Meet Our Team
Get to know our executive recruiters individually. Click on any team member to view their full profile, sample placements, and schedule a meeting directly with them.
Brian Harkavy
Partner
Brian Harkavy recruits finance leadership for private equity firms, investment managers, and real estate investment platforms — Senior Controllers and Heads of Reporting at multi-billion-dollar funds, fund accounting managers, tax leadership inside PE funds, and the assistant controllers who hold partnership accounting and LP reporting together. He has recruited in Los Angeles since 2009 and knows how fund structures, allocation mechanics, and sponsor reporting change what a finance hire actually has to do. Brian also trains Pacific Executive Search’s recruiters. He teaches a research-first method: build the market map before outreach begins, and judge candidates against the mandate rather than the resume.
David Liebman
Partner
David Liebman began recruiting in Los Angeles in 2003 and has spent his career focused on Accounting and Finance professionals. He brings a consultative approach to search, helping organizations define their hiring goals and address operational challenges through strategic talent decisions. As the architect behind Pacific Executive Search's investment in advanced data tools, outreach platforms, and proprietary recruiting systems, David continues to drive the firm's recruiting infrastructure. His searches run from second-year Big 4 alumni through CFOs — including IPO-readiness controllers, VP Finance hires for closely held importers and manufacturers, and confidential CFO mandates for real estate platforms institutionalizing from family office structures.
Melody Parker
Executive Recruiter
Melody Parker is an Executive Recruiter with Pacific Executive Search, working exclusively within Accounting and Finance. She recruits from Staff Accountant through Controller and Accounting Manager across Southern California, with concentrations in real estate and property accounting, private equity fund accounting, and consumer, food and beverage, and entertainment businesses. Her searches usually turn on system and structure fluency rather than title — Yardi property-level accounting, fund-level and multi-entity reporting, NetSuite and ERP migrations, and the close-process discipline a company needs when it is growing faster than its accounting function. Melody engages professionals before they begin an active search, giving her clients access to a candidate population that job postings do not reach.
Jack Lord
Director, Executive Search
Jack Lord recruits Accounting & Finance leadership for private equity-backed and high-growth companies, with concentrations in freight and logistics, construction, energy services, and investment management. He works across Denver and Southern California, where he has placed finance directors, controllers, fund accountants, and specialized roles that depend on more than a title match — project controls, prevailing wage compliance, manufacturing cost accounting, fund-level reporting. Jack maps the market before a search begins and engages professionals directly rather than waiting for applicants, so his searches reach candidates who are not responding to postings.
Danny Stevenson, CPA
Executive Recruiter
Danny Stevenson is a CPA and former PwC Deals Advisory professional who recruits for public accounting firms and corporate finance teams. He works heavily inside CPA firms — Tax Directors and Senior Tax Managers on partner track, Audit Managers, Senior Tax Associates — where the hire has to handle partnership and flow-through complexity, high-net-worth clients, and multi-state compliance while fitting a small-team culture. His Big 4 background means he can read a candidate’s technical depth rather than taking the resume’s word for it.
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