OUR FIRM: Who We Are

Jonathan Robbins, Managing Partner

Jon has been practicing in the talent management field since 1994. His areas of expertise include, retained executive search, talent market analysis and feasibility studies, succession planning, talent pipeline development, compensation planning and analysis, corporate culture, leadership development and executive coaching.

Jon's work includes projects in both medium and large public and private companies and venture funded early and middle stage companies. He has generally worked with global companies that design and manufacture highly engineered products. His successes in executive search have included assignments both domestically and internationally for CEOs, CFOs, General Managers, Vice Presidents and Board of Director. At the functional level Jon has completed a significant amount of work within Operations, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Program Management, and Sales and Marketing. Recent clients have included: ANADIGICS, Applied Materials, Coltene Whaledent, Cooper Industries, Cree, Laird Technologies, Motorola, Rubicon Technologies, SanDisk, Solar Trust of America, and Teledyne Technologies.

Prior to being a co-founder of Edison Consulting Group in 2002, Jon was a Vice President at a top 10 global retained executive search firm. Starting as an Associate in 1994, Jon progressed to a Vice President in the firm. Prior to his career in talent management, Jon enjoyed a successful 15-year career with General Electric, Union Carbide, and ABB Automation. During his collective tenure at these companies he led product development teams in the design of high intensity halogen based lamps primarily for us in stage and studio applications, designed and managed a start-up semiconductor operation, and managed the design, installation, and start-up of large scale distributed process control (DCS) systems across a range of industries. Jon's combination of a strong technical background combined with significant real world business experience has been a tremendous asset to clients within the technical industries.

Jon holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing (1990) as well as a BS in Chemical and Environmental Engineering (1985) from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.