Reputation | Retention | Results
To maximize client satisfaction through exceptional client service and world class executive search consulting and expertise.
To be an innovative, multifaceted search firm that has a strategic ROI approach, independent and transparent set of values supporting our global clients.
At Lead Professionals, our search consultants will identify and deliver top talent by blending a proprietary search methodology with our deep experience and contacts in a wide range of industries. We use a proven, strategic approach to establish a clear and objective framework that is cost-effective and delivers quality candidates. Personalizing each engagement to the client, we can help you:
Lead Professionals offers you the flexibility to hire for full-time, temp-to hire and temporary consultants. Regardless of the size of your organization or current situation, we can find qualified professionals to fill your immediate staffing needs. Contact us to learn how our Consulting services can meet the unique needs of your organization.
Organizational assessments are highly effective ways to assess your company’s performance in multiple dimensions. It will help you target specific performance improvement actions that can dramatically change your results. Our organizational assessments include not only specific assessment findings, survey results and recommendations, but may also include a one year implementation Action Plan.
This helps take immediate action for a company’s highest impact organizational performance. Our assessments include:
Lead Professionals has implemented a project management program made up of highly skilled professionals to assist in the execution of your goals while incorporating the latest method’s.
Services Available:
• Project Management
• Program Management
• Project Management Staff Training
• ITIL Consulting or Training
• Outsourcing
Reputation | Retention | Results
To maximize client satisfaction through exceptional client service and world class executive search consulting and expertise.
To be an innovative, multifaceted search firm that has a strategic ROI approach, independent and transparent set of values supporting our global clients.
You Generate – We Implement.
Lead Professionals was established with a vision to empower companies with our unique blend of executive search services. Our model has centered on our organization focusing with a “personalized, boutique” approach that services a client with a variety of services needed. These services include executive search, project management consulting and assessment.
Our approach has always been to understand the core of who our clients are and how they operate. Then we have applied our talent acquisition skills to ensure our clients have secured the best candidates from the market nationwide. We have established principles based on always telling our clients’ story directly to our candidates. We act as an extension of our client in the market place. We develop strategic solutions to fit our clients’ needs and tailor our model to each demographic of the customer. This is how we contribute to the design of the company’s success.
We have secured an excellent staff skilled in various disciplines and industries – each consultant having diversified expertise within their specialized industry. With our team currently in place and with our plans for future growth, we are able to share our culture and integrity with you – the client. We embrace our partnership and business relationship with you and we base this on trust and guaranteed results.
RESULTS MATTER
Our firm has many unique characteristics that help identify Lead Professionals as a pacesetter in the executive search industry.
We are a hard-working, aggressive group of talented professionals with unique expertise in every aspect of executive search. We are a practical-minded firm dedicated to achieve success as efficiently and quickly as possible for our clients. Our team members from Miami to Seattle apply themselves in the specific industries that they support which includes Technology, Government Solutions, Logistics/Supply Chain, Digital Marketing, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Consumer Goods, Not for Profit industries and Mergers/Acquisitions.
Luis Pedemonte
Managing Partner
Focus: Technology, Domestic, US Hispanic and LATAM Sales, Digital Marketing, Consumer Products/Retail
Phone: (786) 472-2662
Fax: (786) 513-3133
Email: luis@leadprorecruiting.com
Luis is the founder and Managing Partner of Lead Professionals Executive Search. Luis’ company was founded with a vision Luis had to offer national and global corporations a personalized, unique and robust search service that would assist a company’s need for a strategic hire.
Luis has a history of accomplishment within the talent solutions business. After graduating from Virginia Tech with a degree in Business Information Technology, Luis worked as a Financial Analyst and then went on to join Apex Systems in DC where he eventually became a Branch Manager for this 8th largest IT US staffing firm. He moved to Miami to open their office in South Florida.
Since that time, Luis has worked in the executive search industry for many years and established Lead Professionals in 2008. Luis currently serves as a Board member for the MIT Enterprise Forum in South Florida. He is active with many Hispanic organizations and is proud that his firm is a minority owned business.
Luis works within a variety of industries including Technology, Digital Marketing, Government, Consumer Products and US Hispanic and LATAM Sales. He has worked with many national firms such as Red Bull, Avaya Government, GEICO, Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis and Carnival Cruise Lines.
Mark Young
Senior Partner
Focus: International Executive Retained Search, Supply Chain Logistics, Financial Services/Wealth Management, Agri-Business, Legal, Utility/Energy, Non-Profit, Entertainment.
Phone: (786) 472-2662 ext. 6352
Fax: (786) 513-3133
Email: mark@leadprorecruiting.com
Mark Young is in charge of business development and search execution in the U.S. and Canada within a broad range of industries. Over 30 years, he has successfully conducted searches for clients in financial services and wealth management, technology, agri-business, supply chain and logistics and not-for-profit entities including foundations.
