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Senior Principal

Howard Fischer Associates International is a staffing and recruiting agency that provides executive search and board search.

Eric Ferst is a Senior Principal at Howard Fischer Associates based in Philadelphia. Over the last 12+ years with HFA, Eric has established himself as a partner and strategic adviser to senior executives in both public and private companies on the process of identifying, attracting and evaluating executive leaders to build successful companies. His clients range from Fortune 50 to emerging technology companies across multiple industries (Technology, Media, Telecommunications, Consumer Services, Digital, Enterprise Technology and others). Eric has completed over 100 searches for External Board of Directors and C-Level executives in the areas of: General Management (CEO/COO/President/GM), Marketing (CMO, Marcom, Branding, Direct Marketing), Sales, Finance (CFO, FP&A, Chief Accounting Officer, M&A), IT, Engineering and Customer Service.His broad range of clients include Comcast Corporation, Tyco International, Discovery Communications, Twitter, Rogers Communications, Vonage, AmeriGas, Sprint, Cox, Time Warner Cable, QVC, Reed Elsevier (Relx Group), ADT, Penn Mutual, Janney Montgomery Scott, SES Americom, Sojern, 1010data, Shoebuy.com, DigitalGlobe and more.Prior to joining HFA, Eric was Vice President, Client Services at Expert Business Development LLC. He was responsible for the day to day operations including all phases of client business development, planning, implementation and management. Eric aided in the hiring and training of all company employees and was the primary architect of the company's web-hosted application and internal system structure.Eric holds a BA in Finance, Investment and Banking from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.Specialties: External recruiting. Skilled in all aspects of executive search including: client development, design and management of search processes, client/candidate management, sourcing, selection and assessment, executive compensation, executive succession planning.