CTPartners (NYSE MKT: CTP), a leading global retained executive search firm, announced today its placement success rate of 80 percent for 2013, believed to be the highest in the executive search industry. The firm also reports that 75 percent of its searches are completed in an average of 100 days.

Brian Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer of CTPartners, said, “The AESC recently published its ‘Client Speaks’ report which states clients are looking for ‘more transparency and more metrics’ from their executive search professions. This is what CTPartners is built upon. Placement success rate is an important measure of the effectiveness of the search process. Our philosophy as a firm is to continue to consistently improve our placement success rate and always set the standard for reporting the data that clients need to measure the performance of their executive search firms.”

About CTPartners

CTPartners is a leading performance-driven executive search firm serving clients across the globe. Committed to a philosophy of partnering with its clients, CTPartners offers a proven record in C-Suite, senior executive, and board searches, as well as expertise serving private equity and venture capital firms.

With origins dating back to 1980, CTPartners serves clients with a global organization of more than 400 professionals and employees, offering expertise in board advisory services and executive recruiting services in the financial services, life sciences, industrial, professional services, retail and consumer, and technology, media and telecom industries. Headquartered in New York, CTPartners has 27 offices in 17 countries.

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