His background in retained executive search consulting includes serving as Vice President at A.T. Kearney Inc. for seven years in Miami and heading the Florida executive search practice of KPMG Peat Marwick in Miami for six years. Prior to that, Mr. Young was President of National Executive Consultants Inc., a retained executive search boutique firm in Atlanta, Ga. He also spent four years in the search business in Montreal, Canada. He has conducted search engagements internationally, including engagements in the United Kingdom, France, Chile, Brazil, Haiti, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Jamaica and Canada. He has fulfilled searches for most senior level functional positions and successfully conducted searches for minority candidates.
Active with the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Young has served on the Senior Executive Orientation Committee, is a member of the Trustees and in 2008 was distinguished as a member of The Chairman’s Circle. He also was an active Campaign Board member of the United Way of Broward County. Additionally, he served as a Board Member of the Urban League of Broward County, Board Member for Camillus House in Miami and Board Member of Take Stock In Children.
He received his Bachelor of Arts with a major in Psychology from Sir George Williams University in Montreal, Canada. Mr. Young is married, lives in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and has two grown children.
Mark Ennis
National Director, Federal Solutions
Focus: Business Development, Federal and Government Consulting Group
Phone: (786) 472-2662 ext 6350
Fax: (786) 513-3133
Email: marke@leadprorecruiting.com
Mr. Ennis is a seasoned solutions selling executive with extensive experience in the capture process for global, national and regional markets across all verticals and functional alignments. He has directed large integrated teams in major federal procurement efforts for GWAC, IDIQ and MAC contracts. He had served as a regional Vice President or Operations Vice President at several notable corporations, including Qwest Communications and Oxford International. Mr. Ennis is well-versed in federal contracting processes and procedures and acquisition processes across DoD and federal civilian agencies. He routinely directs the full life-cycle development process for mission-critical projects. He is an active member of the National Defense Industrial Organization and an Executive Member of The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.
Theodore P. (Ted) Debrowski, R.Ph, ACCP
National Director, Healthcare
Focus: Healthcare and Life Sciences
Phone: (786) 472-2662 ext 6351
Fax: (786) 513-3133
Email: ted@leadprorecruiting.com
Ted bring more than 25 years of executive healthcare and life science management experience to Lead Professionals and serves as the head of our practice segment. He has served in a number C-Level management positions for a wide array of healthcare organizations and has provided unique insights and strategies to many companies. This includes manufacturers, distributors and providers of healthcare products and services as well as a number of prominent private Equity/Venture Capital firms looking to expand their presences in the dynamic and evolving healthcare and life science sectors.
A clinical pharmacist by training, Ted has consistently demonstrated a unique set of skills to each client. His capacity to understand and relate to the specialized needs of healthcare focused organizations gives the client a broad based expert to insure they obtain the best and most diverse talent available. In addition, his ability to assess current and emerging trends within the healthcare marketplace, permits his clients to proactively meet the challenges of the ever changing healthcare landscape.
Ted’s experience runs the gamut of the healthcare system from operations to sales & marketing to strategic planning, executive management and corporate governance. This includes working in various senior management roles for start-ups, emerging venture backed companies and large multinational organizations. His many relationships within the healthcare and life science community allows him to draw upon a vast personal and professional network of highly qualified and diverse healthcare specialists.
A graduate of the Rutgers University College of Pharmacy, Ted is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Society of Clinical Pharmacy, American Pharmaceutical Association, American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Health Systems Executives and the American College of Healthcare Executives. He resides in suburban Maryland with his wife Joyce, a cosmetic chemist and their son J.P.
Ramses A. Maldonado PMP, ITIL, PRINCE2
Director, Global Project/Program Management
Focus: Project/Program Management
Phone: (786) 472-2662
Fax: (786) 513-3133
Email: ramses@leadprorecruiting.com
Ramses Maldonado is a PMP, ITIL and PRINCE2 certified senior project manager with more than 15 years of hands-on experience in planning, implementing and closing complex, large scale technology projects for Fortune 500 Enterprise companies in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America. Maldonado built his career at Verizon, where he held several project manager positions and lead teams working on business solutions for large scale clients such as Capital One, Kaiser Permanente, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the State of West Virginia and Mapei. More recently, Maldonado was involved in the creation and implementation of a Strategic Program Management Office (SPMO) to oversee a large scale project portfolio.
A native Spanish speaker, Maldonado has managed multilingual and multicultural teams across the United States and Latin America. Because of his industry knowledge and cultural expertise, he was invited to assist Verizon with recruiting efforts at trade events and professional organization conferences.
Maldonado began his career with Verizon as part of former GTE’s highly competitive Management Development Program. Through the program, he held several management positions in key business units of the company in three different states: Florida, Missouri and Texas.
Due to his experience, he has been invited to conduct Project Management trainings in the U.S. and Central America. Currently, Maldonado serves as the Vice President of Programs on the board of the South Florida Project Management Institute and has been an active board member for the past 5 years. He earned a master’s in project management from the George Washington University School of Business and his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Puerto Rico. Also, in 2001 he participated in the Verizon International Management Program at the Moore School of Business in South Carolina.
