Submission + - Whatever happened to Carly Fiorina's headhunter?
An anonymous reader writes: In 1999, a little known Silicon Valley recruiting firm named Christian and Timbers was appointed to conduct the search for Hewlett Packard CEO Lew Platt's successor. The stunning selection of Lucent executive Carly Fiorina rocketed Jeff Christian to fame and fortune as well; he published a bestselling book on executive search, and phones were ringing off the hook. Two years later, the dot com era was over, business was no longer booming, and Christian was behaving erratically and eventually agreed to leave his own firm. Carly was ousted by HP's board in 2005; Christian himself hit bottom a year later.