We understand the importance of building meaningful connections – between job seekers and elevated opportunities, between companies and industry trends, from where you’ve been to where you belong. Whether it’s scaling your recruitment team, optimizing employee performance, or expanding into new markets – we make traversing the gaps easy.
Paul Bridges Group changed the Recruitment 2 Recruitment industry in 2016. Our team of recruiting experts spans from coast-to-coast, covering most major metropolitan hubs across North America.
Paul Bridges Group provides comprehensive services to find top talent, train recruitment teams, and provide counsel through strategic initiatives.
To become the global strategic partner of choice in providing elevated end-to-end solutions for recruitment companies, talent acquisition teams, and recruiting professionals, whilst simultaneously elevating the growth trajectories of client partners and career paths of candidate partners alike.
Paul Bridges Group is committed to and embraces the global reality of diversity and inclusion. We strive to meet the needs of our international clients to build diverse leadership teams reacting to the changing realities and growing impact these markets create.
We believe passion and transparency are essential to who we are and the impact we make. We strive to create an environment where people can authentically express their ideas and have autonomy over their recruiting processes. Because ultimately, people are the heart and soul of every organization.
Our passion is your success. Our team helps companies to recruit better through our three business units.
Paulo Pontes has more than 20 years’ experience working in Recruitment and Talent Acquisition, including general management of a large recruitment company (350+ recruiters and more than 12 offices).
He was responsible for a successful startup in Brazil for the global player Page Group, where he hired and trained more than 1000 professionals through an engaging culture of meritocracy and organic growth.
For 12 years, Paulo acted as a board member for the company in Latin America and the United States.
As a Business leader, he was repeatedly recognized for a tremendous ability to partner with HR leaders, always supporting and improving his client’s internal recruitment capabilities and strategies.
His previous experience as Managing Director facilitated the development of high-performing employees by building healthy cultures and strong leadership teams in fast-paced and goals-driven environments
Paulo has a proven ability to strengthen any organization’s strategy to hire in a competitive marketplace through contributions to talent acquisition teams, development, and retention.
Specialties: Executive Search, Recruitment and all Talent programs from Workforce Planning to onboarding, Talent Acquisition in Global Environments (Permanent, Contractor and Graduate recruitment, RPO Relationship Management & Executive Relationships) Preferred Supplier Negotiation, People Management, Budgetary Management, ATS Selection, Training & Development, Talent Management and EVP.
Bruno Stefani has over 15 years’ experience working both in the energy and recruitment industries, in Latin and North American markets.
He has directed top performance teams and been involved in executive search assignments across industries, such as Oil & Gas, Energy & Power, Chemical & Petrochemical, Industrial Manufacturing and Consumer Goods assisting companies in their efforts to attract top talent in the marketplace.
With a large global recruitment player, Bruno was responsible for establishing 4 different offices from startup to mature operations with multidisciplinary teams, including Engineering & Manufacturing, Procurement & Supply Chain, Property & Construction, Oil & Gas and Human Resources.
Dealing with individuals and companies in different stages, countries and cultures, Bruno has an extensive track record of working in partnership with Talent Acquisition teams to develop an effective, customized recruitment strategy to identify complex technical profiles for very specific industries and markets.
Specialties: Executive Search, Staffing and Technical Recruitment, Scaled and Turnkey Recruitment projects, Talent Acquisition in Global Environments, PSA, People Management, Budgetary Management, ATS Selection, Training & Development in different cultures and languages, Talent Management.
Mike Ruben has over 15 years of experience building and leading successful professional services recruitment teams, including expertise in both direct hire and temporary staffing.
Mike began his recruitment career coming out of the 2007 recession, spending 2 years at a multi-billion dollar, global staffing firm where he ran a highly profitable recruiting desk before fast-tracking into business development/account management in their Miami market.
He then spent 9 years growing and scaling the South Florida market of a leading national employee-owned accounting & finance recruiting firm, running a full direct hire desk while also managing the growth of the market's temporary staffing business.
Most recently, Mike was with a private-equity backed multi-vertical recruiting firm, where he was brought aboard to establish a Florida direct hire professional services business to complement the firm's long-standing team in the New York/Tri-State area. From a baseline of zero in Florida, Mike and his team filled 150+ positions, generating $3M+ in revenue in 4+ years.
His knowledge of both the temporary and permanent placement businesses, working both recruitment and business development desks, and his experience building and leading teams will enable him to immediately contribute to the clients and candidates of Paul Bridges Group.
