April Garrett
Principal
- Focus on C-suite and senior executive placements
- Known for sub-60 day searches, client delight, and candidate success for private equity, high-growth, and public companies
- 20+ year operator in diverse sectors with recent success in retained executive search
About
April Garrett brings a wealth of entrepreneurial experience across multiple sectors to ECB STAR Group’s Board and Consumer practices.
She is a sought-after and trusted asset to companies during moments of significant transition. With an entreprenurial and professional background that spans senior roles in technology, higher education, social justice, civic engagement, and specialized, retained executive search, April's unique combination of competencies makes her well-suited to help today’s global boardroom and C-Suite leaders navigate and execute with acuity and efficacy during one of the most transformative periods in the last century.
Before joining ECB STAR Group, she was instrumental in placing senior engineering, product, design, and information technology leaders across private and public companies, including Hershey, Nike, Slickdeals, Storable, Whatnot, and Walmart at Parker Remick, a boutique retained executive search firm specializing in technology. Her earlier career experience includes enhancing campus and intellectual life at Columbia, Emory, and Harvard universities, serving on the senior staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and promoting civic engagement as founder and president of Civic Frame, Inc.
April is an alumna of Baltimore City College, Kenyon College, Columbia University, and Harvard University.