IQTalent Partners scales up staff and moves HQ to Nashville

After five years in Nashville, IQTalent Partners has decided to move its roots from the north Silicon Valley in Los Altos, California, to the major Tennessee city.

The headquarters move is a return to the firm’s origins. Nashville was where IQTalent Partners’ co-founders Chris Murdock and Tom Milic first met, at Vanderbilt University. “That, and we were able to grow our Nashville office from 90 to 150 employees in 2018, and we’re not slowing down any time soon,” Mr. Milic said.

Nashville has become an attractive alternative to pricey Silicon Valley. In recent years, San Francisco-based companies such as Lyft, PostMates, Eventbrite, KeepTruckin and Greenlight Medical have opened large offices or moved their operations to Music City, said Mr. Milic.

“I never let go of Nashville after graduating from Vanderbilt in 1999,” said Murdock. “Although I worked in three different cities, and then founded a company in Silicon Valley, ultimately, I wanted to return to Nashville. The people, the economy, the culture — all of it — just fits the way IQTalent Partners does business.”

New Additions

As part of the expansion, IQTalent Partners added four senior management positions in technology, human resources, account management and marketing.

John Beck joins the firm as director of technology. His primary role is to identify and implement opportunities for technology to facilitate, ameliorate and augment the business operations. Mr. Beck is the former director of technology at Metova and remains an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt.

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