Arbita Team

Don Ramer

Don Ramer / CEO & Founder
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Don Ramer has been a visionary and leader in the world of recruitment for over three decades. From beginning his career in executive search in 1974 to most recently founding Arbita, the forward-thinking provider of recruitment marketing solutions, Don has been at the leading edge of developing tools that empower companies and candidates with shared values to find one another.

In his first six years in the industry, Don worked in contingency and retainer environments as assistant to the presidents of two AESC-registered firms.
In 1980, seeing a niche to be mined and being entrepreneurial in nature, he formed The Ramer Group, a recruiting firm that specialized in placing data-security executives with major New York financial institutions.

Six years later, seeing recruiting evolving with the growth of the Internet and online media, Don created the Recruitment Research Institute. Serving as the Institute’s executive director and under its auspices, he launched The Alternative Employment Marketplace, a newsletter for the human resources community, and delivered seminars across the United States that focused on tapping into the “alternative employment marketplace” to improve recruiting quality and cut its costs. Much of the Institute’s research was later published and distributed by the U.S. Bureau of National Affairs.

In 1988, Don launched the Employment Management Group (EMG). This high-level management consultancy focused on very large employers and change management in their recruiting and selection processes. In addition to conducting intensive and insightful assessments of recruitment and selection effectiveness, EMG planned, organized and managed recruitment and selection strategy, tactics and operations for clients in the telecommunications and enterprise software industries.

In August of 1993, Don again showed his keen insight into the worlds of both recruiting and new technologies when he began working with the America Online Career Center to accelerate its sales of online recruitment advertising products. Driven by a vision of the natural relationship between proactive recruiting and the rapidly emerging universe of online job boards, Don created the concept of a central marketplace that streamlined how human resource professionals connect to multiple sources and vendors. Arbita was born from that concept.

Three years later, as a sister company to Arbita and built on that organization’s abiding belief in the transformational potential of inspired recruiting, Don and his partners launched RecruitUSA. Through partnerships and knowledge management, RecruitUSA has helped several of the world’s premier employers define their online recruiting methods and presence.

Jennifer Marcy

Jennifer Marcy / General Manager
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Jennifer’s career in human resources began as a recruiter in the security and armored services industry. For over 20 years she has lent her expertise in human resources and change management to public television, philanthropy, corporate staffing operations, and recruitment advertising.

Since joining Arbita™ in March of 2000, she has led hundreds of clients through implementation and training while delivering customized systems, consulting and media solutions. Jennifer’s team listens, responds to, and respects Arbita’s clients. Over the years, her team has helped many of the world's most successful companies achieve their recruiting objectives.

Shally Steckerl

Shally Steckerl / Executive Vice President
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Shally Steckerl is a talent acquisition consultant, strategist, and speaker originally from Colombia, South America, now residing in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Steckerl is the Founder and Chief CyberSleuth of JobMachine, Inc. (jobmachine.net), the premier provider of sourcing consulting services and workforce development. Early in his career Mr. Steckerl realized that as a contingency recruiter he could beat the competition by finding people who were not available in mainstream sources. Since then he has been instrumental in building numerous world class sourcing and research organizations.

Because of his passion for the Internet as a recruitment tool and his continually innovative methods, Mr. Steckerl has developed a reputation as one of the most respected authorities in passive candidate research and talent pipeline development worldwide. A pioneer in recruitment Internet research, accomplished author and celebrated speaker, he is a regular contributor to many industry publications. Mr. Steckerl is frequently requested to present at leading domestic and international recruiting conferences and conduct private workshops.

Mr. Steckerl now spends his time consulting with organization interested in building passive candidate pipeline generation and recruitment teams, and developing their advanced sourcing skills.

Glenn Gutmacher

Glenn Gutmacher / Vice President, ACES
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As Vice President for the Arbita Consulting & Education Services (ACES) division, Glenn brings over a decade of experience as a sourcing consultant and presenter of workforce development workshops for recruiting teams at numerous companies from the Fortune 500 and top-tier staffing firms on down. He has raised the sourcing skill level of thousands of industry professionals in his many public and private live seminars and webinars.

Before joining Arbita in September 2008, Glenn was a senior recruiting researcher for three years at Microsoft and two years as lead Internet sourcer and career site webmaster for a global IT services firm. In 1996, he founded one of the world's first regional newspaper job boards, winning the international newspaper industry's two most prestigious awards in 1998. Ever since creating one of recruiting's first Internet sourcing training seminars in 1997, Glenn remains a leading innovator in online sourcing methods and applying automation tools to recruiting. He is a prolific writer for recruiting trade publications, portals and his own highly-regarded blog, Advanced Online Recruiting Techniques.

Doug Ries

Doug Ries / Executive Vice President
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Doug Ries joined Arbita in March of 2000.  During his long and fruitful tenure with Arbita, Doug has applied his expertise and passion to a wide range of initiatives in operations management, sales, strategic alliance development and marketing.  Chief among his accomplishments for Arbita has been the establishment of an unrivaled global network of recruitment media outlets and technology partners.

As Executive Vice President, Doug is stalwart in his dedication to creating enduring partnerships that generate true value for clients and a better marketplace for all. 

