About
Jill Perelson
Founder & CEO
With over 25 years in executive search, Jill Perelson, CEO of Diestel Group Executive Search and PrincePerelson and Associates, builds elite leadership teams for Fortune 1000 and emerging growth companies across the greater Salt Lake City area and Wasatch Front. She leverages a vast, diverse network of business leaders spanning multiple industries, combined with deep expertise in Utah's job market and top-tier organizations.
Partnering with global and national firms, Jill applies a proven methodology to create organizational value and deliver exceptional leadership to the region. Her local industry insight and strategic relationships drive consistent success in executive recruitment.
Josh Love
Principal | Executive Recruiter
Josh Love brings specialized expertise in executive recruitment as a Principal at Diestel Group, connecting exceptional leaders with forward-thinking organizations across diverse industries. With a deep understanding of both local Utah and national job markets, he delivers tailored recruitment solutions that align leadership talent with organizational objectives.
Known for his personalized approach and strategic insight, Josh builds lasting partnerships with clients and candidates alike. His ability to identify leadership potential and match it with company culture and growth trajectories consistently drives success for both organizations and executives navigating career advancement.
Carly Hazen
Managing Director | Principle Recruiter
With over 20 years of executive search expertise, Carly Hazen serves as Managing Director and Principal Recruiter at Diestel Group, specializing in Finance, Accounting, and Legal disciplines. She partners with privately-held and public companies across financial services, banking, venture capital, mining, manufacturing, and medical device sectors throughout Utah and the broader Wasatch region.
Carly has cultivated deep relationships with top-tier law firms and in-house legal departments, consistently identifying and delivering exceptional talent that drives organizational growth. Her extensive industry knowledge and strategic approach to recruitment enable her to match premier candidates with leadership opportunities that create lasting value.
Results-Oriented Executive Search
Founded in 1997, Diestel Executive Search provides executive search and management consulting services. We work for industry leaders, Fortune 500, and emerging growth companies. Diestel Executive Search is a results-oriented executive search firm that delivers leadership capital to its clients. Diestel Executive Search has a process that is uniquely adept at matching the right talent with the right company.
Delivering High-Impact Leadership
Partnering with us is appropriate when the positions are senior level and critical to the success of the organization. Our clients receive a level of service that involves a genuine commitment to the client organization. The work performed by our consultants is thorough and timely, assuring our clients the best possibility of success that is to be expected of an executive search company, Utah or elsewhere. We strive to perform in a manner that allows our work to strategically impact the overall success of the organization and the executive team.
We are highly effective at solving recruitment problems quickly and effectively. Our search efforts help organizations build and retain the management team. Our focus on being thorough allows us to help our clients create teams that are capable of solving both tactical and strategic issues, thus adding value to the organization. From the start, we have used non-traditional research approaches, our action-search methodology, and industry specialization to bring exceptional leadership to our client companies. Our initial clientele had confidence that we would provide them with the best leaders in their industry…and we did. A lot has changed since we helped recruit for our first Utah company, executive search now means managing massive networks of people and using complicated evaluation tools that draw on a vast array of disciplines. Diestel Executive Search was ahead of the curve back in the 1990s, today we continue to lead the way in quickly getting the right new talent integrated into teams, departments, and boards.
Discover Why Diestel Executive Search is the Right Fit
We have successfully provided fast growing, young companies as well as Fortune 500 companies with the best entrepreneurial management in the field. With these great leaders, our clients have been able to develop technology and products that have impacted both their own respective organizations as well as their industries.
As our firm has grown, so have our capabilities to better serve clients. Our specialized areas have expanded and our ability to better serve our clients has increased. Our success has stemmed from our thorough, intensive research, our active-search methodology, and our strategic partnerships with our clients.
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