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Success Stories
ARA Content: Preserving Reputation and Legacy
Ted Yoch had come to the conclusion it was time to begin stepping away from the day to day
operation of his profitable e-content business. ARA Content had grown steadily since he spun it off from another business, but
Ted was really getting stretched too thin. Nearing retirement but not wishing to totally step away from the business, he was
hoping to turn things over to a qualified individual who could really focus on building the organization for the future. However,
Ted didn't have anyone qualified internally to step into a President role, so he needed to go outside the organization. Ted was
very concerned about preserving ARA's strong industry reputation, level of trust and culture, and
wasn't sure he could find someone on the outside who would maintain that reputation and preserve the legacy he had created.
Vendors, employees and particularly customers, had come to rely on what ARA delivered - high quality content, on time and on
target for their client's advertising and public relations needs.
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StayWell Health Management: Passing the Torch
StayWell Cos. CEO Hal Higby came to KeyStone Search to help him solve a problem that concerned all of the
executive leadership of StayWell, its parent company, MediMedia Inc. and its private equity owners. John Tarbuck, President
of StayWell Health Management, had announced his intention to retire for family reasons. John had been at StayWell since it
was spun out of Control Data decades before. He was beloved of all employees and was a name synonymous with their industry.
In essence, he was the embodiment of their culture. Because cultural fit was imperative, KeyStone was the perfect partner
for this executive search.
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LM Glasfiber: Key Players in the Green Energy Movement
LM Glasfiber is the world's leading manufacturer of turbine blades used in the wind energy industry. The
company, based in Lunderskov, Denmark, has facilities located in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, China
and India. The Grand Forks ND facility was employing 240 people, worked 24/5 and was producing less than 300MW
of wind turbine blades. Two critical hires needed to be made to get the Grand Forks operation back on track, a CEO and a
Director of Operations.
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Gearworks: High Growth Technology Start-up
Gearworks is a premier provider of location-based mobile business applications. They create software for
cell phones that links field employees to headquarters operations. Under the leadership of a new CEO, Gearworks had
signed two new partnership agreements that were destined to create fast growth for the organization. One critical hole that
needed to be filled to facilitate that growth was a director of information technology. This position is critical because
this person's main charge is maintaining 100 percent uptime for Gearworks' applications. This means maintaining constant
interaction with clients, vendors, technical personnel and the management team. In the "software as a service" model that
Gearworks deploys, downtime literally means lost revenue, and possibly even lost customers.
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