Overview
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Executive recruiting for
the media, entertainment
& convergence industries
ML Search Partners understands and meets the needs of companies that are content and creatively driven, and where the business models are constantly shifting.

We make every search a priority. When you retain MLSP, you're one of the select group of clients who will receive ongoing attention throughout the duration of the search.
At MLSP, we focus on media, entertainment and convergence exclusively. We can leverage an impressive network of senior management contacts based on years of recruiting experience in marketing, advertising and promotion. We identify executives who understand innovation and how to foster and manage it for long-term profit. We work creatively. The best people are often where you least expect to find them. That’s why we look in places other search firms might overlook...and often find outstanding
 
Why Us?
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We know the industry across all key verticals of Media, Entertainment & Convergence
While we pride ourselves on our relationships with recognized leaders on all sides of the industry, we are also known for providing less obvious, but more successful solutions to clients’ situations.
 
Industry Sectors
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Media, Entertainment & Convergence
Advertising
Broadcasting & Cable
Digital Media
Motion Picture
Music
Publishing
Sports

FUNCTIONS:
CEO l CFO l General Manager
Business Development l Communications/PR
Editorial l Finance l Licensing & Merchandising
Marketing l Creative l Programing/Production l Sales
 
Clients
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Selected Client List
A&E Networks
CAB
Charter Communications
Columbia House
Corbis
Country Music Television
Court Television
DirecTV
Discovery Networks
Disney
ESPN
Fox
Gaiam
Hasbro
Hearst Argyle
Lifetime
  Live Nation
Madison Square Garden
MTV Networks
NASCAR
NBC Universal
NFL
NIKE
Oxygen
Reuters
Sci Fi Channel
Sundance Channel
WedMD
 
Biographies
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Michael Levine
Michael Levine is President of ML Search Partners, the company he founded in 1990. His firm’s clientele includes major media organizations involved with cable and broadcast television, theatrical studios, publishing and digital media. He recruits top executives in marketing, programming, digital media and general management and over the course of his career has placed numerous leaders around our industry. Mike spent the decade leading up to the launch of his own firm as a recruiter specializing in marketing services.

Prior to executive search, Mike was a psychologist for a joint New York State program where he worked with children and their families to prevent institutionalization and foster mainstreaming. He also served as a placement counselor in a rehabilitation agency for the physical, emotional and mentally handicapped, where he worked with
Steve Spector
Steve Spector is a Partner at ML Search Partners and runs the firms’ Los Angeles office. Steve approaches each project by combining an in-depth understanding of his clients’ business strategies with creative innovative search execution. He keeps in constant touch with seasoned executives in all sectors of the media, entertainment and technology industries, enabling him to stay abreast of current and pertinent trends in the marketplace. Steve conducts senior level searches in virtually every area of media and entertainment, specializing in marketing, creative and content-centric roles. His clients run the gamut from Fortune 500 companies to owner-run marketing and creative vendors. As with the rest of ML Search Partners, Steve takes pride in placing executives who have enjoyed long-term success with his clients’ organizations.

Steve has more than 10 years of experience. Previously, he was a principal at a Los Angeles boutique where he served studio and
Steve Bergin
Steve Bergin serves as Managing Director for ML Search Partners, one of the leading executive search firms focused on the Media, Entertainment & Convergence industries. Recognized for the breadth and strength of his relationships with senior executives across all sectors, Steve is in constant dialogue with the marketplace and as such is able to advise clients on trends impacting how consumers interface with content. Steve partners with his clients to ensure that they have the right executives in the right places to keep pace with their competition and to achieve and exceed on their goals.

Prior to joining ML Search Partners, Steve was a Principal with a leading boutique search firm. Previously, he was a key member of Korn/Ferry International’s Global Media & Entertainment Practice. Steve has successfully placed CEOs, COOs, and CFOs as well as heads of Marketing, Sales, Business Development, Production and other functions for major media companies, cable and
Maria Gianoutsos
Maria Gianoutsos is responsible for business development at ML Search Partners. Maria is committed to identifying new opportunities for our clients that will meet their ever changing business needs. Maria specializes in the communications spaces where she works to identify fresh talent that can inform business development through creative solutions across a range of media.

Maria comes from a career in advertising which she began at Ogilvy & Mather in Sydney Australia. Maria came to NYC with Ogilvy where she assumed the responsibility for the management of several key iconic American brands. After six years at Ogilvy Maria assumed responsibility for Account Management at Weiss Whitten Stagliano. Maria then went back to the big agency world and spent time as a SVP Group Account Director at JWT. Finally Maria assumed a creative role at APL where she ran the New Communications Group.
 
Contact
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ML Search Partners
New York
11 E. 44th Street
5th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Phone 212.328.1940
Fax 212.328.1950

Los Angeles
420 1/2 North Larchmont Blvd.
Suite 2
Los Angeles, CA 90004
Phone 323.957.5700

Email: info@mlsearch.com