Larry C. Brown
Larry is a Managing Partner of Horton International LLC and is headquartered in the firm's West Hartford, CT office. Larry has been active in executive search since 1994. His search experience has focused on a variety of senior level assignments across a broad range of functional disciplines in financial services, insurance and manufacturing companies.
Before joining the firm, he was President of PDS Worldwide, a national distribution and fulfillment company. Prior to that position he served in a variety of human resources roles at United Technologies Corporation, including the Corporate Headquarters, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, and Otis Elevator's Latin American Operations. Larry served in the U.S. Army for six years and attained the rank of Captain.
Larry has an MBA from the University of Hartford, a MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas, and a BA in International Studies from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is a Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Southwest New England, former President of the Connecticut Council for the Advancement of Diversity, Chair of the International Business Council of the MetroHartford Alliance, a Board member of the World Affairs Council and an alumnus of Leadership Greater Hartford.
Email: brown@horton-usa.com
Robert J. Gilchrist
Bob is a Managing Partner of Horton International LLC, and leads the firm's Industrial Practice in the US and is headquartered in the firm's West Hartford, CT office.
Bob and his team have completed a long list of senior level searches for Fortune 50 companies as well as for small, high technology, start-up businesses. Bob has developed an extensive search experience base with a broad range of industries that understand the true value of leadership. His assignments have included a number of President and CEO positions, along with Vice President and Director level positions across a broad range of functional disciplines, including Sales and Marketing, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain Management and Human Resources.
Bob has 30 years of experience in the business of developing, manufacturing, and marketing of technology-based products and services since receiving his BSME. His career includes: engineering, marketing and senior management positions with Bendix (AlliedSignal), Kaman Corporation and Ensign Bickford Industries.
Bob earned his undergraduate engineering degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology and did graduate study at the University of Hartford, Barney School of Business. Bob has served as a non-executive board member and chairman of the compensation committee of a publicly held manufacturing company in Connecticut. He is a member of the Association of Manufacturing Excellence and currently leads a team of search professionals, each with over 20 years of experience in business and industry.
Email: gilchrist@horton-usa.com
Maureen Alphonse-Charles
Maureen Alphonse-Charles, Managing Director of Horton International, LLC, is located in the firm’s Boston, MA office. She is responsible for expanding the firm’s “Not-For- Profit” and “Financial Services” practices.
Prior to her association with Horton International, LLC, Maureen had in depth and wide experience with several other major retained executive search firms involving international executive recruiting for “Asset Management” and “Diversity Practices” in London, Paris, New York and Boston.
She is an active participant in many civic, business and community affairs, having been honored by the Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of the ten most outstanding young leaders in Boston and nominated twice in Boston’s Women’s Business Journal as one of the top ten recruitment experts in Boston. She currently serves as an overseer at WGBH and the New England Conservatory of Music. Maureen also serves as Chair of the Nominating Committee for the Boston Center for Community & Justice. She served as President of the “LeadBoston Community Board” and is on the board of the Bessie Tartt Wilson Children’s Foundation. Her other major community, civic and educational activities have included Tufts Alumni Association, Boston University School of Management, The Epiphany School, and the National Association of Securities Professionals, (NASP). Maureen is a member of The Boston Club.
Maureen holds a B.A., from Boston University (Magna Cum Laude) and an M.A.L.D. from Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and is therefore highly qualified in matters legal as they pertain to her recruitment assignments.
Maureen’s broad interests and experience in both business and civic affairs, and her educational background in financial as well as legal matters, provide our clients with excellent executive search capabilities.
Email: mcharles@horton-usa.com
Mike Kulesza
Mike is Managing Director of Horton International, LLC and is located at the firm’s Boston office. His search experience has focused primarily on the Financial Services industry for a broad range of national and global clients.
With over 25 years of experience in the executive search industry, Mike’s search practice focuses on the Wealth & Asset Management sector of Financial Services. His client list includes mutual fund companies, institutional asset management organizations, banks, insurance companies, hedge funds and private equity firms. These firms are both large and global, as well as, boutique firms with specialized products and specific market segments.
The scope of his searches includes C-level, executive level, operations management and unique highly specialized positions. The breadth of Mike’s experience in wealth & asset management covers three major functional areas within an asset management firm: investment management, distribution (sales & marketing) and back office administration.
