Senior throughout
The recruiter who leads your search is the one who stays on every call, calibrates every interview loop, and negotiates the final close.
About TreHunter
Search built on continuity, care, and a deeply earned network.
TreHunter redefines executive and technical recruitment by aligning exceptional leaders and innovators with organizations’ most critical needs.
Our story
TreHunter was founded in March 2007 in San Diego, born from Cindy Reh’s conviction that executive search could be done with more craft, more continuity, and more care than the prevailing agency model allowed. After more than a decade in technology-focused recruiting and business development roles, she had seen how often search firms handed off critical work between teams, losing nuance and momentum along the way.
TreHunter was built to fix that. The founding principle was simple: the senior recruiter who understands your business is the senior recruiter who delivers your hire.
Eighteen years later, that principle has guided successful placements across wireless, AI, defense, life sciences, med device, and emerging technology. It has earned TreHunter a rare kind of loyalty: relationships that span decades, move fluidly between candidate and client, and produce repeat searches, referrals, and long-term trust.
What Sets Us Apart
The boutique promise, kept in practice.
Selective engagements
TreHunter does not chase volume. It takes on searches it believes it can win and gives each one full attention.
Technical fluency
AI, wireless, embedded systems, cloud, defense, and life sciences are not treated as buzzwords. They are working domains.
National reach
TreHunter is rooted in San Diego but built for regional and national candidate pool penetration wherever the right leader needs to be found.
Our Approach
Partnership, not placement.
Partnership, not placement
Before a search begins, TreHunter invests in understanding the business, culture, technical stack, and strategic context behind the role. The aim is not to close a requisition. It is to close a gap.
Human-centered approach
TreHunter treats every search as a human-centered process, balancing business urgency with the motivations, context, and timing that make placements last.
Full pool penetration
Each engagement is supported by disciplined sourcing, network depth, and a refusal to settle for the obvious shortlist if better candidates are still in the market.
Customized search strategies
Every search gets its own plan, target profile, and outreach strategy. There is no templated pipeline or one-size-fits-all sequence.
Ethical, professional standards
TreHunter operates with integrity toward clients and candidates alike, and protects that reputation fiercely.
Our Values
Warm and rigorous by design.
Commitment to excellence
Excellence in service shapes which engagements TreHunter takes on, how it communicates, and the standard every candidate slate must meet.
Highest ethical standards
Reputation is the only real asset in this business. TreHunter does not game searches or rush a fit that is not there.
Exquisite connections
The right hire is a skills match, a values match, a culture match, and a timing match. The best pairings feel inevitable in hindsight.
Loyalty, earned over time
Repeat searches, long candidate relationships, and decades of referrals are the evidence that the model works.
Where We’re Based
San Diego rooted.
TreHunter is headquartered in San Diego, one of the nation’s defining hubs for wireless technology, AI, semiconductors, defense and med tech.
Office
TreHunter, Inc.
11956 Bernardo Plaza Drive, Suite 250
San Diego, CA 92128
Local roots, national reach.
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