Team

Camden King
Co-Founder, President 

Camden consults, networks with and presents appropriate opportunities to candidates for roles within Bluespeed’s client companies.  Camden has an innate ability and acquired experience to precisely quantify and qualify the potential of executive candidates.  His experience, energy and talent enable him to gain access to, interact with and attract the most qualified executives throughout corporate America.  Camden differentiates himself with his direct, decisive style and his sense of humor in dealing with potential candidates.  He recognizes that to truly excel at recruiting, one must be more human than machine, and it is this empathetic touch that helps ensure that the people he works with will never feel like a number.  Camden is an expert at assisting job seekers with personal and career assessment, identification of career options, resume preparation, job search skills and strategies and interview preparation.  His highly detail-oriented approach also ensures that the flow of candidate information is bold, bright and accurate.  Prior to Bluespeed, Camden initiated and built the sales and marketing division of a larger Silicon Valley recruiting firm during the “fast and furious” late 1990’s.  While there, he was a senior contributor and top producer.  cking@bluespeed.net

 

Kendall Messner
Co-Founder, Senior Managing Partner

Kendall sets the highest standards of client service for the firm and provides leadership and execution on all top-level placements.  His vision and commitment to excellence have provided the platform for Bluespeed’s service model.

Kendall’s extensive understanding of recruiting processes and in-depth knowledge of the senior level consulting world with a special emphasis in Life Sciences and Healthcare make him immediately effective in achieving success in the business that he conducts. He also recognizes the importance of partnering with his clients to fulfill their needs. Clients often turn to him for advice and guidance on complex recruiting issues beyond those that come up in searches. His commitment to his clients has earned him an outstanding and well-deserved reputation in the executive search world.  Equally important, Kendall also serves as the primary source of information, advice and guidance for candidates through the often complex interviewing process.  He will tell the candidate exactly what the feedback from the client is throughout the interviewing experience.  The relationships he develops continue beyond successful placements.  Kendall prides himself on following-up – in fact, relationships with many of the hiring managers within Bluespeed’s client company base started on the candidate side of the recruiting equation. 

Prior to Bluespeed, Kendall spent several years in the “Boom Days” of recruiting in the late 90’s as a senior contributor at a larger firm.  Before this, he successfully completed a five-year stint as a full time commercial and corporate speaker at industry events, trade shows, charity events and the North American stand-up comedy circuit.  He has been quoted as an authority in the Wall Street Journal, as well as numerous other publications. Further, he authors quarterly newsletters in the Managed Markets and Business Consulting space.  kmessner@bluespeed.net

 

Eric Gilson
Director of Sourcing & Operations

Plainly and simply, Eric builds and burns haystacks that produce the proverbial ‘needles’ for our clients.  Eric’s knowledge of online recruiting tools is unsurpassed.  He  played a role in the beta testing of a number of tools and products, including AIRSOxygen.  Eric achieved his AIRS Certified Internet Recruiter designation with a score of 97%.

Chris Forman, CEO of AIRS, has this to say about Eric:  “Bluespeed and specifically Eric Gilson have been instrumental in the development of some of AIRS most important recruiting technology breakthroughs.  Eric and his team are not only great customers…but they truly ‘get’ proactive recruiting and are a driver for us to develop new and innovative sourcing solutions for the market.  Simply put, they are an A+ team.”  egilson@bluespeed.net

Dane Wilder
Practice Leader – Manufacturing, Retail, Consumer Goods

Dane Wilder is a Practice Leader at Bluespeed Inc., an Executive Search firm that focuses in the Strategic and IT Consulting arenas.  Dane’s exclusive focus is in the Manufacturing, Retail & CPG industries within these consulting environments.

Because Dane narrows his attention to Manufacturing, Retail & CPG, he is able to provide both candidates and clients with valuable, industry specific information.  Dane has an uncanny ability to listen to and fully understand the specific needs of his clients and professionally present their opportunities to the most appropriate candidates in the field.  Furthermore, Dane collaboratively works with candidates to create compelling presentations of their credentials to formally introduce them to only those clients with whom the candidate has expressed definitive interest and whose opportunities they are genuinely qualified for.

Contact Dane to schedule a block of time to begin the process of formulating a unique relationship, sharing the same goal of combining quality candidates with challenging positions within your company. dwilder@bluespeed.net