Prior to joining Horton International, Mike was an Executive Vice-President at DHR International where he served as Sector Head for the Wealth & Asset Management practice within the Financial Services group. Before DHR, Mr. Kulesza was founder of Anthony Michael & Co. a Boston based specialty executive search firm.
Mike holds a degree in Business Administration from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.
Email: Kulesza@horton-usa.com
Gary E. Lineberry
Gary Lineberry is a Managing Director of Horton International, and is located at the firm’s office in Boston, MA. He is involved in senior level executive search engagements in the Global Financial Services Practice, with a specialization in Insurance and Pension Investment Management.
Prior to joining Horton International, Gary spent more than 20 years in senior management positions in the Financial Services industry. He has extensive experience in business strategy and the development of successful organizations. His expertise includes distribution, marketing, product development, strategic partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions, in addition to executive selection.
Before joining Horton International, Gary was a Director with Spectrem Group, providing strategic consulting and M&A services to major financial organizations active in the investment management, retirement and wealth management sectors.
Prior to Spectrem Group, Gary was Senior Vice President at AXA Financial, responsible for Institutional Retirement Products. Before his role at AXA, he was Senior Vice President responsible for MetLife's defined contribution business and CEO of Benefit Services Corporation.
Gary has served on the Boards of MetLife Trust Company, MetLife Securities, Benefit Services Corporation, The Association of Investment Sales Executives, and the National Defined Contribution Council. He has also served as Chairman of the LIMRA Group Pension Marketing Committee. He has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences addressing investment, retirement and wealth management issues.
He received a BA in Economics from Allegheny College and has pursued graduate studies in Finance at Boston University. He serves as Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Resource Center for Newport and Bristol counties in Rhode Island.
Email: lineberry@horton-usa.com
Terry McCarthy
Terry McCarthy is a Managing Director of Horton International and serves a broad range of domestic and global clients from Horton International's New York City office. He has been extensively involved in strategic searches for various global investment banks and industrial conglomerates, placing senior-level executives around the world.
Terry began his business career at W.R. Grace and he later joined the Philip Morris Corporation in its International Marketing division, assuming senior management marketing roles in various European and Asian operations. Terry was subsequently recruited to ITT's Telecom Group as President and Equity Partner of a newly formed spin-off. After the successful sale of the Telecom Group to a European Telecom giant, Terry served for over five years as an Executive Vice President for United Jersey Bank (Summit Bank), heading up numerous banking subsidiaries.
Terry later joined Citibank in New York in a senior-level strategic planning capacity, eventually serving as Global Marketing Head within the institutional bank. He also implemented sales and marketing initiatives for several business units, leading to a role as Partner in Marketing Solutions, a leading tactical marketing and sales consulting group.
Prior to joining Horton International, Terry served as Senior Managing Director and Partner at several other retained search firms, developing and managing their Global Financial Services practices. In addition to his Asset Management and Alternative Investments search experience, Terry has developed a substantial Media/Telecommunications and Consumer Goods Sector Consulting and Search Practice.
Terry received a B.A. in History with high honors from Gannon College. He was nominated for both the Rhodes and Fulbright Fellowships and was a member of the Blue Key Honor Fraternity. He received an M.A. in International Relations - US Diplomacy from New York University and Columbia University.
Email: mccarthy@horton-usa.com
Robert Nesbit
Bob Nesbit is a Managing Director of Horton International and is located in the West Hartford, CT, and New York City offices. He specializes in executive-level search engagements in Human Resources as well as General Management roles in a variety of industries.
Prior to joining Horton International, Bob served as vice president of a boutique executive search firm. His most recent corporate role was at USI Holdings, a Goldman Sachs Capital Partner portfolio company, where he was Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer, and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. Prior to that, he held senior HR leadership roles with Campbell Soup, Time Warner, Wachovia and Citigroup.
With a career that has come full circle—from executive search to corporate HR and back again—Bob is able to leverage his unique perspective gained from having been on both sides of the table and multiple industries to deliver the results that Horton International clients expect.
Bob earned a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Vermont. He resides in Chappaqua, New York with his wife and son. In his spare time, Bob is a Certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) with the Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
Molly A. Robb
Located in West Hartford, Connecticut, Molly Robb is a Managing Director and currently serves as the Head of the Life Sciences Search Practice for Horton International, LLC. She is responsible for running a national practice that focuses on the recruitment of scientific and commercial executives into early and late stage development companies within the Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device and Diagnostic sectors.
