Valerie Frederickson

I’m a retired global executive search and HR consulting firm Founder and CEO, now running the Frederickson Family Foundation and enjoying my young adult girl-boy twins.Frederickson Partners was sold to Fortune 500 company Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. in May 2022. I founded Frederickson in 1995, with offices in San Francisco, Menlo Park, Silicon Valley, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Miami, Nashville and Atlanta. My team and I specialized in fast, well-executed CHRO, Chief People Officer, SVPHR and EVPHR executive searches in Human Resources, People and Culture, People Operations, Talent Acquisition and Talent Management, Total Rewards, Human Resources Business Partners, Diversity & Inclusion and Learning & Development. Our expertise included Head of HR and Head of People and Culture executive searches for start-ups, pre-IPO companies and large public companies. We also consulted on strategic HR, executive compensation, talent acquisition and management, employment branding, executive coaching and outplacement services.Clients for whom we successfully conducted HR or People and Culture searches include C3 IoT, Facebook, GE, Genentech, Intuit, Mozilla, Pinterest, Qualtrics, Roivant, SoFi, Tesla, ZocDoc, Thumbtack, Change.org, Marin Software, Rodale, Twitter, Palantir, Proofpoint, oDesk, Cisco Systems, Nokia, Philips Electronics, DLA Piper, Roche, LAM Research, RAND, Groupon, Telenav, Intuit, Flextronics, LiveOps, Synaptics, Onyx Pharmaceuticals and Blurb; funded by Benchmark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mayfield Fund, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, August Capital, Crosslink Ventures, Amicus Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, Focus Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Technology Crossover Partners, Silver Lake Partners, Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Institutional Venture Partners and Francisco Partners.