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Isaac Cheifetz has nearly 20
years experience consulting on executive search,
organizational design and strategy. Since founding
Open Technologies in 1992, he’s been helping
companies hire senior executives who have demonstrated
their ability to leverage technology to build
profitable businesses.
Isaac writes a monthly column
for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Commerce
Chain, on trends and best practices in the global
economy, with a Business eCommerce focus. He has
consulted to early stage Business to Business
Ecommerce ventures on strategy, organizational
design and raising investor financing. He has
served as a CEO coach for many early stage companies.
Mr. Cheifetz completed a BA
in History from Yeshiva University in 1981. He
then spent six months picking avocados on an Israeli
kibbutz. An interest in the time and motion studies
of Frederick Taylor led him to graduate studies
in Organizational Psychology at Columbia University,
where he completed a Master of Arts in 1983.
The next couple of years were
spent as a compensation analyst and organization
consultant to Columbia University’s academic
and administrative departments, while pursuing
additional coursework in computer science and
journalism.
Graduate school loans drove
him into the deep end of the pool as an executive
recruiter in 1986. Working with the firms building
the technologies that became the foundation of
the Internet revolution, he developed a deep set
of practical skills around hiring and retaining
key executives.
Isaac moved to Minnesota in
1988, after a summer spent in backcountry Alaska
in which he rafted down the Noatak River in the
Arctic; kayaked in Prince William Sound; hiked
in Denali National Park; hiked in Katmai Grizzly
Bear Preserve and Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.
He lives in Minneapolis with
his wife Kelli, his step-daughter Chloe, and a
cast of dogs. |
