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Corporate Leadership:

James Boone, President and Chief Executive Officer

Jim Boone brings 25 years of management experience in the human capital arena, including senior-level management positions at Korn/Ferry International, Heidrick & Struggles and Windship Partners, a highly specialized executive search firm he founded in 2003. Mr. Boone led Korn/Ferry to record revenue – nearly $400 million – in his region. He served as senior executive search partner and member of the Global Executive Committee at Heidrick & Struggles. His senior leadership and management experience also includes executive positions with Digital Equipment Corporation and Honeywell, Inc. Mr. Boone has served on various advisory boards and has garnered notable media attention from publications and networks such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, ABC News, CBS News, CNN and NPR. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Louisville and completed post-graduate studies at Harvard Business School’s Executive Management Program.

Kenneth C. Anthony, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Kenneth Anthony is the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Impellam North America. He has been with the company since June, 2009 and was promoted from the position of Vice President and Controller. Anthony has served in numerous financial and accounting roles over his 28 year career and his specialties include financial planning and analysis, financial modeling, cash flow analysis, process improvements, and strategic planning. His industry experience includes timber, gaming, consumer electronics, automotive, alternative investments, retail, and his past employers include Apple Computer, Ford Motor, Kmart, Philips Electronics, Timbervest, LLC, and Ernst & Young. In addition, Anthony has experience with turnarounds as well as growing emerging businesses.

Anthony is a Certified Public Accountant in Georgia and New York State. He holds a BBA degree in Accounting from St. Bonaventure University, a Master’s degree in Divinity from Holy Cross School of Theology, and has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the AICPA, New York State Society of CPAs, and the Georgia Society of CPAs.

Mark Rybarczyk, Senior Vice President, Administration

Mark Rybarczyk is the head of human resources, payroll & invoicing and all administrative processes for CORESTAFF Services, with the goal of delivering maximum operational efficiency throughout the organization. He joined CORESTAFF as Vice President, Human Resources and was promoted to his current role. Prior to CORESTAFF, Mr. Rybarczyk was a founding partner with Nosal Partners and served as managing partner, Southwest Region. His prior experience includes service as executive vice president, Human Resources for Bisys Group Inc. (acquired by Citigroup and J.C. Flowers). His 16-year career at Bisys included responsibility for all human resources functions for 7,000 employees in the U.S. and eight other countries. He also has worked for Automatic Data Processing (ADP) and Shell Oil Company. Mr. Rybarczyk holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Hamilton College and a Masters degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.

Sue Holub, Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing & Client Services

Sue Holub oversees all product and marketing initiatives for Impellam Group’s North American operations. She is accountable for the company’s marketing and strategy functions, driving sales growth in existing and new accounts and delivering value-added services customized to help clients reach their business goals. She joined CORESTAFF in March 2009 as Vice President, Marketing, and was promoted to her current role. Ms. Holub has 16 years of strategy, product management, product marketing and marketing/corporate communications experience garnered at top-tier organizations such as Preparis, CheckFree (acquired by Fiserv), BellSouth Corporation, and Ketchum Communications. Ms. Holub is a Six Sigma Yellow Belt and Pragmatic Marketing® Certified. She is also an active member across a number of industry marketing, technology and management associations. Ms. Holub graduated cum laude from American University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Communications and Spanish.

Patrick Ray, Senior Vice President, General Counsel

Patrick Ray to serves as the organization’s first Senior Vice President, General Counsel. Based in Atlanta, he puts more than 11 years of employment and traditional labor law experience to work providing practical in-house legal advice on litigation, contract negotiation, debt collection, corporate leases, intellectual property and non-compete agreements. In his most recent role of shareholder at Littler Mendelson, P.C., he advocated for clients on a broad range of employment and labor law issues. Previous to his service at Littler Mendelson, he served as director, associate General Counsel at Randstad US, where he handled all types of legal matters, including employment law compliance and training, contracts and leases, intellectual property, litigation management and cost containment, commercial disputes and collections support. He also served as associate at Ford & Harrison LLP.

Patrick is a Cum Laude graduate of The Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science, attended Loyola University School of Law in Vienna, Austria on a summer comparative law program, and earned his Juris Doctorate with high honors from The Florida State University College of Law.

Heather Mayfield, Vice President, Service & Quality

Heather Mayfield has more than a decade of experience in the staffing and human resources arena, with broad experience in sales, recruiting, operations and training. Prior to joining CORESTAFF in December 2009, she served as a Vice President with Snelling Staffing Services, where she was responsible for training, operations and sales for the franchise offices and corporate stores. She previously held various roles centered around training, operations and sales with ProActivate, CareerBuilder.com / Headhunter.net, and Pro Staff in Dallas.

