As Managing Director, Barbara Voigt founded Voigt & Associates, Inc. in early 2005 to help companies build winning teams that last. The firm has quickly established itself as a preferred vendor for Fortune 200 technology companies and specializes in the recruitment of sales and technical positions.

Prior to building Voigt & Associates, Barbara spent twenty-two years in the technology field fast tracking from an individual contributor sales role to Vice President level positions. She started her career with MCI and advanced through four promotions to a Senior Manager role. Subsequently, Barbara spent two years in Europe with a computer peripheral start up. She returned to the U.S. and joined SkyTel as the Regional Director and later General Manager to help re-engineer the sales force into wireless. WinStar recruited Barbara as a General Manager and she became the Regional Vice President a year later opening nine new markets for them. In her last corporate role, Barbara was the Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Epoch Networks, now Megapath.

Barbara’s experience in starts ups, turnarounds and growth companies in both small and large corporate environments provide a solid foundation for relating to other stakeholders. Having recruited hundreds of people, she is well aware of what it takes to source, attract and retain top talent. To contact Barbara, email her at bvoigt@voigtinc.com.

Debbie Bowen joined Voigt & Associates early in the company’s history and has led several successful placements in IT outsourcing, e-commerce sales and technical management, telecommunications sales and management, Client Executives and Hosting.

Debbie comes to Voigt with a strong senior management background in the communications industry. She held several positions with MCI from direct sales, Manager of Wholesale /Emerging markets and Director of Sales for Southern California. Debbie won every award available during her career and attended President’s Club every year. She built and led the most successful sales teams in the U.S. while at MCI and was named Sales Director of the Year nationally in 1999.

With her leadership skills and exceedingly well developed hiring and management abilities, Debbie has assisted our clients in building winning teams across several disciplines. To reach her directly, you can email Debbie at dbowen@voigtinc.com.

Jim Bowen joined Voigt & Associates in 2005 and has placed successful candidates in Sales and Sales Management, Client Partner, Technical Solutions and Engineering roles across a broad range of companies.

Jim comes to recruiting after a very successful 25 year career in senior management positions in the Airline and Communications industries where he built and managed cross functional teams of up to 200 people. After leaving the computer business, Jim held several positions in the Communications industry with MCI ultimately as a Branch Director overseeing the Los Angeles, California operation. After to MCI, Jim was the General Manager of SkyTel over half of the United States, the first two way wireless company in the United States.

With his diverse background and experience in hiring hundreds of successful people during his career, Jim focuses on the client’s specific job description and uncovers the details of each candidate’s actual work history to develop a positive match between the candidates proven capabilities and the clients requirements. To contact Jim directly, please e-mail him at jbowen@voigtinc.com.

Darlene Dunn is the first Associate to join Voigt in 2005. She has led successful engagements for high level technical and solutions sales people, sales engineers, overlay specialists and managers.

Prior to joining Voigt & Associates, Darlene spent twenty-five years in the telecommunications industry, mostly in Global Account management. She has also developed and implemented a customer retention program for a large telemanagement firm and was the Director of Customer Service for a start up CLEC. Darlene has consistently achieved top honors for exceeding sales targets at MCI & ATT.

With an impressive track record of growing and retaining revenues for strategic global accounts and a strong network of industry contacts, Darlene is currently leading the search activity for a Fortune 100 client. To contact her directly, please email Darlene at ddunn@voigtinc.com.

Kim Lally joined Voigt & Associates in 2006. She has developed engagements with software and telecommunications clients and has had much success in placing high level sales and delivery people.

Prior to joining Voigt & Associates, Kim spent nineteen years building and managing sales organizations for high growth technology companies. She held Vice President level positions for Northpoint, Nextance and Backplane. Kim also spent eight years at WorldCom in progressively responsible sales and regional management roles.

Kim has spent her career focused on increasing revenues. Her expertise in recruiting the right people into the right positions has consistently attributed to her overachievement of those corporate objectives. Kim is currently applying these same skills in leading searches for both Fortune 500 clients and fast growing clients. To contact her directly, please email Kim at klally@voigtinc.com.

James Leonard joins Voigt & Associates to lead technical engagements that require operations and engineering expertise. James has a successful background in Operations leading companies through turnarounds, rapid growth and new business ventures.

