Ben Cottingham is an Associate Partner at CarterBaldwin whose search practice spans senior and executive leadership roles across a broad range of corporate clients — many of them defined by a deep commitment to purpose and values. Before joining CarterBaldwin, Ben led a national retained search practice with particular strength in construction and heavy industrial. Ben [...]
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 in 2022, Gerri has played a pivotal role in advancing CarterBaldwin’s work across higher education and global nonprofit sectors. Gerri began her career as a K-12 school administrator before pivoting to [...]
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 [...]
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 is an Associate Partner at CarterBaldwin, where he has served as a trusted advisor to CEOs, boards, and investors since 2005. He works with clients across a broad range of industries, including B2B services, industrial, manufacturing, and technology, helping leadership teams navigate talent decisions during periods of growth, transition, and strategic change. Over the course [...]
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 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 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 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 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 [...]