David offering 16 years of experience in managing and staffing talent. Results oriented executive with ability to build and develop teams that consistently deliver above corporate recruitment and retention goals while simultaneously ensuring diversity and inclusion objectives are integrated into overall talent sourcing strategies. Unique blend of both individual talent acquisition success placing 700+ new employees over 16 years while also leading and training teams of talent acquisition specialist.
Candidate surpassed individual annual and quarterly hiring goals by 90% for the last 13 years, while simultaneously leading a team of talent acquisition specialist that have hit 85% of their annual and quarterly hiring goals 13 years running. At his current start-up in the hire, train and Candidate developed and rolled out new on-campus recruiting strategy to hire 1000+ new employees annually with an emphasis on decreasing attrition and number of new interviews while increasing bring-back ratios, offers, and ultimately acceptance ratios. This new approach resulted in a decrease in attrition by 30% with an increase in bring-back ration from 20% to 50%, offers increased from 30% to 60%, and acceptance ratio went from 50% to 80% after just two years of implantation. Implemented new talent acquisition specialist training to include the development of new training guides for all nationwide offices that includes VP’s, Regional’s, Directors, Sales Managers, and Account Managers all responsible for hiring personnel into the company.
Candidate has been tremendously successful as a Manager of Talent Acquisition. He has specific numbers and examples to back up his successes and is looking for a new company and opportunity to bring his talents.
Travis has 11 years of professional experience with a focus in sales and recruitment. He has worked in multiple industries ranging from construction, consumer goods, heavy industrial, IT, power & renewables, oil & gas, and petrochemical. He has been a part of leading top performance teams providing workforce and recruiting solutions for business owners, HR leaders, and hiring managers with some of the top companies in their respective markets. Working as a recruitment technical expert, he was able to thrive through earning trust from key stakeholders from providing the best talent in a timely manner.
Travis has a track record of working with clients to develop a better and customized recruitment strategy to identify complex technical profiles for very specific industries and markets. He is very proud to have helped individuals and companies in different stages, countries, and cultures.
He is motivated daily, by the thrill of opening doors and creating opportunities for you, Top Talent! Recognized for his relentless activity and as a true optimist. He does not stop working for our Candidates and Clients until the right connection is made.
Paul Bridges Group has an acute focus on matching the best Recruiters with the best companies. My opportunity to join an expert team specializing in Recruitment, Training, and Consultation complements my past experience and my audacious future career goals!
Specialties: Rec2Rec, Talent Management, Headhunting, Executive Search, Staffing Solutions, Client Partnership Recruiting, Contingency Staffing & Employee Leasing, Training & Development, Market & Territory Development.
Verticals: IT/Banking, Accountancy, BA/PM, Dynamics, Cyber Security, BI/Big Data, Cloud, Digital, Development, Infrastructure, Development, IT/Energy, Life Science, Pharma, Energy, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical
Upon graduating from the University of Idaho, Joe sought out a Full Desk role focusing on Information Technology in the San Francisco Bay Area. Joe had a knack for building great relationships with CTO’s, Directors, and Candidates. Most of the client's Joe worked with ranged from young tech startups to venture capitalists firms.
After a highly successful career in IT recruitment, Joe wanted a new challenge and currently focuses on Rec to Rec. Currently, Joe is focusing on finding the industries top talent in Staffing and Recruiting. Joe prides himself on forging strong relationships with candidates and gets a great understanding of what they are looking for out of their next role.
Specialties: Executive Search, Full Desk Permanent Recruiting, Retained Search, Contingency Search, Staffing, Training & Development, Talent Management, Technical Recruitment, Recruiting Consulting.
Luiza has over nine years of professional experience, and an international career focused on Sales, Recruitment, and Business Development.
With a long track record of success, including internal and external excellence customer service, Luiza is oriented to constant improvement, balancing a precise analytical mindset and strong strategic leadership skills with a passion for relationship building.
Some of her achievements include helping a multinational company startup the business in the North and Northwest of Brazil working as an Executive Recruiter. Implemented the concept and methodology into the market, delivering results and leading the business expansion into multiple locations.
For the past seven years, Luiza has been involved with the Healthcare industry working with National players acting as an Advisor for all things Recruitment related.
She studied abroad in 2 different countries, where she improved her skills and learned three languages, Portuguese, English, and Spanish.
Paul Bridges Group has an acute focus on matching the best Recruiters with the best companies, either Corporate Clients or Staffing, and Executive Search Firms.
Specialties: Rec2Rec, Talent Management, Headhunting, Executive Search, Staffing Solutions, Client Partnership Recruiting, Contingency Staffing & Employee Leasing, Training & Development, Market & Territory Development.
