Partners

Gerri Williams, EdD

Gerri brings a powerful combination of real-life experience, recruiting and search management expertise, and a dynamic leadership style to her work at CarterBaldwin. Since joining the firm, she has led higher education cabinet and global nonprofit searches, partnering with key leaders, Boards of Directors, trustees, and search committees in successful placements. Gerri began her career as [...]

Scott Tanksley

Scott has led C-level searches for national and international nonprofits ranging from $1 million to over $1 billion in revenue. Blending his career experience in corporate and nonprofit, Scott is attuned to the competency, pace, and passion necessary to drive progress in organizations that are vigorously pursuing their mission. Scott began his career in corporate real [...]

Price Harding

Price is Chairman of CarterBaldwin, which has grown to be one of the fifty largest executive search firms in the US. Over his thirty-year executive search career, he has been principal consultant on more than 1,000 successfully completed recruiting engagements for c-level leaders, officers, and directors for privately held and publicly traded companies. Price also co-leads [...]

David Clapp

Dave is Managing Partner of CarterBaldwin. His practice spans senior executive searches for a diverse client base of global corporations, mid-market companies, and non-profit/mission-oriented organizations. He works extensively with portfolio companies of leading PE and Family Offices. Many of Dave’s clients have a heavy focus on purpose and values in their organizations. Dave entered the executive [...]

Derek Broyard

Derek joined CarterBaldwin in 2005 and has a history serving clients across multiple industries, including B2B services, technology, and manufacturing. Derek has earned a strong reputation for client service by being involved in every step of the search process and supporting each of the stakeholders involved to ensure a successful outcome. He has successfully recruited and [...]

David M. Sobocinski

Dave Sobocinski is a Founding Partner of CarterBaldwin Executive Search. With almost thirty years in search, Dave has executed hundreds of searches across the US for CEO, C-suite, and other critically strategic executive roles. His clients have ranged from middle market PE investments to Fortune 500 companies primarily in the manufacturing and distribution arenas. These companies [...]

Chris Hornsby

Chris leads CarterBaldwin’s faith-based K-12 education practice. Since joining the firm in 2015, Chris has expanded the firm’s influence in the independent school space, earning a reputation for strategic counsel and relational discernment. His retained search portfolio covers the full spectrum of senior leadership roles - Heads of School, Presidents, and Superintendents, as well as advancement, [...]

Bill Peterson

Bill Peterson serves at the helm of the nonprofit and higher education practice at CarterBaldwin, specializing in recruiting presidents and senior leaders for universities and nonprofit entities. With over 25 years of experience in executive search, Bill has overseen hundreds of searches for key leadership positions, including chief executive officers, presidents, provosts, and associated roles within [...]

Andrea McDaniel Smith

Andrea McDaniel Smith leads the Washington, D.C. office for CarterBaldwin Executive Search and serves clients in the nonprofit, education, international and economic development, philanthropy, and public policy sectors. Andrea joined CarterBaldwin in 2015 following more than 15 years of distinguished work in public service, and nonprofit organizations. Andrea served in the White House Office of Presidential [...]

Chris Guiney

Chris joined CarterBaldwin in 2016 and leads the firm’s energy and infrastructure practice. Chris’s clients include energy, power, utilities, communications, and infrastructure businesses as well as professional services firms. For more than 30 years, Chris has assisted companies with critical team-building initiatives including executive search, succession planning, executive effectiveness, and organizational design. Previously, Chris led global [...]

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