Client Quotes | Candidate Quotes
Peggy is a leading search industry entrepreneur and executive recruiter for emerging and high growth technology companies. She joins Summative from Tricom Group, an executive search firm she co-founded in 1994 and was instrumental in growing to a successful, multi-million dollar recruiting business.
Peggy's search experience includes assignments in enterprise and internet software and storage and computer systems. She has recruited for most functional positions at the officer level, including
Operations, Finance, Sales, Marketing and Business Development.
A short list of Peggy's clients include Sigma Partners, Initiate Systems,
EqualLogic, Alert Logic, PentaSafe, eRoom, Hunt Ventures, OpenPages, Bit9,
Damballa, Oversight Systems, ExaGrid, DFJ Mercury, Tradex and Trilogy Software.
Previously, Peggy was a successful high tech complex solutions sales executive with Execucom Systems and Bridgeway Software where she consistently ranked as a top performer.
Peggy lives in Houston with her husband, their two teenage boys and two family dogs. She is actively involved in her community and church. She enjoys writing, music and travel adventures with her family. Peggy holds a B.A. in Finance and Information Systems from Baylor University.
Client Quotes
Bob Davoli
Managing Director
Sigma Partners
"Peggy Thompson is a smart, aggressive recruiter who consistently delivers the results I expect. Since 1998, she and her team have managed over 60 searches within
Sigma's portfolio. Peggy's track record speaks for itself and has earned my confidence in her ability to attract the exceptional executives I seek to recruit."
Dr. Todd Brennan
Chairman and Founder
Bit9
"Peggy is the best that I have ever seen."
Steve Coffey
President and Managing Director
Hunt Ventures
"I
thought you did an outstanding job and would gladly work with you again"
Doug Erwin
President and CEO
PentaSafe (acquired by NetIQ)
"Peggy Thompson is not only an excellent recruiter, but she is also a great salesman. Working as a team, we convinced a skeptical early-stage technology CEO living in Florida to move his family to Houston to take the VP Marketing position with PentaSafe. It proved to be a great decision not only for the candidate, but also for PentaSafe"
Jason Heltzer
Principal
OCA Ventures
"I think I
speak for all of the investors in saying that you did a spectacular job and you
left us all impressed. You have set the bar extremely high for other search
firms that we interact with."
Ron Galowich
Chairman of the Board, Founder
Initiate Systems
"One of the highlights of my year was working with Peggy to find my replacement as founding CEO. Peggy not only made the process enjoyable, but she had the insight to truly understand our company dynamics. She achieved fast, effective results and we definitely recruited and have retained the best executive in the country for the job. He is great and Peggy is great!."
John Mandile
Managing Director
Sigma Partners
"Peggy Thompson takes a unique approach to recruiting. Early-stage, recently funded companies often lack comprehensive market positioning and messaging. Peggy develops the positioning and messaging her clients."
Jay Campion
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Access Venture Partners
"Your
candidate quality and flow was outstanding. Even with the bumps you stayed
steady which was very important to our successful outcome."
Misha Govshteyn
Director, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Alert
Logic
"I think you're doing a fantastic job with the search...You have been
beyond professional in every way."
George Kassabgi
President and CEO
Bit9
"I want to
thank Peggy for her perseverance, steady-handedness, and professionalism with
this search. Peggy: you are truly in league by yourself!"
Candidate Quotes
Vin Bisceglia
Chairman & CEO
Broadbus
“I want to thank you for running an extremely professional
process. You are a joy to deal with!”
Charles Meyers
Group President, Messaging and Mobile Media
VeriSign
"...you are very good at what you do. As you can
imagine, I interact with a lot of recruiters and most of them could learn an
awful lot from you..."
