JGA Partners Enters Partnership with TriSearch
JGA Partners Enters Partnership with TriSearch, Expanding Support for Executive Search Firms and the Talent Acquisition Function
New York, NY
JGA Partners, a trusted advisor to executive search firm owners and partners since 2015, today announced that it has entered into a formal partnership with TriSearch, a leading retained and engaged, mid market recruiting firm consistently ranked among the top 50 search firms nationally. The partnership strengthens JGA Partners’ ability to serve the executive search industry while preserving its long standing independence when working with executive search firms as clients.
JGA Partners has built its reputation by advising, recruiting, and supporting executive search firms and their leaders across North America and internationally. That focus will remain unchanged. JGA Partners will continue to operate as a dedicated partner to search firm owners, providing Partner and Principal recruitment, compensation consulting, leadership advisory recruitment, and M&A services for firms exploring growth, succession, or sale.
What changes is scale and capability.
By partnering with TriSearch, JGA Partners gains access to expanded recruiting resources, infrastructure, and technology that enhance its ability to support search firms and their clients, without becoming a competitor to them.
“TriSearch is the ideal platform for JGA Partners to continue and deepen the work we have done with executive search firms for nearly a decade,” said James Abruzzo, Founder of JGA Partners. “We have partnered with each other for years, and we share a common history in the market. The trust, values, and philosophy around search were already there.”
Abruzzo highlighted TriSearch’s Referral Partner practice as a particularly strong fit for the executive search ecosystem.
“Many pure C suite firms do not have the appetite or infrastructure for mid level, director level, or RPO engagements, yet their clients still need those services,” Abruzzo said. “TriSearch’s Referral Partner practice is a formal, transparent solution that allows search firms to retain their client relationships while expanding what they can offer. I've been a referral partner to the firm for years and loved it's simplicity, transparency, and quite frankly, the easy of earning additional income for a simple introduction email.”
Through the Referral Partner model, TriSearch collaborates directly with referring search firms by sharing invoicing, providing access to client portals to track project progress, and maintaining full transparency throughout the engagement. Referral partners receive meaningful fee participation for referred work, with some partners earning more than one million dollars annually in referral fees.
“For me, this aligns perfectly with JGA Partners’ mission,” Abruzzo added. “It is about helping search firm leaders solve problems, whether it be their internal challenges, for their clients, strengthen relationships, and unlock new revenue, not competing with them.”
TriSearch brings more than twenty years of experience delivering mid market engaged search, RPO, and talent scaling solutions to corporate and private equity backed clients. The firm is widely recognized for its operational rigor and client impact.
“JGA Partners’ services and expertise align precisely with what we do,” said Bob Aylesworth, CEO of TriSearch. “There are synergies across the board. In addition to James and his team bringing deep expertise to support executive search firms, James will help us further expand Talent Partner recruitment within our private equity client base,” adding, "James has been responsible for some of the most notable people moves within the talent acquisition and recruitment industry, and the only person and firm we would want to partner with."
Aylesworth also noted a growing trend within private equity and portfolio companies.
“Private equity increasingly recognizes that talent is core to value creation,” he said. “As a result, we have noticed PE firms are bringing experienced executive search professionals in house to lead talent and growth initiatives. James and his team, over the past decade, has built one of the deepest networks of search leaders capable of stepping into those roles, so we will absolutely be leveraging this partnership to further recruit executive search professionals into internal PE and VC talent partner roles”
“I have said and written for years that executive search firms must offer more than recruitment alone to stay competitive,” Abruzzo concluded. “This partnership puts that belief into action by joining forces with TriSearch, while remaining fully committed to supporting the executive search community.”
Founded in 2015, JGA Partners is a leading advisor to executive search firms and talent acquisition leaders. The firm specializes in Partner and Principal recruitment, compensation consulting, leadership advisory services, and M&A advisory for search firm owners.
