Roy C. Hitchman Executive Search AG

Roy C. Hitchman Executive Search AG is a retained executive search boutique founded in Zurich in 1986. The firm identifies, assesses, recruits and retains business leaders with outstanding track records, working on both a national and an international basis. Nearly four decades after its founding, it continues to operate from Zurich and serves clients throughout Switzerland.

The firm's work spans several distinct services: Executive Search, covering the identification and assessment of senior business leaders; Board Search, for board-level and non-executive director appointments; and Executive Placement, which positions executives within client organisations. It also carries out specialised headhunting for technical specialists and provides personnel consulting and human resource management advice.

Candidates and clients come from a range of industry verticals, among them information technology, audit and tax, finance and legal, media, industry, retail, life sciences, and construction and real estate. Beyond its Zurich headquarters, the firm operates in Bern, Basel, Zug, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Lausanne and Geneva, and reaches international markets through a membership in an international affiliation of executive search firms.

Roy C. Hitchman AG is retained rather than contingency-based, and positions itself as a boutique rather than a large-volume recruitment business. Its stated technical domains include executive assessment, talent acquisition and retention, headhunting for technical specialists, and human resource management.