James most recently has owned a management consulting business where he accomplished numerous projects critical to the successful launch of a new company. Previously, he was challenged with turnaround Operations assignments at both XO Communications and WinStar where he held Regional Vice President roles. Prior to that, as a Vice President of Operations for MCI Telecommunications, James distinguished himself by turning around low performing organizations by significant improving employee morale, productivity, customer satisfaction, cost containment and ultimately, performance. He began his career in the service at the Military Academy at West Point.

With James’ background in restructuring and streamlining technical processes, he is able to assist our clients with sourcing the right talent to do same. To contact James directly, please email him at jleonard@voigtinc.com.

Peter Marsh has spent the last 25 years in telecommunications and high tech, most of those years in executive management roles. His background in building organizations from the ground up and fixing organizational challenges provide our clients with tremendous insight and the ability to get the right people in the right jobs on time and on budget.

Peter was a Regional President for XO Communications and has held Senior Vice President roles at two major CLECS, ICG & XO Communications, where he managed large direct sales and field operations. He was also the Global Sales VP for MediaMap, a software company and the CEO/President of ComPlus, a network construction and staffing company. Peter started his career at Sprint and later MFS where he became the Regional VP for the New England Region.

Peter’s real world executive experience, drive, creativity, and eye for talent sets him apart. He partners with our clients and individualizes his approach to meet and exceed timelines and qualitative recruiting goals. To reach Peter directly, you can email him at pmarsh@voigtinc.com.

Heather McErlain joined Voigt & Associates in 2006 as our Chief Administrative Officer. She has been instrumental in overseeing our most valued asset – our data base of candidates and clients. She coordinates all job requisition activity and works closely with associates, candidates and clients to facilitate a well-organized and OFCCP compliant environment.

Heather had a very successful fifteen year career with the Orange County Superior Court in Newport Beach, CA. She managed a very busy criminal courtroom for a prominent judge and was his immediate liaison with the public, media, and a wide variety of professionals in the law enforcement, legal and judicial systems. Heather frequently mediated disputes and was required to act as a problem solver and negotiate win-win situations for all.

Heather’s expertise in facilitating a well run courtroom translates into peace of mind for all of us at Voigt & Associates as well as our clients. If you want to contact her directly, Heather’s email is hmcerlain@voigtinc.com.

Margot Wall joined Voigt & Associates in 2007 with a unique background in driving matrixed teams of Solution Specialists, Business Development and Capture Teams to achieve their targets. She has spent her career setting the strategic direction of high profile accounts, focusing on executive relationships and consistent service delivery. Margot is a strong asset in sourcing specialty sales, Federal and delivery talent.

With nearly twenty five years in technology sales and solutions, Margot has held Client Executive, Project Executive & Federal Account Manager positions with Sprint and IBM Global Services. In one of her roles, she led Outsourcing teams to achieve over $200M in services. She started her career at MCI Telecommunications and was on the team who won MCI’s first GSA contract with the Federal Government.

Margot provides our clients with a depth of expertise in Outsourcing, delivery and transformational business strategy. To contact her directly, please email Margot at mwall@voigtinc.com.

Tracy Powell-Rudy comes to Voigt with twenty years of technology and telecommunications industry experience having served in both management and staff positions. Tracy has a broad knowledge base with a background in Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Project Management, and Operations. Much of her corporate life was spent with MCI Telecommunications, and Tracy was most recently a Vice President with a boutique retained executive search firm.

Tracy has experience in starting and running a national organization as well as managing quota-bearing, smaller regional and branch-based sales support and implementation teams. She has also presented to media and Wall Street analysts and facilitated executive task forces leading organizational restructuring and best practices efforts.

Tracy¹s strong interpersonal and research skills, experience with the challenges of hiring, managing and retaining talented staff, translate into solid executive searches for her clients. Recent searches successfully completed include a Director of Marketing for a network optimization provider, VP of Quality Assurance in IT, Program Managers in Managed Services, Director of Sales for a Software company, VP of Professional Services, and a VP of Sales for a Technology firm.

Tracy has a B.S. summa cum laude from Manhattanville College and an M.S. in Telecommunications Management from Polytechnic University. To contact Tracy, email her at tpowellrudy@voigtinc.com.