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 over 150 times. Participants are VPs and Directors of Executive Recruiting from the following companies:
| ADP American Express American Securities Amway Bank of America BlackRock Bon Secours Health System Bridgewater Associates Bristol-Myers Squibb C&S Wholesale Grocers Campbell Soup Capital Group Cos. Cardinal Health Clear Channel Colgate-Palmolive Corning Covidien CVS Caremark Dell Deutsche Bank | Eastman Kodak eBay Eli Lilly Expedia Fidelity Investments Gap Inc Gartner International Goldman Sachs Hewlett-Packard Highmark Hilton Worldwide IBM Johnson & Johnson JP Morgan Chase Juniper Networks LexisNexis Life Technologies MD Anderson Cancer Center Merck MetLife | Microsoft Northrop Grumman Pacific Gas & Electric PepsiCo Pfizer Pitney Bowes Prudential Financial Research In Motion Starbucks TIAA-CREF Time Warner TJX Cos Tyco International UBS Financial Services Urban Outfitters Vanguard Wells Fargo Wyndham Worldwide |
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.



