Brent Laffere

Brent Laffere leads the Omnichannel Retail & Luxury Practice in the Americas for Russell Reynolds Associates. He excels in helping clients recruit transformational talent across private equity backed and publicly traded companies in retail and consumer industries.

Based in Dallas, he is experienced in leading large-scale transformations across digital, merchandising, operations, supply chain, and finance. He partners with clients to recruit, develop, and assess CEO, C-suite leaders, and senior executive officers.

Brent's wealth of knowledge comes from corporate and consulting experience with several leading retail and consumer companies.

He joined Russell Reynolds from Neiman Marcus Group, where he was a senior vice president and member of the executive leadership team. Previously, he was a management consultant with Kearney in the firm's consumer and strategy practices.

Brent has a BS in industrial distribution from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business.