Skin in the Game

Jim, a North Cambridge, MA native, has enjoyed a varied 40+ year career in the retained search industry formerly as Vice President of Weidemann Consultants, NYC, President and founder of Hawthorne International, Inc., Stamford, CT, and President of Weatherby Corporate Services, Norwalk, CT, all of which businesses were involved in broad-based generalist retained executive searches for Fortune 1000 companies.

Jim is President and Founder of Gilreath Weatherby, Inc. (1986). d.b.a. Gilreath Consultancy since 2000. Assisted by Diane, his wife and business partner, their national skin in the game retained search practice focuses on helping clients hire investor CEOs, CFOs, and VPs primarily for private equity owned portfolio companies.

Jim is heavily experienced in completing assignments for a broad spectrum of manufacturing portfolio companies, and also for miscellaneous service companies.