Featuring Judith von Seldeneck, Diversified Search Founder and Chairman and AltoPartners Global Operating Committee Member

This list was first published in the November 2018 Philadelphia Business Journal’s 2018 Power 100

Judee von Seldeneck is a true trailblazer. In the early 1970s, she bought into a small Philadelphia temp agency for women. She bought out her partners in 1974, and over the next several decades she built Diversified Search into one of the top 10 executive search firms in the nation. BusinessWeek named her one of the top 50 most influential executive recruiters in the world. In Philadelphia, she is known as a philanthropist and a confidante to the powerful.