DALLAS, TEXAS – Ethos Club & Leisure, a real estate advisory and investment firm dedicated to club and leisure assets, has acquired GSI Executive Search, one of the nation’s leading recruitment firms specializing in placements for the private club and hospitality industries.
Moving forward, GSI Executive Search will be headquartered in Dallas, Texas and led by President Robert Jones, a Founding Partner of Ethos Club & Leisure and a 30-plus year veteran of the private club and real estate development industry. Jay Salem will leverage 40-plus years of operations, IT and human resources experience as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer. Additionally, Dallas Addison, Founding Partner of Ethos Club & Leisure and Partner in Addison Law, will assume a leadership role with GSI Executive Search as Managing Director.
Founded more than 20 years ago, GSI Executive Search has provided an array of executive search and placement services for 500-plus private clubs, community associations, hospitality organizations and real estate developers throughout the U.S. Now, as an Ethos Club & Leisure Alliance company, the firm is positioned to offer current and future clients an integrated suite of human capital management, operational consulting and legal advisory solutions in addition to its core executive placement services.
As part of a seamless ownership transition, all current GSI Executive Search Principals are remaining with the firm, and all current searches and services are being provided to clients as contracted without interruption. Additionally, the firm’s unconditional guarantee on all placements will remain in place. Terms of the transaction, which was effective June 17, are not being disclosed.
“Of all the factors that made GSI Executive Search an attractive target for inclusion in our alliance of firms, three in particular stand out,” said Jones. “First, its Principals are highly experienced and talented professionals; Scott McNett, Dan Farrell, Ned Welc and Sharlyn Moore each has achieved great success, and they understand private clubs inside and out. Second, the firm’s search process is the industry’s most thorough and time-tested. GSI Principals adhere to it with complete fidelity, and it delivers executive placements that stand the test of time. Third, the firm has built a very strong brand—they’ve earned the trust of hundreds of client clubs and organizations. Collectively, these and supporting assets have helped build GSI’s industry leadership—and they will serve as cornerstones for even greater success as an Ethos Club & Leisure Alliance company.”
“On behalf of my GSI Executive Search Principal colleagues, we are very excited to begin this new chapter as part of the Ethos family,” said Senior Principal Scott McNett, a 10-year veteran of GSI Executive Search. “We share a strong synergy with our Alliance partners, and we look forward to leveraging our combined expertise for the benefit of current and future clients.”
In the weeks and months ahead, Jones and his management team will focus on strengthening existing relationships in GSI Executive Search’s core markets, as well as building new relationships in currently underserved markets throughout the continental U.S. and beyond.
Together with Alliance companies Ethos Club & Leisure and Addison Law, GSI Executive Search now offers current and future clients unprecedented single-source access to top operational consulting, human capital management, legal advisory and executive placement services that otherwise would only be available through separate engagements.
Likewise, current and future job candidates will benefit from broad exposure to Ethos Club & Leisure’s large national network of private clubs and organizations. As a result, they have access to more potential opportunities through the combined networks and resources of the Ethos Alliance.
“With more than 1,500 combined transactions in private clubs, public courses, resorts and real estate communities across the U.S., our Alliance understands the private club landscape like no one else,” said Managing Director Dallas Addison. “GSI clients should continue to look forward to the excellent service they’ve always received, as well as enhanced capabilities and integrated services that can help their clubs thrive in ways they never imagined.”
About GSI Executive Search
GSI Executive Search, an Ethos Club & Leisure Alliance company, is a full-service executive search firm serving the private club and hospitality industries throughout the U.S. The firm's hands-on, thorough, and results-oriented approach has led to successful placements for over 20 years with more than 500 client clubs/organizations and over 900 search assignments. For more information, visit www.gsiexecutivesearch.com.
About Ethos Club & Leisure
Ethos Club & Leisure is a real estate advisory and investment firm dedicated to club and leisure assets. We work for our own account as well as provide advisory services to a select group of third-party clients. We seek out opportunities where our institutional knowledge, commitment to excellence and creativity will yield significant returns.
Ethos is a venture between the principals of Addison Law, the premier law firm focused on club and leisure assets, and Bob Jones, the former longstanding Chief Operating Officer of The Desert Mountain Club, one of the largest and most successful private clubs in the country. Our interdisciplinary team approach allows us to both think big in the planning and concept stages and to think small in execution, understanding that success lies in a commitment to excellence throughout the process. Our name carries deep meaning and significance with our team—our “ethos” is grounded in an unwavering commitment to excellence and integrity in all that we do. For more information, visit www.ethosclubandleisure.com.
