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 100 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 airline business, Jim held several positions in the Communications industry with MCI ultimately as a Branch Director overseeing the Los Angeles, California operation. After MCI, Jim joined SkyTel, the first two way wireless company in the United States as General Manager over half of the country.

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 client’s 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.

Sean Lally joined Voigt & Associates in 2011. Sean has spent the last 20 years in sales of multi-million dollar enterprise software solutions to Fortune 100 Corporations in the US, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. Sean brings in-depth knowledge and expertise in software, BPO, IPO and SaaS applications to Voigt. Throughout his career Sean consistently overachieved multi-million dollar quotas and consistently ranked in the top of his sales organization. Sean knows the skills it requires to be a successful technology enterprise sales executive and utilizes that expertise when looking for top notch sales professionals for his clients. Contact Sean at sean@voigtinc.com.