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Executive Search for the Search Industry

BUILT FOR FIRMS THAT BUILD LEADERS


JGA Partners is a boutique executive search and leadership advisory firm focused exclusively on the executive search and human capital consulting industry. We partner with firms globally to help them recruit senior leaders, build high-performing execution teams, and scale intentionally.


Our work is partner-led, highly selective, and rooted in transparency. Every search is approached with a one-to-one representation model, deep market insight, and hands-on advisory support, ensuring our clients make leadership decisions that drive long-term growth, not short-term fixes.


Aligned Capital. Aligned Leadership. Measurable Impact.

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Built for PE Growth

Proven experience supporting PE- and growth-backed search firms.

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Partner-Led Execution

Senior partners lead every engagement for speed and accountability.

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1 to 1 Representation

No candidate recycling, no conflicts, full transparency.

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Value-Focused Leadership

Hires that improve execution, growth, and enterprise value.

Meet the JGA Partners Leadership Team

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James G. Abruzzo

Founder | JGA Partners

James G. Abruzzo is a career international executive recruitment and talent acquisition professional with expertise across all aspects of the executive search industry and talent function.



For over 20 years, James has been on the forefront of strategic executive search; first with one of the world’s top retained executive search firms, and later building JGA Partners. He has been essential in tremendous growth of search firms around the world. In such, he has built offices, practice groups and has identified, attracted, on-boarded and trained hundreds of executive search professionals across all roles, and functions.


James built JGA Partners, LLC. in 2015 to bring professional retained search and services to highly respected, top tier retained search firms that are serious about their own internal growth.

James has worked with executive search and recruitment professionals from each of the world’s top 10 executive search firms, regional recruitment professionals, independent entrepreneurs and franchise owners.


James is based in New York.

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