Published July 24, 2020
Executive search firm Comhar Partners has placed Carla D’Angelo as Vice President in Southern California for Freed Associates. Karen Turrini and Paul Herrerias, Managing Directors in Comhar Partners’ San Francisco office, led the assignment.
Freed Associates had plans to hire a business development executive for their Southern California location and recognized the many challenges that existed in finding just the right candidate. “After vetting a number of executive search firms, Comhar Partners was the clear choice for us,” said Kim Taverrite, Human Resources Leader at Freed Associates. “We worked with Karen Turrini and Paul Herrerias, both highly talented with deep expertise in executive searches.”
After the search plan was developed, Turrini managed the process and worked with Taverrite on a weekly basis. “Our multiple search parameters were very specific and Karen performed an outstanding job of understanding our needs, sourcing hundreds of candidates to get the best potential fit, and guiding us through the process of choosing the best candidate,” said Taverrite. “She is knowledgable, organized, and demonstrated excellent flexibility when our search timeframe was extended. Both Karen and Paul operated with a level of confidence, trust, and camaraderie that was exactly what Freed was looking for.”
After reviewing several candidates presented by Turrini and Herrerias, Freed Associates decided that Carla D’Angelo perfectly met their criteria for Vice President.
“Carla is an energetic, talented and hardworking healthcare executive whose proven experience in business development, payer-provider partnerships, strategic planning, and value-based payment and execution programs will be a great benefit to our clients,” said Dava Freed, CEO and founder of Freed Associates. “We couldn’t be happier to have her join the Freed team and focus on Southern California.”
In her new role, D’Angelo will partner with Freed Associates’ Southern California-based clients to help solve their most complex problems. D’Angelo is experienced working with large payer and provider networks, academic medical organizations, and county and public health systems. She is a subject matter expert in health plan mergers and acquisitions, business planning, market growth strategies, healthcare reimbursement, and social determinants of health.
“I am thrilled to join Freed’s outstanding team who deeply understands California healthcare and has an outstanding reputation for building customized solutions while making a substantial difference in clients’ success,” D’Angelo said. “To have the opportunity to help the state’s healthcare organizations respond to the new demands of COVID-19 as they execute on their future plans is exciting.”
D’Angelo joins Freed from COPE Health in Los Angeles, where she was a Vice President of Consulting. Previously she held Senior Vice President positions at YourCare Health Plan and Trillium Health, and was a director at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield.
Freed Associates is a California-based healthcare consultancy, founded in 1991 by Dava Freed. Freed Associates consults with California healthcare organizations on strategic and tactical initiatives. Their team provides specialized knowledge across the healthcare industry spectrum.
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The team at Comhar Partners is a recognized national leader in retained executive search, professional recruiting, and talent advisory services. Comhar, derived from the Gaelic word meaning “collaboration,” was formed with the intention of providing recruiting expertise in deep partnership with the client in order to solve talent management challenges. Comhar Partners is headquartered in Chicago with specialized recruiting consultants based in 6 offices across the United States.
Karen Turrini brings 25+ years’ experience in retained search and delivers upon exceptional customer and candidate experience staying in constant communication with all parties to ensure a successful result. Karen specializes in senior-level executive search assignments in the Technology arena with a concentration on expanding high growth businesses, specifically Consumer Internet, Enterprise and Security Software, Digital Media, Data Analytics, Infrastructure, and Mobile. Karen places C-level, Vice President and other senior-level executives with an emphasis on Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Marketing, Sales, Product, Finance and Human Resources. Prior to joining Comhar Partners, Karen was the president of Turrini Associates for 18 years, specializing in Sales/Marketing executive positions within the Technology sector.
Paul Herrerias has over 30 years of executive search and leadership consulting experience in the Bay Area. He has conducted hundreds of search assignments in the Professional and Financial Services, Consumer Products, Technology, and Wine industries. Prior to becoming Managing Director of Comhar Partners’ San Francisco office, he ran the Stanton Chase San Francisco office for 13 years and co-founded three additional executive search and organization development consulting firms.
