About Jose J. Ruiz

Jose J. Ruiz is CEO and Managing Partner of Alder Koten and Chairman and Managing Partner of Anker Bioss. From those two roles he leads executive search and organization & people advisory work across the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

Alder Koten — executive search — operates from Houston, Mexico City, Monterrey, and Guadalajara, with international reach through IMD International Search Group across 22+ partner countries. Anker Bioss — the organization & people advisory firm — operates from London, Houston, and Monterrey.

His practice is built for a single kind of moment: when an organization needs the right leader for the next phase of its story — a VP, a country manager, a plant director, a functional head, or a founder-CEO successor — and cannot afford to get it wrong.

Two firms. One system.

Alder Koten is a boutique executive search and leadership advisory firm focused on board, CEO, C-suite, and senior executive appointments. It is the delivery engine — role-first, context-aware, decision-grade.

Anker Bioss is the independent firm behind the framework Alder Koten applies on every engagement. Grounded in the BIOSS tradition (Elliott Jaques and Wilfred Brown, 1967), Anker Bioss anchors people, work, and organizational capability in trust, judgment, and flow across three layers — individual, organizational, and institutional.

Focus

• VP and C-suite executive search across manufacturing, supply chain, digital transformation, and enabling functions
• Cross-border assignments between the US and Mexico — including bilingual, bicultural placements
• Board and leadership advisory: succession planning, competency modeling, and team assessment
• Leadership assessment through Hogan (HPI/HDS/MVPI), BIOSS Career Path Appreciation (CPA), and Luks Prisma

Point of view

Great leadership discovery is never a database exercise. It is a structured, human process — one that maps the organization, decodes the role, and calibrates candidates against the reality of the work, not the aspiration of the job description.

The result is a placement that holds. Right talent. Right place. Right time. The Human Method is how we work. The Anker Bioss Framework is how we decide. Delivered through Alder Koten — with advisory work delivered through Anker Bioss.

The Elavant Group

Alder Koten and Anker Bioss are part of the Elavant Group, alongside Talentapy (recruitment and competency assessment technology) and Tutor.Media (talent development). Together the group operates as an integrated system for executive search, organization & people advisory, and the technology that supports both.

Get in touch

For confidential search inquiries, board-advisory conversations, or media requests, write to jose@josejruiz.com or call +1 (713) 476-9000.