Cowen Partners Cited in TheStreet on the High Stakes of Executive Poaching
TheStreet cited Cowen Partners Executive Search on executive retention in its coverage of Meta’s hire of MongoDB chief executive CJ Desai and the competition for senior technology leadership.
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Why the Boardroom Has a Succession Problem of Its Own
Cowen Partners Executive Search President and Founding Partner Shawn Cole published in Forbes Business Council with a pointed challenge to how boards think about succession: the directors charged with solving the problem are, demographically, part of it. In his article “Why The Boardroom Has A Succession Problem Of Its Own,” Shawn draws on Cowen Partners’
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Cowen Partners Research Featured on Hunt Scanlon: PE Succession Risk
Cowen Partners’ latest research is featured on Hunt Scanlon Media, applying findings from our Leadership Inflection Point report to a challenge private equity is only beginning to reckon with: the executive retirement wave now collides directly with the compressed timeline of a fund’s hold-and-exit cycle. The piece opens with a scenario that captures the risk.
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Cowen Partners Featured in Fortune on Polymarket’s Veteran CFO Hire
When Polymarket, a six-year-old crypto-native prediction market, hired four-time Fortune 500 CFO Warren Jenson as its first finance chief, Fortune asked Shawn Cole, President and Co-Founder of Cowen Partners, to make sense of a choice that surprised some observers. In the article by Sheryl Estrada, the natural question is why a crypto company reached for
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Jacob Gamble Examines the Hidden Cost of Tariff Uncertainty
Jacob Gamble, Principal and Head of Steward at Cowen Partners, authored a new piece for AllAccess Capital Markets on what the Canada-US tariff environment is really costing businesses, and it isn’t just the tariff rate. In “The Cost of Uncertainty,” Jacob makes a sharp distinction: companies can adapt to a known tariff. They can raise
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Cowen Partners Research Featured in Entrepreneur on the Boomer Succession Squeeze
Entrepreneur picked up the story of corporate America’s aging C-suite, and leaned on research and commentary from Cowen Partners President and Co-Founder Shawn Cole to explain why the long-predicted retirement wave never arrived, and what it’s costing companies. In the piece by Jon Small, the framing is pointed for a founder audience: economists spent years
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Cowen Partners Research Anchors New York Post Story on the Coming Succession Crisis
The New York Post built its latest look at corporate America’s leadership pipeline on research from Cowen Partners Executive Search, with President and Co-Founder Shawn Cole supplying both the data and memorable framing. In the article by reporter Taylor Herzlich, the through-line is a paradox: from Boeing to Verizon to Cracker Barrel, boards keep handing
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The Leadership Gap in Employee-Owned Companies: Notes from the 2026 NCEO Forum
Cowen Partners Executive Search was the presenting sponsor of the 2026 NCEO Forum in Phoenix, where President Shawn Cole led a CEO Peer Network session on C-suite and board succession in employee-owned companies.
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Jacob Gamble in Crain Currency: Why Family Offices Shouldn’t Blur the CFO and CIO
Jacob Gamble, Principal at Cowen Partners and Head of Steward, the firm’s family office practice, was featured in Crain Currency in an article on a quiet status inversion reshaping family office hiring: the CFO, long overshadowed by the chief investment officer, has become the hardest and most sought-after seat to fill. In the article by
Read MoreCowen Partners Featured in Fortune on Klarna’s Search for a New York CFO
When Klarna announced its CFO would depart barely a year after taking the company public, Fortune asked Shawn Cole, President and Founding Partner of Cowen Partners Executive Search, to read what the move, and one specific detail in the announcement, really signals. In the article by Fortune’s Sheryl Estrada, Shawn frames Niclas Neglén’s exit as
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