Paul Helm President Mr. Helm has more than a decade of experience in professional third-party recruitment, the majority of which has been in executive level management positions. Paul’s experience is in both direct recruiting and management of recruiting operations, with executives, managers and other professionals in the information technology, manufacturing and healthcare sectors as his primary clients. Mr. Helm began his recruiting career with Management Recruiters International (MRI) where he received multiple awards and was responsible for increasing revenue and income to record levels. Paul left MRI in 2001 to form Platinum Black, Inc., a national manufacturing and IT executive search firm which later became Career Agents Network. He actively managed the company for five years and was responsible for achieving consistent double-digit quarterly growth in both revenue and income. During the past three years, he has been working primarily in the medical recruiting field. Read his blog here.

Charlotte Byndas Chief Operating Officer Beginning her career as a technical recruiter, Mrs. Byndas has handled recruiting searches at all levels with companies of various sizes, closing millions of dollars in recruiting transactions. Before co-founding Career Agents Network, Charlotte was the COO of a national health care recruiting and staffing company. She started her career as the Branch Manager of a Management Recruiters International (MRI) franchise. Today, Charlotte manages training and support personnel to provide Career Agents with best-practice guidance and instruction for recruiting in high-growth industries. Her expertise and enthusiasm are highly valued by our Members, as she implements corporate strategic plans to maximize the volume of Split Placement joint-venture recruiting transactions between our independent offices. Mrs. Byndas works closely with Career Agents involved in larger projects and transactions. She has routinely traveled with Members to help close six-figure contracts and directs her division in assembling teams of other Career Agents to assist in fulfilling larger projects. Read her blog here.

John Langlois Director of Information Technology Mr. Langlois has thirty years of Information Technology experience as both an architect/programmer and as a Senior Manager in the areas of recruitment and placement of IT professionals and relationship management. With his strong IT background and in-depth understanding of recruiting processes, John has made significant contributions to each organization he has been a part of and has led the web development efforts of Career Agents Network for the past seven years.

Amanda Looney Manager of Information Technology Mrs. Looney provides training and support on our many research, data extraction, content generation, and candidate management software platforms. Amanda plays a key role in the creation of audio/visual training modules for 24-hour support while managing website design and development to ensure that we are always current with e-commerce trends. Amanda has 11 years experience in Information Technology and is a member of our “go to” technical staff.

Ed Bottomley Manager of Research and Marketing Services Mr. Bottomley is our research and data extraction specialist and guides training and support on our multitude of research tools. Ed hosts daily Coaching Calls to assist experienced Agents with challenging situations, while conducting online seminars and authoring weekly research newsletters. He also studies the latest trends and channels in internet marketing.  He works daily with our members to keep up a viable Internet presence on both a corporate as well as professional level in terms of Internet Marketing, including SEO, SEM, SMM, and content generation. Ed has a Bachelors degree with honors in history from the University of Kent, Canterbury, England. In addition Ed has recently received a masters from the University of Detroit Mercy.