Patricia Powell-Hughes presides over EP, which has mastered the fine art of placing senior executives and professionals in the entertainment industries. While the details are very, very secret, she can talk about the changes she has seen in her fifteen years at the helm.
Secret is really the word for recruitment agencies. They are even more closed than completion guarantors and for similar reasons. Indeed, the risk of leaks in the search for key CEOs is one of the drivers for the whole industry, as recruitment companies take the process out of the building and wrap it in hints clothed in generalities.
