The firm is located in Thousand Oaks, CA and was founded in 1985 to provide retained search services predicated on ethical and professional business practices serving high technology corporate customers. Leonard M. Linton and a co-founder, since retired, previously worked together as partners in a well recognized Los Angeles high technology search firm. BLI quickly evolved into a generalist firm and was strengthened with the addition of Stephen M. Wolf as a principal in 1987. The firm now serves a diverse set of corporate clients ranging in size from multi-nationals to local and regional firms, and startups. Our clients represent a broad set of industries. We have successfully conducted searches at all levels of management and in all business functions including Boards of Directors. The experience of our principals gives us the perspective to meet our clients needs in almost every staffing situation.

Our references will confirm a high percentage (over 90%) of follow-up search assignments and an appreciation of our organized and well documented approach. Keys to our success are finding and attracting high quality executives and an unprecedented capability to assess and articulate the match of the candidate to the culture of the organization and to the style of the hiring management.

Each of our professionals has had executive positions in industry and always strive to relate effectively with the goals of the client company, the hiring manager, their support staff and the potential candidates. We believe that the search firm should act as an extension of our client company's style, philosophy and attitude and we endeavor to fulfill this vision on every assignment we are granted. We have successfully completed over 500 company retained executive search assignments.