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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Executive Search |
| Founded | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Founder | Jay Rosenzweig |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Canada |
| Website | www.rosenzweigco.com |
Rosenzweig & Company is an executive recruitment firm, which publishes the annual Rosenzweig Report on Women at the Top Levels of Corporate Canada. [1] [2] [3] The company is led by founder and CEO, Jay Rosenzweig. [4]
Founded in 2004 by Canadian investor Jay Rosenzweig, Rosenzweig & Company is a leading [5] global recruitment-search firm headquartered in Toronto with reach in all key business centers including New York, Montreal, Calgary, San Francisco, Los Angeles, [6] Hong Kong, and Mumbai. [7] Members of the firm have been interviewed on television [8] and radio [9] as well as by The Guardian, [10] The New York Times, The National Post, [11] and The Globe and Mail on issues of diversity, executive team building and the future of technology. [12] Hyperloop Transportation Technologies [13] and CryptoSlam [14] are among the company's clients.
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Rosenzweig met with Ukrainian politician Andriy Yermak to discuss support for the country. [15] [16]
The firm publishes the annual Rosenzweig Report on Women at the Top Levels of Corporate Canada, first published in 2006. [17] [18] The Rosenzweig Report analyzes the prevalence of female executives at the 100 largest publicly traded companies in the country. [19] The publication has been referenced in the annual report of the Status of Women Canada, a federal government organization devoted to the advancement of women in Canadian life, in 2008 and 2009, and has been cited in news coverage around the world. [20] [21] The Rosenzweig Report has had contributions from Jesse Draper, Karena Evans, Katie Taylor, Adam Grant, Dikembe Mutombo, and Chrystia Freeland. [22] Based on data from the Rosenzweig Report, Digital Trends detailed gender disparity in the workplace and how to address it. [23]
Sheryl Sandberg, Van Jones, Zainab Salbi, Andrew Yang, Chloe Flower, and Jason Flom contributed to the wide-ranging 2019 report. [24] Inno & Tech Today pointed to the Rosenzweig Report to conclude that "discrimination is alive and well" and that the representation gap between men and women in the technology industry remained wide. [25]
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