About this user
Dora Vell is Managing Partner of Vell Executive Search, a boutique executive search firm in Boston. Ms. Vell has successfully completed numerous board member and C-level executive searches including CEOs, COOs, CIOs, and Vice Presidents at both public and VC-funded companies.
Ms. Vell was a partner in the Heidrick & Struggles technology practice for seven years. Prior to her career as a search professional, Dora Vell successfully managed both a 100-person development project and a $150 million sales organization at IBM. Her sales and P&L experience at IBM has proven useful in sales and marketing searches as well as with GM, CEO, and COO searches.
As the holder of seven worldwide patents, Dora has an unusually technical background for a search executive, but one that helps her better understand the needs of technology clients and technical executive roles as well as probe candidates for the depth of their technical experience and expertise. Ms. Vell has published and been quoted in numerous articles including the Wall Street Journal, Global CEO magazine, Mass High Tech, the OPUS for the World Economic Forum, Boston Business Journal, Globe and Mail, CIO.com and IEEE. She has been a featured speaker on leadership at numerous conferences.
Ms. Vell currently serves on the advisory board of Zoominfo and is a member of the board of Entrepreneurs Organization. She is also a member of the Boston Club and the NACD, having completed the director professionalism course. She previously served on the boards of Goodwill, Mary Centre for developmentally handicapped adults, garage.ca and RBC Capital Partners Telecommunications Practice.
Ms. Vell received an MBA from the University of Toronto, a Master in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor in Computer Science from Carleton.
Schools
MBA, University of Toronto,/ Master in Computer Science, University of Waterloo/ Bachelor of Computer Science, Carleton
