Lead Professionals has the recruiting experience your business needs to staff your team with the best and brightest stars in Miami in a variety of vertical industries, including:

Technology & Software
Applications development, technical architecture, infrastructure, technical support and communications, database development, IT project management and technical SaaS sales.

Digital Media & Marketing
Emerging Digital and traditional advertising and marketing agencies and corporations with strong focus on digital sales.

AgriBusiness/Food
Produce, Farming, Agricultural management, food manufacturing and food sales.

Logistics/Supply Chain Management
Transportation (air, sea and land), distribution warehousing, logistics solutions and sales.

Financial Services
Accounting, Auditing, Risk Management, Compliance, Investment/Securities, Private Banking, Commercial and Consumer Banking, Portfolio management, Wealth Management.

Government and the Public Sector
Engineering, Architecture and Information Security, Project/Program Management and Federal Consulting Sales.

Legal and Compliance
Law firms and corporate attorneys, general counsel.

Healthcare
Hospital Administration, behavioral service organizations and physician selection.

Consumer Goods and Entertainment

Hospitality, Travel and Leisure

Executive Search

Personalized

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:

Define your business – This includes competitive analysis, organizational structure and workplace culture.
Define positions – We can assist in formulating job descriptions, discuss the interview process, and expand on the characteristics, skills, behaviors and requirements of the perfect candidate(s).
Select candidates – Identify, evaluate and select a small number of relevant, qualified candidates.
Search Completion – Assist in the selection of finalist candidates including in-depth reference reporting and salary negotiation.

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Consulting & Assessment

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:

Organizational Development and Design
Corporate Culture Surveys
Recruitment and Retention
Employee Surveys
Customer Surveys
Leadership Assessments
Corporate Succession Planning
Team Assessments

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Project Management

Simplified

You Envision – We Plan

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

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What Matters?

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.

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Lead Pro Roots

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

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Lead Pro Advantage

Our firm has many unique characteristics that help identify Lead Professionals as a pacesetter in the executive search industry.

Our individualized service with low blockage capabilities enables us to service our clients in the most effective way possible.
Strategic assessment of your organization providing a personalized approach to finding the right talent.
Our Interview approach is based on a competency model as opposed to a narrative interview.
Our integrity and confidential approach protects our clients’ interest at all times.
Our formula for a successful search completion is assured by our better than industry standard guarantee period.
Database that provides a diversified blend of talent that comes from across the US and overseas.
Our in-depth research team relentlessly approaches each engagement in a consultative manner utilizing state of the art technology and information gathering tools.
Unique ability to use proprietary research to identify candidates that are not actively seeking employment.
Minority Owned Certified by the National Minority Development Council.

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Experience. Knowledge. Passion. Professionalism.

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

Mark Young
Senior Partner
Focus: International Executive Retained for Supply Chain and Logistics, Finance and Wealth Management, Agri-Business, Legal, Utility/Energy, Entertainment, Non-Profit and Mergers/Acquisitions
Phone: (786) 472-2662 ext. 6352
Fax: (786) 513-3133
Email: mark@leadprorecruiting.com

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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
Phone: (786) 472-2662 ext 6350
Fax: (786) 513-3133
Email: marke@leadprorecruiting.com

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

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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 Program/Project Management
Focus: Project/Program Management
Phone: (786) 472-2662
Fax: (786) 513-3133
Email: ramses@leadprorecruiting.com

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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.