Mee Derby has a dedicated core staff of ten with a total of over 100 years of staffing industry experience. Our five 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 and Biersma Creative maintain and host our website. 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 nationally recognized expert in the staffing industry who presents regularly at industry events. Robin serves on the Board of Directors of the Capital Area Staffing Association (CASA) as Past President and Program Chair. At the American Staffing Association (ASA), Robin is a member of the Recruiting and Placement Policy Council, and the Education and Certification Committee. Mee Derby is an active member of ASA, CASA, and is a corporate member of Staffing Industry Analysts.

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.

Kim Whiteley brings over 20 years of staffing industry and search experience to Mee Derby. She is focusing on the mid-Atlantic, 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.

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.

Lisa Hartmark brings 15+ years of staffing industry and corporate hr experience to Mee Derby. Lisa is focused on recruiting and sourcing candidates for Mee Derby requirements. Her staffing industry experience includes roles as staffing specialist, branch manager, on-site manager and senior recruiter. Lisa's experience also includes several years spent in corporate hr in both HR Director and Recruitment Director roles. Lisa is a graduate of University of MD. In her free time Lisa is actively involved in her children's schools, local youth football leagues and frequently speaks to both middle and high schools students on the Holocaust.

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.

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