Mr. Peter Fitzpatrick

biography

Peter is the leader of our highly successful and growing International Division. He specializes in global management, financial services, E - commerce and insurance, but is also deeply involved in our advertising and marketing services assignments around the world. Peter has direct management responsibility for our international offices and divides his time between New York, London and Madrid, as well as managing our affiliate relationships with regular trips to Asia/Pacific. The placements made by Peter and his team circle the globe at the most senior levels of the clients with whom he works. And, they include some of the most well known names in the business world – AIG, Ace Insurance, Draft Worldwide, Zurich Financial Services, Kraft Foods, Novartis, Warner Bros, amongst others.

As with most of the Gundersen Partners’ management team, Peter brings extensive business experience to the firm from his previous lives. In Peter’s case, that includes a long international career as well. His professional background includes human resources and operations management in markets as diverse as Melbourne, Sydney, London and New York.

A native of Australia, Peter was Managing Partner of one of Australia’s foremost executive recruitment consultancies, Bailey, Shaw & Partners. He later joined the London-based consultancy, Peter Chadwick as the Human Resources Director and Board member. He subsequently assumed an Operations Director role with the firm. Previous to this role, he was the Head of Recruitment and Re-Deployment for the London Stock Exchange.

Immediately before joining Gundersen Partners, Peter was Director of Human Resources for the international business of American International Group, the global insurance/financial services conglomerate and one of the largest firms in its industry. Based in New York City, he was responsible for the Human Resource function of an 8,500-person $7 billion foreign general insurance business.