Diversified Search Group CEO and leadership

Aileen Alexander co-founded and currently co-leads Korn Ferry's Global Cybersecurity Practice. She is also an active member of the firm's Global Aviation, Aerospace & Defense, Technology, and Information Officers Practices and contributes to the company's military veteran initiatives.

In the field of cybersecurity, Aileen partners with a diverse client base as a talent advisor, focusing on building effective teams to mitigate risk to an enterprise while ensuring security is an enabler to the business. Her clients range from large global corporations to high growth entrepreneurial companies, spanning all industries.

In addition to Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Security Officers, Chief Information Risk Officers and their key leadership, she also recruits cybersecurity consultants for leading professional services firms as well as C-level executives for security technology companies and managed security services providers. She is a thought leader on security and leadership through the talent lens and has appeared in various media outlets and as a speaker on the topic.

Aileen has been in the security business throughout her career. Previously, she served as a policy advisor on the Committee of Armed Services in the U.S. House of Representatives and at the Department of Defense, as a Presidential Management Fellow in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She started her career on active duty in the U.S. Army as a Signal Corps officer.

She holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and earned a bachelor of arts degree from The Johns Hopkins University.

Mr. Stephen S. Morreale is a Chief Operating Officer at Diversified Search and is based in United States.

Debra Loewenstern is an Office Manager and EA to COO at Diversified Search and Executive Assistant at Diversfied Search Ray & Berndtson and is based in Philadelphia Y Alrededores, United States. She has worked as HR Coordinator at CAMPBELL SOUP CO, Executive Assistant at Manchester International School, and Executive Assistant at Banister International. Debra studied at Temple University between 1977 and 1981.

Denielle Pemberton-Heard is the Chief Legal Officer for Diversified Search Group, based in the firm’s Washington, DC office. As CLO and a shareholding Managing Director with Diversified Search Group, Denielle Pemberton-Heard partners with corporations, boards of directors, and not for profit leaders to identify executive level talent for corporate boards and c-suite roles across multiple sectors. She recently served as CEO of STEMconnector, the largest professional services firm committed to increasing the number of STEM-ready workers in the global talent pool and under her leadership STEMconnecter merged with POD, an innovative technology platform that powers STEMconnector and its Million Women Mentors (MWM) initiative. She now serves as a Board Advisor to POD and is a member of the Board of Directors of Skout, a P/E backed cybersecurity firm.

Pemberton-Heard previously spent fifteen years as Group Counsel, Programming and Business Affairs at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the nation’s largest non-commercial media enterprise where she directed work on behalf of PBS and its 300 plus member stations, and led negotiations between and among PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Department of Education, The Kennedy Center, National Endowment for the Arts, National Science Foundation and others while collaborating with on-air talent, arts and cultural institutions and funders. Before joining PBS, she served as Group Counsel for Thales, Inc. and as Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs at Time Life (TWX), and as a Legal and Business affairs leader at Discovery Communications, Inc. (DISCA) where she supported the production teams as well as corporate philanthropy and community affairs.

Pemberton-Heard began her law career in private practice as a commercial real estate attorney with Wiggin and Dana and was subsequently associated with the New York firm of Cowan Liebowitz and Latman, where she focused on intellectual property litigation and portfolio management. She has published scholarly works in the area of Copyright and Trademark Law and has experience in compliance and Board Governance matters. Pemberton-Heard has a B.A. in Political Science from Tufts University, a Law Degree for Case Western Reserve University, and is an alumna of Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

A past Regional Judge for President Obama’s Presidential Commission on White House Fellowships, Pemberton-Heard is committed to emerging leaders, talent pipeline development, community service and corporate social responsibility initiatives. She was a Founder of Level 8- a committed group of women focused on leveling the playing field and providing equal access for Washington, DC youth. She has also served as a Trustee of the Toy Industry of America Foundation; on the Advisory Committee of DCVLP (DC Volunteer Lawyers Program to end domestic violence) and on the Board of Governors of the Case Western School of Law. Pemberton-Heard has lectured on business law as a member of the professional faculty of the Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business and has served on panels as a career coach to students at American University.

