Kevin Toohill – President @ Forsite
Our Herd Freed Hartz executive search team was honored to partner with Forsite on a nationwide retained executive search to find their new President.
Forsite is one of North America’s largest providers of geospatial data and analytics, delivering critical insights that help protect natural resources and critical infrastructure. The company serves a diverse client base across Forestry, Oil & Gas, Utilities (including Pipeline Patrol), Insurance, Mining, Indigenous Nations, and Government. Leveraging a fleet of 50 aircraft, LiDAR, advanced sensors, and a highly skilled consulting team, Forsite provides “ground truth” data and actionable intelligence to help clients manage key risks such as wildfires, methane leaks, and geohazards.
Forsite maintains one of the largest and most detailed LiDAR data libraries in North America, spanning 1.5 million square miles. This unique asset enables Forsite Consulting to deliver extremely accurate elevation measurements of terrain and structures, supporting detection of erosion, geohazards, digital forest models, wildfire predictions, utility vegetation analytics & fire risk, ground movement, long-term forestry plans and right-of-way (ROW) encroachments. The company’s high-resolution imagery—more detailed and current than publicly available sources like Google Earth—can be seamlessly overlaid with other datasets to generate powerful 3D models and insights for private industry, government, and First Nations clients.
Backed by Riverarch Equity Partners, the company is poised for significant growth, with plans to scale revenue from $65 million to over $200 million in the next five years through a combination of organic expansion and strategic M&A. Forsite employs approximately 400 people across its business units and has delivered consistent 10% annual organic revenue growth over the past decade.
This retained executive search was led by Paul Freed/Managing Partner and Karen Bertiger/Partner.
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