About us
In the spring of 1998, my mother Helen was laid off from the regional bank where she'd been an HR manager for nineteen years. She was fifty-two. She was not, in her own words, "done yet."
She'd spent most of those nineteen years helping the bank's commercial lending clients find good accounting staff — informally, as a favor, because she knew everybody in the county who could read a balance sheet. When the bank showed her the door, three of those clients called within a week and asked if she'd do it for money. So she did.
She worked out of our dining room until 2003, then a little office above the hardware store until 2017, and now out of a converted carriage house that belongs to my brother-in-law. We've never had more than four people on the payroll and we've never wanted to.
Founder, chief listener
Started the firm. Still drives in three mornings a week. Knows every controller within two hundred miles and remembers all their kids' names.
Placements, tax-season triage
Helen's oldest. Came on in 2006 after ten years at a regional CPA firm. Runs most of the day-to-day and handles anything with "urgent" in the subject line.
Controller & CFO placements
Spent twenty-two years as a corporate controller before deciding he'd rather help other people find those jobs than do them himself. Joined in 2015.
Everything else
Keeps the books (we have to, too), manages the candidate check-ins, and sends the Christmas cards. Been with us since 2019 and already indispensable.
Fit beats flash. A candidate with the right temperament and decent skills will outlast a superstar who rubs the office the wrong way. Every time.
Slower is friendlier. We'd rather spend three weeks getting it right than three days filling a seat. Most of our clients have learned to trust that.
Small is a feature. There are four of us. We answer our own messages. You will not be handed off to a junior associate. There is no junior associate.