Mr. David perry

biography

A well-known name in executive search circles, David has personally closed more than 1000+ searches with a 99.7% success rate, and negotiated in excess of $200M in salaries. His creative recruiting principles lead to him being nicknamed the ‘Rogue Recruiter’ by The Wall Street Journal.

Prior to founding Perry-Martel, David spent two years with a national search firm headquartered in Montreal CANADA, where he conducted C-level searches for real-estate and construction firms in Canada, the United States, England and China. Tier 1 companies like Ellis-Don, Canderel, Campeau, Citicom, DevCom, Cadillac Fairview, O&Y and O.M.E.R.S. Realty retained him yearly. Before joining the executive search industry David held several positions in the retail and banking industries.

Launching Perry-Martel International in 1988 with partner Anita Martel, the pair pounced on the opportunity to expand their brand of no-excuse delivery to include technology companies. Throughout his executive search industry career, David has had the opportunity to recruit individual key contributors as well as structure full boards for pre-IPO companies, spinoffs and divestitures.

David has also conducted cross border recruitment of C-level executives and VP’s of Sales for major Canadian, American, European, and Asia Pacific companies. As an example, he was hired to recruit the VP Sales for the company chosen as “America’s Most Innovative Company for 2010” – Equipois Inc. in Los Angeles California. Many of the executive teams David’s assembled have lead successful exits and IPOs and many more companies are leaders in their respective domains.

David is past Vice Chair of the Canadian Technology Human Resources Board, and former board member of the Software Human Resource Council. David is frequently quoted on trends and issues regarding executive search, recruiting and human resources in leading business publications including The Wall Street Journal, Operations World, Canadian Business, Venture Wire, Computer World, EETimes, NetWork World, HR Today, as well as the Ottawa Citizen and appears regularly as an executive search, labor market analyst and job search author for CBC News World.

David is the author/coauthor of six books including the Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters series, and has written on leadership, executive recruiting and job search, for The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Chicago Sun Times and Globe & Mail. David’s 7th book: Lead – Dominate – Prosper, is due out in 2015. Active in his local community, David personally funded the stat-up costs for the Western Quebec Education Foundation, to build English speaking schools in Quebec from the proceeds of his first book.

David holds a BA in Economics and Industrial Relations from McGill University. He is a commissioned Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves where he was awarded the Sword of Honor as the top officer candidate in his year. David is a recipient of the Top Forty Under 40 Award and was presented withe the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2103. He resides in Ottawa with his wife and business partner Anita Martel and four children. David recruits globally.