Meet Our Founder

David Nirenberg is the Founder and Managing Partner of SKR Partners. He has extensive experience in both senior P&L management and leadership advisory consulting.

David Nirenberg

Founder and Practice Leader

David brings business acumen and an innate curiosity to managing the complexity that is inherent in leadership excellence. He began his career practicing world-class sales and marketing management at Procter & Gamble. Following that, he launched and managed a strategic consulting firm focused on the SMB segment. In the next stage of his career, David was the EVP and GM of an international automotive consumer products company, responsible for all Canadian operations including sales and marketing, finance, human resources, manufacturing, operations and distribution. David went on to become a Partner at a Toronto-based search firm and helped grow the firm into one of the top 10 search firms in Canada. In 2001, his firm was acquired by TMP Worldwide. David worked through the merger, taking on new leadership roles in what evolved into a public company (Hudson Highland Group), where he served as the North American Vice President responsible for Human Capital Services and Products.

In 2003, David founded his own boutique executive search firm, which evolved into SKR Partners, and has since been delivering executive search and leadership advisory services to a variety of clients.

David has been a sessional Lecturer at McGill University as well as being a graduate of the Harvard Law School Program of Negotiation. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from McGill University with concentrations in Marketing and Organizational Behaviour.