Dan Kaplan
Managing Partner
Global Human Resources Officers Practice Leader
Dan Kaplan brings over 20 years of expertise in leadership and organizational consulting to ZRG. He has advised CEOs, investors, boards and high-profile industry leaders on a wide range of issues impacting the talent landscape.
Most recently he was a key leader of the global CHRO practice and led the PE Human Resources practice for a major global search firm. There, his assignments spanned the U.S., Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Previously, he held multiple leadership positions at another major search firm. He led a Global Human Resources Practice and was integral in developing that firm's Board of Directors Human Capital Institute and its Private Equity and Asset Management Practices.
Earlier in his career, Dan was a director of recruiting at Fannie Mae and a recruiting lead at Sapient.
Dan served on the board of the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) for five years and was one of 30 global participants in the World Economic Forum's Talent Mobility Summit. He has also been named one of BusinessWeek's World's 50 Most Influential Headhunters. Dan is a moderator and speaker at many of the industry's most prominent panels, and a regular contributor to leading media outlets.
Dan earned a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University. He is a member of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Business Advisory Council and fundraises for several non-profit organizations.
