2018 Americas CFR Global Executive Search meeting in Chicago
Last month took place our yearly regional meeting for the CFR Global Executive Search network. All the Americas partners gathered in Chicago, IL. The event was hosted by DSML Executive Search.
Attending were:
- Carl Denny for Uptima in Washington DC.
- Doug Seville for DSML Executive Search in Chicago, IL.
- Edouard Thoumyre for ACCUR Recruiting Services in New York, NY and Miami, FL.
- Henry Goldbeck for Goldbeck Recruiting in Vancouver, BC.
- Jorge Segovia for Lycans Group in Mexico.
- Myriam LeCannelier for DSML Executive Search in Chicago, IL.
- Phil Ferguson for St Amour & Associés in Toronto, ON.
- Robert Favreau for St Amour & Associés in Montréal, QC.
What is CFR Global Executive Search?
CFR is a network of independent executive search firms around the globe. The vast majority do retained recruitment and some also have a team on contingency recruiters. The executive recruitment industry is lead by large global executive search firms. The goal of the CFR network is to be able to provide business leaders with a recruitment network large enough to meeting all their recruitment needs globally. This allows us to compete against the top global executive search firms.
Recruitment Strategies and Strategies to Attract Talents.
Those regional meeting are the best opportunities for the CFR partners to exchange best practices. This years topics where around:
- Long term strategies for recruiting and retaining talents.
- How to keeping on training our search consultants.
- How to help our client with employee engagement.
- Identify other recruitments agencies to join the network.
- How to work with recruiters.

Edouard Thoumyre is a seasoned executive recruiter with over 17 years of experience in executive search, as the Founder and Managing Partner of ACCUR Recruiting Services. Specializing in the Consumer and Luxury Goods industries, he has a proven track record of placing senior level and C-level executives in family, private equity-backed, and Fortune 500 companies in the beauty, wine & spirits, watch & jewelry, home goods, and tobacco industries, among others. Edouard Thoumyre holds a master’s degree in Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris (#1 European Business School, Financial Times rankings) and a master’s degree in industrial engineering from Centrale Lille (a top 10 French engineering school). ACCUR Recruiting Services has been recognized as a Forbes Top 100 executive search firm since 2018.
Edouard Thoumyre and his firm, ACCUR Recruiting Services, have been featured in numerous publications such as WWD, Business Insider, Newsweek, CPG Specialist, Yahoo Finance, Nasdaq.com, Marketplace by NPR, Business of Fashion…