“Iron sharpening iron” is what membership in Top Echelon Network is all about, and that is definitely the case with longtime Network members Coleen Balogh-Walther of The Provident Search Group and Debbi Reiger of Reiger Technical Search. Although they didn’t…

We recently announced that we’re bringing back the “Comments and Compliments” feature in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, and with good reason. Not only do Network members like to make split placements with one another, but they also like to say…

As we have chronicled before, Steve Brody of Executive Resource Systems is a Charter Member of Top Echelon Network. That means he was one of the 20 original Network members on March 8, 1988. For all intents and purposes, Steve…

According to Top Echelon Network member and Top Producer Kerry Boehner of KOB Solutions, the world is like a big pizza. Which we love here at Top Echelon because, well, we love pizza. But we also love what Kerry has…

For nearly 15 years, Philip Bartfield of Analytic Search has done his very best to maximize the tools and resources that Top Echelon offers to agency recruiters and executive search consultants. “I looked at it as a package of services—software,…

For somebody who initially viewed other recruiters operating in his niche as strictly competition, much has changed for Gary Schultz of Work 22, Inc. in the three years since he’s been a member of Top Echelon’s recruiting network. “Before I…

Perhaps no other recruiter in the history of Top Echelon Network has “flown under the radar” like Hani Mussa of KnowHireMatch. Like the recruiter in our previous “Network Spotlight” feature, Veronica Synder, Hani has been a recruiter for slightly more…

Before joining Top Echelon Network, Scott Szur of The Harrison Group, LLC was part of another network for recruiters (one that shall remain nameless). Consequently, he was familiar with the Network’s business model and the advantages that it offered to…

Ron Sunshine of Ron Sunshine Associates, LLC is one of the very few recruiters who knows what Top Echelon Network was called before it was called, well, Top Echelon Network. “My [agency ID] number when I joined was MO01 for…

While there have been thousands of recruiters who have been successful in Top Echelon Network—and have made the Network a success as a result—few have helped to imbue it with as much personality as Bob Gabor. Bob, who spent two…