Before joining Sheer Velocity, Claire Musngi was the Founder and Managing Partner of J&J Search Partners. Her executive search practice primarily focuses on Private Equity Portfolio Operations and portfolio company CxO placements. She has since expanded her professional services offering to assist Private Equity deal teams in due diligence and advisory support as they look at potential investments and acquisitions. Leveraging her decades-long experience working with Private Equity sponsors in pairing the right leaders and subject matter experts to ensure their portfolio companies deliver on their investment thesis, she understands the type of executives required for every stage during the investment hold. Her candidates also become her clients and vice versa because she values the relationship and approaches every project with transparency and ethical professionalism, resulting in long-term partnerships. Private Equity sponsors commission Claire’s searches, their portfolio Boards of Directors, and portfolio CxOs across the entire organization. Before accepting search projects, Claire immerses herself in each portfolio company she represents while being commissioned to recruit the right executive for her PE sponsor. Her completed assignments also bring valuable market research to help her PE sponsor tighten their growth strategy throughout the investment hold. Before executive search, Claire spent 18 years in various senior leadership business development and global operations roles with global blue-chip companies, including FedEx, Kuehne-Nagel Inc., and Maersk Inc. Claire has worked both in Asia (Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Taiwan) and the U.S. (San Francisco and Chicago). In her spare time, Claire is an avid traveler, looking for the perfect spots to immerse her love of global culture, world-class museums, exotic street foods, and a passion for outdoor rock climbing. She holds a degree in Marketing Management and Business Administration from Maryknoll College.