Executive Search Consultant with a proven track record of successful engagements for board, C-suite, VP and Director level placements. Client focused and able to forge lasting relationships based on a strong work ethic, creative thinking and an ever-expanding network of interesting and capable executive candidates. Experience with successful search assignments with both venture backed and public technology companies with a variety of functional roles. Successful sales background fosters great business development and client management skills as well as the ability to persuade passive candidates to review and consider client opportunities.Open to both retained and contingent search assignments.http://www.menloathertonconsulting.com/Please contact Tony at tony @ menloathertonconsulting.com to assist with any recruiting needs.

The Heiden Group (THG) is a premier search firm specializing in recruiting sales, marketing and technical talent for technology companies with mission critical leadership, mid-level and individual contributor hiring needs. Since 2004, our strategic recruiting services have helped our technology clients -- from small venture-backed companies to large, multinational corporations -- hire the best of the best to join their organizations.Our firm’s success is rooted in our deep commitment to client service and our belief that a company’s most valuable asset is its employees. We have placed executives in leadership positions, built national sales teams from the ground up and staffed engineers in management roles for hundreds of organizations. Regardless of their size or what their product or service offering may be, our clients’ recruiting needs are the same: hire the very best “roll up your sleeves” people for customer-facing and revenue-generating positions.We take the responsibility of finding the right people for our clients very seriously. By helping clients recruit the most qualified talent in the industry, we know that we will positively impact their bottom line. And, the results are clear. Our clients consistently have outperformed in their markets, increased their profits and are among the fastest-growing and most sought-after companies in their respective technology sectors.

Tony Arata was tasked with providing top quality executive candidates to companies looking for new leadership in the mobile, tech, internet and software business sectors. After 14 years in software and hardware sales for leading tech companies, both public and private, Tony moved into the world of Executive Search. In a short time, he was able to build a proven track record of providing effective leaders for companies looking for change agents and catalysts in a highly efficient and rapid manner.Tony completed executive level searches for dozens of venture backed and later stage companies such as Expedia, LivingSocial, Pertino, SRI International, TimeOut New York, 8thBridge, SnagAJob, Zinch, ParAccel, Sense Networks and many others.

Established in 1999, Calibre One is a leading international Executive Search organization based in Europe and North America.Calibre One specializes in building main board and senior management teams for Venture Capital and Private Equity backed software, hardware, business services, communications, cleantech and internet businesses.Calibre One works with investors in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, South Africa, and Israel.

From the most prestigious, award-winning productions, to music and movies made at home, Avid creates the technology that people use to make the most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world. The shows, commercials, and news programs you watch on TV. The entertaining video and film stories you see on the web and on the big screen. The personal audio and video treasures that people make at home to preserve their favorite moments in life.Responsble for channel and direct sales in the Western US. Customers included ILM, DreamWorks, South Park Studios, LucasFilm, Skywalker Sound, Nike, Oracle, Apple, HP, San Francisco Giants, Comcast Bay Area and many others.

Transoft was acquired by Hewlett Packard in 1999. Responsible for enterprise storage sales in the Pacific Northwest.

Transoft Networks, Inc.Santa Barbara, CATransoft Networks, Inc. is the world's leading provider of open-systems Fibre Channel SAN solutions for heterogeneous Windows NT ® and UNIX ® system clustered servers and workstations in the enterprise and visual computing markets. In May of 1999 Transoft and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP) announced the signing of a definitive agreement for HP to acquire Transoft. The integration of Transoft's product lines with Hewlett-Packard's storage products will enhance an IT professional's ability to capture, store, share, manage and access data from anywhere at any time.