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Krista Bradford
CEO, The Good Search
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krista.bradford@thegoodsearchllc.com
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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.

Ms. Bradford got her first break in recruiting from John Plummer of plummersearch, a highly successful boutique retained search firm serving retail companies. Shortly thereafter, she was mentored by one of the Silicon Valley’s leading retained search consultants, Robin Reed of Reed Shay with whom she worked through the dot.com bubble. During that time, Ms. Bradford recruited “best of breed” executives and technologists to CEO, COO, and CTO opportunities at the portfolio companies of top tier venture capital firms that include Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and Benchmark.

Ms. Bradford is a member of the International Association for Corporate & Professional Recruitment (IACPR), the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA), the Connecticut Venture Group, and she is a lifetime member of Net Impact, an organization of more than 10-thousand leaders committed to using the power of business to improve the world. She studied at Harvard and Columbia University, ultimately obtaining her BA in Liberal Arts at The New School. She lives in Westport, CT with her teenage daughter Katharine and her husband Crispin Cioe, a renowned saxophonist, composer, and founder of the band Cracked Ice.