Sue Hardek joined ZRG as a Managing Director in 2022. She has spent the past 25 years identifying and recruiting talent to fuel business growth in the digital industry, with a focus on marketing, media, digital experience, e-commerce, digital marketing, and digital product leadership.​

Early in her career, Sue led the Technology practice for a regional executive search firm as its first female Managing Director, responsible for 60% ($2.4 million) of revenue. She later became a founder and partner of a startup executive recruiting firm during the first dot-com boom before joining Capgemini, where she built an internal executive search organization.​

Sue was later recruited by global digital agency Digitas, where she rose to vice president/group director of human resources in Chicago, the fastest-growing office in the Digitas global network. There, she led talent strategy and recruitment across the agency’s practice areas. She then became chief talent officer at Manifest Digital, a digital experience design firm, where she built the talent organization from the ground up and led executive-level searches across marketing, digital strategy, technology, creative, UX, and media.​

Before joining Talentfoot Executive Search, Sue led her own boutique firm specializing in talent acquisition and human resources consulting for digital marketing, media, technology, and experience design roles. Her clients included Digitas, Accenture, Constellation Brands, Jack Morton, and Sears. In addition to executive search, she served as a human resources advisor and coach to executive-level clients on organizational design and human resources best practices.​

Sue joined ZRG from Talentfoot Executive Search, a boutique executive search firm focused on the digital industry. At Talentfoot, she was a managing partner and led the firm’s marketing, media, and digital experience practices. She partnered with private equity and venture capital firms, Series B and later-stage startups, and Fortune 100 companies to identify digital leaders who could scale or transform their businesses. Her most recent work focused on e-commerce, digital marketing, and digital product executives.​

Sue earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Villanova University.​