Kevin Traynor is a Senior Partner at Talentfoot Executive Search who specializes in guiding CFOs, CHROs, and executive leaders through high-impact accounting, finance, and human resources hires. Backed by more than 15 years of experience, he brings a disciplined, outcome-driven approach to leadership search that prioritizes execution, scalability, and long-term value creation.
Kevin built his career at a global recruiting firm, where he spent more than a decade progressing into senior leadership roles including Division Director, Branch Manager, and Vice President and Recruiting Manager. In these roles, he led recruiting strategy, built and managed high-performing teams, and worked directly with finance and HR leaders on complex, mission-critical hiring decisions.
He specializes in accounting and finance leadership search, supporting organizations in hiring Controllers, VP Finance leaders, CFOs, and senior accounting professionals, while also partnering on senior HR placements where alignment, leadership judgment, and stakeholder trust are essential. His work is most often focused on growth, transformation, and succession-driven hiring in private equity-backed and founder-led environments, where the cost of a mis-hire is high and role clarity is critical.
Kevin’s track record reflects both scale and consistency. He has completed more than 700 placements over the course of his career. As a people leader, he drove single-year, all-time high billing and revenue performance for branch operations and ranked in the top 1 percent of producers globally within his practice group.
What clients value most about working with Kevin is his judgment and discipline. Having navigated multiple economic cycles, he brings a clear, steady approach to defining roles, calibrating expectations, and guiding hiring decisions with rigor and accountability. He approaches talent decisions with the same scrutiny applied to capital allocation, ensuring leadership hires support both near-term execution and long-term enterprise value.
Kevin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Furman University. His professional philosophy is simple: practice makes permanent, and how you do anything is how you do everything.