Since founding the company in 1998, Michael Garmisa has led SearchOne into the premier executive search firm catering to the alternative asset industry. Through his career, Michael has represented a broad array of venture, hedge and private equity funds seeking top-tier talent from analyst to partner-level professionals. Beyond recruitment, Michael provides many consulting services to the alternative asset industry such as compensation surveys and organizational design. He believes the three key factors of a successful executive search franchise are specialization, strong relationships and constant client satisfaction. Michael built SearchOne on these fundamental ideas and the Firm and its clients succeed because of them. He received a BA from Indiana University. Home