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BeechTree Partners Announces New Search Executive with Experience in Healthcare, IT, Retail, Software and Consumer Electronics

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BeechTree Partners, a national search and recruiting firm, announced today that it has hired Russell Cheatham as a vice president. In this role, Cheatham will provide leadership and guidance to consultants working on executive search and recruiting assignments within the healthcare, financial services, technology and not-for-profit industries.

"We're thrilled to have Russ join our team," said Brad Newpoff, managing director of BeechTree Partners. "He brings diverse recruiting perspective and experience, and we're confident he'll do a outstanding job in building on his four years within healthcare, including work with one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the U.S.”

Cheatham was most recently with Princeton, New Jersey-based, Ken Clark International, where he served as practice director of the healthcare services vertical. He also worked as a recruiting executive for several Chicago-based companies, including Delaire Consulting, Caremark and DaVinci Software. He completed recruitment consulting assignments for Comdisco, Newark Electronics, Zenith Electronics, and Resource Technology Associates.

"I'm honored to join the BeechTree Partners team," said Cheatham. "It's exhilarating to be part of an agile, growing search and recruitment firm with a reputation for 100 percent repeat business, 55-day searches and client loyalty."

ABOUT BEECHTREE PARTNERS

Founded in 1997, BeechTree Partners--is a privately held national executive search and recruiting firm serving the healthcare, financial services, technology and not-for-profit industries. The company is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Dublin, Ohio, San Diego California, Nashville, Tennessee and Atlanta, Georgia. BeechTree offers traditional executive search, as well as services in leadership development, organizational assessment, human resources, and transition, turnaround and interim management. BeechTree's proprietary, Web-based recruitment database is the foundation for the firm’s trademarked High Touch Recruitment Process Outsourcing, where BeechTree leads and manages a client's entire recruitment program. For more information, visit www.beecthreepartners.com.