About
Founders, C-Suite decision makers and boards choose EnterGain to gain the talent, capability and scale they need to fuel the enterprises they lead.
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Executive Recruiting - EnterGain clients gain talent in all functional areas from Director to the C-Level. Our executive recruiting solution provides the highest level of service, working with you to craft a compelling position requirement, curating diverse qualified talent pools, facilitating interviews and working with you to onboard the right hires.
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Leadership Development - EnterGain clients gain capability; from founders to first time managers our clients upskill as leaders and become more intentional communicators and more inclusive bosses. EnterGain provides executive coaching and creates and facilitates bespoke learning programs for your managers and leaders, empowering them and their teams to achieve more for your businesses, investors, employees and customers.
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Strategic HR - EnterGain clients gain scale, by bringing together business acumen, employment best practices and voice of employee. EnterGain works with you to build and improve foundational HR practices, and to push your business forward with initiatives in DEI and strategic planning. We implement what we recommend: EnterGain works side by side with you to actualize high-impact programs to scale your organization.
EnterGain's team has deep experience in the entertainment, media, consumer, technology, services and nonprofit sectors, and is the leading firm offering a broad range of recruiting, learning and strategic HR services to the music ecosystem. EnterGain is proud to serve a range of clients from compelling start-ups to pace setting niche players, to some of the world's most well-known organizations.
Clients
The Team
James Celentano
Managing Director & Co-Founder
Personally recruits and places talent at the director through CEO level for the firm’s clients. James has clients in North America, Europe and Asia. Previously served as VP HR at MSG and WMG. Prior Managing Director at a global executive recruiting firm. Taught at the grad level in music business at NYU and HR at New School. University of Pennsylvania BA in Psych. Columbia MBA. SPHR.
James@EnterGain.com 917-922-6556 LinkedIn
Mikal Celentano
Managing Director & Co-Founder
Sought-after executive recruiter, filling roles in marketing, digital, finance and operations. Previously ran a cause-marketing agency, and prior to that was Director Global Marketing at Tumi Inc. where she was responsible for marketing operations, ecommerce and global D2C. Wellesley BA in Art History. Columbia MBA. Mikal@EnterGain.com 917-922-5238 LinkedIn
Karol Mattes
Director
Karol works with C-level teams and boards to fill Director through C-level roles, and her sector expertise spans labels, artist management, live and music tech. Previously a Client Partner in the entertainment practice at a global executive recruiting firm. Karol is based in Chicago and has lived and worked in the UK and Italy. University of Illinois BS in Journalism. University of South Carolina MBA.
Karol@EnterGain.com 708-990-6904 LinkedIn
Eduardo Magallanes
Eduardo is part of the firm's extended team. He runs international executive recruiting assignments and leads cross cultural executive learning programs. He services clients in music and other industries. Previously held commercial, P&L and GM roles in the US, Mexico, Italy and Portugal and had responsibility for teams up to 1600 colleagues in 20 countries, in a career at Bayer, AbbVie, BMS and Janssen. Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de Mexico, BS Business. MBA Thunderbird.
Memberships
EnterGain is proud to be a member of the following organizations.
Sustainability
When you choose EnterGain for your executive hiring, leadership development and strategy initiatives, you choose a healthy future for our planet. EnterGain is committed to sustainability. We partner with NativeEnergy to ensure that we offset the carbon impact of all of our internal and office operations, technology energy usage and consultant and candidate travel. Thanks to our partnership with public benefit corporation NativeEnergy.com we are proud that our internal operations and client projects are carbon neutral since 2019.