Mike Whitehead, former SVP, CIO, and Global Head of Technology for Johnson & Johnson and McCormick has joined Carpe Diem Global Partners. Career spans Healthcare, Life Sciences, Consumer Products, and diverse global manufacturing industries.
San Francisco, January 20, 2022
Carpe Diem Global Partners announced today, that Michael Whitehead will join the firm as Managing Partner. Mike will build and lead the firm’s new Technology Officers practice across all verticals.
Michael’s career as the Senior Technology Executive has spanned dynamic global brands such as Johnson & Johnson, McCormick and Company, Millennium Chemicals and Cotiviti, a private equity firm. This experience balanced with strategic advisory and technology consulting with Cap Gemini, WGroup, and Fortium Partners, has afforded him the opportunity to cover a diverse set of industries, technologies, and deliver solutions for unique business challenges.
As a trusted, global citizen, and inspirational leader, Michael has been adept at systemically building and assessing human capital and optimization strategies, while empowering inclusive globally diverse, multi-cultural, multi-generational, cross functional teams.
Mike brings decades of executive leadership from dynamic Fortune 500 and private equity owned brands, focused on digital transformation and excellence. Mike has delivered business transformational technology and processes into global Fortune 500s supporting revenue from $2B to $26B as well as with Private Equity owners.
“Mike’s leadership of diverse global teams with a focus on empowerment, personal accountability and individual strengths, have been instrumental in his ability to inspire and lead, multi-cultural, multi-generational teams across the world, said Jeff DeFazio, Managing Partner.
“Mike brings immediate credibility and value to our new Technology Officers practice. His broad multi-industry, strategic, operational, and fiscal pragmatism, will help our clients better assess their technology needs, leadership imperatives, and the rigorous assessment of candidates.”
“My goal as the technology practice leader is to bring a transparent, operationally focused partnership to our client engagements so we can solve their most challenging initiatives with the highest level of speed, quality and rigor, said Mike Whitehead.
“The challenge facing corporations of all sizes, agnostic to industry, is how to find the right talent within the technology space. Technology leadership that understands how to leverage the ever evolving, complex, technology landscape, in a way that delivers competitive differentiation remains exceptionally scarce. Combine that with leadership that embraces the nuances of culture while being able to inspire transformation and change and the pool shrinks even further. Carpe Diem Partners provides a unique approach focusing the partnerships on solving their clients most challenging problems by customizing engagements around the unique needs of each client, sets us apart as a global firm.”
Carpe Diem Partners is a consultancy intent on reimagining the conventional approach to executive search. The firm is focused on Talent Management and Acquisition of world class talent: Boards Members, Chief Executives, CXO’s, Presidents and their direct reports. Carpe Diem Partners advises multiple Fortune 100, Private and Investor-backed companies on leadership imperatives. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA with national presence and global experience in all regions. For more information, contact us at info@carpediempartners.com.