The recent Stanford University 2010 Conference on Entrepreneurship brought together a well-developed panel: it combined the experience of an entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, an executive recruiter, an in-house HR and recruiting expert, and the Human Capital Partner of a leading VC firm to discuss how to effectively recruit teams and structure appropriate compensation — in terms of both cash and equity — at all stages of a company.
Panel members include Joe Dobrenski, a venture capitalist who formerly was an executive recruiter for Russell Reynolds, and Andy Price, a recruiter at Schweichler Price Mullarkey & Barry, a retained executive search firm.
Price, with about 16 years’ experience, says his firm has built one of the largest technology recruiting firms that focuses almost exclusively on “board, CEO, VP, and C-level searches.”