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Frank Risalvato – Founder IRES



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Frank Risalvato earned his degree by paying his own way through college while working full time, graduating Cum Laude in 1984 from the New Jersey City University. He went on to a management career in the corporate world with California and New York based companies upon graduation. Having met exceptional recruiters that inspired him along the way while contributing to his early career success, he joined the staffing industry in 1987 … one month after the stock market crash of that year.

He founded IRES, Inc. in January of 1991 with the purpose of focusing on the refinement, advancement and perfection of the search process. Today IRES provides executive retained search, contingency staffing services and merger & acquisition consulting services to the property and casualty insurance, investment banking, and other industries across the United States.


Franks says the companies IRES has serviced now earn well over a combined one billion in additional annual revenue as a direct result of the professional contributions of hired talent IRES delivered and the resulting profit generated by such.

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Jordan Rayboy – Big Biller and Virtual Recruiting Master



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Jordan Rayboy is re-defining the recruiting industry by building his virtual search business with his wife Jeska while traveling the country in their Fleetwood RV. They have been on the road since September ’06, and thus far have been to 36 states, 3 Canadian provinces, got married on the beach in Santa Barbara, and are living their dream. This interview was conducted from his RV and aside from a few technical hiccups the message is golden.

Jordan spent six years with MRI, where he was a Top-3 national producer in the Sales Consultants division in 2003 and 2004, and Top-10 worldwide producer in 2005 and 2006. He was both Regional Rookie of the Year and Regional Account Executive of the Year for the South Atlantic Region in 2001 (billing $650K his rookie year), and was Regional Account Executive of the year again in 2003 and 2004. At an age of 27 Rayboy’s career cash-in totals more than $3.8 million, and he has averaged $840k annual billings over the last four years.

Jordan says “Rayboy Insider Search (RayboyIS.com) has a simple mission- helping our clients and candidates achieve their goals by building long-term relationships based on trust, professionalism, and results. We’ve placed over 350 top sales, technical, consulting, and management executives with both large industry leaders and VC-funded startups. We specialize in the storage market and are industry insiders. By being on the front lines talking to hundreds of storage professionals every day, we have unique insight on what’s going on in the market before news hits the street. We know who the top players are, both employers and candidates, and are the firm that they call FIRST when they need a search partner they can depend on. With our singular focus on storage, there is no firm that is better connected in this market. Whether you need to quickly scale out your team or are looking to make your next career move, no one can help you achieve your goals faster and more effectively than RayboyIS.”

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Hank Stringer – Recruiter, Entrepreneur, And Innovator



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Hank Stringer has over two decades of experience as a successful high-tech industry recruiter, entrepreneur, and innovator in the use of information technology in the recruitment and employment process. Today, Stringer is CEO of Stringer Search – www.stringersearch.com, an executive search services and consulting firm based on the philosophies and best practices of his book “Talent Force”, A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business, and from his life experiences as a recruiter, entrepreneur, speaker and consultant.

Forecasting a talent shortage in 1996, Stringer had the vision to applly his energy and experiences to start Hire.com. There, he and a team of entrepreneurs created an early ASP business model, utilizing the Internet to scale and automate interactive recruiting relationships and processes. Under his tenure, Hire.com dramatically changed the way companies recruit, hire, and retain talent. Today, global companies, such as Federal Express, BP, Allianz, Raytheon, and Prudential, have adopted Hire.com’s revolutionary approach. Hank went on to co-found itzbig, a web 2.0 career board.

Prior to founding Hire.com, Stringer was president and co-founder of Pedley-Stringer, Inc., a high-tech recruitment firm. Stringer previously served as an internal recruiting consultant for Tandem Computers and Dell Computer, where he was responsible for a number of special recruiting projects in the U.S. and Asia.

Stringer has authored many articles about recruitment and the future of talent management in the workplace, and is an accomplished speaker who has appeared at numerous international industry-leading events.

Stringer holds a B.A. in Journalism and Government Studies from Texas State University and currently serves as President of the Advisory Board for the McCoy School of Business at his alma mater. Hank resides with his wife and kids in the hill country outside Austin, Texas.

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Jeff Skrentny – Trainer, Speaker, Recruiter



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What an incredible career and success story  Jeff Skrentny, CPC/CTS has had. After his first deal in 1987 fell off, and after he was voted least likely to succeed in his training class he went on to become the firm’s top producer. From top producer, to manager, to entrepreneur, Jeff has grown his IT practice from contingency placement to engaged search as his practice has matured. During his 21 years in recruiting and search, Jeff has worked hard to learn the profession, to bring its best practices to his desk, and then share the vetted best practices with the more than 16,000 search, staffing and recruiting professionals from 32 nations who have attended the over 400 training presentations he has made since he began sharing his insight and inspiration with other recruiters and staffing professionals since 1996.