Krista Bradford

Current

CEO at The Good Search, LLC

Past

Advisor at NewsTrust
Investigative Reporter at WNBC TV
Investigative Reporter at WWOR TV

Investigative Reporter at WWOR TV

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Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

Recommended

10 people have recommended Krista

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

Websites

Krista Bradford’s Summary

Krista Bradford serves CEO of The Good Search, a new kind of search firm positioned as a compelling alternative to retained and contingency search that, on average, delivers the candidate who is ultimately hired in just 18 business days. Ms. Bradford brings more than two decades of investigative and interviewing expertise to her innovative search practice. Before founding her firm in 1997, 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. 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 has written extensively about recruiting best practices and she is considered an expert in human capital intelligence (organizational mapping, sourcing, candidate identification and development). She is a member of the International Association for Corporate & Professional Recruitment (IACPR), the Executive Search Roundtable, Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP), the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association (IRE), Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), 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.

Krista Bradford’s Specialties:

Retained search, contingency, executive search, c-level, VP, engineering, Internet, digital media, advertising, Web 2.0, Greentech, CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility, software, financial engineering, Personalization, virtualization, Data Mining, Data Analysis, On-demand, grid, utility computing, Security, Storage, Biometrics, Intelligent systems, Fraud Prevention, Acceleration, networks, Open Source, Web Services, Social-Networking, Content Delivery, Wireless, Mobility

Krista Bradford’s Experience

CEO

The Good Search, LLC

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

January 1997 — Present (11 years 8 months)

The Good Search is a boutique executive search firm that specializes in delivering great leadership to great companies that also happen to be good. Each attracts the other. The idea is simple, but profound.

By working exclusively with Good Companies (employers-of -choice), we are fast becoming the search-firm-of-choice for luminaries, thought-leaders, and up-and-coming stars. Candidates come to us when they’re ready to make a move. Or they return our calls when we reach out to offer them once-in-a-career opportunities.

And Good Companies come to us because we deliver superior talent and because we supercharge every engagement with expert human capital intelligence. No other firm has that.

Over the years, we’ve served as a strategic recruitment partner some of the most powerful and successful companies in the world.
Advisor

NewsTrust

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

January 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 5 months)

A proposed not-for-profit citizen news rating service. http://www.newstrust.net/

NewsTrust offers a practical solution to the public's growing concerns about the news media. This non-profit project brings together citizen reviewers and experienced journalists to rate news stories and sources according to rigorous editorial standards – leveraging online technology to identify high-quality journalism, or "news you can trust."

This non-partisan project is quickly gaining momentum as an idea whose time has come. Over 15,000 concerned citizens have responded enthusiastically to the concept and first prototype.
Investigative Reporter

WNBC TV

(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year)
Investigative Reporter

WWOR TV

(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)

1993 — 1996 (3 years)
Investigative Reporter

WWOR TV

(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)

1993 — 1996 (3 years)

Krista Bradford’s Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

Additional Information

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Krista Bradford’s Interests:

New online research techniques, social networking, blogging, wikis, technical recruiting, executive search, recruiting, recruitment, investigative reporting, television journalism, progressive politics, TV news coverage, music (see my husband's website at http://www.crispinmusic.com)and hitting the beach in my current hometown of Westport, CT

Krista Bradford’s Groups:

International Association for Corporate & Professional Recruitment (IACPR), Executive Search Roundtable, Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP), the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association (IRE), Net Impact, Investment Banking Network