Trusted Executive Search

With over two decades of business leadership and talent strategy experience, Danatha Helm brings a uniquely holistic perspective to executive search. Her career spans both corporate roles—in marketing, supply chain, and human resources—and executive recruiting, making her exceptionally equipped to understand the nuances of organizational needs from the inside out. Danatha’s HR expertise includes leading executive-level talent acquisition as well as university relations and early career recruitment. In executive search, she has successfully partnered with startups, mid-market companies, and Fortune 500 organizations to build high-impact leadership teams, with a core focus on C-suite, Divisonal Leadership and General Management roles. Her deep understanding of business drivers and company culture enables her to act as a true advisor—supporting growth through strategic talent alignment. Having led talent acquisition for a manufacturing firm and managed teams in dynamic corporate environments, Danatha combines firsthand industry experience with refined search capabilities. This dual perspective allows her to not only identify exceptional leaders but also assess cultural fit and long-term potential with precision. Danatha specializes in executive recruitment across Sales, Marketing, and Finance, particularly within the industrial, building products, and consumer packaged goods sectors. Her clients range from innovative startups to global enterprises, including private equity-backed companies. Known for her hands-on, highly personalized approach, Danatha is committed to delivering tailored research, rigorous screening, and insight-driven recommendations that drive sustainable success. A graduate of Washington and Lee University, Danatha lives in Philadelphia with her husband and children.

Formerly the Head of IT and Cybersecurity at a global aerospace company, Greg developed software for NASA and led cybersecurity operations on national defense programs. With a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Greg brings 20+ years of IT knowledge, technical consulting and recruitment experience to his work.

Since 2018 Greg has been fully immersed in technical recruitment, focused on delivering the best technical talent in America. Greg prides himself on developing creative solutions to challenging recruitment problems and staying on the absolute cutting edge of technology.

As part of this process, Greg performs deep, comprehensive technical screenings of candidates on behalf of engineering teams, using his experience to intensively screen candidates for both technical fundamentals and cultural match, ensuring candidate fit and saving clients’ time.

On a personal note, Greg recently received his SCCA Competition license for professional car racing and regularly competes in both beach volleyball and baseball tournaments. Ask Greg about AI, space, and anything tech or history – he can’t wait to meet you.

After 20 years of working on the outside alongside our Founder, Julie Hipp, Sarah joined the Impact team as a Principal and Sales Leader to drive the business and a successful legacy going forward.

Sarah Telgarsky joined Impact Partners with 20 years of experience in marketing, branding, business development, communications and change management consulting. Over the past 12 years transforming marketing organizations, she’s held Director of Brand, Marketing & Sales roles with F500 companies and mostly recently a Managing Director role with global marketing agency, Dentsu, overseeing their Americas CPG & Retail sector

Her experience spans a variety of industries, including CPG/FMCG, retail, entertainment & sports, manufacturing, consumer healthcare, and payor space/insurance. During Sarah's tenure, she's worked for major companies such as Syngenta, Edgewell Personal Care, Stanley Black & Decker, Cigna, LEGO, Pepsi, Unilever, Beiersdorf, Macy's, Penn National Gaming, Foxwoods Resort Casino, and more.

Sarah leverages her love for talent acquisition with clients & candidates in marketing, sales, business and operations management in North America. Recruiting and career match-making has always been a passion point for her after many years of developing high-performing, collaborative teams. Throughout her management and marketing consultancy tenure, she’s hired over 250 team members and supporting the recruiting division at the agencies she’s worked with.

Sarah graduated from the University of Connecticut with a dual major in communications & psychology, loves volleyball & tennis, and resides with her husband, a Wallingford, CT firefighter, 2 boys, and Golden.