Rob Andrews - Chairman & CEO
| Contact Rob Andrews | Houston, Texas |
| Phone: 713.355.1900 x101 | Fax: 713.355.1901 |
| Email: randrews@allenaustinsearch.com | Cell: 713-301-6130 |
Education
- LPSF, Harvard Business School (2007) Leading Professional Service Firms Program
- MBA level Graduate Certificate, Competitive Business Leadership Institute, University of Texas at Austin
- BBA, Marketing (Magna Cum Laude), Our Lady of the Lake University at San Antonio
- Graduate Studies, OLLU, University of South Florida & University of Miami
Biographical Information
Rob Andrews combines twenty-five years in industry with twenty years of search and consulting experience to deliver outstanding results to his clients. Rob is well known for his active listening and objective approach to all consulting engagements. He is a student of best practices in most areas of human capital including search & selection, compensation, retention, culture assessment, team alignment, executive coaching, executive integration and service management. Since Rob’s earliest days in business, he has consistently performed at top of his industry.
Rob understands that all engagements should ultimately lead to superior operating results. Rob is the architect of Allen Austin’s FORESIGHTTM process, the result of a fifteen year-long study of thousands of failed placements. The result of Rob’s relentless pursuit of best practices is 92% retention at the two year mark versus the study average of approximately 55%. FORESIGHTTM also produces 97% offer-acceptance ratio versus a study average of 71%.
Rob's consulting practice focuses on C-level, board and general management searches across a broad range of industries. His clients range from $25 million food manufacturing companies to $70+ billion conglomerates. Rob has successfully completed hundreds of executive searches at the CEO, COO, CFO and CTO level, as well as major consulting engagements in strategy, operations management, service excellence, transformation, culture management, organizational design, and team alignment.
Prior to reentering the world of search in 1994, Rob served as regional vice president for Kash n' Karry Food Stores in Tampa where he had total P&L responsibility for a region consisting of forty-nine supermarkets, three super-warehouse stores and thirty-one liquor stores.
Prior to his tenure at Kash n' Karry, Rob spent seven years with National Convenience Stores, rising from the level of area supervisor to division head in three years. During Rob's tenure at NCS, he had total responsibility for as many as 516 stores spread from El Paso, Texas to West Palm Beach, Florida. Rob consistently managed the top performing divisions in the company.
The early years in Rob's career included two years in search with Roth Young and thirteen years in retail, nine of which were spent with Safeway Stores Incorporated. In 1975, Rob became the youngest store manager in the history of two divisions of Safeway. He quickly developed a reputation for his ability to drive sales and net profit in each of his six assignments as store manager.
Rob completed an undergraduate degree, attending classes on weekends, at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas, while managing the southwestern division for National Convenience Stores in 1991. He subsequently completed his graduate work in business at the University of Texas at Austin in 1996 while serving as Executive Vice President of an east coast executive search firm. Rob completed the Leading Professional Service Firms Program at the Harvard Business School in 2007.