FountainBlue

FountainBlue has built its reputation around leadership - the type of leadership that focuses an organization on the next opportunity ahead; the type of leadership that aligns silos to address strategic goals, and engage stakeholders at all levels; the type of leadership that parks egos and rallies all behind measurable strategic initiatives; the type of leadership that recognizes, synthesizes and engages all to tackle the technical, cultural, process, communication, and infrastructure challenges ahead.

To foster, support and deliver this type of leadership, FountainBlue works with internal HR teams to connect Bay Area technology companies with exceptional talent for senior management roles in all areas, from engineering to marketing to finance and management, on demand or for direct hire. What sets us apart is:

• Our extensive network of exceptional senior talent with proven talent, as well as our network of strategic partnerships with key organizations with access to additional networks of talent.

• For a list of current organizational partners, see the list below, sorted by industry and niche.
• If you are part of an organization who would like to partner with us, e-mail us at info@svexecs.com with details about your organization and how you would like to partner with us.
• Our ten-step process for conducting each search, leveraging partnerships, vetting candidates, and presenting only the best-of-the-best.
• If you have an open job req and would like to find out more about our 10-step process for conducting each search, e-mail your job req to recruiting@fountainblue.biz and we will forward to you details about our process and get on your calendar to discuss your needs in person or over the phone.
• Our ten-step process for vetting candidates for each search, ensuring that only 20% of candidates are presented to our clients, and optimal matches based on skills, passion, judgment and culture.
• If you have an open job req and would like to find out more about our 10-step process for vetting clients, e-mail your job req to recruiting@fountainblue.biz and we will forward to you details about our process and get on your calendar to discuss your needs in person or over the phone.
• Our emphasis on mentorship and coaching, with optional 90-day, milestone-based executive coaching offered with every successful placement, and our 90-day guarantee of success.
• We have strategic partnerships with some of the finest coaches and organizations across the valley and facilitate monthly meetings around women and leadership. It is in our best interest to help ensure each of our candidates succeed, particularly during the first 90-day period, and we’ve set up support systems in place to help make sure this happens.
• Our way of doing business, always looking for a win-for-all, never forcing a fit.
• We’re going into our seventh year of doing business, serving the entrepreneurial community we’ve created and supported in a way that is collaborative, always seeking the win-for-all. Give us a try and find out why everyone says that we balance the head and the heart side of business.

Our Candidates

Why Linda Holroyd is a great recruiter

An Extensive Network

• Linda is an incredible networker, focusing on developing deep relationships with quality people. She is also immensely intelligent and a pleasure to work with.
• Linda is the ultimate connector and that has been the key to FountainBlue's quick and continued success. She's very fair and inclusive and very protective of the integrity of the connections she made.
• Throughout her career, in many different roles and industries, Linda has consistently promoted mutually beneficial interactions and relationships that transform people and organizations.
  
• FountainBlue’s extensive network helps us identify and recruit women and diversity to our senior team.
• Linda’s network of clean energy, high tech and life science entrepreneurs and executives and her experience serving them positions her to serve their job placement needs.
• I am amazed by Linda's dedication, energy, and vision in continually taking FountainBlue to new level, leveraging the knowledge learned, the communities created.
• With Linda's work through FountainBlue, she is providing HOPE to those seeking working relationships and new jobs, educational opportunities and so much more in Life.
• Linda is the best connected person in Silicon Valley, bar none!
• Linda is very well connected with the entrepreneurial clean energy, high tech and life science companies in the valley, be they small start-ups or corporations or those who serve them. 
• Linda Holroyd is a very dynamic, strategic well-connected business person with numerous contacts in a very high quality network of entrepreneurs, executives, service providers, VCs, and other businesspeople.
• Linda’s leveraged her extensive network to identify and recruit key employees who fit our very particular and specific technical, strategic and cultural needs.
• Linda does an amazing job of creating a vibrant, diverse and educational community which has created so many career-changing connections for so many people, including myself! Whether or not Linda places you in a job or fills an open position you might have, you can count on Linda to deliver the right connections, the right opportunities for you.
• Linda's has networking in her DNA and goes out of her way to help those with whom she interacts. It is little wonder that she has built the reputation she has.

Strategic Connector

• It is FountainBlue’s ability to look around the corner and identify and recruit leaders to serve anticipated needs which is keeping us in the game, and even ahead of the field.
• Linda takes the time to understand our company and hiring needs and works with us to strategize the best fit now and for the long term.
• Linda is great at connecting people to find potential synergy, and by doing so helps bring order out of the chaos of individuals flowing here and there throughout the valley!
• Linda inspires us to think, re-evaluate, explore and grow personally and professionally as we grow our business, or look for our next professional role within a business. Then, amazingly, she will connect us to those in her network who can help us get to where we want to go.

Passion and Heart

• Linda is a grounded, collaborative and fearless leader who is as inspiring as she is empowering. She helped me crystallize my value-add and strategize with me to find my fit and then grow the company.
• Linda brings an uncanny human touch to all her endeavors that is, at once, palpable.
• Linda is as much focused on serving the client as she is on serving the candidate, ensuring a great long-term fit.
• For Linda, it’s more about serving the customer than it is about making the money.
• It is so exciting to share Linda’s passion for transforming individuals and organizations. Whether she leverages this talent in her search business, or as part of her consulting services, it's clear that Linda’s commitment to the entrepreneurial spirit is of great value to ventures large and small.  

A High Standard of Excellence

• Every candidate presented by FountainBlue goes through a thorough vetting process for skills, for passion, for style.
• Linda will do it right the first time, and work with you to make sure that each candidate is the right fit.
• We rely on FountainBlue to thoroughly vet candidates, to work with us and our new-hire during the transition process, to grow with us as we expand.

• Linda Holroyd is the best kind of connector: one who gets what needs to be done for your business, and works with you to develop the strategy to get there, leveraging her impressive network and talents.
• FountainBlue’s ability to connect the right leaders for mission-critical assignments was instrumental in helping us achieve our strategic objectives.
• If you’re looking for someone to upgrade your team and position your company for growth, look no further than Linda Holroyd and FountainBlue.

Referral Partners

Referral partners are one of the key reasons FountainBlue’s candidates are so well regarded, so well vetted. We work with partnerships we’ve created over decades working in the valley, and continue these relationships as we shift into recruiting. We send our weekly job reqs to our trusted referral partners, who in turn forward them on to trusted candidates and strategic networks. We work collaboratively and transparently with all of our referral partners, and offer referral fees for candidate recommendations as well as finder’s fees for connections to hiring managers interested in engaging us for their senior management needs. If you are a member of FountainBlue and interested in becoming a referral partner, please click on the calendar link above and suggest some good times to discuss.

Below is the current list of partner organizations, sorted into types: clean energy partners, high tech partners, women in leadership partners, executives in transitions partners, etc.