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eos Products Taps Dowd Associates to Conduct Controller Search
WHITE PLAINS, NY January 29, 2013 White Plains, NY-based Dowd Associates Executive Search has partnered with eos Products to lead a search for their new Controller. A consumer products company that sells personal care products intended for women. Click here to read article.
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Unger Global Taps Dowd Associates to Conduct CFO Search
WHITE PLAINS, NY November 12, 2012 White Plains, NY-based Dowd Associates Executive Search has partnered with Unger Global Companies to lead a search for their new Chief Financial Officer. Unger Global Companies is a privately held global manufacturer of professionally engineered cleaning tools and cleaning solutions. Click here to read article.
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Dowd Associates Completes CFO of Advertising Sales Search for Scripps Networks Interactive
WHITE PLAINS, NY October 3, 2012 - White Plains, NY-based Dowd Associates Executive Search has successfully completed a senior level finance search for Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI). Amy Listerman... Click here to read article.
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Richard Dowd, President of Dowd Associates Executive Search, Recognized by the Ilias Kementzidis Music Scholarship Fund
NORWALK, CT June 11, 2012 – Richard Dowd, President of Dowd Associates Executive Search, was recently presented with the Friend of Music award by the Ilias Kementzidis Scholarship Fund, an organization whose purpose is to inspire and educate high school music students. The award is given annually and recognizes the recipients for their generosity and continuing support of the scholarship fund. Click here to read article.
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Scripps Networks Interactive Taps Dowd Associates to Conduct SVP, CFO of Advertising Sales Search
WHITE PLAINS, NY April 3, 2012 White Plains, NY-based Dowd Associates Executive Search has been selected by Scripps Network Interactive (NYSE: SNI) to lead its search for a Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Advertising Sales. Click here to read the article.
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Dowd Associates Completes SVP of Corporate Development Search for Scripps Networks Interactive
WHITE PLAINS, NY December 12, 2011 Dowd Associates Executive Search announced today that Emily Keeton has been successfully recruited to the position of SVP of Corporate Development for Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI). Click here to read the article.
From CFO Magazine
CPAs Give Way to MBAs
David McCann - CFO.com
October 26, 2011
...“For a controller, having a brilliant accounting mind isn’t good enough,” says Richard Dowd, CEO of Dowd Associates. “That’s been the case in all our searches in recent memory for CFOs, controllers, treasurers, tax vice presidents, and their direct reports. That person has to think analytically, manage people well, and see the big picture.” Click here to read the article
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Scripps Networks Interactive Taps Dowd Associates to Conduct SVP of Corporate Development Search
WHITE PLAINS, NY August 17, 2011 White Plains, NY-based Dowd Associates Executive Search has been selected by Scripps Network Interactive (NYSE: SNI) to lead its search for a Senior Vice President, Corporate Development. Click here to see more.
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Dowd Associates Adds Jim Downing To Staff
WHITE PLAINS, NY May 24, 2011 White Plains, NY based Dowd Associates is pleased to welcome Jim Downing as Director of Executive Search. Mr. Downing received his BBA from Westminster College, and his MBA Sacred Heart University. Click here to see more.
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Dowd Associates Completes Chief Financial Officer Search for The Travel Channel
WHITE PLAINS, NY January 18, 2011 White Plains, NY-based Dowd Associates Executive Search has successfully completed a senior level finance search for Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI)..
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From CFO Magazine
Where Will All the Bankers Go?
David McCann - CFO.com US
With Wall Street imploding, swelling hordes of displaced financial-services workers face corporate disinterest and a bleak employment outlook.
...The most optimistic assessment was offered by Richard Dowd, president of Dowd Associates Executive Search in White Plains, New York, who said, "We don't have a clue what's going to happen. Over the 20 years I've been in business, none of us [recruiters] has seen what we've seen in the past 10 days. It's very hard to predict what will happen or what it means."
