“Adam and his team are great to work with. They are really good at what they do. I recommend anyone to utilize them for any staffing needs."
Adam Lenhart
Adam has 20+ years of Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Engineering recruitment experience. Adam began his recruiting consulting career at Lucas Group, one of the largest mid-market recruiting firms in the country. As an Executive Senior Partner, Adam averaged nearly 75 placements per year for nearly 9 years.
He then became Vice-President of Stark Talent where he managed Stark’s National Search Practice. Upon the sale of Stark Talent, Adam became President of HART Executive Recruiting, a search firm focused on leadership roles in Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Private Equity leadership roles.
Upon graduating from the United States Air Force Academy, Adam served in the US Air Force as a Logistics Plans Officer and then worked in Congress as a National Security and Defense Advisor. He resides in Dallas, TX with his children.
Zach Enlow
Zach is an Executive Candidate Recruiter who specializes in sourcing top-level talent for his clients in: Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Engineering. Zach started his recruiting career at HART Executive Recruiting. Zach supports client searches from the Manager to Vice-President level. Prior to his recruiting career, Zach was a US Army Officer.
Zach graduated from the US Military Academy (West Point). Zach resides in Dallas, TX with his wife Bobbi.
Brad Ferrell
Brad started his recruiting career at the Lucas Group, where he worked in the Supply Chain & Operations division as a full-desk recruiter.
Prior to making a career change into executive search, Brad spent 10+ plus years working in various supply chain and logistics roles in the building materials, CPG, and construction industries. Reporting to various directors and vice presidents, he has demonstrated experience-understanding organization’s pain points, asking the right questions to get down to the root cause, and promoting new ideas and concepts. .
Brad graduated with his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Houston, before that, he completed his bachelor’s degree in Logistics and Transportation with a minor in Computer Information Systems from Missouri State University. During his undergraduate tenure, Brad was also a collegiate swimmer.
Brad is married to his wife, Kendy, and has two children.
Alex Keechle
Alexander J. Keechle is an experienced consumer products executive. Over the last 10 years, he was CEO of three private equity backed small cap consumer product companies in both retail and the e-commerce spaces. These unique roles gave exposure to every major US retail and global supply chain operations.
Before that, as Chief E-Commerce Officer, Alex grew the Populus Financial Group’s online business from start-up to over $100 million in revenue in 6 years. Alex has also had sales, marketing, finance and operational roles at Santander Consumer USA, and CapitalOne. Alex holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Air Force Academy.
Jorge Avila
Jorge brings 18 years of diversified experience in Operations and Manufacturing. As a former CEO (and Plant Manager), he understands the importance of hiring and retaining world-class teams and building long-term relationships based on trust and respect. His expertise has been in developing international production systems and supply chains.
Jorge holds a BBA in International Business Management from the University of Texas and earned a Black Belt in Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) which he has applied across the enterprise.
Residing in South Texas with his wife and 5 children, he supports the Shriners Children’s Hospitals and enjoys driving to remote beaches for camping and fishing on the Texas Gulf Coast. He is an avid reader in history, business, philosophy, and geopolitics.
HART Executive Recruiting and Optimum Supply Chain Recruiters
We are happy to announce that HART Executive Recruiting and Optimum Supply Chain Recruiters are merging their recruiting services and capabilities. This merger brings together two highly experienced supply chain recruitment companies to create an even more powerful team of nationwide supply chain recruiters.
HART Executive Recruiting is headed by Adam Lenhart who brings 20+ years of executive-level Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Engineering recruitment experience. Optimum Supply Chain Recruiters is headed by Donald Jacobson who has over 30 years of exclusive supply chain recruiting experience.
Based out of Frisco, Texas, HART Executive Recruiting specializes in Manager to VP level nationwide searches in Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Engineering. While HART specializes in all of these areas, it has specific expertise in Procurement and Strategic Sourcing.
Based out of Ramsey, NJ, Optimum Supply Chain Recruiters specializes in Manager to VP level nationwide searches in Supply Chain, Distribution, and Transportation. While OSCR specializes in all of these areas, it has specific expertise in Distribution.
The partnership between HART Executive Recruiting and Optimum Supply Chain Recruiters brings a new level of depth to the recruiting services each company can offer. With greater nationwide reach, larger passive candidate networks, and additional areas of expertise, this integration helps to strengthen the recruiting capabilities of our new supply chain recruiting organization.
