Retained Search Innovation
The Good Search is an exciting, new kind of retained search firm, one that that is simply more evolved. Our investigative approach delivers candidates you never dreamed existed; our flat retainers eliminate conflicts of interest; and we hand over all the research, something traditional firms never do. Clearly, search has never been so good.
The Good Search recruits board and senior-level executives in media, technology, and finance for some of the most powerful, and successful employers in the world — from Fortune 100 behemoths to the federal government to portfolio companies of top-tier venture capital and private equity firms.
Our Team
Krista Bradford is CEO of The Good Search, headquartered in Westport, CT in the Greater New York City Area. Before founding the company in 1999, Ms. Bradford served as a three-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and television journalist, having held positions with WNBC and WWOR in New York as well as with stations in Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, and St. Louis. She is a former national news correspondent for “The Reporters” on the Fox Television Network and a senior correspondent Tribune’s nationally syndicated “Now It Can Be Told” series.
Shortly after leaving television, Ms. Bradford founded The Good Search, recruiting marquis-name executives and technologist to the portfolio companies of top tier venture capital firms in New York’s Silicon Alley and California’s Silicon Valley. Soon, The Good Search’s practice grew to include Fortune 100 clients in technology and media such as Intel, Microsoft, and Google.
Ms. Bradford is a renowned public speaker, thought leader, and expert in talent acquisition. Her blog, “The Investigative Recruiter“, is counted among the recruiting industry’s Top 20 blogs and among HR World’s Top 10. She has served as a board member of the International Association for Corporate & Professional Recruitment (IACPR), and is a member of the Southern Connecticut Chapter of the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), and the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA). She studied at Harvard and Columbia University, ultimately obtaining her BA in Liberal Arts at The New School. She lives in Westport, Connecticut with her teenage daughter Katharine Cioe and husband Crispin Cioe, a world-class saxophonist, composer, and founder of the band Cracked Ice.
Every engagement of The Good Search is supported by a talent acquisition intelligence team seated it its research division, Intellerati.
