Meet Our Staff
Doug Miller
Chief Executive Officer
Email: doug@sales-talent.com
Doug founded Strategic Sales Search after a successful 14 year career in the healthcare industry where he was the co-founder of Continuecare which is a publicly traded medical rehabilitation and staffing firm. Since 1998 he and his team have been a force in the technology recruitment world placing some of the top sales, sales support, sales management and marketing talent in the domain. In 2007, he merged his firm with Sales Consultants to create one of the most experienced search firms in North America. The combined organizations offer almost 100 years of combined recruiting experience which has created an unparallel candidate database and working relationships with the top producers in the technology space. Doug's clients include some of the largest and fastest growing enterprise software companies in North America.
Tom Waite
General Manager and Managing Partner
Email: tom@sales-talent.com
Tom joined and founded Sales Consultants in 1988 after a successful 14 year management career at 3M in their Business Communications Division. Tom has been personally responsible for helping some of the most influential networking companies in the world build world class sales and marketing organizations. Today he specializes in helping young networking companies build their sales and marketing teams. His clients typically are pre-IPO, fast growing, next generation leaders in networking technologies. He has been a Pacesetter (MRI's award trip for top performers) every year since 1989, but his greatest success has been building the finest recruiting organization of its kind in the industry. In 2007 Tom merged his firm with Strategic Sales Search to create one of the oldest and largest search firms dedicated exclusively to placing sales talent with technology companies.
Amy Ruddle
Senior Vice President, Recruiting
Email: amy@sales-talent.com
Since 1995 Amy has been helping technology companies build exemplary sales, sales management, and systems engineering teams for the commercial, carrier and federal markets. A recent list of fulfilled searches with satisfied clients includes Riverbed, Citrix, Route1, Vbrick, Extreme Networks, Ciena, Nortel, and Cisco. Amy is responsible for our ongoing recruiting efforts in our networking and unified communications practice. She has always provided superior recruitment services in a timely manner while matching clients' requirements with candidates' career goals yielding long term success for both parties. She has exceeded quota virtually every year and is a perennial pacesetter. She is a recognized leader in the recruiting field, with a large network of hiring managers in the technology domain and working relationships with some of the top producers in the space.
Chuck Love
Project Manager
Email: chuck@sales-talent.com
He has over 15 Years in Full Life Cycle Recruiting with responsibilities developed at regional and national recruiting companies like TMP Worldwide. With skills in IT recruiting, other business solutions and DOD projects, Chuck also has sold Staffing and Consulting Services to a wide spectrum of clients, some within the Fortune 250 / 500 Group. He also has experience in the Big 6 consulting arena and has worked with Strategic Solutions at the “C” level in many companies developed at companies like Deloitte and Touché. Chuck earned professional CPC (Certified Personnel Consultant) certification from NAPS (National Association of Personnel Services. Chuck has a strong grasp on client and candidate needs. This allows him to be very effective when speak to and working with either side of the recruiting process.
Linda Kendall
Project Manager
Email: linda@sales-talent.com
Linda and her project team manage the Enterprise Software Practice for Strategic Sales Search. She has spent the last (18) years placing executive management, engineers and technical talent with technology firms. Her clients include a select group of multi-billion dollar technology companies and promising emerging/start up organizations. Throughout her career Linda has helped many well-known technology names go from start-up mode to market dominance. Her recruiting experience prior to joining our firm helps her understand what companies need in sales professionals and what proven sales talent looks for in their next opportunity.
Nicole Haas
Project Manager
Email: nicole@sales-talent.com
Nicole joined the firm in 1995. She and her practice partners manage projects, placing Sales, Pre-Sales Engineers, Sales Management and Marketing talent for technology firms including hardware, software, and IT consulting organizations. Their client list includes some of the most recognizable logos in the technology domain. Nicole graduated with a degree in Business Administration; and a concentration in Marketing. She began her career with Strategic Sales Search as a Researcher and rapidly moved up the ranks to her current position.
Becki Snyder
Director of Administration
Email: becki@sales-talent.com
Becki joined Strategic Sales Search in 2002 and is clearly one of the reasons we have enjoyed such outstanding results. She is the glue that holds us together and is in charge of making sure our first impression with candidates and companies is a good one. Becki is also responsible for the firm's technology management. Her duties include: development and management of digital media used to successfully market our services to client companies; development of broad advertisement and search techniques to source qualified candidates. She is also responsible for managing our internet presence which includes three web properties, one of which is our industry leading job board (www.hotsalesjobs.com) and all of our data mining and lead generation activities.