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Greg serves as Vice Chairman and as a Board Member, focused on the overall direction and strategy of FaithSearch Partners. As President of the Mission Enterprise Division, Greg provides the operating management for the division and also serves as senior consultant for a variety of national and international clients. He was founding leader of Halftime Talent Solutions prior to its merger with FaithSearch Partners and developed the operating model for the organization as a way to bring cost-effective, high-quality management recruiting and talent acquisition services to the faith-based nonprofit community.

During more than 25 years in retained executive search and global recruitment strategy consulting, Greg has consistently built innovative and effective recruitment processes for his clients. He combines rapid candidate identification and development with sensitivity to matching the right professionals to the unique culture and specific mission objectives of each client.

Prior to the launch of Halftime Talent Solutions, Greg served simultaneously as vice president of U.S. Search Operations and managing director of Global Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice for Futurestep, the recruitment process and talent solutions subsidiary of Korn/Ferry International (NYSE:KFY). Under Greg’s leadership, the U.S. Search Team successfully placed high-demand candidates in key manager, senior manager and director roles in sales/marketing, business development, finance/accounting, information services, human resources, facilities operations, and clinical/technical positions. As managing director for the Global Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice, Greg worked with talented business development and client service professionals in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific/Austrasia.

Before joining Futurestep in 2005, Greg was a senior client partner in the executive search division of Korn/Ferry’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice for eight years. From 2000 to 2005 he led Korn/Ferry’s Houston operations as office managing partner.

In the decade before coming to Korn/Ferry in 1997, Greg was founder and chief executive officer of Alliance Search Management, a national retained executive search firm.

Greg received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion/Psychology from Baylor University and earned a Master of Counseling Psychology from the University of North Texas. He resides in Dallas with his wife of 30+ years and has three children.

gbarnes@faithsearchpartners.com

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