Barbara Hudson

Barbara began her work in the retained executive search industry in 2005, following a successful career in engineering, operations leadership, and consulting with manufacturing companies. She began her career working for Kemet Electronics in process engineering for monolithic capacitor production. She was recruited to JMS Southeast, Inc. as Director of Engineering and ultimately became General Manager of Operations for this privately held manufacturer of temperature sensors.  She spent over ten years consulting and providing design partnership with large chemical, power and textile manufacturers, teaching seminars on temperature measurement with organizations such as The American Ceramic Society, American Association of Textile Colorists and Chemists, the Brick Manufacturers of America, IEC and ASTM.

Her leadership and consulting experience in manufacturing, operations, sales and engineering has provided success recruiting C-level executives and their direct reports to middle market manufacturing, distribution, business and industrial services, healthcare, and technology companies. She has worked with a variety of company ownership structures including VC, private equity, publicly traded, privately held and family owned.

A native of Iowa, Barbara graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering. She and her family have lived in Colorado, Texas, Florida, Charlotte, and now reside in Hickory, North Carolina giving her a unique geographic recruiting perspective.

Barbara is a past Board member of the non-profit “Playing for Others”, a past member of the Staff Parish Relations Committee of Myers Park United Methodist Church, as well as, the Myers Park High School Parent Teachers Association. Barbara and her husband, Todd, have two adult daughters, who live in San Francisco and Savannah, GA.