Dan Lasse
General Management, including Human Resources, Accounting, Sales and Banking

Dan founded Management Recruiters of St. Charles in 1987 and currently serves as the company's President. The St Charles office has received many Regional and National honors over the years including Presidents Club, Pacesetter, Top 10% of all worldwide offices, Top 5 Rookie Midwest, Top 5% in Contract Staffing, Top 10 Midwest Billing and Midwest Regional Speaker Award. In addition the office has a mission to support local Charities and Associations some of which include Lazarus House, Boy Scouts, Compassion in Action, TUG, St Thomas Job Club, Downtown St Charles Partnership, 1st Street Marketing Committee and Valley Industrial Association.

Dan holds a BS from the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire, and a Master's Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

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Jim Armstrong
Healthcare and Accounting

As an Account Executive with MRINetwork of St. Charles, Jim has a passion for representing the top-talent in the healthcare industry and matching those Impact Players with the needs of his clients. The foundation of his relationships with both clients and candidates is built on trust and credibility, allowing him to forge long-term relationships with real results.

Jim has a broad work history in recruiting, with experience as a recruiter/compensation consultant for healthcare organizations throughout the U.S., as well as recruiting at the corporate level for a Fortune 500 company, where he worked for over 12 years.

Jim has a degree in German, with minors in French, Spanish and Business Administration from the University of Arkansas - Fayetteville. Currently, Jim is pursuing a Masters in Organizational Leadership from Judson University in Elgin, IL, with a projected graduation date of December 2009.

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Alex Goloff, Jr.
Food

Alex Goloff, Jr. has significant knowledge and understanding of the food services industry and technical manufacturing. He has over 15 years of recruiting experience, primarily in the broadly defined food industry and specifically in Quality Assurance and Research & Development. Alex has earned many local and national awards for his exceptional productivity.

In addition, Alex has over 15 years of industrial research experience. He was a Research Scientist in biology at Union Carbide's Corporate Research Institute, where he pioneered numerous diverse leading edge projects in basic research. Alex was also recruited as a Manager of Quality Assurance Research for Cargill, and as a Scientist for Velsicol/Sandoz.

Alex holds a Ph.D. in Botany (physiological ecology) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He also holds a M.S. and B.S. from the U of I, Urbana-Champaign.

Alex was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, where he served on a hydrographic ship with tours in South East Asia and the North Atlantic. Alex has a wide variety of interest including research, scientific reading, music, and travel.

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Bruce Jones
Logistics, Distribution, and Warehouse Management for the retail, medical supplies, medical devices industries

Bruce‘s career includes over twenty five years of retail management and eight years as a key account representative in the home furnishings industry. He has been an Account Executive with MRI St. Charles for over two years. This combined career experience has sharpened his ability to identify top talent that exceeds his client‘s specific needs.

Bruce is a graduate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio with a BS in Business Administration.

His personal passions are road bicycling, swimming, home improvements, and friends.

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Betsy Lasse-Stern
Communications and Marketing

Betsy Lasse Stern started with Management Recruiters of St. Charles in 2005 as a Project Coordinator, where she supported 10 recruiters and handled all marketing and communications. After leaving MR St. Charles for one year to work in hospitality sales, she came back in 2006 as a recruiter.

Betsy leads our Sales and Marketing practice and specializes in finding passive candidates for hard to fill positions in the construction and agricultural industries. Her clients vary from small, private firms to well known, Fortune 500 companies.

Betsy graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in English and Journalism. Her background includes extensive work in Public Relations and Marketing, and she started her career with Edelman Public Relations in Chicago, the largest independent PR agency in the country.

Her favorite things include reading, writing, traveling and watching college football.

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Ric Morency
Retained Search Practice, Sales Management, National/Key Accounts, Territory Sales, Telesales, Customer Relationship Management

Ric has been consistently engaged with talent acquisition and development throughout his professional career. During his nearly three decades with AT&T, he held management positions in Michigan, New Jersey, Illinois and Georgia and was instrumental in the establishment and management of AT&T Resource Link®, an industry human capital innovation.

Subsequent to AT&T, Ric has focused specifically on recruiting - initially with a national staffing firm and later as a Partner with an international executive search firm based in Atlanta. At this firm, he was active in C-level retained search as well as managed Internet recruiting and behavioral testing and consultation. Most recently, Ric was Director of Recruiting and Training for an identity apparel company headquartered in Florida. In this role, he was directly responsible for their top-grading and professional development initiatives.

Ric is a graduate of the University of Michigan and is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. He has also participated in AT&T's executive development graduate program at Purdue University and has served as guest faculty for the American Management Association. Ric is a certified Integrity Selling Facilitator.

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Kristi Ramsey
Sales Logistics, Transportation and Supply Chain

Kristi Ramsey is an Executive Recruitment Consultant who is passionate about building relationships while representing quality candidates to the Executive teams she works with. She has strong relationship building skills and her proactive approach to develop business through consulting has laid the ground work for a solid foundation in the relationships she has established on both the Client and Candidate side.

Kristi believes that there is no greater satisfaction than the opportunity of successfully bringing together a great talent with a great client company. She has been recognized for her success driven and consultative approach and with that she brings a quality of integrity. She is someone that you can count on as she continually strives for excellence.

Her work includes working with Executives, Sales and Marketing in Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation, Freight Forwarding and 3PL companies as well as Agriculture and the Integrated Environmental Management Industry.

Kristi Ramsey knows the job market is tough for candidates right now. But as a top recruiter with the world‘s largest recruitment organization, she also knows exactly what a candidate needs to do to get an interview and land the job.

Kristi Ramsey started with Management Recruiters of St. Charles in March 2008, and by year‘s end she earned the number 4 spot on MRINetwork‘s prestigious “Rookie of the Year” list. She ended the year in the top 5 percent of more than 1000 recruiters in the Midwest Region.

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Tom Tawney
Sales and Engineering, Domestic and International

Tom Tawney spent 10 years in industry sales before becoming an Executive Recruiter in 1983. He has a BA from Appalachian State University. He has been married for over thirty years and has four children. Tom is active in his community as a coach, school board member, and advocate on race relations. Tom owns a vintage sports car and enjoys attending vintage racing events.

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