Prior to building her search practice at Horton International, Molly spent several years within the largest and most respected executive search firms in the world where she was trained in search process methodology, behavioral interviewing techniques and how to identify the criteria essential for effective leadership. Before she moved to the East Coast, Molly spent several years on the West Coast working for search firms such as Heidrick & Struggles, in the Health Care Venture Capital and Private Equity practice and Korn/Ferry International. Over her twelve year career in executive search, Molly has led numerous search projects where she has been successful in placing senior level executives into key technical and commercial leadership positions in support of her client’s product development milestones and new product launches.
Molly earned her B.A. degree from the Journalism School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a double emphasis in Media and Communications. In addition to her professional career, Molly is a member of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA), a global organization dedicated to leadership development for women in the healthcare industry.
Email: robb@horton-usa.com
Patricia A. Racz
Pat Racz is Managing Director of Horton International, LLC and is located at the firm’s U.S. headquarters in West Hartford, CT. Her search experience has focused primarily on consumer and industrial products companies for a broad range of national and global clients.
Before joining Horton International, Pat was General Manager of Fine Papers, a division of International Paper, the world’s largest paper company. Pat had full profit and loss responsibility for this $220 million global business with 1,500 employees. Other senior management positions at International Paper included General Manager of xpedx Charlotte, a $50 million paper and packaging distribution business; General Manager of the Interspun® Division, a start-up textile finishing operation; and Consumer & Medical Business Unit Manager for a $145 million global nonwovens business.
Pat’s earlier career included sales, marketing and supply chain management positions with Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble, as well as International Paper. She earned her undergraduate degree from Miami University and her master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati.
Ms. Racz serves on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Lottery Corporation and is President of the Connecticut Women’s Council. She is also an active member of the World Affairs Council.
Email: racz@horton-usa.com
Scott Esposito
Scott Esposito is a Managing Director of Horton International and is located in the West Hartford, CT office. He specializes in executive-level searches in the industrial / manufacturing segments as well as other general management roles in a variety of industries.
Prior to joining Horton International, Scott served as Vice President, Human Resources for United Technologies Corporation, Pratt & Whitney. He has held professional, management and executive roles in program engineering, finance and human resources at the corporation’s Sikorsky Aircraft and Hamilton Sundstrand divisions. He was Vice President, Human Resources for ADVO Inc (now Valassis), the nation’s leading direct mail marketing company and also owned and managed HR Solutions, LLC, a human resources consulting company based in Keene, New Hampshire.
With more than 25 years of diverse business experience, Scott brings a rich background and knowledge base to assist clients in the placement of top talent.
Scott earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business and finance respectively from Fairfield University. He also holds a certificate in organization development from National Training Laboratories. He resides in Avon, CT with his wife. In their spare time they enjoy doing volunteer work for animal rescue groups.
Email: esposito@horton-usa.com
Peter L. Borkoski
Peter is a Senior Associate at Horton International LLC, and is a key player in the firm's Industrial Practice Team and is headquartered in the West Hartford, CT office.
Peter has over 10 years of experience in executive search with significant domestic and global experience with senior level searches, primarily industrial sector clients, which includes Fortune 50 companies as well as small, high technology and start-up businesses.
Prior to joining Horton International, Peter had 25 years of leadership success in both small and large companies. He held leadership positions in the areas of business development, sales, marketing, project management, training, business consulting, coaching, career counseling, outplacement, information systems support and power plant operations. He was also a certified Dale Carnegie instructor.
Peter earned his BS degree in Nuclear Engineering from Columbia University in New York.
Email: borkoski@horton-usa.com
Arthur Dickman
Art is a Senior Associate in Horton International's Hartford, CT office and has eight years of executive search experience.
Before joining the firm, he had extensive experience consulting in human resource management and during twenty-five years at United Technologies his senior executive roles included Vice President, Human Resources and Industrial Relations at the Hamilton Standard Division and the Essex Group. In addition, he served as Senior Director, Human Resources for Carrier - European & Transcontinental Operations based in London. He is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserves.
Art has a BS in Management from St. Peters College and is an ordained Deacon in his church. He is a Trustee Emeritus of Western New England College having served a number of years on the Executive Committee of that college.
Email: dickman@horton-usa.com