Our Executive Board

President of the IRC Global Executive Search Partners Executive Board

Sylvia MacArthur

Email: sylvia.macarthur@ircsearchpartners.com
Phone: +1 (416) 920 0092 ext. 224

Profile: Sylvia holds an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Communications from York University in Toronto, Ontario. Sylvia has over 25 year of business experience and has held senior management positions in the marketing and communications sector. She has worked with a variety of major retailers and marketing companies, both on the client side and the agency side of the business. Sylvia’s has held titles including Creative Director and VP, Client Development for some of the largest Global communications companies, most recently with Omnicom, and worked in a management capacity with companies including Coca Cola and Unilever. In these roles she hired, trained and managed large staff compliments. She has been a Search Consultant for over 15 years.

Members of the IRC Global Executive Search Partners Executive Board

	Hamilton Teixeira Email: hamilton.teixeira@ircsearchpartners.com Phone: +55 (11) 3045 0100 Profile: Hamilton has a professional background in key executive positions as CEO, and executive VP in multinational companies. Accomplished marketing-oriented general manager with a holistic approach to the business, Hamilton has experience in Brazil and other Latin American countries at the helm of leading packaged goods companies such as Kellogg, Bausch & Lomb, Timex, Tropicana Juices, and Rayovac, building management teams, turning-around operations, and starting up new businesses. During his executive career he contributed to improve the performance of these companies in the region, and coordinated the implementation of new Kellogg, Timex and Rayovac plants in Brazil. Hamilton is a graduate of Business Administration and a certified Executive & Personal Coach.
	Monicca Yan Email: monicca.yan@ircsearchpartners.com Phone: +65 6334 9348 Profile: Monica obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from the National University of Singapore and a Post Graduate study in Human Resource Management. She started her career in political research and public relations with the Japanese government before joining the executive search industry some 17 years ago. Her search experience spans across all of Asia – Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, China, Korea, Japan, Australia, India, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. Her client portfolio includes various American and European multinationals in the high-tech, healthcare and logistics industry. In addition to executive search works, Monicca also assist her clients in M&A integration works, Outplacement and HR Consulting projects.
	Pankaj Dutt Email: pankaj.dutt@ircsearchpartners.com Phone: +91 124 471 1896 Profile: Pankaj leverages his experience of managing profit centers and advising board level executives in successfully executing search assignments for clients across diverse industry sectors. At Welkin he conducts top management level searches including CEO & board member searches for both Fortune 500 as well as mid-size clients. With over 15 years’ experience in various leadership and general management roles with some of the prominent organizations such as American Express, PricewaterhouseCoopers, EXL and WNS Holdings, within US & India. Besides executive search, Pankaj also advises global private equity funds on their India investment strategy & transaction support. He is a Chartered Accountant from India, a Certified Public Accountant from USA and a Six Sigma Black Belt.
	Richard Boot Email: richard.boot@ircsearchpartners.com Phone: +44 121 635 5678 Profile: Richard qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the UK and started his post College career with what is now Ernst Young. He joined Peat Marwick which became KPMG and was appointed to the Partnership in 1983. He was a Managing Director in the Management Consulting (which included Executive Search) and then Corporate Finance businesses and sat on the UK Board for these practice areas. He was Chairman of the Centre for Manufacturing Consultancy and the UK Automotive Group. His role in Corporate Finance and Automotive involved helping develop and co-ordinate the Firms activity on a Global basis. Since leaving as a Partner in 2002 Richard has been a Senior adviser to KPMG and was Deputy Chairman of Europackaging Group, one of the largest flexible packaging organisations in Europe. He is Director and investor in a number of Private companies and has maintained a long standing involvement with the Institute of Directors of which he was a UK Council member for over 10 years. He formed ACTIVE HUMAN CAPITAL GROUP with a former KPMG colleague Stephen Bryan in 2005.