1. What are you responsible for as Managing Partner at Resolute?
Serious Answer: Responsible for the company’s overall practice, management of day to day operations, overseeing fiduciary responsibilities, strategy and direction of company and last but not least sales.
2. What do you enjoy most as Managing Partner?
Every day is a new adventure. Working in the people business you never know what the day holds. I see problems and opportunities and I really enjoy solving those for all parties involved.
Helping clients find and hire great people is very rewarding. We are changing people’s lives. One time really stands out to this day. We had a client that needed an SAP leader in Arizona. Our candidate in Chicago wanted to move to Arizona because his parents were retiring there. After landing the job his fiancé’ called filled with tears of joy, “Thank you, thank you, we can finally afford to get married.” That was very gratifying.
3. Why did you create the company?
After being in the telecom business (MCI Wireless and AT&T), I helped a startup company grow from 6M to 20M. We had a handshake agreement that I would be paid 20% of the net profit of the growth. I did say handshake agreement. So I decided then to forge my own destiny. Being an entrepreneur is not for everyone, but apparently it is in my blood. Both my grandfathers were business owners.
4. How have you seen it evolve?
We started off as a break fix and website development company back in 1998. By 2000, our main focus was IT Staffing. Since then we have grown to focus on IT consulting and Recruiting with focus areas in SAP, ERP and Application Development. It has been a great adventure and continues to be interesting and fun.
5. How do you envision its future growth?
Growth is a team effort. I’m really looking forward to what the future holds for Resolute and all of us involved. Marketing needs to drive awareness, and offer compelling reasons clients want to work with us. Sales is responsible for identifying and engaging new clients who value working with a company like Resolute – driven to insure clients success, able to bring on highly skilled individuals or teams to the table, and are grounded in carrying about all parties. Recruiting will continue to invest time and resources to stay in touch with and grow our candidate/consultant virtual bench. Our end goal is to grow the company to a $20M organization and not more. We need to preserve and recognize the values Resolute is able to offer our clients.
6. What do you like to do in your spare time?
Who has spare time? I’m kidding. I enjoy all things outdoors – camping, fishing, golf, shooting, snowmobiling, and boating; if it is outdoors I’m in. My daughter is an all-state golfer so that keeps me busy going from one tournament to the next. Yes, last year she did beat me. I’m proud of that.
7. Who is your family?
My first response is my daughter Trinity. No one in my life has given me more meaning, purpose and joy. She is 16 now, and has become a beautiful, smart, kind, athletic, leader who has direction and drive in life. My immediate family still includes my brother, sister and father. My mom passed in 2005. To this day I use what she called the envelope system for accounting. Money in equals’ money out. When my dad got his paycheck my mom would put $100 into the food envelope, $10 in vacation, $10 into Christmas, $300 into mortgage, and so on. When Christmas came she would take the envelope out and that was the money spent on the holiday gifts.
Growing up and to this day I consider many of my friends, teammates and fraternity brothers’ family. I am very fortunate to have so many people in my life that would do anything for me and vice versa. I’ve been told it is really rare to have friends that go back to 1st grade, which you still hang out with and stay in touch. This makes my annual Christmas party pretty interesting with a very diverse group.
8. If you could be any superhero, who would you be and why?
Certainly a fun question since I am a huge comic geek. Anyone that knows me knows, Superman is my favorite. I have a pretty significant collection including all the comics back to the early 60’s, die cast cars, collectables, toys, giveaways, pictures and more. How great would it be to be indestructible, be able to fly, genius level intelligence, so powerful your only choice is to protect mankind. All that said, I simply strive to be Clark Kent. Being a good person, thoughtful of others, the proverbial Boy Scout, is something we can all endeavor to be.
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