Twenty-five years of revenue, channel and Revenue Operations leadership — now spent running executive searches and advisory engagements for the companies that have to get the next leader right.
Jeremy Holland is the founder and Managing Partner of ETHOSLINK LLC, a retained executive search and operator-led advisory firm headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina and serving clients nationwide. He founded the firm in 2023 after twenty-five years operating inside revenue organizations across manufacturing, technology, fintech and B2B services. He takes every brief personally, and he runs the searches he takes.
Jeremy Holland is an executive search and revenue operations practitioner, and the founder of ETHOSLINK Advisory in Charlotte, North Carolina. He spent twenty-five years leading revenue, channel and RevOps functions in manufacturing, technology, fintech and B2B services before moving to the search side of the table. He is the builder of StageFlow, an AI-native RevOps platform, and the creator of the RISQ employee health-scoring framework. He writes the ETHOSLINK Insights library and originated the Revenue Architecture framework the firm works from.
Jeremy's career was built inside revenue organisations, not inside search firms. That sequence is the whole argument for how ETHOSLINK runs a mandate.
Held Sprint's most senior indirect channel role in his market, and grew a multi-state manufacturing territory from $1.5M to $10M+ ARR at Lupton Associates.
Tripled TalentBridge's Engineering division revenue in three years, with three consecutive President's Club awards — the bridge between operating and search.
Founded and operated an independent proprietary trading and financial technology venture. Builder of StageFlow, the RISQ™ employee health-scoring framework, and StartupStage, an anti-accelerator community of 347+ founders.
Board member, NC TECH. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, where ETHOSLINK is headquartered.
Most search consultants have never carried the number the role they are filling is accountable for. That is not a character flaw; it is a structural one, and it shows up in three specific places. This is the argument for operator-led search, and it holds whether or not you ever work with ETHOSLINK.
A large share of failed searches were mis-specified before the first candidate was contacted. Someone who has run the function can tell the difference between a role that needs a builder and one that needs an operator, and can say so to a CEO who wrote the job description themselves.
Résumé screening rewards pattern-matching on titles and logos. Operating experience lets you interrogate the actual work — what the person owned, what they inherited, what moved because of them and what moved anyway. That is a different conversation, and candidates can tell within minutes which one they are in.
When a brief cannot be filled at the band the client set, the useful answer is not "the market is tight." It is a specific account of which requirement is doing the damage, and what trading it would cost. That requires having made the trade yourself.
The hire is not the outcome. Retention through the integration window is. A partner who has onboarded leaders knows which failure modes are the company's and which are the candidate's, and will tell the client which one they are looking at.
Three practices, one operating thesis: find the leader, fix the system, forecast the revenue. They are sold separately and they compound when they are not.
Retained, contained and project search for C-suite, VP, director and senior technical leadership — concentrated in manufacturing and industrial, engineering, fintech and regulated life sciences. Brief-first, with a vetted short slate rather than a long list.
Revenue operations diagnosis, go-to-market structure, organizational design and the sequencing question most growth-stage companies get backwards: which of these do we fix before we hire.
Fractional Chief AI Officer engagements for companies that need AI ownership, governance and delivery discipline before they need — or can justify — a full-time executive.
The AI-native RevOps platform Jeremy built, and the data layer underneath the Revenue Architecture framework.
Industries: see the sectors ETHOSLINK actually runs work in, and the Charlotte and Carolinas market specifically. Every figure cited across the site is consolidated in the Data Reference.
Jeremy Holland is the founder and Managing Partner of ETHOSLINK LLC, a retained executive search and advisory firm headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. He spent twenty-five years in revenue, channel and Revenue Operations leadership across manufacturing, technology, fintech and B2B services before founding the firm in 2023. He is the builder of StageFlow and the creator of the RISQ employee health-scoring framework.
Operator-led executive search means the person running the search has held operating accountability for the kind of function being hired into, rather than working only as a search consultant. In practice it changes four things: how the brief is diagnosed before sourcing starts, how candidates' actual work is interrogated rather than pattern-matched from a résumé, how a client is advised when a role cannot be filled at the band they set, and how the first ninety days are handled after the offer is signed.
Yes. ETHOSLINK is deliberately boutique. The person who takes the brief is the person who runs the search and presents the slate. There is no handoff from a partner who sold the engagement to an associate who executes it.
The ETHOSLINK Insights library covers executive hiring economics, why executive hires fail, retained versus contingency search, post-placement integration, fractional and AI leadership, and the revenue-operations decisions underneath all of it. Every article is written by Jeremy, and every statistic cited is consolidated with its source in the Data Reference.
Jeremy is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, where ETHOSLINK LLC is registered and headquartered. Searches run nationwide across the United States, with a concentration in the Carolinas industrial corridor, and US-based placements.
Book an introductory conversation directly, or email hello@ethoslinkadvisory.com. Jeremy takes the first call on every engagement.