Jason C.W. Hancock leads Spencer Stuart’s Boston office and is the global technology sector leader for the firm’s Technology, Communications & Media Practice. He has conducted C-level and board director searches for many of the technology industry’s leading publicly traded and private equity portfolio companies, including Akamai, BackOffice Associates, Business Objects, CardioNet, Cognizant, Comverse, Computer Associates, Eclipsys, FileNet, Haemonetics, Interwoven, Lawson, Novell, Progress Software, RiskMetrics Group, SupportSoft, Temenos, Teradata and Unisys. Recently, he has spent time working with cloud computing companies to help them build their boards and executive teams. Jason is adept at working through difficult board dynamics and with troubled companies. In addition, over the last 19 years Jason has developed a successful track record of helping his clients expand their businesses into international markets by conducting searches for senior leaders throughout Europe and Asia. Jason was also a recipient of the prestigious Lou Rieger Award for quality of work on behalf of clients.
Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Jason was a senior partner and director of another leading executive search firm. Initially joining in the San Francisco office, he was responsible for founding and managing the Seattle office, as well as managing the Los Angeles office for that firm. Previously, Jason was a director of a publicly traded technology consulting firm based in San Francisco, where he was responsible for offices in Europe and the U.S. Prior to his career in executive search, Jason was general sales manager at Newbury Data, where he was responsible for the supplies division based in England.
A native of England, Jason has been engaged as a speaker at conferences on subjects relating to the recruiting and retention of employees. He also has been widely published on the areas of international leadership, career success and corporate governance in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Educated in Europe and the U.S., Jason received his master’s of business administration from the University of Washington Foster School of Business.