Managing Director, ZRG Partners

The right
leader
changes
everything.

For 25 years I have helped CEOs, founders, and investors put the right people in the right seats. That is the only thing that matters at scale.

Work With Me My Story
25+
Years in Executive Search
30K+
LinkedIn Followers
100+
Executive Level Searches
Top 10
Global Search Firm

Co-Won The Death Race
Won the Tuckerman Inferno
Olympic Cycling Trials Competitor
NCAA Division I Alpine and Nordic Skiing

About

Not a recruiter.
An advisor.

Ken Lubin
Ken Lubin Managing Director, ZRG Partners

I am Employee #1 at ZRG Partners, now a top-10 global executive search firm. I did not join a great firm. I helped build one from scratch, one client relationship and one placement at a time, over 25 years.

I have placed hundreds of executive level searches across Fortune 500 companies, private equity platforms, and high-growth businesses. I have sat across the table from some of the best operators in the country. I know what separates the leaders who scale from the ones who stall.

"Most people in my seat call themselves recruiters. I call myself an advisor. The difference shows up in results."

I also founded Executive Athletes, a community and media platform for executives who still compete at a high level. Leadership and sport have always been connected for me. Both require the same discipline: knowing who belongs on the team and having the conviction to go get them.

I co-won The Death Race. Won the Tuckerman Inferno. Competed at the Olympic Cycling Trials. Raced Division I skiing. Mentored Team USA athletes through the USOC ACE Program. Served on the Board of Friends of Tuckerman Ravine. Still going.

Executive Search
  • Managing Director and Employee #1, ZRG Partners
  • 25 years retained executive search
  • 100+ executive level searches completed
  • Fortune 500, PE-backed and high-growth
Athletic Record
  • Co-Won The Death Race (2013)
  • 3x Top-3 finisher, Tuckerman Inferno
  • Olympic Cycling Trials Competitor
  • NCAA Division I Alpine and Nordic Skiing
Community
  • Founder, Executive Athletes, 18,000 members
  • 200 podcast episodes
  • Events in six cities
Service
  • USOC Mentor, ACE Program (Team USA)
  • Board Member, Friends of Tuckerman Ravine
  • Colby-Sawyer College, BS Sport Science
Insights

Hiring guides.
Hard-won perspective.

25 years in executive search, distilled into free guides for leaders and candidates.

Executive Search
The Executive Search: 2026
How retained search actually works, what to expect, and how to tell the difference between firms that deliver and firms that don't.
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Leadership
5 Leadership Decisions That Define Your Company
The five hiring and leadership decisions that determine whether your organization scales or stalls.
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Industry · Equipment Finance
Equipment Finance Hiring: 2026
Who is getting jobs and who is not. Compensation benchmarks, the verticals to move toward, and what has changed.
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Career Guide
Win the Room. Land the Offer.
What strong candidates do differently in the room. Scripts, prep frameworks, and the follow-up most executives skip.
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Industry · Financial Services
Navigating the New Normal: Financial Services
What has actually changed in financial services talent, who is adapting, and what the ones falling behind have in common.
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Career Intelligence
What Nobody Told You About Your Career
The honest truth about careers, money, fear, and what it actually takes to build something worth having.
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Employer Guide
Hire Better. Interview Smarter.
How to build an interview process that finds the right people, not just the best interviewers.
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Career Guide
The Art of Salary Negotiation: 2026
Most executives undervalue themselves at the offer stage. Exact frameworks for negotiating what you are worth.
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Industry · Commercial Lending
The Leadership Divide in Commercial Lending
Why some lenders keep landing strong leaders while others keep losing them, and what is actually driving the split.
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Executive Athletes

Performance
beyond the boardroom.

01
Performance
Showing up at a high level in business and in sport. Not one or the other.
02
Leadership
Leading yourself before you lead others. Everything else is built on this.
03
Resilience
Getting back up. Every serious competitor and every serious leader knows this one.
04
Reinvention
The willingness to evolve. The best version of you has not been written yet.
05
Adventure
Discomfort is the curriculum. The mountain teaches what the boardroom cannot.
06
Community
People who get it finding each other. Not a LinkedIn group. A real community.
18K+
Members
200+
Episodes
15+
Years

Founded in 2010 for executives who still compete at a high level. It grew to sold-out events in six cities and 18,000 members before life intervened. Now it is back, rebuilt as a proper media platform.

Season 2 of the podcast is coming. 52 new episodes. The same mission since day one: show people what is possible when they stop treating fitness and ambition as competing priorities.

If you still train, still race, still push limits, this community was built for you.

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