Leathwaite

One name keeps surfacing again and again in downtown Manhattan’s Midtown East corridors: Leathwaite. The firm builds out leadership teams across Fortune 500 boardrooms and growing tech unicorns alike. C-level searches, board director placements, succession planning—these services anchor the business daily. Functional experts out of Cambridge and New York go on to run multinationals, and they often land here first.

Twenty-eight floors above Madison Avenue sits suite 1700, smack in the middle of the 29th–34th Street grid. Building security buzzes visitors straight up, no extra loops required. Leathwaite has called the 17th floor home since before the ZIP code’s tech startups outnumbered law partnerships. If you’re scaling an executive team or need an interim leader overnight, the address is straightforward: 285 Madison Ave 17th floor New York, NY 10017.

A single call steers everything.(646) 461-9100 rings straight into the desk of an assignment manager who already knows two hundred candidate profiles by first name. Neither job postings nor general recruiters slow the process; the firm pre-screens directors and VPs before their résumés hit the hiring manager’s desk. In a city where six-figure postings vanish in twenty-four hours, this keeps process painful rather than long.

Should the building feel dizzyingly tall on arrival, the map provides a quick way down. Use the directions page to pin an after-work train link and finish the commute efficiently.