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In Live Webcast, The Good Search Shares “Secret Sauce” for Recruiting Top Talent

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:40:13 -0500

Westport, CT (July 15, 2010) –The Good Search, LLC, a Westport, CT-based, next-generation executive search firm specializing in investigative recruitment, hosted the complimentary Webcast “Recruiting Smarter: Search as Investigation” on July 14, 2010. Featured in an event organized by HR.com entitled “Web 2.0 and the Staffing Process,” the gathering was designed to educate human resources professionals on the latest recruitment "best practices.”

Recruited: Michael Koch - VP Offerings Market Management, Freddie Mac

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:51:14 -0500

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.

Recruited: Tony Altobelli - Assistant Treasurer, Google

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:38:38 -0500

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.

Recruited: Margie Chiu - EVP Strategic Services, Wunderman

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:35:18 -0500

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.

Recruited Roger Sullivan - Lead Internal Controls, Booz Allen Hamilton

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:37:29 -0500

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 . . .

Recruited: Joshua Updegraff - Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:54:21 -0500

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

Westporters Helping Westporters

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:15:46 -0500

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.

Community Shows Its Yankee Ingenuity

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:15:08 -0500

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

Lending A Westport Hand

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:14:36 -0500

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.

The Good Search, LLC Named to CT Top Business List

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:13:48 -0500

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.

The Good Search Recognized as a Top Performer by OpenRatings.com

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:12:20 -0500

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).

Recruited: Mark Russell – President, Wunderman Team Detroit

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:50:06 -0500

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.

Recruited: Mike Ehrenberg - Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:29:44 -0500

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.

Recruited: Boon-Lock Yeo - Director of Engineering, Google

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:27:30 -0500

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.

Recruited: Sam Guckenheimer - Group Product Planner, Microsoft

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:26:29 -0500

The Good Search has successfully recruited Sam Guckenheimer to the role of Group Product Planner for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System at Microsoft Corporation in the Greater Seattle Area. In this capacity, he acts as chief customer advocate, responsible for the end-to-end external design of the next releases of these products.

Recruited: Kristian Schwartz – Wunderman (San Francisco)

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:18:08 -0500

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 Certified as Top Performer by OpenRatings.com -Copy of Report

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:16:30 -0500

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 to Moderate IACPR Teletopic "The Challenges of Downsizing"

Wed, 06 May 2009 07:10:53 -0500

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.

Recruited: Balwinder Kaur - Mobile Software Developer, T-Mobile (Seattle)

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:50:49 -0500

Balwinder Kaur has joined T-Mobile as Mobile Software Developer, a role to which The Good Search recruited Kaur on January 12, 2009. Prior to joining T-Mobile she was Senior Staff Software Engineer at Motorola Mobile Devices, a position she held from 2004 until her present role.

Recruited: Josh Guilfoyle - Senior Developer Mobile Software, T-Mobile (Seattle)

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:48:20 -0500

Josh Guilfoyle joined T-Mobile as Senior Developer Mobile Software on January 26, 2009. Prior to joining T-Mobile he was Applications Software Developer with Pacific Lighting Systems, a position he held from 2005 until his present role.