Diversified Search Odgers Berndtson Opens Atlanta Office.PHILADELPHIA -- Diversified Search Odgers Berndtson is pleased to announce that Stephen A. Dezember and Kevin B. Kelly have joined the firm as Managing Directors to open its new Atlanta New Atlanta Communications, LLC is a software company specializing in products to ease creation of Web applications. Based in Alpharetta, Georgia and founded in 1998, the company markets 3 products: ServletExec, JTurbo, and BlueDragon. office. Diversified is recognized for delivering high quality consultative senior-level executive search services and corporate Board searches to clients ranging from smaller privately-held firms and not-for-profits to some of the world's largest public companies. Until recently, Dezember and Kelly were Executive Vice Presidents with the Atlanta firm of Slayton Search Partners. Dezember has over fifteen years of executive search experience with Ray & Berndtson, A.T. Kearney Executive Search, and Edward W. Kelley & Partners. His clients have included pharmaceutical, biotech and device companies with assignments ranging from CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. positions to executive R&D and technical operations positions. He has also held leadership positions with Gemini Consulting's pharmaceutical practice, as Executive Vice President of Everest & Jennings, and as Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Bristol-Myers Squibb's cardiovascular/vascular division. He has written and presented on numerous subjects including strategies for patent expiration, managing the new managed care environment, and successful executive profiles for high-tech emerging organizations. Dezember received his Bachelor of Arts and Masters in Business Administration magna cum laude cum lau·de adv. & adj. With honor. Used to express academic distinction: graduated cum laude; 25 cum laude graduates. from Indiana State University Indiana State University, main campus at Terre Haute; coeducational; est. 1865 as a normal school, became Indiana State Teachers College in 1929, gained university status in 1965. There is also a campus at Evansville (opened 1965). . Kelly has more than twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. of experience in executive search conducting senior level assignments for general management, financial, sales and marketing executives, and other functional specialists for consumer, industrial and financial companies. He has been with Ray & Berndtson, A.T. Kearney Executive Search, and Russell Reynolds Associates, where he managed the Atlanta office. Earlier in his career, he was in marketing positions with an Atlanta agency, Cole Henderson Drake, and with The Coca-Cola Company. Kelly has a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Virginia. "The Atlanta office is a part of the firm's continuing strategy to expand our U.S. presence," 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. Judith M. von Seldeneck, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Diversified Search Odgers Berndtson, the largest woman-founded and -owned executive search firm in the U.S. "We are pleased to have seasoned professionals like Steve and Kevin join us to provide a presence as we expand into the important Southeast region marketplace." Diversified Search Odgers Berndtson, headquartered in Philadelphia, also has U.S. 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 , Chicago, Washington, DC, Miami and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . The firm offers global search capabilities in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Latin America, Europe, Africa & Middle East, and Asia with industry specialization in consumer & industrial; education, not-for-profit, arts & culture; financial & professional services; healthcare & human services; private equity/venture capital; retail; life sciences; media & entertainment; and technology. Functional areas of emphasis include Board of Directors; diversity; Chief Financial Officers; human resources; procurement & supply chain, and development & fundraising. For more information about Diversified Search Odgers Berndtson, visit www.diversifiedsearch.com. |
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