Verticals: IT/Banking, Accountancy, BA/PM, Dynamics, Cyber Security, BI/Big Data, Cloud, Digital, Development, Infrastructure, Development, IT/Energy, Life Science, Pharma, Energy, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical
JC is an experienced sales and recruiting professional within B2B sales, B2C sales, and third party agency recruiting. Significant experience selling into Fortune 1000 companies, mid-market organizations, managing current relationships, and recruiting sales professionals from multiple industries.
Specialist; Executive Search, Talent Acquisition, Rec2Rec, Business Development, Client Development, Permanent Recruitment, Staffing.
Andrew is a Senior Principal with Paul Bridges Group and one of the few Recruiting professionals who grew up wanting to be in the industry from a young age. With family ties, Andrew knew early on Staffing/Search was his most sought-after career path. Since making that decision Andrew has spent time in all facets of search including Temporary, Perm Contingent, and Retained Search. This experience uniquely positions Andrew within the Paul Bridges Group landscape, giving him a deep understanding of each search that we execute due to his hands on experience at each level.
Outside of the office, Andrew can be found on the golf course or spending time with his dogs and family trying to stay cool in the Arizona desert.
Pamela has over ten years of experience in talent acquisition and HR consulting. Experienced in global RPO projects, working on site and remote ensuring a customer focused delivery and enabling the achievement of agreed performance targets.
Experience for several segments such as: Consumer Goods, Technology, Pharmaceutical, Agricultural, Animal and Human Nutrition & Health, Oil and Gas, etc.
Responsible for managing and supporting the full life cycle recruitment process. Client relationship management, definition and execution of strategies for talent acquisition, intake meeting to understand requisition from job posting, market mapping, promotes employment brand, responsible for the candidate experience and hand off to HRBP and hiring manager, ongoing data mining from internal database, job postings and list. Timely disposition of candidates within requisition in which they are assigned in the system. Experience with Success Factor, Taleo, Greenhouse, Bullhorn and Workday.
Fluent English and native Portuguese.
In my currently role at Paul Bridges, we work with talent professionals to find their next role and help organizations find the perfect candidates to complete their HR/Talent teams.
Graduated from one of the top largest Catholic Universities in Venezuela, Zwynda brings deep-rooted intellect and understanding utilizing her bachelor’s degree in communications for creating strong relationships in the staffing industry with unapparelled results and execution. She has played an integral role in the growth and continued success of Paul Bridges Southern California practice. Her specialties are Rec2Rec / Recruitment to Recruitment, Business Development, Client Development, Permanent Recruitment, and Staffing.
From her previous work experience, Zwynda had the privilege to work with different brands from LATAM and the US as a Digital Marketing expert creating relevant content and strong strategies to help companies exceed their goals.
Kate Riggenbach has 7 years of experience in the staffing industry, working across multiple verticals doing recruiting and business development for both contract and direct hire roles.
Kate has taken a relationship-centered approach with the clients and candidates she works with and has a drive to ensure she makes the best possible match every time.
Kate is originally from Virginia and enjoys spending time with her dog Turtle, trying new restaurants, and traveling.
Lauren Bailey has over 4 years of experience, specializing in placing accounting and finance professionals across both public and private sectors.
Lauren has had a track record of success placing candidates of all levels across all industries in both contract and direct hire roles.
Lauren prides herself on generating candidate and client referrals and repeat business from her extremely consultative approach. Lauren is originally from Canada and now resides in Boca Raton.
Andy Hsu has over 19 years of recruitment and talent acquisition experience across multiple industries and a diverse set of job disciplines including but not limited to Human Resources, Finance, Sales. His passion for DE&I has been part of all his work whether it would be meeting DE&I goals for clients, as a member of DE&I committees and being a keynote speaker on Diversity in the workplace.
Whilst working for a large global recruitment firm, he was tasked to support and scale multiple disciplines and offices throughout North America. In addition to scaling internal teams as a player/coach, he has helped do the same for many of his clients that vary from SME’s to Fortune 500 organizations. In addition to supporting clients from a direct hire perspective, he has also supported them as an RPO account leader as well as on a temporary/contract basis.
Andy started his career in Temporary/Contract recruitment where he credits his abilities to truly understand the market he supports, speed to market/accuracy and his relationship-building with candidates and clients alike. With his diverse skill set supporting Internal Talent Acquisition teams, Temporary/Contract recruitment, Direct Hire and Executive/retained search he can not only hire the best talent but also support clients in their recruitment and DE&I strategies.
