A network of corporate talent officers advancing best practices
in executive recruiting worldwide
ESIX was formed in late 1996 by heads of executive recruiting from AlliedSignal, American Express, GE Capital, IBM, PepsiCo, Pitney Bowes, Union Carbide, United Technologies and Viacom. Since then, ESIX has grown into a large group of leading corporations and has met well over 100 times. Participants are VPs and Directors of Executive Recruiting from the following companies:
| American Express Aramark Armstrong World Industries Bank of America Becton Dickinson BlackRock Bristol-Myers Squibb Campbell Soup Cardinal Health Cisco Systems Colgate-Palmolive Corning Covidien Credit Suisse CVS Caremark Dell | Eastman Kodak eBay Eli Lilly EMC ESIS Expedia Fidelity Investments Gap Inc Gartner International Goldman Sachs Hewlett-Packard IBM Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Laureate Education LexisNexis Group Lockheed Martin | MD Anderson Cancer Center Merck MetLife Microsoft Pepsi Bottling PepsiCo Pitney Bowes Prudential Financial Starbucks Time Warner TJX Cos Tyco International UBS Financial Services UBS Investment Bank Vanguard Walt Disney Co. |
ESIX participants meet 11 times a year: 7 in New York, typically at the Harvard Club of New York, and 4 on the West Coast, where companies take turns hosting meetings. Meetings are half-day except for one full-day gathering each June in New York for participants from both coasts.
Participants and invited guests research and discuss a variety of topics related to executive recruiting:
- Executive hiring effectiveness
- Selecting and engaging executive search consultants
- Building an internal executive search capability
- Advancements in candidate ID and assessment
- Executive onboarding and retention
Participating companies pay an annual fee, entitling an individual to attend meetings, receive written reports, have access to Executive Search Information Services for information on executive recruiting (see www.davidlord.com), and become acquainted with their counterparts in leading companies.
Participation is by invitation.