recruiting firm

Our Clients

Recent Success:  
recruit Karmasphere
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners, Presidio Ventures.
- VP of Worldwide Sales & Business Development
recruit Vertica
New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bessemer Venture Partners and Highland Capital Partners.
- North American Sales Team
- Principal Sales Engineers
- Director of Sales - Rocky Mountains
recruit Alpine Data Labs
Sierra Ventures, Mission Ventures, EMC and Stanford University.
- Principal Sales Engineers
recruit Digitalsmiths
Technicolor, Cisco, .406 Ventures, The Aurora Funds and Chrysalis Venture.
- Vice President of Sales
recruit Mediamorph
Motorola Mobility Ventures and Smedvig Capital.
- VP of Sales
recruit Datameer
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Redpoint Venture
- Regional Sales Manager- Midwest
- Sales Director- East
recruit ParAccel
Menlo Ventures, Bay Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Tao Venture Partners and Enterprise Partners Venture Capital.
- National Sales Team
- National PreSales Team
- Director of Sales Engineers
recruit Box
Andreessen Horowitz; Draper Fisher; US Venture Partners
- Regional VP of Sales - Midwest
- Regional Sales Manager/Director
recruit Cleversafe
Motorola Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, OCA Ventures, and clients of Anderson & Strudwick.
- Vice President of Sales- North America
- Regional Sales Directors
- Principal Sales Engineers
recruit DataStax
Lightspeed Venture Partners, Crosslink Capital, Rackspace Hosting.
- Account Manager
recruit Netezza
Acquired by IBM
-Principle Sales Engineers
neulion NeuLion
Toronto Exchange - NLN
- Vice President of Sales - Canada
- East Coast Sales Director
- Regional Sales Executive
- VP of Sales - East
recruit Kaltura
Avalon Ventures, 406 Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Intel Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank.
- Enterprise Sales Manager - Media/Entertainment
recruit Conviva
GGV Capital, Foundation Capital, and New Enterprise Associates
- General Manager-Media Entertainment- East
- General Manager- Media Entertainment- West
- Vice President of Sales
- Regional Sales Directors
recruit ProconGPS
Bertram Capital.
- Marketing Coordinator
- Director of Marketing
bladelogic BladeLogic
Acquired by BMC
- National Sales Team
recruit InMage
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Intel Capital.
- Director of Sales - Southeast
- National Sales Team
recruit Likewise Software
Ignition Partners, Trinity Ventures and Intel Capital.
- Global Director of Business Development
recruit Platform Computing
- Sales Director
3par 3PAR Acquired by HP
- Regional Sales Directors
- Principal Systems Engineers
recruit Brocade
NASDAQ- BRCD
- Principle System Engineers
- Regional Sales Directors
datadomain DataDomain
Acquired by EMC
- Regional Sales Directors
egenera Egenera
Pharos Capital Group, and Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
- Regional Sales Director
recruit Imprivata
SAP Ventures, Polaris Venture Partner, Highland Capital Partners, and General Catalyst Partners.
- Regional Sales Directors
executive search OpenPages
Acquired by IBM Regional
- Vice President Sales
- North American Sales Team
pando Pando Networks
Intel Capital, BRM Capital and Wheatley Partners.
- Regional Sales Manager
recruit PingIdentity
SAP Ventures, Fidelity Ventures, General Catalyst Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
- Regional Sales Managers
recruit Sepaton
Harbour Vest Partners, Jerusalem Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Valhalla Partners, Quantum Corp., EMC Corp, and Ocarina Networks.
- Director of Sales
sliverpeak Silver Peak
Artis Capital Management, Benchmark Capital, Greylock Partners, and Pinnacle Ventures.
- Regional Sales Directors
recruit Okta
Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures and Floodgate.
- Senior Systems Engineer
recruit Vasco
NASDAQ- VDSI
- Director of Business Development- B2 E
- Director of Business Development- B2 C
recruit

Akamai
NASDAQ-AKAI
- National Sales Team
recruit Intransa
Rho Ventures, Entrepia Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and US Venture Partners
- National Sales Team
- Principle Systems Engineers
quantum

Quantum
NASDAQ- OTM
- Regional Sales Director Regional System Engineers
secureauth SecureAuth
Quest Software, DISH Network, Eli Lily and IBM
- Regional Sales Directors
recruit 1E
Kleiner Perkins & Byers, Phoenix Partners, Falcon Partners, Catamount Ventures, Angeleno group and Steve Westley.
- National Sales Team
- Director of Business Development


Historical:		  
acopia networks Acopia
Acquired by F5
- Regional Vice President Sales
- Regional Vice President-Federal
executive search ActivCard
NASDAQ- ACTI
- National Sales Team
datamirror Data Mirror
Acquired by IBM
- National Sales Team
recruit F5
NASDAQ- FFIV
- Regional Sales Directors
fineground FineGround
Acquired by Cisco
- North American Sales
recruit Inktomi
Acquired by Yahoo
- National Sales Team
recruit Isilon
NASDAQ- ISLN
- Regional Sales Directors
mercury Mercury Interactive
Acquired by HP
- National Sales Team
recruit NetApp
NASDAQ- NTAP
- Regional Sales Directors
oblix recruiter Oblix
Acquired by Oracle
- National Sales Team
opalis Opalis
Acquired by BMC / Microsoft
- Regional Sales Directors
powerfile PowerFile
Silver Creek Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.
- North American Sales Team
qualys Qualys
ABS Ventures, GRP Partners, Hewlett-Packard, Trident Capital and VeriSign
- National Sales Team
success factors SuccessFactors
NASDAQ- SFSF
- National Sales Team
watchguard WatchGuard
NASDAQ- WGRD
- National Sales Team

Growing your team? We would welcome a conversation to learn more.
Contact: 949.675.0000 ext. 101 or email us.

Recognizing Top Talent...
"After many attempts and little success finding seasoned sales executives, I engaged First Round Search. They worked with a sense of urgency, which lead to a very qualified group of candidates and ultimately to a successful hire. The results were excellent." Jennifer BrowningDirector of Human Resources Cleversafe

"I have worked with First Round since 1999 and they are very good at what they do. They not only know the "space" they know how to recruit the very best…" Eric MorrisVice President of Sales
Kaltura

"First Round is excellent at consistently delivering quality candidates throughout the US. They helped us build both our sales and presales teams and always show us a consistent level of talent." Mike AzevedoVP of Sales
Platform Computing

"They have the tenacity and experience to excel in their business and consistently deliver on their commitments. They helped us attract top candidates in multiple cities and really understand the market." Dan BealVice President of Sales
Cleversafe

"First Round did an excellent job building our national sales team. They understand our "space" and positioned our company well throughout the entire process…" Keith ZubchevichVice President – Market Development and Operations
Conviva

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ZeroNines

"I have worked with First Round for over a decade and have hired many very talented people while working with them. They provide high caliber people across the US and always deliver." Brad RouseSales Director
Gemalto