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Alan’s biography
Alan R. Brooks, president of Crosstek, Inc., is a veteran of more than 16 years
in executive search. He founded Crosstek in 1995, an executive search firm that
recruits senior technical, sales and management professionals in a wide range of
industries.
In
1986 Brooks started his recruiting career with an international
management-recruiting firm. Brooks also joined, what was then, the NAPC
(National Association of Personnel Consultants). He gained extensive experience
in executive search and has been quoted in the Society for Human Resource
Management magazine.
Around
the end of 1994, the president of an international software firm offered Brooks
an opportunity to become the search consultant of choice to fill all of their
technical positions. In response, Brooks founded Crosstek and guided it into a
national search firm that would utilize innovative recruiting and screening
techniques to fill a large range of positions. Since then, Brooks has helped
many businesses throughout the United States locate, attract and recruit top
professionals for their organizations. His clients include an impressive cross
section of some of the most successful companies in the US involved in
pharmaceuticals, healthcare, packaging, automotive, law, logistics, insurance,
marketing, manufacturing, real estate, banking, finance, computer software, and
computer hardware.
A
key to Crosstek's success has been Brooks' commitment to establishing a dynamic,
aggressive search process. His visionary approach to executive search is
illustrated by his insistence on precision target recruiting to uncover people
of excellence that the client cannot access through employment ads and internet
job posts.
Prior
to founding Crosstek, Brooks worked in the field of computer technology as a
technical sales manager for TTI (Transitional Technology, Inc.). TTI
manufactured automated tape backup solutions and was an OEM supplier to DEC
(Digital Equipment Corporation). As the person charged with launching sales for
TTI’s new product line, he successfully launched their new enterprise backup
product suite for the United States on the Unix and network PC platforms. During
Brooks' tenure at TTI, he honed his technical background configuring and selling
complex enterprise wide backup solutions
into some of America's largest and most respected corporations. Brooks' “solution-based
consulting” approach quickly won the confidence of his customers leading to
TTI’s unattended, cross-platform, backup solutions being deployed in
corporations across the US. Shortly after Brooks joined TTI, they made Inc.
Magazine's 500 list of fastest growing private companies in America. His top
revenue production and achievements earned him many awards at TTI. Early in his
career, Brooks also held sales positions with several medical related companies,
including a drug company, medical supply firm and a medical diagnostics
organization.
Brooks'
past industry experience and keen sense for quickly building rapport with
professionals at all levels gives his clients a leg up on the competition. His
unique blend of industry expertise and many years of search and placement
experience enables him to connect with star performers where other recruiters
fail. Brooks' effectiveness often extends far beyond the traditional boundaries
of what most recruiters are capable of accomplishing - so much so that clients
call his services "thorough, concise and innovative."
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