Meet Our Team of Executive Search Professionals
We are true business and career partners with the executives we represent.
Julie Hipp
Principal
Julie Hipp leads the overall practice as a seasoned consumer products marketing veteran with over fifteen years of product management and new business development experience. Her broad range included leadership positions at Procter & Gamble, Totes Umbrellas and The Gillette Company as the Director of Global Advanced Business Development. Julie leverages her marketing and personnel skills in assisting clients and candidates in the placement of Executive Level and Senior Staff Marketing, Sales, CFO and Operations management for emerging to Fortune 500 clients in North America and Europe. Her extensive knowledge of product management, marketing strategies, direct sales, category management, trade marketing, account management, advertising, promotions, finance, and strategic planning offers career guidance to the confidential search applicant and a value-added resource to the clients that Impact Partners support. Ms. Hipp is a graduate of The University of Connecticut with a B.S. in Marketing. She has served as the Board President of the Connecticut Autism Spectrum Resource Center for over 16 years .
Danatha Helm
Partner
Danatha Helm has over 20 years of business experience working both on the client side (in marketing, supply chain and talent management) as well as executive search. Her human resources background includes management of executive level talent acquisition as well as university relations and recruitment.
In executive search, Danatha has a track record of success working with startup, mid cap as well as fortune 500 clients focusing on VP, Director and General Management roles. She functions as a trusted advisor to help achieve growth goals for our clients.
The combination of both industry management experience and experience managing talent acquisition for a manufacturer, provides Danatha a unique perspective to identify and evaluate outstanding talent. Danatha leverages her industry experience as well as strong executive search skills to bring exceptional high growth talent to our clients. Danatha is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and resides in Philadelphia with her husband and sons.
Amy Collins
Partner
Amy Collins has over 22 years of marketing and sales executive search experience working with small, mid-cap and Fortune 500 companies. She currently works in the company’s Senior Management level search area which includes C-level, General Manager, VP & Director searches. She is well known in her industry for delivering high quality talent and has a long history of client loyalty. Her hallmark expertise is her ability to assess a candidate’s true strengths and how they align with client needs and culture to create a mutually beneficial, long-term relationship. Prior to her search career, Amy held leadership marketing positions with Kraft Foods.
Amy is undergraduate of Duquesne University and earned her MBA from the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business. In addition to Executive Search, she is a Board member of the Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestra and an active participant in the Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen.