Executive Leadership
The team that runs the firm.
Jeremy Jenson
Founder & CEO
Casey Knight
President
Larry Sanders
Vice President
We're a team of 30 in-house employees, built to find and poach the people who move your business forward.
The best people win. This is the team we built to prove it.
Jeremy doesn't do second place, and he doesn't hire people who do. He founded Encore in 2013 on a contrarian read of how hiring actually works: the best operators are already employed and don't answer job posts, so the industry's habit of posting roles and working a network never reaches them. They have to be found, pursued, and poached. So he built a direct-hire recruiting firm to do exactly that, staffed with in-house headhunters he trains and invests in rather than a network of contractors.
A decade later, Encore is Houston's largest privately-held headhunting firm: $81M in success fees, more than 1,900 successful placements, poaching the people who drive growth and enterprise value. Ask him what it's for and the answer is blunt: to be the best, close deals, and make money. He measures the firm against being the absolute best in the industry, and he's sure his clients get there too by betting on people.
Host of the Path to Success podcast. Member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.
The team that runs the firm.
Operations, finance, technology, and growth. The infrastructure behind every search.
The team that runs searches across our general practice.
Our dedicated wealth-management practice. Advisor placements, team lift-outs, and book-of-business recruitment.
Seven values guide how we hire, how we train, and how we run a search. They aren't posters on a wall. They're how we evaluate every decision we make.
Doing what's right when no one is watching, and telling clients hard truths.
The work is hard. Searches stall. Candidates fall through. We keep going.
We work in a privileged business and never forget it, in how we treat people.
We carry ourselves like the leaders we place, on every call and in every search.
We treat mistakes as lessons. The best people here still ask how to improve.
We look for the why behind the what. Understanding the real problem solves it.
We welcome the hunt, against other firms, in-house teams, and ourselves.
We're always looking for people who can run a search, build real relationships with senior operators, and tell a story good enough to move someone who wasn't planning to leave. If that's you, reach out.
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