As the leader of CORESTAFF’s Service and Quality department, Mayfield works closely with the Regional and Sector Managers to advance recruiting strategies and methodologies. She drives the process of retaining and recruiting the best operational talent, and works on developing comprehensive virtual training programs and regulatory compliance processes.

Mayfield earned her Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration in HR Management from Tarleton State University.

Regional Leadership:

Lauren Steel, Vice President/General Manager, Western Region

Lauren Steel puts 26 years of sales, marketing and senior management experience in the staffing industry to work at CORESTAFF. She built her career with Wollborg/Michelson Personnel Service in San Francisco, starting as an account representative and rising to Senior Vice President during her 18-year tenure, which included accomplishments such as significantly increasing net operating income, expanding the branch network in Northern California and implementing the first on-site program at The Gap.

After Wollborg/Michelson, Steel served as Vice President and General Manager for Spherion’s West Region where she oversaw $278 million in combined revenues across California, Oregon and Washington and worked with blue-chip clients such as Warner Bros., Siemens, Kaiser Permanente and Home Depot. Most recently, Steel was Business Development Executive for WorkforceLogic (Nelson Staffing) in Pleasanton, California, selling the value of VMS solutions to clients with local and global workforces.

Steel is a graduate of Montclair State University with a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing/Management.

DD Hulsey-Carpenter, Vice President/General Manager, Central Region

DD Hulsey-Carpenter is Vice President/General Manager of the Central Region, having been promoted internally from serving as the head of the of Texas region and bringing more than 20 years of hands-on expertise across all aspects of the staffing spectrum. She has experience spanning all aspects of the business from sales, branch operations, training and business development to market management. On both national and local levels, Ms. Carpenter has been responsible for creating and implementing new service and sales initiatives, including maintaining ISO standards and training national field service and sales personnel for company-owned and franchise operations. Her training qualifications are from real field practice; she has extensive experience in turning around underperforming markets as well as implementation and management of large on-site programs and major accounts. Prior to CORESTAFF, Ms. Carpenter served for 15 years as both the Director of Service & Market Vice President of Houston & Chicago at Talent Tree Inc. Ms. Carpenter earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Advertising Management from Southern Methodist University.

Tom Gibson, Vice President/General Manager, Southern Region

Tom Gibson is Vice President/General Manager of the Southern Region, having been promoted internally from serving as the head of the of Carolinas region, and now leverages his more than 20 years of staffing experience to oversee performance throughout the region. Prior to CORESTAFF, Mr. Gibson spent five years in roles with progressive responsibility spanning both sales and recruiting at Talent Tree Inc., ultimately earning promotion to Regional Vice President over the Carolinas. For the Arthritis Foundation, Mr. Gibson serves as ex-officio Chair Carolinas, serves on the Mid-Atlantic Board of Directors and serves on the organization’s National Board.

Greg Wykoff, Vice President/General Manager, Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Region

Greg Wykoff is the Vice President/General Manager of the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region, with responsibility for driving revenue and market share as well as service delivery performance across the region. Mr. Wykoff brings more than 15 years experience working within the I.T. staffing and solutions industry and maintains a top performing track record of record revenue growth as well as differentiated service offerings to market sectors such as Financial Services, Utilities, Telecommunications, Publishing and Government. He came to CORESTAFF from executive roles at Strategic Business Alliance, Inc. and Ajilon Consulting. Mr. Wykoff is a graduate of Lock Haven University with a Bachelors of Science degree in management science.

Sector Leadership:

Rick Carlson, Vice President/General Manager, Technology Sector

Rick Carlson is responsible for revenue growth and service delivery across the company’s Information Technology, Telecommunications, Engineering and Clinical Research sectors. He also oversees InfoCurrent , the company’s Information and Records Management sector. A staffing industry executive with 14 years of management experience, Carlson served as President of a boutique southeastern staffing firm for two years before being acquired by MPS group (Modis). He then spent five years as the Sr. Vice President of the Southern Region for Modis with 22 independent offices serving the IT staffing business. After Modis, Carlson was Market Vice President over Georgia and the Carolinas for Kforce before joining CORESTAFF.

Prior to the IT staffing business, Carlson spent 13 years with pharmaceutical giant Warner-Lambert (Capsugel Division) in various capacities including Sales, Marketing Management, International Marketing and Director of Sales for North America.