Christopher Beaugrand

Chief Information Officer and Senior Partner NGS Global

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Christopher Beaugrand is Chief Information Officer and Senior Partner at NGS Global, the international executive search firm, working from San Francisco. His remit is wider than the title alone suggests: alongside technology planning, integration and support he carries day-to-day operations and human resources for the firm’s Americas business. That combination is characteristic of partner-owned search firms, where the infrastructure that holds candidate data, research and client confidentiality is not a back-office function but the substance of the product, and where the person who runs it tends to end up running the operating side of the house as well. He has held the same brief since 2006, first at Nosal Partners and then at NGS Global after the Americas firm integrated with European and Asia-Pacific partners.

Career Highlights

• Chief Information Officer and Senior Partner at NGS Global, responsible for technology planning, integration and support plus day-to-day operations and human resources across the Americas.
• Chief Information Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Partner at Nosal Partners LLC from 2006, carrying the same function through the firm’s transition into NGS Global.
• Founded and ran a computer consulting firm serving a nationwide clientele of growing businesses and startups, supplying the equivalent of dedicated internal IT staff.
• Managed technology and internet strategy for a San Francisco venture capital firm earlier in his career.

Professional Journey

Beaugrand’s early career was in technology and internet strategy for a San Francisco venture capital firm, during the period when the question facing such firms was less how to use technology internally than how to evaluate it in others. He then went out on his own, founding a computer consulting company that served clients nationwide - growing businesses and startups that needed the capability of a dedicated IT department without the headcount. That model, supplying institutional-grade technology support to organizations too small to build it, is the background he brought to executive search.

In 2006 he joined Nosal Partners LLC, the San Francisco-based retained search firm, as Chief Information Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Partner. The partner title alongside the functional ones matters: it placed him inside the ownership structure of the firm rather than in a service function reporting to it, which is unusual for a technology executive in professional services and reflects how central research and data infrastructure are to search economics.

Nosal Partners subsequently integrated with partner firms in Europe and Asia Pacific and became NGS Global, now operating from more than thirty offices across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Beaugrand carried his function across the transition intact, which for a firm of that shape means reconciling systems, data-protection obligations and working practices across a federation of previously independent practices rather than a single integrated company. He continues in that role, with the operations and human resources responsibility for the Americas attached to it.

Away from the firm, NGS Global’s own biography records him as an outdoorsman who once rode a bicycle roughly 3,000 miles from Vancouver to Toronto with a friend, purely as a personal challenge.

Education

No education could be established from any source admissible under this project’s rules. NGS Global’s own biography of Beaugrand lists none, and no independent publication was found that states his degrees.