Mee Derby has a dedicated core staff of ten with a total of over 100 years of staffing industry experience. Our seven Executive Recruiters have an average of more than 15 years of staffing experience each.

Since our founding in 1988, Mee Derby has grown from one recruiter to a national network of many of the finest Executive Recruiters in the search industry. Networking partnerships greatly expand our search and place abilities, bringing clients and candidates together much more quickly and successfully.

While Mee Derby's core staff focuses on search, our team of outside consultants and partners keeps the company running productively and efficiently. We are proud to have Bullhorn manage our enterprise application software and candidate tracking system, Biersma Creative maintain and host our website, and Monster posts our job openings. Every operational and administrative function that is beyond our core competency is outsourced.

Below are the bios for Mee Derby's core staff:

Robin Mee is Founder, President and Managing Executive Recruiter of Mee Derby. She is a career recruiting professional with 27 years of experience in the Staffing Industry. She serves as President on the Board of Directors of the Capitol Area Staffing Association (CASA), the local chapter of the American Staffing Association (ASA). Mee Derby is a current associate member of the National Association of Computer Consulting Businesses (NACCB), and of the ASA. Robin has spoken and trained nationally and has moderated many "Ask An Expert" roundtables at ASA's annual convention.

Irene Nichols manages the Mee Derby office in Denver and handles all business west of the Mississippi. Prior to joining Mee Derby in 1999, she was the senior executive in charge of the Rocky Mountain Region of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, US Department of Labor. Irene has 21 years of staffing experience including eight years in corporate HR with Marathon Oil in their Ohio headquarters, four years directing Beggs Personnel and four years directing the OIC, both in Washington, DC. She is an active member of the Society of Human Resource Management.

Jill Balick manages the Southeast Region for Mee Derby from Charlotte, NC. She has over 25 years of staffing management and recruiting experience, and brings significant industry intelligence and networking channels to Mee Derby's client companies. Prior to joining Mee Derby in 1994, she was in New York City managing both the temporary staffing and search divisions of Olsten Corporation.

Betsy Grady joined Mee Derby as an Executive Recruiter in 2003 bringing seven years of staffing industry success and a strong sales background. She has experience in both temporary and permanent placement and has specialized in such diverse niches as graphics, legal, and administration. Her staffing career began at a creative staffing firm as a Business Development Specialist, marketing to clients and placing creative talent. For the next five years, she progessed to legal search, marketing to law firms and placing legal talent. She was promoted into a management position, overseeing a team of recruiters, before branching out to help form a legal placement firm.

Kim Whiteley brings over 20 years of staffing industry and search experience to Mee Derby. She is focusing on the Northeast, especially New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England. Prior to joining Mee Derby, Whiteley spent 15 years with Spherion (formerly Norrell) in Sales Management and Sales in the areas of professional services, IT and administrative. Her work experience includes managing and selling staffing services in the Washington, DC, region and nationally. She spent the four years prior in Executive Search. Whiteley is a graduate of McDaniel College.

Alyse K. Parrino joined Mee Derby in 2005 as an Executive Recruiter based in the San Francisco Bay area. A veteran with 15 years experience in the Staffing Industry, she is now focusing on recruiting and business development exclusively for the Staffing Industry. Alyse has managed and sold staffing services both locally and nationally. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, as well as smaller private and public companies. Positions range from "impossible to find" individual contributors, to key corporate officers. Alyse has managed staffing firms with a focus in the areas Financial, Banking, Information Technology, Human Resources, Legal, and Administrative Support. Before transitioning into the Search Industry, Alyse had a career in Commercial Real Estate and Banking.

Derick Moore is the COO at Mee Derby. He manages the business by overseeing business and financial planning, accounting and bookkeeping, space planning, equipment purchases, collateral materials, and information technology. He is president of Moore Productions which produces television programs for networks, corporations, associations, and the government. Clients include: The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Intelsat, Travel Industry Association of America, and US Census Bureau.

Eliza Deang is the Recruiting Manager and joined Mee Derby in February 2000. She manages the Internet recruiting strategy and office operations. Eliza has 13 years of experience in the recruitment industry. She comes to Mee Derby from Australia, where she was a Technical Recruiter for an Information Technology Consulting/Contracting firm for three years. She also has five years experience in IT, Medical, and Engineering recruitment in the Philippines.

Mychelle Fraley is Research Manager in Mee Derby's Denver office. She brings 25 years of experience in product and service sales to the development of Mee Derby's Western Region. Mychelle was General Manager of an Italian cosmetics company in the US. She is an entrepreneur, having built and sold two small businesses - high-end day spas - in the 1980s. Mychelle has recruited sales people nationally and educators internationally.

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