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Top 25 Technology executive search based in Chicago, United States

Name: Technology executive search based in Chicago, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 6, 2026 121 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 121 technology executive search headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 4,998 professional contacts across them, including 2,271 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers technology executive search headquartered in Chicago, 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 6, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 6, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest technology executive search based in Chicago, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 121 technology executive search based in Chicago, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 6, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to technology executive search: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Heidrick & Struggles	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	1,001-5,000	3,376 contacts →
	“Heidrick & Struggles is the premier provider of executive search, corporate culture and leadership consulting services.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
2	DHR Global	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	501-1,000	656 contacts →
	“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: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
3	Hunt Club	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	51-200	105 contacts →
	“Hunt Club is an executive search firm for pre- and post-IPO companies, private equity and venture capital firms, and their portfolio business leaders who require access to…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
4	Slayton Search Partners	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	80 contacts →
	“Since our beginning in 1985, Slayton Search Partners' strategy has been to focus on possibilities, not limitations.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
5	CMC Consultants, INC	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	65 contacts →
	“CMC Consultants Inc.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
6	20 20 Foresight Executive Talent Solutions	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	51-200	54 contacts →
	“Founded in 1994, 20/20 Foresight is a national executive search and full-service talent advisory firm that specializes in real estate, financial services, and professional…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
7	Piercegray	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	44 contacts →
	“As a boutique retained search firm, PierceGray helps clients succeed by finding the right leaders.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
8	LMB Associates	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	1-10	26 contacts →
	“Although the recruitment business can be transactional, LMB Associates believes in a collaborative, personalized approach to recruiting, building valued relationships with both…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
9	Lantern Partners	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	21 contacts →
	“Founded in 2003, Lantern Partners is a premier, retained, executive recruitment firm, focused on C-level and executive leadership positions for the investor-backed technology…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
10	Roberts & Ryan	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	19 contacts →
	“We specialize in nationwide retained searches for: Director level and above roles for Fortune 500 companies VP and C-Level roles for public, private or family-owned, mid-market…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
11	Buzzco	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	51-200	18 contacts →
	“BuzzCo is a woman-owned executive search consultancy fueling Marketing, Advertising & Creative with talent that keeps pace with innovation.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
12	The Equus Group	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	15 contacts →
	“The Equus Group is a full-service executive search firm offering a highly customized approach to talent acquisition.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
13	Reilly Partners	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	“When it comes to finding and hiring the very best talent for your executive team, are you making the safe choice or the right choice?” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
14	Roma Hired	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	“ROMA Hired is a premier retained executive search firm that has followed a distinctively different path.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
15	Manalot	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	13 contacts →
	“Manalot: Your Trusted Partner in Building Exceptional Leadership Manalot, formerly Maple Consulting & Services (established 2016), is a premier leadership advisory and retained…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
16	Holden Richardson LLC	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	11 contacts →
	“Holden Richardson is a boutique executive recruiting firm with areas of expertise in: diversified industrial \| automotive \| energy \| consumer durables \| distribution & logistics \|…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
17	Dsml Executive Search	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	11 contacts →
	“We are an Executive Search firm recruiting CEOs, VPs and other executives in the USA for European based businesses.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
18	Talent Acquisitions Group INC	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	11 contacts →
	“Talent Acquisitions Group is a premier executive search and recruiting firm, specializing in rapidly building and scaling teams for Private Equity portfolio companies, VC-backed…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
19	Searchworks, LLC	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	1-10	10 contacts →
	“SearchWorks is reimagining what executive recruitment should feel like.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
20	Vortex Staffing, INC	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	9 contacts →
	“Vortex Staffing is a sales executive search firm specializing in building world class sales/leadership/engineering teams in the technology space with an emphasis on; cloud…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
21	Transearch USA	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	7 contacts →
	“The Art and Science Of Attracting Outstanding Leaders.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
22	Auctus Search Partners LLC	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	“We work with lower-middle and middle-market private equity firms and privately held companies to recruit proven executive leadership and support long-term value creation.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
23	BTJ Health	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	6 contacts →
	“BTJ s is an executive search firm and job search marketplace connecting innovative healthcare organizations with exceptional mid-career and senior-level technology professionals.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
24	DSS Global INC	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	11-50	6 contacts →
	“DSS Global, Inc.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
25	Halo Consulting, LLC	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	“Halo Consulting is a certified minority-owned boutique search firm that makes the experience of working with a process-oriented retained executive search firm accessible to…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026

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: technology executive search. 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 technology executive search.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of technology executive search, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name technology executive search. 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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Technology executive search based in Chicago, United States at a glance

As of Sep 6, 2026

45.4%Verified-email coverage

41.3Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

278.5%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 6, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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11-50

51-200

501-1,000

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Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than this city, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 121 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 technology executive search, 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 Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “technology executive search”. 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 technology executive search), 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 technology executive search, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago 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, 2,271 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 6, 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.

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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 technology executive search, 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 technology executive search are there based in Chicago, United States?

RevenueBase identified 121 technology executive search headquartered in Chicago, 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?

Heidrick & Struggles, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most technology executive search?

New York leads with 337 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (121) and San Francisco (93).

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 2,271 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 121 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 6, 2026.

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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.