Todd Gitlin founded Safire Partners in 2006 to realize a vision that relationships are the most important asset to an emerging growth company. After years of brokering introductions with clients and partners, Todd decided to formalize the model. These introductions have helped companies reach customers, angels, investors, service providers, industry partners, alliances, and executives. Safire Partners was founded to support businesses in this formative stage when relationships are critical.

Todd Gitlin has been a recognized leader in executive search since 1999 completing over 250 assignments. From 2002 to 2006, Todd was a Principal Consultant with one of the largest retained executive search firms in Southern California. From 1999 to 2002, Todd worked as a Search Consultant with a top retained search firm exclusively engaged to recruit Chief Financial Officers for the tier-one venture community. Earlier in his career, Todd founded and served as CEO of CareerCreations.com, a venture-backed software company that focused on leveraging technology to develop integrated recruitment programs and job search methods for college students.

Todd has a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Communications from California State University, Chico.  He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.