Steve O'Deegan, Managing Director at Vantage Partners, is a successful executive recruiter servicing high-growth technology companies that demand a deeply talented and well balanced executive team. Steve's approach to executive organizational evaluation, role mapping and placement success factors has made him an indispensable recruitment source for many high-profile tech companies.

Steve joined Vantage Partners in 2010. His executive search and SaaS start-up operating experience background has enabled him to deliver a strong executive staffing plan. Steve focuses on three key markets – SaaS / Cloud, Mobile and Consumer / Internet (all things Social) across all functional disciplines (C-level and SVP/ VP roles).

Steve's 16 year search career includes founding Celerity, Partner roles with The Laurel Group & Austin McGregor and senior contributor roles with Howard Fischer and Quest Search Associates. Most recently, Steve was VP Sales and Marketing at Fastpencil (ebook self-publishing SaaS start-up). Steve was a Corporal in the U.S. Army (25th I.D./Ranger) and a certified athletic trainer.

His recent clients include:

Actian (Cloud Analytics Platform)
Get Satisfaction (Social CRM)
Boomi/Dell (Cloud Integration - Market Leader)
Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK - Cloud IT Management - Market Leader)
Host Analytics (Cloud BI - Market Leader)
Inigral (Schools on Facebook)
Involver (Social Media Marketing Platform)
Pubmatic (Publisher Ad Platform - Market Leader)
Xensource/Citrix (Server Virtualization)
SpringCM (Cloud Content Management)
Aria Systems (Subscription Billing Management)
Oracle (Social Collaboration Business Unit)
Helpstream/ Innotas (SaaS Customer Support)
Daptiv (On-Demand Project Portfolio Management)
Medpedia (Social Healthcare Platform)
... among many others.