Krista Bradford is CEO of The Good Search, an executive search firm headquartered in Westport, Connecticut in the Greater New York City Area that has delivered star talent to some of the most powerful and successful companies in the world. She is a recognized industry expert, speaker and author on topics that include talent acquisition and assessment, employment and unemployment, as well as career optimization and how not to ruin your chances of getting hired.

Previously, Ms. Bradford served as a three-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and television journalist, having held positions with WNBC and WWOR in New York as well as with stations in Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, and St. Louis. She is a former national news correspondent for ?The Reporters? on the Fox Television Network and a senior correspondent Tribune?s nationally syndicated ?Now It Can Be Told? series.

Ms. Bradford got her first break in recruiting from John Plummer of plummersearch, a highly successful boutique retained search firm serving retail companies. Shortly thereafter, she was mentored by one of the Silicon Valley?s leading retained search consultants, Robin Reed of Reed Shay, recruiting ?best of breed? executives and technologists to CEO, COO, and CTO opportunities at the portfolio companies of top tier venture capital firms including Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and Benchmark.

Ms. Bradford serves on the board of the International Association for Corporate & Professional Recruitment (IACPR) and is a lifetime member of Net Impact, an organization of more than 10-thousand leaders committed to using the power of business to improve the world. She studied at Harvard and Columbia University, and ultimately obtained her BA in Liberal Studies at The New School.