About Heads Apart Group
I founded Heads Apart Group on a premise that remains rare in executive search: the recruiter who fills your revenue leadership role should have actually built revenue themselves.
Before entering search, I was a leading performer in digital ad sales, securing over $500M in revenue. I also scaled a startup from $500K to $25M in two years and drove growth from $8.5M to $158M at Microsoft in three years. That operator foundation — combined with recruiting experience on Google's Global Partnerships team — informs every search engagement I lead today.
Heads Apart Group is a boutique retained executive search firm focused exclusively on go-to-market leadership. We place CRO-level and below executives — VP Sales, Revenue Operations, Customer Success, and Marketing — at Series A through D venture-backed companies and PE firms across AI, SaaS, AdTech, Digital Media, and HealthTech. Our work is grounded in a proprietary methodology, Relationship-Based Recruiting™, which prioritizes depth of market relationships over transactional sourcing and consistently surfaces candidates that conventional search cannot reach.
A meaningful portion of our practice is dedicated to international firms entering the North American market. From 0-to-10 GTM hires through full executive team buildouts, we partner with global organizations navigating the complexity of standing up a revenue function in a new market — bringing both operator perspective and search infrastructure to execute those engagements with precision.
We also work with mission-driven organizations and nonprofits on digital transformation — helping purpose-led institutions build the strategic and technological capabilities required to serve their communities at scale.
Heads Apart Group is an Industry Partner of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), with a focus on inclusive hiring and expanding access to the venture-backed innovation ecosystem.
Across 1,500+ completed searches and 20+ years of combined operator and search experience, the firm has built a repeat-client model grounded in long-term relationships rather than one-time transactions — a distinction that defines both how we work and whom we serve.
Gary Bembridge, Founder, Heads Apart Group
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