Meet Bill Stranberg:

Bill is a 2^nd Generation Leader and Partner at Stranberg, and is passionate about helping families in a wide range of industries to recruit great executives. He has successfully led search assignments with multigenerational and founder led businesses across the country, with a primary focus on helping families align on the needs in executive talent and establish a system to effective manage and enable newly hired executives.

Bill’s clients range from agriculture/ food production, to automotive, industrial manufacturing, commercial real estate, and media. Client revenues range from the low millions to over a billion. His functional focus has been in operations, general management, sales & marketing, operations, and finance & accounting. Bill has successfully led numerous multiple-hire engagements and is adept at leading large stakeholder teams through the successful recruitment of multiple mid/senior level functional hires.

The common denominator across all of Bill’s work is family ownership. In each project the vision and dynamics of the family set the foundation for an executive hiring strategy.

Bill also leads SRG’s Assessment process for clients and candidates. This includes recommending and conducting appropriate assessments and providing comprehensive reviews, comparisons, and analysis on the resulting reports. He is a certified administrator and interpreter for Hogan Assessment, which measures normal personality characteristics, career derailment risks, core value drivers, and cognitive style.  

Prior to joining SRG, Bill spent six years as an entrepreneur building a sports, language education and tourism business in Chengdu, Sichuan, PRC.  Bill’s years in China have given him invaluable insight into cross cultural exchange and international business operations, as well as written and spoken fluency in Mandarin.  With his multi-cultural scope, Bill is skilled at recruiting across cultural, linguistic and national boundaries.

Bill is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife Nicole and their dog Albert. Outside of work, Bill is an active tennis player, wood worker and an avid outdoorsman.