Joe McCormack is retired Founder and Managing Partner of McCormack + Kristel Executive Search and is Intact Global’s Treasurer & Development Director.

Joe retired from executive search after 45 years as a recruiter in New York and Los Angeles. He is the founding partner of McCormack + Kristel, the first openly LGBTQ-owned executive search firm in the country. McCormack + Kristel opened in Los Angeles during the AIDS pandemic in 1993 to address the need by emerging volunteer HIV/AIDS organizations for professional leadership.

Before executive search, the author worked for the Young Presidents’ Organization, Rockefeller Center, Inc. and American Heritage Publishing Company in New York. Trained as a public affairs officer at the Department of Defense Information School, Joe is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in English.

Joe has been active on the Boards of the Palm Springs LGBTQ Center, Servicemembers Legal Defense Organization, the Point Foundation and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

Joe has had long term relationships with men and women, and he is the father of two adult daughters and the grandfather of two boys and a girl. A first generation American, Joe is opposed to circumcision as a default medical procedure without the informed consent of immigrant parents — as well as native parents— and their sons.