Defining the Best in Executive Search
Executive talent drives organizational success, so every hiring decision you make is critical to collective performance.

The search for talent - finding the ideal candidate and ensuring a perfect fit - is both an art and a science. It integrates the latest search methods, assessment technologies, online tracking tools and international databases. And combines the experience, wisdom and industry knowledge of specialized consultants.

This is how StoneWood Group defines excellence in executive search, and we are proud to have built exceptional client relationships on the strength of our services. Our consultants look forward to finding the very best leaders for your organization.
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Improving Hiring Effectiveness June 17, 2009
The Role of Organizational Context - Suppose for a moment you are the board member charged with recruiting a new CEO into IBM. The executive search firm that you retain presents a slate of candidates featuring two CEOs of very successful small start-up software companies.
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Where are all of the Successful Serial CEOs? June 17, 2009
It is a lament heard across the Canadian technology sector: Where are the successful serial CEOs and why do they appear so much more plentiful in the U.S. than in Canada? A quick scan of the U.S. tech community readily surfaces a class of executives for whom success only eggs them on to pursue even bigger challenges.
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The Plight of the Canadian Small Cap June 17, 2009
An Interview with Stephen Sorocky, CEO of Virtek Vision - In January, Stephen Sorocky was appointed CEO of Waterloo, Ontario-based Virtek Vision. Fresh from a successful turnaround of a small VC-backed Toronto-based instrument company, Stephen brought a breadth of experience developed at firms such as EDS and Spar Aerospace where he rose to run one of the firm’s most successful divisions.
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An Interview with Frank Slootman, CEO of Data Domain June 17, 2009
StoneWood Interview Series - Schweichler-Price and Partners interviewed Frank Slootman about his tremendous journey in building Data Domain, lessons learned and the firm’s ambitious path going forward.
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Dr. Doug Barber on why tech firms fail June 10, 2009
Doug Barber knows a thing or two about building a successful technology firm. He was one of the founders and the long time CEO of Gennum Corporation which he built into one of the most successful and best managed tech firms in Canada.
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Hiring Leaders – Nortel’s Board of Directors June 9, 2009
Everyone has a theory on the Nortel’s descent from first to worst. Many start and end with the murderer’s row of CEOs at its helm. I cannot even offer an opinion on the degree to which Nortel’s demise was a function of any one of a hundred different factors. But to the degree that the last three or four CEOs played a role, the board of directors has to take a shameful bow.