The Good Search has successfully recruited Tony Altobelli as Assistant Treasurer at Google, where he heads the portfolio management team.   Prior roles include Treasury Manager - Capital Markets at Hewlett-Packard where he focused on debt capital markets, debt financing, interest rate risk management, share repurchase strategies, tax-structured strategies, capital structure policy, dividend policy, cash repatriation strategies, and SOX implementation.

The Good Search has successfully recruited Michael Koch for Vice President of Offerings Market Management at Freddie Mac. In his role, Koch focused on mortgage origination, secondary execution, mortgage servicing, and operational technology product offerings in the Single Family Credit Guaranty Business, driving desired business outcomes and results through effective marketing, business partner education, and industry outreach.  Mr. Koch joined Freddie Mac in February of 2010.

Westport, CT:  The Good Search, LLC has been certified as a Top Performer based on the Past Performance Evaluation survey responses of its reference customers. The Good Search's PPE score of 96/100 demonstrates outstanding overall customer satisfaction relative to similar companies.  Each year, Open Ratings helps thousands of companies secure contracts with large purchasing organizations by verifying their performance with Past Performance Evaluations (PPEs).

Link to PDF copy of report.  The Good Search, LLC has been certified as a Top Performer based on the Past Performance Evaluation survey responses of its reference customers. The Good Search's PPE score of 96/100 demonstrates outstanding overall customer satisfaction relative to similar companies.  Each year, Open Ratings helps thousands of companies secure contracts with large purchasing organizations by verifying their performance with Past Performance Evaluations (PPEs).

The Good Search CEO Krista Bradford has been named as moderator of the International Association for Corporate & Professional Recruitment's live phone-in discussion panel entitled "The Challenges of Downsizing".  The teletopic will take place on June 10, 2009 from 11:30-12:30 Eastern . . . Clearly, downsizing is hitting every corporation in every sector of the marketplace. The experience is traumatic for those making the decisions and delivering the news; those losing their positions; and the individuals left behind, taking up the slack and worried about the future. Our panel of experts will answer questions on the myriad of challenges – and how to effectively support all those impacted.

The Good Search has successfully recruited Margie Chiu to the role of EVP of Strategic Services at Wunderman, reporting to New York office President Becky Chidester. In this client-facing role, Margie serves as Wunderman’s combined lead on advanced analytics, strategic planning and digital & technology enabled marketing. In doing so, she offers Wunderman’s clients technical expertise in all areas of digital marketing and CRM including campaign strategy and planning, email, SEO/SEM, and optimization.

Westport, CT:  In recognition of the economic power of privately held businesses, DiversityBusiness.com, the nations’ leading business-to-business internet site, recently named The Good Search, LLC as one of the top 100 woman-owned businesses in Connecticut. This is the 9th annual listing of Connecticut’s top businesses by DiversityBusiness.com and the second time The Good Search has received the award. 

As a mother, Krista Bradford heard her daughter’s regular updates about friends’ parents who lost jobs. As a Westporter, Krista realized our town is better equipped than most to deal with an economic nosedive.  Few places have as many residents still able to make well-placed calls that rocket an out-of-work neighbor’s resume to the top of the pile, or pry open doors for an interview.

Community shows its Yankee ingenuity: Barn-raising for modern times? Westporters Helping Westporters by Anthony Karge of the Westport News.

Back in the "good old days," as Krista Bradford described the time well before she was born, there used to be barn-raising events where the entire community would work together to help out a neighbor. She wants to foster that mindset in Westport and is utilizing social-networking tools like Facebook and Linkedin with the goal bringing people together and lessening the pain of the recession. To do this, she created a "Westporters Helping Westporters Network" on those Web sites.

The Good Search has successfully recruited Mark Russell to the role of President for WundermanTeam Detroit, a joint WPP venture among JWT, Y&R, Wunderman, Ogilvy, and Group M media companies Mediaedge and Mindshare. Mark is responsible for the enterprise-wide digital work for Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Ford Customer Discipline Division and Ford Credit.

Sumeet Kanwar has joined OMD Midwest as Group Account Director and Director of Strategic Services.  Prior to joining OMD, he served as Director Brand Management with Sears, a position he held from 2005 until his current role.

Krista Hale has joined Wunderman as Global Director Human Resources.  Prior to joining Wunderman, she was Director Human Resources with SNAPin Software, a position she held from 2007 until her current role.

Kristian Schwartz joined Wunderman’s San Francisco Office as Client Service Director on March 10th, 2008. Prior to joining Wunderman, he served as a Group Account Director with Tribal DDB Worldwide, a position he held from August 2006 until his current role.

The Good Search has successfully recruited Boon-Lock Yeo to the role of Director of Engineering at Google China in Shanghai. Prior to Google, he worked as General Manager of Intel Asia-Pacific R&D Ltd for four years, leading R&D efforts for Intel and Intel software in China.

Mike Ehrenberg currently serves as a Distinguished Engineer working on business application architecture for the Dynamics team within the Business Division at Microsoft. He leads the work on long term product roadmap, and on driving the relationships between Dynamics and the system, platform and tools teams across Microsoft. The Good Search recruited Ehrenberg to Microsoft in October 2003, after 25 years of business application development across banking and brokerage transaction systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for process manufacturing, and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) solutions.

The Good search has successfully recruited Roger Sullivan to the role of Senior Associate and Internal Controls Lead at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he is responsible for Internal control evaluation and assessment, risk and control documentation, and Sarbanes-Oxley implementation.

Roger was previously Senior Director of Internal Controls at Freddie Mac, Director of Internal Audit at MicroStrategy, Director of Management Contract Accounting and Senior Manager of Internal Audit at Marriott . . .

The Good Search has successfully recruited Joshua (Josh) Updegraff to the role of Associate in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Public Sector Organization & Strategy Practice.