Ed Zschau

Partner

2020

Parker Remick is a retained executive search firm that provides our clients with research, insights, and guidance to make sound hiring decisions for their executive teams. We specialize in recruiting Product, Engineering (CTO, CPO, VP Engg, VP Product, VP Data Science, etc), and Design leaders for public clients like Square, Google, Walmart, and the portfolio companies of Amplify Partners, Accel, Coatue, Homebrew, Kleiner Perkins, IVP, Menlo Ventures, Sequoia. Our firm is building a foundational Climate and Energy practice. Recent clients include AiDash, Carbon, ChargeLabs, Mighty Buildings, Perennial, SES.ai, Sewer.ai, Spruce Power, and Waymo. We have also built a leading Healthtech practice where we serve Arsenal Bio, C The Signs, Cedar, Collective Health, Headway, H1, Komodo Health, Opala, Ophelia, Prealize Health, Regard, Roivant Science, and Vivodyne.

Director

2018 - 2020

Advisor and Investor

2016

Fitz Gate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests primarily in companies founded by alumni, faculty, or students of Princeton University and Rice University. I advise the firm's Partners on talent recruitment and work directly with portfolio companies. Fitz Gate's investments include Cheers, Overtime, Optimal Dynamics, and SmartAsset.

Member

2024 - 2025

Mentor

2023 - 2024

Partner

2006 - 2018

Inductus Associates was my solo retained search practice. I specialized in Product Leader recruitment but worked across all functions. I recruited 160 executives and impact contributors across a wide variety of clients. Some of my Product placements include: CPO, TaskRabbit; CPO, Life360; VP Product, STRIVR Labs; VP Product, Stitch Labs; VP Product, Lean Data; VP Product, Alluxio; VP Product (became CEO), UpWork; VP Product, LendingClub; VP Product, Apsalar; Head of Product Analytics, Edmodo; VP Product, Mint.com, VP Product, Euclid Analytics; VP Product, Ticketfly; SVP Product, TrackVia; VP Product, GoodSearch; VP Product, Outbound Engine; Head of Product, InformedK12; Head of Product, Fountain; VP Product, Reverb; Director Product, Granular; Director Product, Craftsy

Advisor

2015 - 2017

Seven Peaks Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that backs brilliant entrepreneurs in SaaS-based businesses. I worked directly with the firm's portfolio to recruit executive talent. I completed multiple searches for Bright.md (Portland), Manzama (Bend, OR), Client Success (American Folk, UT), and CrowdStreet (Portland).

Principal

2005 - 2006

Howard Fischer Associates is a retained executive search firm with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and the Bay Area. I completed 25 searches across VP Marketing, VP Engineering, VP Sales, CFO, and VP Operations functions for enterprise software and systems companies. Some of my clients included: Blue Lane (VMware), Dot Hill Systems (NASD: HILL, 4 placements), Flextronics (NASD: FLEX), Intelliden (IBM). Movaris (Trintech Group). NeoScale (Thales). Omnicell (NASD: OMNI), PS Soft (BDNA), Transera, and Wireless Highways.

Partner

2001 - 2005

I started Inductus Associates executing Director and VP-level searches, Overtime, I specialized recruiting for clients in the data storage industry. I made over 60 placements during this time. Some of my clients included: 3PAR (HP), Accruent, agami Systems, Candera, Data Domain (EMC, 4 placements), Ensim, Fabric7, Lowermybills.com (Experian), Marketwire (CCN Matthews), Monosphere (Quest Software), Omniva Policy Systems (Liquid Engines) , PeopleSupport (NASD: PSUP), PERSIST Technologies (HP), SDForum, and TRADOS (SHL Systemhouse).