Recruiting the best automotive executive talent for the best automotive brands - Since 2001! Broad & Pattison is an executive search, management recruiting and candidate research firm, exclusively servicing the North American automotive industry from a Chicagoland base. The firm provides retained executive search for C-suite and Board/Corporate Governance vacancies, in addition to contingent management recruiting projects for clients in all corners of the North American automotive space. Broad & Pattison also offers a unique (and very cool!) deep-dive candidate research product to automotive clients. The firm was founded in 2001 -- with clients including major automotive OEM's, auto captive finance companies, national and regional dealership consolidators, auto suppliers and industry recruiters.