Emily Giuliani

Emily Giuliani is a high performance and intensely driven search and recruitment practitioner with an excellent track record of success in the placement of senior and intermediate level technology, commercial and creative leadership roles across a variety of industry verticals.

As a Principal at EMA Partners, Emily supports the firm’s Technology & Communications, Financial Services, Consumer Retail Services, Payments, Fintech and Digital Practice Groups, providing personalized support to clients across the North American Enterprise and SMB markets.

Craig Scheiblauer

Craig Scheiblauer is the Managing Partner for the EMA Partners Atlanta office and is the North American Practice Group Leader for Life Sciences and Healthcare. Craig's specialty and focus is in Life Sciences, Healthcare, In-Vitro Diagnostics, and Pharma and Biotech Tools companies.

Robyn Parker

Robyn Parker has 17 years of executive search and talent acquisition experience. As a Partner for the EMA Partners New York office, Robyn specializes in the Technology/SaaS, Manufacturing & Supply Chain, and Professional Services industries across North America. With a proven track record of delivering exceptional leadership talent, Robyn collaborates with clients to address their most pressing business needs to drive transformative growth.

Marie Guillot

Marie Guillot is Managing Partner of the EMA Partners Houston office and has been a leader in retained executive search since 2007, following a 20-year career in industry as an executive in high-growth private and public companies. Marie has conducted over 700 executive search assignments including Board & C-Suite, VP, and Director roles for companies operating both domestically and internationally.

Chris Reece

Chris Reece has been active in the world of Strategic Leadership and Human Capital Management for more than twenty-five years.

Chris supports the New York & Boston offices of EMA Partners. He has conducted over 250 executive searches and numerous organisational assessments and executive and management assessments. Chris has conducted assignments in all functional areas with an emphasis on executive and general management level searches. These organisations have ranged in size from entrepreneurial start-ups to billion dollar corporations.

Jo Canning

As a Managing Partner Jo has over twenty years of search experience and has successfully executed numerous searches at the senior executive and Board level. Additionally, Jo leads the intermediate level practice for EMA Partner’s New York and Toronto offices and is a senior member of the firm’s Digital, Fintech, Payments, Financial Services and Technology Practice Groups.

Scott McKinley

After a career in public and private equity investing, and executive positions in talent development globally, Scott co-founded the EMA Partners Seattle office in 2021 to focus on senior cloud and cybersecurity roles across all major cloud providers.  Scott lived and worked in the Asia Pacific and European regions for 18 years and served as a Managing Director of JPMorgan Partners.

Ezra Hodge

Ezra has held multiple executive leadership roles and scaled global cloud talent programs for Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he came to understand that the greatest challenge for businesses today is finding leaders with proven cloud and digital modernization know-how. Seeing this as the biggest hurdle of business today — and the greatest opportunity for the new workforce of tomorrow - he co-founded the McKinley Hodge Group (MHG), a cloud-native executive and technical retained search firm, before joining EMA Partners.

Richard Sbarbaro

Richard Sbarbaro is currently serving on the EMA Partners Executive Committee as VP Business Development and Professional Standards. He is also a Co-Leader of EMA Partners’ North American Financial and Global Payments & Transactions Service practices. Richard has a unique blend of corporate experience and executive search consulting, spanning more than 30 years.

Chris Pantelidis

Chris has been an executive search practitioner for over 20 years and has worked with EMA Partners since 2002. He is a member of the EMA Partners Executive Committee and serves as, America’s Regional Chair.

Chris is the Global Head for EMA’s Global Payments, Digital & Transaction Services (GP, D&TS) practice group and co-leads the North American Financial Services and Payments practices. He is also a member of EMA’s Technology, Digital and Board & CEO Services practices.