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Management Team
IRA M. MARKS
Ira Marks
has over 36 years of broad business, marketing and technical management
experience. His experience spans 14 years of employment at IBM, from
managing scientific programming, design and development of Graphics CAD
programs and distributed processing systems to Senior Program Manager
reporting to IBM's Senior Vice President of Information Systems. He has
also chaired numerous IBM inter-divisional task forces to resolve issues in
areas of design automation, network security, and preparedness of IBM to
manufacture a new computer generations. Experience includes working for IBM
Sales & Marketing groups, where he led numerous studies for customers
to help them understand and harness the latest Engineering Development
Technologies available and help them meet and exceed their mission
requirements.
His tenure
at IBM is followed with 2 years at Benson, Inc., a printer/plotter and
controller company, as Executive Vice President Business Planning and
Development. Mr. Marks then founded his own company, Synergy Computer
Graphics Corporation, a venture capital financed firm, where he was
Executive Vice President and a member of The Board of Directors. The
company was sold to Nippon Steel.
In 1986 , Mr. Marks founded Strategic Alternatives,
initially providing business and technical consulting to large and small
companies. He developed the executive recruiting business as a result of
customers needing his assistance to develop new organizations in a very
targeted and timely manner.
KAREN
SAUCIER
Karen
joined Strategic Alternatives as executive search consultant in 1997, after
working for a Silicon Valley global search firm. She specializes in placing
executive management professionals in all functional areas, with a
particular focus on enterprise and emerging technologies and services.
Karen is instrumental in new business development and strategic planning
for the firm.
Karen
received her BA in Industrial Arts from San Jose State University. She is
an affiliate of the Software Developer’s
Forum and the Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs (SVASE). She held positions in various tech search firms
and has a diverse background involving both corporate and medical sales,
marketing and advertising/design.
BOB WHITE -
Director of Search
Moving
through successive technology waves in the Valley from 1970's to high speed
broadband and wireless networking, Bob has accrued 28+ years of experience
in executive recruiting. He successfully recruits in all functional areas
of high technology firms, from individual contributors to Vice Presidents.
His industry experience includes being Corporate Staffing Manager at both
Advanced Micro Devices, and Atari where he managed ramp up staffing
activities. He has successfully built and directed large teams of
recruiters.
Expanding
on his successes in professional recruitment, Bob personally took on the
position of National Sales Manager/founder in a startup. He built a team of regional sales
managers, system engineers, VARs, and reps in the U.S. and Far East markets
for both data communications and CAD software products.
With
hands-on experience in semiconductor, communications, and software firms, in
both recruiting and sales management, Bob brings a clear vision of how
teams fit together and operate in profitable high tech enterprises. A passionate "tekkie",
Bob submerges himself in technical materials and business models to
effectively engage himself with his clients’ markets, products, and
candidates. He brings a unique human resources perspective to his clients
having worked both as a provider and a consumer of various recruitment
services during his career.
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