Joe McCormack

Palm Springs, CA 

Joe McCormack is founder and managing partner of McCormack & Associates, Los Angeles. He is also a founding partner of McCormack & Farrow, the largest retained search practice in Orange County, CA. As a partner in this practice, he specialized in financial services and healthcare recruiting.

His over 30 years of search experience include positions in New York and Los Angeles as partner with Ward Howell International, vice president with Ray & Berndtson and with Billington, Fox & Ellis, and manager with Ernst & Young.

He has served clients in nearly every sector of American business, filling senior management and board positions in higher education, health care, public policy, financial services, and not-for-profit organizations. Clients have included Southern Methodist University, Washington State University, the University of California at Los Angeles, the American College of Physician Executives, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, PacifiCare, Fluor Corporation, Sea-Land Corporation, U.S. Borax, The Walt Disney Company, Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital and Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound.

Earlier, Joe McCormack was a program director with the Young Presidents' Organization, an 8,000-member international educational association of corporate chief executives. As a staff executive with the Young Presidents' Organization in the 1970s, Mr. McCormack recruited corporate CEOs to the Boards of hospitals, colleges and museums. He managed community relations and special events for Rockefeller Center in New York and promotion for American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.

A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Joe McCormack served in the U.S. Navy and, following training in the Department of Defense Information School, was a Naval public affairs officer on the staff of Commander, U.S. SECOND Fleet. He served for eight years as Director of Epilogics, Inc., a technology licensing company in northern California, and served four years on the national Board of the Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which advocates for respect for all in our nation's schools. For six years he served on the Board of Regents for The Point Foundation, the first national LGBT scholarship fund, and was the first Chairman of its Board of Trustees. Previously, he served as Vice Chairman of the Board of PHFE (Public Health Foundation Enterprises) in Los Angeles.