Diversified Search Buys-Back Firm.PHILADELPHIA -- MPS Group and Diversified Search Inc. have announced the buy-back of Diversified from MPS. Diversified will be owned and operated by a group of core managers including Chairman and former owner Judith M. von Seldeneck and Managing Directors B.A. (Mackie) MacLean, Jr. and Cynthia Heckscher. "We have been fortunate to have had the experience of working with MPS," said Ms. von Seldeneck. The buy-back came about as MPS and Diversified reassessed their synergies and recognized that Diversified would be able to continue to build its business more effectively as an independent entity. "I am very excited to be working with my partners to continue to enhance the firm and our vision for it. Meeting the need for human capital will be key in the future as corporations face talent management shortages. We look forward to continuing to assist corporations in finding their leaders of tomorrow." Diversified Search Inc. was established 30 years ago by Ms. von Seldeneck. Since then it has been recognized for delivering high quality consultative senior-level executive search services and corporate board searches to clients ranging from small, private firms and not-for-profits to some of the world's largest publicly held corporations. In 1998 the company was acquired by the MPS Group, a Fortune 1000 $1.2 billion provider of global human capital solutions. The buy-back of the company promises a continuation of the high standards originally established for the firm, which is headquartered in Philadelphia and has offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Boston. Diversified Search is consistently rated among the top 20 executive search firms in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Ms.von Seldeneck, "We are very proud of this company, its values and its commitment to excellence, and will continue to build on these traditions." In addition to her role as Founder and Chairman of Diversified Search, Ms. von Seldeneck has over 30 years experience in executive search consulting and serves on the Board of Directors of numerous organizations. She is currently Chair of the Board of Directors for the Association of Executive Search Consultants The Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) is the worldwide professional body representing the retained executive search industry. Founded in 1959[1] (AESC AESC Association of Executive Search Consultants AESC American Engineering Standards Committee AESC Automatic Electronic Switching Center AESC Aerospace Environmental Support Center AESC Aeromedical Evacuation Support Cell AESC Aerojet Electrosystems Company ) and serves on the Boards of Citizens Bank, Teleflex Incorporated, The Tasty Baking Company, the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce (former Chair), The Hyde School, the International Women's Forum and The Caron Foundation Caron Foundation is a drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation center located at a 110-acre facility in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, USA. Caron is a non-profit organization. . She is also co-founder of the Forum of Executive Women, the largest association of women business leaders in the Delaware Valley The Delaware Valley is the name of the metropolitan area centered on the city of Philadelphia in the United States. The region is named for the Delaware River which flows through it. . Ms. von Seldeneck has received a number of awards and honors including the 2004 American Heart Association American Heart Association (AHA), n.pr a national voluntary health agency that has the goal of increasing public and medical awareness of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and thereby reducing the number of associated deaths and disabilities. Heart of Philadelphia Award, the Civic Leadership Award by the League of Women Voters League of Women Voters, voluntary public service organization of U.S. citizens. Organized in 1920 in Chicago as an outgrowth of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, it had as its original nucleus the leaders of the latter organization. of Pennsylvania, the Eleanor Raynolds Award for excellence in executive search presented by the Association of Executive Search Consultants and the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce's Paradigm Award for the top woman in business and leadership in the community. For more information on Diversified Search Inc., visit www.divsearch.com on the web. |
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