Amy Kirkpatrick

Amy Kirkpatrick is a Senior Associate at Mattson and Company, supporting business development and executive level, C-suite and Board of Director searches. She brings over 25 years of business development, market research, and corporate finance experience, specializing in consumer products, retail, hospitality and commercial real estate for Fortune 500 companies and boutique firms. Ms. Kirkpatrick began in executive search with a tenure at Korn Ferry in New York City where she supported C-suite and Board of Director searches within the financial services and consumer products industries. She provided research to the Managing Director and Senior Client Partners to support the search, assessment and development process.

Prior to joining Mattson and Company, Ms. Kirkpatrick spent 13 years at Ralph Lauren Corporation in New York City corporate offices in Investor Relations, Corporate Finance and Business Development. As Director of Investor Relations, she managed all aspects of IR policies, objectives and initiatives, and ensured the senior leadership team was properly prepared for all industry and investor conferences, meetings and events. Instrumental to her role was developing and maintaining strong relationships with key sell-side research analysts, institutional investors and colleagues throughout the apparel retail sector. Prior to Investor Relations, Ms. Kirkpatrick worked in Corporate Business Development, supporting special projects for senior management within the organization and held leadership roles such as managing industry research of the apparel, home and accessories businesses and the development of global brand P&L analysis for a $8B revenue business.

Ms. Kirkpatrick began her career working in commercial real estate throughout the midwest with firms such as Highwoods Properties, a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT), based in Raleigh, North Carolina; and The Laramie Company, a boutique retail brokerage firm based in Denver, Colorado. Both companies specialize in mixed-use, high end retail, entertainment, and urban development. She held Marketing and Leasing Associate roles to support negotiations and procurement of high-end retail and entertainment centers and worked closely with executive offices and senior leasing executives. Ms. Kirkpatrick has a Master of Business Administration from University of Exeter in the UK and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Drake University. She currently lives in New York City with her husband and three children.