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From CFO Magazine
Meltdown Means Opportunity for Risk Managers
Robert Hertzberg - CFO.com
September 15, 2008
..."Richard Dowd of Dowd Associates Executive Search in White Plains, New York, says the treasury departments of some big consumer companies are now looking for managers to help them manage interest rate and currency risk. The corporations are especially interested in people with technical undergraduate degrees and MBAs in finance, usually from top-20 schools. Strong candidates can command base salaries starting at $150,000 to $200,000 plus bonuses, Dowd says."
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From Belray Community
June 2, 2008
Dowd's Kristen Lalla sits down with Belray Asset Management Vice President Elizabeth Kopyscinski.
Filling and finding top level job opportunities is Kristen Lalla's pleasure, especially for the many people in her network with financial backgrounds.
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From CFO Magazine
The Truth about Headhunters
The differences between "retained" and "contingency" recruiters, while important for those seeking finance jobs to understand, are far from black and white.
David McCann, CFO.com / US
April 7, 2008
..."Anytime you're talking about your career, it's imperative to know the people you're dealing with and what their practices are," said Richard Dowd, president of Dowd Associates Executive Search in White Plains, N.Y., which specializes in finance jobs.
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From The Wall Street Journal
Overcontrolling bosses aren't just annoying; they're also inefficient
Jared Sandberg, The Wall Street Journal
March 30, 2005
Just ask Richard Dowd, the founder of executive search firm Dowd Associates, who learned that lesson the hard way
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For Immediate Release
December 1, 2004
Dowd Associates Names Three Partners to Firm
White Plains, NY-Executive Search firm Dowd Associates has announced that it has named Kristen Lalla, Maureen Cavalluzzi and Stephanie Bates as partners to its firm.
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From the Association of Executive Search Consultants
May 27, 2004
Dowd Associates Accepted to Membership in the AESC
The Association of Executive Search Consultants is pleased to announce the acceptance of six retained executive search firms into membership.
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Richard Dowd, President of Dowd Associates Executive Search Appointed to the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of the Hudson Valley
WHITE PLAINS, NY May 25, 2004 – Richard F. Dowd, President of Dowd Associates Executive Search, was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of the Hudson Valley...
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From Management Today
So you think you need an FD...
Janet Kersnar, Management Today
November 2003
..."Therein lies the rub. 'Everyone thinks they want an FD,' observes Richard Dowd of Dowd Associates Executive Search in White Plains, New York."
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From CFO Magazine
Roads Less Traveled: Nontraditional CFOs
In a time of increased regulation, can CFO candidates with no previous finance-department experience be successful?
Alix Nyberg, CFO Magazine
August 1, 2003
"Everyone wants a CFO who can positively impact their business, but I think people are more concerned these days about finding someone who's not going to get caught by [the] Sarbanes-Oxley [Act of 2002]," says White Plains, New York-based executive recruiter Rich Dowd.
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From CFO Magazine
For CFOs, Riskier Business - Are you thinking defensively?
Consider these five worries triggered by the post-Enron environment, and find out how some finance executives are dealing with them.
Alix Nyberg, CFO Magazine
September 27, 2002
..."Extra homework by candidates, including interviews with internal sources from junior finance staff to heads of key operating units, is prolonging CFO searches by up to three weeks, says executive recruiter Richard Dowd of Dowd Associates. Of the candidates his firm is talking to right now, he observes. 'I don't want to say they're scared, but they don't want to get it wrong. It's a learning experience. Everyone say's, I should have done this ten years ago."
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From CFO Magazine
Out of Work? Start a Company - CFOs say a down economy can be the perfect time to test your entrepreneurial mettle
Alix Nyberg, CFO Magazine
February 1, 2003
...suggests Kristen Lalla, executive vice president and managing director at Dowd Associates, who says that a year or two's absence from the corporate world is about the maximum employers like to see. Being on your own longer "automatically raises the questions: Why are you now coming back to the corporate world? What didn't work?" she says.
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