About Gregory
Gregory McDonald is a partner in Caldwell’s Industrial Practice, focused on recruiting executives in the automobility sector. Gregg brings deep search experience serving a wide variety of clients, including Fortune 500, small-, mid-, and large-cap public and private companies.
Experience
A 20-year automotive industry veteran, Gregg has helped build leadership teams for clients in automobility – OEMs, suppliers, dealers, retailers, and services providers – as well as robotics, telecommunications, metals, plastics, chemicals, private equity, venture capital (SPAC), and energy. He has also helped companies find digital leaders to transform their businesses in such technologies as smart grid, connected vehicles, mobility as a service, and the internet of things.
Gregg joined Caldwell from Maccabeus LLC, a boutique executive search firm he founded in 2021. Prior to that, he had leadership roles at Russell Reynolds and Heidrick & Struggles, working with both public and private clients in automobility, chemicals, energy, consumer, and technology.
Before his career in executive search, Gregg had a 20-year career as an engineering executive, working for Carborundum, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, and PolyOne.
Education
Gregg earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the State University of New York in Buffalo.
