Our Focus

Gilreath Weatherby, Inc. d.b.a. Gilreath Consultantcy is a 20+ year-old exclusively retained executive search firm predominantly serving the private equity sector. We help clients hire “skin in the game” executives for their small to medium-sized manufacturing and distribution portfolio companies in virtually all industries from New England to Texas. We never  conduct search assignments on a contingency fee basis.

Gilreath Consultantcy's focus:
Gilreath Consultantcy represents Private Equity clients who are straightforward, have a track record of making money on their acquisitions and allow each of their portfolio company management teams to co-invest with them and earn additional equity through attractive stock option programs.

What are Gilreath Consultantcy's areas of specialization?
We focus on recruiting for middle market low-tech, medium-tech and high-tech manufacturing businesses from a wide variety of industries with sales typically from $2M to $75M. These include many portfolio companies acquired by private equity firms for their upside potential that could involve leveraged roll-ups. We recruit Presidents and CEOs, GMs and functional heads of Operations, Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing, Finance/Accounting and Engineering, hired "for the long haul". To learn about our successful investor CEO recruiting, download our complimentary Winter/Spring 2006 Search Beacon newsletter elsewhere on our website.

Why should private equity firms retain a search firm for hiring senior managers for their manufacturing portfolio companies versus doing it on their own?
When acquiring middle market manufacturing companies with upside potential for their portfolios, investors perform considerable "due diligence" and rely on experienced specialists like intermediaries to improve their odds for successful acquisitions. Most prefer companies with strong management teams, but whenever their acquisitions need replacement CEOs and/or functional senior managers, investors should rely on experienced "due diligence" search firms like Gilreath Consultantcy. We work closely with investment firm partners and companies' boards of directors managing all search details from spec taking to offer acceptance. Our consultative approach helps clients avoid making "bad hires". We courteously handle any candidate referrals made directly to our clients from their trusted sources. Our rigorous screening process including extensive reference checks eliminates dishonest candidates. Our referred candidates include currently employed top performers not reading job postings on the Internet or newspaper ads. Our informative, detailed client and candidate information packages lead to "no surprise", lasting hires.

Advantages of Retaining Gilreath Consultantcy:
Our 20+ years experience helping private equity firms hire senior managers for their medium sized manufacturing portfolio companies.

Our Clients only deal with Gilreath Consultantcy’s owners.

Over 35 years experience filling senior management positions in virtually all manufacturing industries.

Our exhaustive candidate due diligence screening process mirrors that of our client’s MBO/LBO process.

Our candidate binders leave no career background stone unturned.

All possible  important reference checks are completed on our referred candidates before our clients meet them. No surprises later.

Virtually every search candidate we refer for the client’s need is ready to be hired.

Not one of our “skin in the game” client hires has ever been fired or resigned before the private equity investors’ exit strategy has been consummated.

Average length of time to complete a typical executive search assignment:
11-13 weeks. We usually take the first month to generate a strong candidate slate from a dozen contenders and the second month to complete our due diligence process on the top 3-4 candidates and begin referring candidate binders to the client; candidates  are interviewed during the third month and an offer is accepted by the end of the third month.

Private equity firm clients include:
Metapoint Partners, Concord Investment Partners, Waverly Partners, Weston Presidio Capital, JMAC, Inc. and The Riverside Company.

We placed CEOs in these portfolio companies:
Hughes Parker Industries, Labtops, Inc., National Manufacturing Company, Inc., Crippen Manufacturing, Inc., NPC, Inc., Marathon Power Technologies, Inc., Moss, Inc., Attachment Technologies, Inc., and Felters Company.

Partial client list includes:
Metapoint Partners, Stonebridge Partners, Weston Presidio, Gemini Investors, Agincourt Capital Partners, The Riverside Company, Watermill Group, Capital Resource Partners, Hastings Equity Partners, & WestView Capital Partners.