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ISG, International Service Group — USA
About us

Twenty-five years of solving complex staffing problems.

ISG-USA is the United States practice of ISG, the International Service Group. Founded in Vienna in 1999, ISG has grown into a full-service human capital firm operating in more than 50 countries.

1999
Founded in Vienna
60
Offices worldwide
50+
Countries
800
Professionals
Who we are

A partner in complex staffing problems, not a supplier of CVs.

For more than twenty-five years ISG has been a trusted partner in solving difficult hiring problems. That experience gives our clients a real advantage: we understand the nuances of the international labor market, and we adapt quickly and strategically as conditions change.

Our success comes from expertise and from a deliberately streamlined structure. From the very beginning our purpose has extended beyond placing people in jobs - it has been to help organizations identify and cultivate exceptional talent, and to help exceptional people find work worth doing.

"Recruiting. Easy. Different."
What we do

A full human capital practice.

Executive Search

Retained, confidential, direct-approach search for board, C-suite and senior leadership.

Recruiting

Professional and specialist hiring across every sector we serve, supported by targeted advertising and sourcing.

Training & Development

Leadership and capability programs for the people already inside your organization, running since 2001.

Interim Management

Senior operators placed quickly into transitional, turnaround or gap-filling mandates.

Media House

ISG's own advertising and employer-branding agency, from major job boards to specialist niche platforms.

Newplacement

Structured, dignified support for people leaving an organization.

Our history

How ISG grew.

  1. 1999
    Foundation

    ISG Personalmanagement GmbH is founded in Vienna by Guido Leissinger.

  2. 2001
    Training & Development

    The Training & Development practice is established, alongside expansion into new office locations.

  3. 2007
    Executive Search

    A dedicated Executive Search office opens in central Vienna.

  4. 2010-15
    Europe

    Sustained expansion of the branch network across Europe.

  5. 2016
    Media House

    ISG establishes its own advertising and employer-branding agency.

  6. 2019
    Twenty years

    New corporate identity and a broadened service portfolio: employer branding and interim management.

  7. Today
    The Americas

    ISG-Americas extends the platform into the United States and Latin America, with the US practice led from Miami and working nationally.

Leadership, United States
Bart Ilnicki, Managing Partner, ISG-Americas

Bart Ilnicki, M.A., Managing Partner, ISG-Americas®

Executive search and recruiting across the United States, led from Miami.

Bart Ilnicki leads executive search and recruiting at ISG-Americas®, running the US desk from Miami. Born and raised in Poland, he built the first part of his career across European recruitment markets. He holds a Master's degree from Europe and is completing an Executive MBA in Miami, a deliberate step combining twenty-five years of operator experience with a sharper strategic and financial framework for the work ahead.

Over more than twenty-five years, Bart has built talent pipelines, strategic partnerships, and cross-border recruitment programs connecting European and U.S. markets. At his core, he is a sales-led recruiter, someone who has spent his entire career closing senior placements, building client relationships, and turning conversations into long-term partnerships.

His practice is built around C-suite and senior management searches, cross-sector by design, Financial Services, Travel Leisure Private, Healthworld, Commerce & Consumer, Technology, Industry, Transport & Logistics, with no single sector exceeding twenty percent of the book. He has personally built and runs a stack of custom AI agents that extend his reach across sourcing, outreach, market mapping, and reporting, calibrated to his judgment, his network, and his standards for senior-level work. They amplify the operator; they do not replace him. Bilingual in English and Polish, he runs the Americas desk with a transatlantic perspective on every search.

What we stand for

Values, and the principles that follow from them.

Trust. Diversity. Effectiveness. Innovation. Humanity. Service excellence. Adaptability. Responsibility. Our guiding principles, integrity, leadership, forward thinking and quality of service, shape every mandate we accept, and the ones we decline.

"Professionalism, trust and human-centered values are the foundation of every client relationship we have."
The United States practice

Global platform. Local partner.

ISG-USA brings the ISG network — 60 offices, more than 50 countries, 800 professionals — to employers and executives in the United States. The practice is led from Miami, works nationally, and covers the full ISG sector portfolio rather than a single vertical.

Clients get a partner on the ground who knows the market and the players, and the credibility and reach of a 50-country platform behind every search.

Let's talk about the search you cannot fill.

Tell us the role and the timeline. If we are not the right firm for it, we will say so on the first call.