Pemberton-Heard, who was recently featured as a guest on the Michelle Obama Podcast on Spotify, serves on the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) Diversity Leadership Group and on the Advisory Board of the Women’s Business Collaborative (WBC). With a commitment to service, she is a member of The Links, Inc. and Delta Sigma Theta, a public service sorority. She is the proud mother of two college aged students and enjoys travel, classic films and dancing.

Firmin Backer is a Chief Operating Officer at Diversified Search and President at HAITI RENEWAL ALLIANCE INC and is based in Washington, D.C.. He has worked as Supervisor Patent Examiner at United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Firmin attended Stony Brook University, Western Michigan University, and NEW YORK UNIVERSITY.

Tony Leng is a Managing Director of Diversified Search Group and leads the firm’s Digital Transformation and CIO/IT Officers practices from the San Francisco office. Previously a Managing Partner of Hodge Partners, Leng has conducted C-Suite-level searches for organizations where leaders are transforming and/or building organizations that are taking advantage of digital technologies. His clients have included Axalta; CommonSpirit Health; Blue Shield of California; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan; Delta Dental; Esurance; Herbalife Nutrition; GI Partners; Kaiser Permanente; Novant Health; PG&E; Polycom; Sutter; Symmetricom; TE Connectivity; Trive Capital and Wellmark.

Prior to joining the executive search field, Leng served as a board member of three public companies and was the CEO of a $600 million public company. Prior to that, he ran a $1 billion division of a telephone company focused on corporate users. While there, he was founder and chairman of its ISP and a board member of its two-million-subscriber cell phone subsidiary.

Leng leverages his operating experience from being a CEO, his financial background as a CPA and CA, and his technical knowledge from work done for tech companies to drill down and understand, at a nuanced level, what his clients are seeking to achieve as they build their teams. He has written numerous papers on technology leadership and the challenges facing technology leaders today and authors a blog at tonyleng.com.

For the past 17 years, Leng has also facilitated the Fisher CIO Forum, a monthly venue where CDO’s, CIOs and CTOs discuss topics of strategic relevance, learn, network, and seek peer group input on a confidential basis. Participating companies in the Forum have included Ancestry, Blue Shield, Bank of the West, Blackrock, CitiGroup, Clifbar, Clorox, Cost Plus, Databricks, Delta Dental, Dignity Health, Dolby, Esurance, Facebook, FitBit, Franklin Templeton, Gap, Genentech, Juul, Kaiser Permanente, Levi Strauss, Lumentum, McKesson, Macys.com, Matson, Mulesoft, Okta, PG&E, Recology, Red Hat, Restoration Hardware, Ross Stores, Safeway, Salesforce.com, Schwab, Splunk, SFO, Uber, VMWare, Williams-Sonoma, Workday and Zendesk, among others.

Aileen Alexander co-founded and currently co-leads Korn Ferry's Global Cybersecurity Practice. She is also an active member of the firm's Global Aviation, Aerospace & Defense, Technology, and Information Officers Practices and contributes to the company's military veteran initiatives.

In the field of cybersecurity, Aileen partners with a diverse client base as a talent advisor, focusing on building effective teams to mitigate risk to an enterprise while ensuring security is an enabler to the business. Her clients range from large global corporations to high growth entrepreneurial companies, spanning all industries.

In addition to Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Security Officers, Chief Information Risk Officers and their key leadership, she also recruits cybersecurity consultants for leading professional services firms as well as C-level executives for security technology companies and managed security services providers. She is a thought leader on security and leadership through the talent lens and has appeared in various media outlets and as a speaker on the topic.

Aileen has been in the security business throughout her career. Previously, she served as a policy advisor on the Committee of Armed Services in the U.S. House of Representatives and at the Department of Defense, as a Presidential Management Fellow in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She started her career on active duty in the U.S. Army as a Signal Corps officer.

She holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and earned a bachelor of arts degree from The Johns Hopkins University.