Patricia Davison McNicholas
Managing Partner

Ms. McNicholas joined Page-Wheatcroft & Co., Ltd. as a Managing Partner within the firm’s legal and consulting practices in March, 2001.  Ms. McNicholas brings nearly twenty years of senior level retained executive search and business management experience to the firm.

Prior to joining Page-Wheatcroft & Co., Ltd. Ms. McNicholas served as Vice President for a retained executive search firm that identified professionals for professional services firms and top management for first-tier financed technology driven start up companies.

Prior, Ms. McNicholas was the Managing Principal for the newly formed National Selection Business for Lamalie Amrop International, one of the largest and finest executive search firms globally.  While at LAI, Ms. McNicholas completed a fifty Partner/Principal hiring effort in under twelve months for PriceWaterhouse Coopers.  This distinctly separate recruiting model was designed to execute high volume engagements across functional, industry and geographic lines.  The recruiting model and organization, designed and managed by Ms. McNicholas, is still being successfully utilized today.

Before LAI, Ms. McNicholas spent seven years with Korn/Ferry International as a generalist specializing in C-level searches for technology driven companies and Senior/Managing Partner searches for large law firms and consulting firms.  She began her career as a Management Consultant with Arthur Young & Co.

Ms. McNicholas received her M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University and her B.A. from the University of Texas at Arlington.  She is active in several civic and charitable organizations.