Summary
Matt Kerr is a Vice President in retained executive search with over 30 years of human resources expertise and a 12-year focused practice in senior-level talent acquisition for private equity and corporate clients. He combines hands-on sourcing—Boolean, cyber-sleuthing and advanced LinkedIn strategies—with strategic client advisory to place hard-to-find "purple squirrel" leaders across HR, supply chain, finance and C-suite roles. A former North American practice lead for an international HCM firm and an HR leader at Motorola and in engineering firms, he blends corporate HR operational experience with entrepreneurial search execution. Matt designs and delivers advanced LinkedIn search seminars and is highly networked in the Chicago HR community, bringing both teaching and board experience to client engagements. He holds an SPHR and a Master's in HR Management, and is known for digging deeper than competitors to find candidates others miss.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Glenbrook North High School
Bachelor's Degree, Business - Human Resources Management, Bachelor's Degree, Business - Human Resources Management at Loyola University of Chicago
Master's degree, HR Management, Master's degree, HR Management at Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University