Prior to joining Arbita, Doug managed sales and direct marketing for an international distribution company that served over 10,000 municipal, educational, and private sector accounts. There he defined standards for the company’s marketing, sales, and logistics operations. Doug led the company's international sales operations resulting in a customer base that spanned Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Margaret Klis

Margaret Klis / Vice President and Corporate
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Margaret Klis, Vice President and Corporate Controller is a CPA with twenty plus years experience working with small and large businesses in a variety of industries. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in accounting. Margaretʼs goal is to maintain fiscal responsibility, efficient processes and financial controls within an environment of creativity and client focus.

Romuald Restout

Romuald Restout /
Vice President of Product Development
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Romuald Restout brings Arbita clients more than 15 years of internationally recognized success and expertise in information and human resource technologies, systems architecture and product development. Most recently president of the HR-XML Consortium, Mr. Restout had previously led its workgroups on Assessment and on Recruiting, and was actively involved in the Consortium’s Competencies and Web Services Interoperability workgroups. He had also served on its Technical Steering Committee.

Mr. Restout was previously director of products and technology for Talent Technology Corporation, where he managed product roadmaps and synthesized product initiatives for the company’s Resume Mirror and HireDesk divisions. That success followed his accomplishments as principal for technology practice at Humanuo, an HR technology consulting and development firm in Los Angeles. There, Mr. Restout served as principal for technology practice and oversaw the definition and development of a new suite of products and also advised HR software vendors in developing their own products.

Before joining Humanuo, Mr. Restout was integrally involved from the inception with Taleo, the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions and based in Quebec City, Canada. From Taleo’s start in 1999, Mr. Restout played an essential role in the development, architecture, analysis and methodology of the company’s industry-leading staffing management solutions. Mr. Restout worked closely with Taleo customers to help shape and define the functional specifications and solution architecture of Taleo solutions.

Mr. Restout holds a EuroMaster Degree from France Telecom, where he studied software engineering, design and administration of networks.

Tim Ellerbrock

Tim Ellerbrock / Operations Manager
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Tim has brought several years of customer support experience to Arbita™ when he began as a Technical Support Associate in 2004. He is now Technical Support Manager, in charge of the Support Center, which assists clients with product features and integrations. Tim currently holds a degree in Computer Networking and Telecommunications, and has also received an accreditation as being certified in Network Support and Administration. Tim is continuing his education towards a degree in Management Information Systems.

Seth Fair

Seth Fair / Creative Director
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Seth has been with Arbita™ since November of 2005. He brings with a decade of web site and graphic design experience, including three years running his own web design business. Seth is charged with managing all of the promotional aspects of Arbita™, including the web site, brochures, and trade show material. Seth holds a B.A. degree in Studio Art from The College of Wooster, in Ohio.

Leslie Gnetz

Leslie Gnetz / Account Manager
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Leslie started with Arbita in November 08 in the role of Account Manager. She comes from a background in sales and the mortgage industry, most recently working as a Senior Loan Officer for companies in Las Vegas, Eden Prairie and Minneapolis. She is resourceful, sharp and committed to customer service and improving the lives of others, whether assisting them in securing a loan for their future, or assisting our customers with strategies and solutions to help achieve their goals. Leslie enjoys flying and is working towards getting her private pilot license. In addition, she speaks fluent Spanish, enjoys travel and spending time with friends and family.

Stefanie Steckerl

Stefanie Steckerl
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For over five years, Stefanie has been assisting with the operations of JobMachine. Her responsibilities include web development, vendor research, customer service, assisting with sourcing projects and keeping up with the "books". She works with customers to coordinate trainings, speaking engagements and consulting projects.

Kelly Wackerfuss

Kelly Wackerfuss / Executive Assistant
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Kelly comes to Arbita armed with personal integrity, a commitment to duty, a results-oriented work ethic, and concise communication skills. As a hard-working professional dedicated to accomplishing important tasks at hand, Kelly brings a unique blend of diversity and enthusiasm to the Arbita team. From 2003 to 2005, she served as a Retail Mortgage Loan Processor at Ameriquest Mortgage in Plymouth, Minnesota. There, she examined and analyzed income and credit scoring, providing each customer with a subjective offer based on financial performances. From 2005 to 2007, she served in the same capacity at First NLC, Inc., where she negotiated with organizations and underwriters to improve customers’ loan products. As well as working in the Retail Mortgage industries, Kelly has also volunteered her time, assisting children and adults with disabilities.

As an Executive Assistant, Kelly’s high degree of motivation and professionalism will  make her a valuable addition to Arbita’s high-energy work environment. 

Megan Wood

Megan Wood / Web Developer, Systems Administrator
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Since May of 2006, Megan has provided the Arbita team with a highly-charged brand of technical and developmental expertise. Her resume provides ample evidence of prolific careers in the fields of web development, Linux administration, technical sales, and customer support. As a technical guru focused on delivering excellence to the world of IT, Megan is also a member of the Association of Computing Machinery and holds a Webmaster certificate. Her seven - plus years of experience, combined with her passionate focus on Open Source Technologies, makes her a valuable addition to Arbita’s IT Department. As Web Developer and Systems Administrator, Megan maintains the functionality and adaptability of Arbita’s web applications as they relate to its mission and business initiatives. Always diligent and goal-oriented, Megan continually enhances her existing skills with the constant flow of information and knowledge that occurs on the job. Passionate about keeping pace with the ever-changing world of cyberspace, Megan is currently working on a graduate degree in Computer Science.

 

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