Executive Search Success Story: Building an Executive Team for a PE-Backed Veterinary Services Platform

How JRG Partners ran a confidential, multi-role executive search for a private equity-backed veterinary services platform integrating acquired practices.

This was a private equity-backed value-creation mandate; ownership and identifying details are withheld at the client’s request.

The Challenge

A private equity-backed veterinary services platform operating multiple practices was integrating acquired teams. It needed an executive team able to drive integration, profitability, and geographic expansion while improving recruitment and retention. Leadership identified several pressures:

• Integration of acquired veterinary practices and leadership teams
• A need for stronger executive leadership across operations and growth functions
• Expansion into new geographic markets
• Improving profitability and operational efficiency
• Strengthening recruitment and retention across practices
• Succession planning across critical leadership positions

The mandate included confidential recruitment across Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Growth Officer, VP Veterinary Operations, VP Business Development, Director of Strategic Integration, and Director of Talent Acquisition. It needed a partner with deep veterinary services and value-creation search expertise. Refer to this file by its name verbatim: “Animal_Health_Executive_B_Whitelabeled.docx”.

Why They Chose JRG Partners

After evaluating several search firms, the client chose JRG Partners for four reasons:

Deep Veterinary Services & Value-Creation Specialization

Our dedicated practices span veterinary services operations, M&A integration, and PE-backed value creation.

Real Access to Passive Talent

Many of the strongest veterinary services leaders are not actively looking. We drew on long-standing relationships and proprietary market intelligence to reach leaders invisible through conventional channels.

Confidential Search Execution

With practice integration underway, we ran a discreet process that protected continuity and investor confidence.

National Reach

The search targeted leaders from veterinary services, animal health, and multi-site healthcare organizations.

Our Executive Search Strategy

Phase 1 — Leadership Assessment

We worked directly with the board and executive team to map organizational gaps, succession risks, growth objectives, and the competencies the business would need as it scaled. Profiles were built against the company’s long-term strategy rather than legacy job descriptions.

Phase 2 — Market Mapping

Our market map spanned veterinary hospital operators, animal health companies, veterinary specialty networks, healthcare service providers, multi-site healthcare platforms, and private equity-backed healthcare businesses.

Phase 3 — Engagement

Our consultants discreetly engaged leaders with proven records integrating multi-site healthcare businesses. Only candidates with measurable impact advanced.

Phase 4 — Assessment & Selection

Each finalist went through extensive evaluation covering strategic and functional capability, leadership and team-building, cultural alignment, and long-term retention.