May Young is the newest member of the Vantage Partners retained search team. Her background draws from dynamic, consultative, and creative companies in New York, Chicago and SF/Silicon Valley.

May brings a confluence of strategic thinking, a creative mindset, management skills, and exceptional attention to Client service. Having served in key management roles at DDB Needham/New York and J. Walter Thompson/Chicago, as well as other leading NY-based advertising agencies, May successfully managed multi-disciplinary teams on high-profile Fortune 500 brands in technology and consumer goods and services. May’s creative interests later focused her professional attention toward interior architecture, designing, and managing both commercial and high-end residential interiors projects in Chicago and the Bay Area.

After a hiatus from corporate-centric assignments, May decided to return to her roots in Client management to employ her strategic discipline, consultative approach, and service-orientation in retained executive search. Her multi-faceted background in account management, branding, and design, as well as her keen interest in companies focused on "social good,” serve her well with both entrepreneurial and corporate clients in the areas of Consumer Internet/Digital Media, SaaS, and Social Enterprises.

May received her undergraduate degree from UCLA, with an additional degree in design at the Harrington Institute in Chicago. May has a personal interest in modern architecture and green/sustainable design.