About TRX Search
Executive search built around better decisions.
TRX Search is a boutique executive-search firm serving building materials, manufacturing, engineered products, and technically complex markets. We combine market knowledge, direct outreach, substantive assessment, and candid partnership to help organizations make stronger hiring decisions.
A search firm should add judgment, not just activity.
TRX Search was built around a simple idea: important hires deserve more than résumé traffic. They require context, judgment, and a search process that improves the quality of the decision.
We are most useful when the role is difficult to define, the right talent is hard to reach or the business outcome matters too much for a transactional recruiting process.
Our work is intentionally hands-on, market-informed and accountable from the first conversation through the final decision. The people behind TRX Search matter, but the standard belongs to the firm.
45 years in executive search. Direct senior involvement in the work.
Kathleen Truax
Kathleen has spent 25 years in executive search, leading hard-to-find leadership, commercial, technical and cross-functional searches for building materials, manufacturing and industrial organizations.
Before executive search, she worked inside automotive manufacturing in roles spanning the tool crib, purchasing, production planning and accounting. That experience created a practical understanding of how materials, schedules, customers, employees, and financial decisions intersect inside an operating organization.
Her work is grounded in understanding the story behind the résumé: what someone actually owned, what changed because of their work, how the experience transfers, and whether the next opportunity genuinely makes sense for both the person and the business.
Jeremiah Truax
Jeremiah brings 20 years of executive-search experience along with firsthand experience hiring and managing people from his earlier commercial career. Having sat on the hiring-manager side of the table shapes how he thinks about the role, the team, and the realities a new leader will walk into.
His leadership involvement with SHRM adds another perspective on talent, people leadership, and the organizational dynamics that affect whether a hire can succeed and stay.
One of Jeremiah's strongest assets is his ability to engage deeply in engineering, manufacturing, process, and technical conversations. That fluency allows him to ask useful follow-up questions, understand how the pieces connect and build credibility with professionals who may not open up to a recruiter who cannot follow the substance of their work. The result is a fuller picture of technical capability, judgment, and fit.
The people side and the operating side are connected.
Kathleen's early career inside automotive manufacturing and Jeremiah's commercial leadership, hiring and people-management experience give TRX Search context beyond recruiting alone.
Sales affects operations. Operations affects customers. Supply-chain decisions affect working capital. Engineering decisions affect quality, service, and commercial outcomes. The person hired into one function has to operate inside all of those connections.
That perspective influences how TRX Search defines searches, talks with candidates, and evaluates whether someone can succeed inside the actual organization, not simply whether a résumé contains the right terminology.
We build teams. We don't break them apart.
TRX Search has never made a placement from a current or recent client organization.
The teams we help clients build are not treated as future sourcing pools. We want the organizations we serve to become stronger and create the need for additional capability, not simply replace the people we previously helped them hire.
Boutique accountability with broader network reach.
TRX Search is a member of the Sanford Rose Associates® network of independently owned executive-search offices.
The relationship gives TRX Search access to broader recruiting resources, additional market expertise, and peer collaboration when they add value to an assignment.
TRX Search remains directly accountable for every search we accept, every candidate we present, and every client relationship we serve.
Our specialization is intentional. If your search falls outside the markets TRX Search serves, the Sanford Rose Associates® network includes offices with expertise across a broader range of industries, functions, and markets.
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Start with the business problem, what this person needs to accomplish, and where the search stands. We can determine together whether TRX Search is the right fit for the work.