Austin73
- Hospitality executive search firms in Charlotte69
- Hospitality executive search firms in Boston62
- Hospitality executive search firms in Denver59
- Hospitality executive search firms in San Diego59
- Hospitality executive search firms in Tampa56
- Hospitality executive search firms in Orlando55
- Hospitality executive search firms in Phoenix53
- Hospitality executive search firms in Washington51
- Hospitality executive search firms in Las Vegas43
- Hospitality executive search firms in Minneapolis40
- Hospitality executive search firms in Pittsburgh36
- Hospitality executive search firms in Scottsdale35
- Hospitality executive search firms in Columbus32
- Hospitality executive search firms in Irvine32
- Hospitality executive search firms in Cleveland31
- Hospitality executive search firms in Nashville31
- Hospitality executive search firms in Seattle31
- Hospitality executive search firms in Boca Raton29
- Hospitality executive search firms in Philadelphia29
- Hospitality executive search firms in Raleigh28
- Hospitality executive search firms in Fort Lauderdale27
- Hospitality executive search firms in Cincinnati25
- Hospitality executive search firms in New York City25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names hospitality executive search firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many hospitality executive search firms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 5,544 hospitality executive search firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Restaurant Associates, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most hospitality executive search firms?
New York leads with 481 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (163) and Atlanta (147).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 27,176 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 5,544 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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