About Barton Executive Search

arton Executive Search is committed to providing outstanding service to our clients. Our team of high-caliber professionals have backgrounds in a variety of fields, such as retail operations management, marketing, sales, and human resources. We bring this experience to bear on our rigorous search process, collaborating with clients and candidates to engineer the best fit possible.

Tim Barton
Managing Partner

Tim Barton founded Barton Executive Search in 1989.

Under Tim's direction, Barton Executive Search has become a recognized leader in the executive search industry. Premier consumer facing companies including Hershey, Sara Lee, Welch's, Electronic Arts, Georgia-Pacific, Expedia and Royal Caribbean Cruises entrust Tim and his team to deliver talent to guide their organizations.

Prior to founding Barton Executive Search, Tim functioned as a sales executive with Procter & Gamble. He served as an integral member of a sales re-engineering test that resulted in the integration of three newly acquired business units and two pre-existing business units. The strategic merge created a shared retail sales organization, and also the early stage development of multi-functional customer teams.

Tim serves on the board of Breakthrough Atlanta, a non-profit organization with a mission to increase educational opportunity for high-potential, disadvantaged middle school students and to inspire outstanding college and high school students to pursue careers in education. Breakthrough promotes and develops future teachers, leveraging an innovative Students Teaching-Students model which pairs middle school students with college and high school student mentors who serve as teachers and role models. www.breakthroughatlanta.org

Tim received his B.S. in Business Administration from Bryant University.

Dave Pitfield
Partner

Dave Pitfield, Partner, joined Barton Executive Search in 2000.

Prior to joining BES, Dave functioned in executive sales roles for technology and consumer product driven companies. Dave served as Vice President, Client Development for dotcom start-up, CareerElite and in a Regional Vice President role for PurchasePro.com, a provider of B2B e-commerce solutions.

Dave began his successful sales career with leading consumer products company, Procter & Gamble. He held numerous sales positions while at Procter & Gamble including Business Unit Leader.

Dave received his B.S. in Marketing from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration at Miami University.

Dean Keener
Vice President

Dean Keener joined Barton Executive Search in 2008 and serves as Vice President. He is responsible for client management and recruiting initiatives for top tier consumer facing companies. Dean also oversees Barton Executive Search's internship programs with Morehouse, Georgia Institute of Technology and The Lovett School.

Dean is a key player in further developing BES relationships with clients including Avis Budget Group, Lance, and Lego. Dean's partnership with client companies has resulted in the placement of key Senior Manager and Director sales level roles to enhance the client's talent level.

Prior to joining BES, Dean was member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches for over 20 years, serving as the Men's Basketball Head Coach for James Madison University from 2004 to 2008 and as the Assistant Head Coach for Georgia Tech from 2000 - 2004. Dean's leadership and direction played an integral role in Georgia Tech's successful 2004 season as the team reached the NCAA National Championship Game. Dean has also held various Division I level coaching positions at Drake University, SMU, Virginia Tech, and the University of Southern California.

Dean was a member of the Davidson College Men's Basketball team for four years while earning his B.A. in Economics.

Barbara Hourihan
Senior Vice President

Barbara Hourihan has been associated with Barton Executive Search since 1994, and currently serves as Senior Vice President. Barbara has successfully driven the organization's internal recruitment process delivering high-caliber management, executive, c-level and board candidates to BES clients. She has played an instrumental role in expanding BES's recruiting efforts beyond traditional consumer products into a broad range of industries including technology, travel and entertainment.

Prior to joining BES, Barbara functioned as a human resource generalist for the world's leading office equipment and service provider, Xerox. While at Xerox, Barbara was responsible for staffing, labor relations and compensation initiatives to support the company's growth objectives and strategies.

Barbara received her B.A. in Business Management from Keuka College.

Tammie Mitchell
Consultant

Tammie Mitchell joined Barton Executive Search in 1999 and serves as a Consultant, with responsibility for developing long-term relationships with executives functioning within sales, marketing, human resources, finance and general management roles.

Prior to joining BES, Tammie held various management positions within the retail and apparel industry for Laura Ashley Holdings plc and The Talbots, Inc, overseeing operations, merchandising, budgetary and human resource initiatives.

Tammie currently serves as the Board Chair for Atlanta based, Neighborhood Charter School.

Barton Executive Search associates understand the business and management challenges facing our clients. We are able to develop with them a partnership and rapport that is the basis of an excellent recruiting collaboration.