Our Leadership Team

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Bill Budde, Chief Executive Officer

For any organization to be successful, it needs a leader. And in Bill Budde, Searchlight People has an enormously capable one.

Prior to founding the company, Bill had been a Global Manager with a successful track record of marketing, selling and delivering Business and IT services for public and private branded companies. He has more than 15 years of outsource management experience for Global IT and BPO services (operating in over 60 countries around the world).

Previously, he was Managing Director of the Global Insurance Practice for Electronic Data Systems (NYSE=EDS) and Senior Vice-President and Business Unit Leader for Patni Computer Systems (India) (NYSE=PTI).

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Carol Kardas, Head of Human Resources

For all the emphasis these days on technology, the business of recruiting is still about people. Carol understands human behavior and dynamics as well as just about anyone.

Carol has more than 20 years of experience in the Human Resource and Compensation fields. Before joining Searchlight People, she was a Strategic Planning Director for the State of Connecticut Human Resource Council, and past president for the Human Resource Association of Central Connecticut.

An expert in HR, she has also written several training courses and a book on the subject.

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Margot Larson

Margot is a prominent Human Resource expert and Career Coach with enormous experience in a number of industries. She has proven skills in diagnosing business and human resource management problems, identifying alternatives and solutions, and bringing about positive change.

In addition, Margot is a partner in a consulting practice that provides a full range of human resource services. She is also an author of Non-fiction texts on personal life changes and career management.

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Stephen Provost, Director and Chief Technical Officer

Prior to joining Searchlight People, Stephen was an independent consultant for the most of his 30-year IT career, working with companies such as IBM and EDS.

Prior to joining the company, Steve honed his skills as an enterprise architect with mastery of technologies from large mainframe applications to mission-critical web services applications. He has brought his global experience while working for the US government in far away places to build a company that would meet his needs as an independent contractor for over 30 years.

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