Specialties: Executive/Retained Search, Temporary/Contract, Talent Acquisition in global environments, RPO support and negotiations, Training and Development, People and Talent Management
Stella Papadopoulos has over 12 years' experience supporting the staffing and recruitment industry. She is a true “Brand Ambassador,” having been recognized as a “Top Producer” in Business Development since 2012. She has experience serving all corporate functions including, Human Resources, Office Support, Finance, Marketing, Creative and Information Technology services.
Consistency is key in this business and Stella has proven that by delivering 70% YOY growth in a forever changing industry. Serving as a key member to the senior leadership team, it is no surprise that Stella has been consecutively promoted throughout her career. Most recently, she served as the Director of Client Development for a boutique-staffing agency in lower Fairfield County CT.
As a networking extraordinaire, Stella has participated in several local business and industry specific sponsored events such as Society of Human Resource Management, Chambers of Commerce, 100 Women in Finance, Top 40 under 40, Milli Awards, etc. For five years, Stella served as President, Co-President and Member of a private networking group named “Strategic Business Alliance.”
Stella is a passionate, enthusiastic, and results-driven sales professional that puts an extraordinary amount of pride into her work. She brings a consultative and methodical approach to client engagement and thrives in cultivating relationships with C-Suite and Human Resources leaders.
Stella is a consummate professional and natural-born business builder. The most rewarding aspect of her career has been the personal and long-standing relationships she has built with her clients who she now calls friends.
Specialties: Contingency Search, Business Development, Client Development, Permanent, Contract and Contract to Hire Recruitment, Staffing Solutions, RPO & VMS Relationship Management, Preferred Supplier Negotiation, Market & Territory Development, Training & Development, Networking.
Verticals: Financial Services, Consumer Products, Manufacturing, IT/Software, Energy, Digital, Legal, Publishing, Nonprofit, Biopharma, Communications, Education, Medical, Engineering, Insurance, Reinsurance, Telecom, Financial Advisory, Accountancy, Beverage/Spirits, Healthcare, Travel, Procurement.
Tina Slocum has spent the last eight years working in the staffing industry where she has been able to build strong candidate and client relationships in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
After spending almost 7 years in the insurance industry, she shifted her professional focus to human resources, recruiting and business development. Tina’s first exposure in this field came as a recruiting manager at a small boutique legal recruiting firm in New Haven. Later, she assumed leadership positions at Kforce and Roth Staffing where she not only helped grow her team’s revenue YOY but also gained top notch training and the opportunity to work with multi-talented teams, divisions and leaders. Here, she acquired additional experience in business development, recruiting for both direct hire and contract, training and development staffing for within Finance and Accounting, Administrative, Legal, HR and Customer Service roles.
Tina Slocum takes a targeted and thorough approach to understand the needs of her clients and candidates by asking the right questions and establishing their trust to deliver the best possible outcome to both parties.
She currently resides in Southern Connecticut with her husband, Josh, and their two young children. In her family time, Tina enjoys all the indoor and outdoor activities that are available in New England.
Nicole is an experienced HR professional who not only brings over 8 years of recruiting experience, but also has worked in high level HR roles herself, both as a HR Manager and HR Business Partner supporting C-level executives. Nicole knows the ins and outs of the HR field and understands the crucial role of human resources in an organization. Nicole has worked on both the agency side during her time at one of the largest recruitment players in the world and on the corporate side. She knows firsthand how much time and resources go into onboarding a new hire and knows the importance of getting the right fit the first time. Nicole is a great person to partner with to identify who to hire to perfectly round out your team.
Specialties: Executive Human Resources Leadership, Talent Management, HRBP, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Employee Relations, HR Operations, HRIS, Payroll & Benefits. Verticals: Human Resources, IT, Private Sector, Medical Device/Pharma, Manufacturing, and Management Consulting.
"Tyler has a passion for building relationships and being an advisor to his clients and candidates"
Tyler has spent 5+ years specializing in medical contract positions and Sales/Business Development positions for high growth tech startups. Over the last year and a half, Tyler grew and developed a successful recruitment firm, but he saw the importance of a team and the learning potential in being associated with the Paul Bridges Group. Tyler's experience in talent acquisition and client relations is well suited for both assisting startups that aim to IPO/sell and expanding already top performing teams at large Fortune 500 companies.
In Tyler's free time, he is a husband, sport enthusiastic, and someone who loves to meet new people.
Our focus is tailored exclusively to Talent Acquisition & Recruitment teams. When you think of hiring, training and developing recruiters, consider Paul Bridges Group – the best-suited partner for the Talent Acquisition Executive.
