THE EXETER CONSULTING GROUP

Founders and Principals

Jeff Sanderson holds a BS degree in Mathematics and a MBA. He served four years with the United States Navy as an Officer stationed in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Prior to becoming a founding member of THE EXETER CONSULTING GROUP, Jeff had full responsibility for creating, developing, and growing global staffing, employee relations, diversity, and EEO/Affirmative Action departments. He has provided senior level generalist support to compensation, benefits and training and development. He has consulted with senior management on all employee relations issues, including senior level investigations and negotiations on problematic terminations. Jeff designed and implemented global downsizing strategies, and introduced new release procedures and voluntary resignation programs, all with virtually no legal action follow up. In a McKinsey review, his group received an outstanding score for overall performance. He managed a staffing organization that was responsible for growing an organization from 2,000 to 10,000 employees, hiring a peak of 2,500 individuals in one year. Jeff built internal executive search capabilities, corporate recruiting research departments, managed college relations programs, and developed and implemented diversity recruiting programs. He created and implemented federally compliant Affirmative Action Programs, and corporate diversity strategies involving mentoring, performance management, recruiting, retention, and family friendly programs. Jeff was also involved in Executive Recruiting. He has conducted a number of search assignments in financial services broadly covering investment banking, capital markets, sales and trading, operations technology, and human resources. Within consulting and the corporate sector, he has completed assignments for senior individuals with general management, human resources, marketing, technology and finance backgrounds. He has also worked with executive management in building and expanding businesses in domestic and international markets.

Jeff spent the majority of his corporate career at Goldman Sachs & Co., as the Director of Employment and Employee Relations. He has been a Technical Recruiter and Project Manager with Electronic Data Systems, a Director of Executive Recruiting for the Coopers & Lybrand Consulting Practice and a Senior Vice President & Director of Investment Banking Recruiting and College Relations for NationsBank. Jeff was also a Manager within the executive search practice of Coopers & Lybrand, a Senior Vice President with Sullivan & Co., a New York based financial services executive search practice, and successfully built and operated an executive recruiting company.

Barry Robert Ozer holds a Bachelor in Science degree and a Masters in Business Administration in Finance and is a graduate of IBM’s Sales School.

Prior to becoming a founding member of THE EXETER CONSULTING GROUP, Barry spent nine years at IBM. There Barry was an award winning salesperson and sales operation manager. As a salesperson, Barry closed many multi-million dollar complex software deals as large as $250,000,000. He was also very good at generating net-new revenue in traditionally under performing territories. While running sales operations for IBM.com’s $3B global business-to-business integration unit, Barry was able to increase revenues 25% annually, improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs by 20%.

Before earning his MBA Barry was a construction project manager running million-dollar commercial projects throughout the United States. While employed by a retail chain to run their national construction expansion Barry was the local coordinator for all human resource build outs. This included building talent pipelines for store managers, salespeople, security personnel and warehouse employees.

Since founding THE EXETER CONSULTING GROUP, Barry has earned business from some of the largest global financial services firms. Jeff has consulted with clients to help build businesses via personnel acquisition and revenue growth through marketing, selling and recruiting programs. Barry also has helped develop business plans for profit center build outs.

Barry has conducted a number of search assignments in financial services covering investment banking and capital markets. Specifically, Barry has completed assignments for institutional salespeople and traders across all capital structures, commercial loan originators and bond traders. Barry has also completed a variety of assignments in the insurance and information technology sectors.

Bill Nolte holds a Bachelor in Economics and Philosophy and continuing professional education courses by Arthur Andersen and Coopers & Lybrand.

Bill has been a provider and a buyer of executive search but primarily a provider. From Andersen Consulting he joined a client, a Wall Street venture capital firm where his duties included buying search services to assist portfolio companies recruit executives. Subsequently, he focused on recruiting executives at Korn/Ferry International before joining Coopers & Lybrand. There he served as a Practice Leader – Executive Search in the New York Region. Prior to becoming a founding member of THE EXETER CONSULTING GROUP, Bill organized his own firm when Coopers & Lybrand stopped offering executive search as a line of business.

Bill has conducted searches in many industries and across most management disciplines. In financial services he has dealt mostly with the needs of insurance carriers, banks, and broker/dealers. Bill has developed an expertise within information technology completing many searches across a number of industry sectors. Within the consulting sector, he has completed searches form Practice Leader level to the Project Leader Level from strategic systems planning to package implementation. Not confined to the services sector, he is regularly engaged by manufacturers to recruit corporate staff specialists, division general managers, heads of sales, marketing, manufacturing, engineering, distribution, E-commerce, and of course, MIS.