Leadership You Can Trust
Partner-led by design. Partners who lead every mandate from start to finish.
Cross-border operating experience and research discipline supporting high-consequence leadership decisions across Europe and North America.
Our Leadership Team & Advisory Board
Meet our team
Transatlantic Search is built on decades of combined experience in executive search, cross-border operating leadership, and governance across Europe and North America.
Our Leadership Team:
Roger Heid
Founding Partner
Roger Heid brings deep executive search and operating leadership experience shaped by senior mandates for European-headquartered companies operating in North America. He has led complex senior leadership appointments across Industrial, Consumer Goods and MedTech sectors, advising clients on leadership selection where execution risk, governance cadence, and cultural alignment are critical. In addition to his search background, Roger has served in CEO and senior operating roles, giving him a practical, first-hand understanding of how leadership decisions translate into performance. His approach combines analytical rigor with a partnership mindset, ensuring each mandate reflects both market intelligence and seasoned judgment across transatlantic contexts.
Dr. Ernest Cavin
Partner
Ernest Cavin brings extensive transatlantic leadership and governance experience shaped by senior executive and board roles in Europe and North America. He has led and scaled organizations in complex, regulated, and industrial environments, serving as CEO, President, and Board Director with direct accountability for strategy, performance, and governance. This background informs a board-level perspective on leadership selection, execution risk, and cultural alignment in cross-border settings. Ernest’s approach is grounded in judgment, discretion, and long-term partnership, ensuring each search mandate reflects not only role requirements, but the broader enterprise context in which leaders must succeed.
Our Advisory Board:
Anthony Harling
Founding Partner, Harlschon
Anthony Harling is a senior executive search and leadership advisory professional with more than three decades of experience advising boards and senior executives across Europe. A former Partner at Heidrick & Struggles for 13 years, he has led complex senior appointments, leadership assessments, and transition mandates at board and C-suite level. As a Founding Partner of Harlschon, Anthony built a coaching practice focused on career transition, working with senior executives across countries and industries to develop clear, concise and compelling personal narratives. Within the Transatlantic Search advisory context, he acts as a reference point for search quality, mandate calibration, and leadership judgment, particularly in complex, cross-border executive and board appointments.
Jürgen Brandt
Board of Directors, BOBST
Jürgen Brandt brings deep industrial, financial, and governance experience shaped by senior leadership roles across Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and the United States. He served as CFO of Sulzer AG and as CEO in 2012, and currently sits on the Board of Bobst Group SA, where he chairs the Audit Committee. His career spans executive leadership, public-company governance, and board-level oversight in industrial manufacturing, packaging technology, energy, and medical technology. As an advisor to Transatlantic Search, Jürgen contributes a board-level perspective on governance, financial leadership, and executive risk, strengthening decision quality in senior leadership and board appointments within complex industrial and transatlantic environments.
Dr. Henning Bruns
Senior Partner & Managing Director Americas, ConMoto Consulting Group
Dr. Henning Bruns is a senior operations and transformation leader with more than 30 years of experience driving operational excellence, productivity improvement, and performance turnarounds in complex manufacturing environments. As Partner and Managing Director, Americas at ConMoto Consulting Group, he advises leadership teams on OPEX, restructuring, and value creation across industrial and supply-chain-intensive organizations. His background includes plant leadership and general management roles in the U.S. and Europe, with cross-cultural assignments spanning Europe and South America. In the Transatlantic Search advisory context, Henning provides an execution-focused lens on leadership capability, operational credibility, and transformation risk, supporting the assessment of senior leaders tasked with delivering sustainable performance in demanding, multi-site organizations.