Executive and HR Resources

DolmatConnell & Partners has developed strong relationships with some of the leading service providers in their respective spaces. We are regularly asked for referrals in these areas by executives and HR professionals in our client companies. Although we are not affiliated directly with these companies, we would like our clients, and prospective clients, who may have needs in the following areas, to be able to more easily access this network of exceptional service providers. We would be happy to provide specific contact information for our key contacts in any of these firms at any time.

Compensation and Benefits Surveys
Executive and Employee Benefits
Executive Search
Executive Transition
Financial Printing
HR Compliance: EEO and Affirmative Action
HRIS Consulting
HR Search
International Benefits
Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
Legal Counsel
Proxy Solicitation
Sales Effectiveness Consulting
Staffing
Strategic and Organizational Consulting

1. Compensation and Benefits Surveys

Culpepper and Associates (www.culpepper.com), founded in 1979, conducts worldwide salary surveys and provides benchmark data for compensation and employee benefit programs. Our data spans a full-range of jobs in IT, technology, and life science organizations, from board members down through every area, function and level.

2. Executive and Employee Benefits

Longfellow Benefits (www.longfellowbenefits.com) understands that employers need to optimize their investments in employee benefit programs and ensure that their employees and executives are supported and secure. Longfellow provides strategic consulting and advisory services to provide insight, answers and understanding to corporate clients with respect to their employee benefits through its three core competencies: Executive Benefits, Employee Benefits and Retirement.

Retirement Capital Group (RCG) (www.retirementcapital.com) is a leader in innovative and creative executive benefit solutions – helping companies attract, retain, and appropriately compensate and regain their talented executives. RCG specializes in the design, funding and administration of executive compensation and benefit programs.

3. Executive Search

Spencer Stuart (www.spencerstuart.com) is one of the world’s leading executive search consulting firms. Privately held since 1956, Spencer Stuart applies its extensive knowledge of industries, functions and talent to advise select clients — ranging from major multinationals to emerging companies to nonprofit organizations — and address their leadership requirements. Through 50 offices in more than 25 countries and a broad range of practice groups, Spencer Stuart consultants focus on senior-level executive search, board director appointments, succession planning and in-depth senior executive management assessments.

The Carter Group (www.thecartergroup.com) is a retained executive search firm who "find people who help make companies successful". Our focus is only at the "C" level. We assign 2 Partners to every search, metric, quantitative and process oriented. We have a "Client for Life" commitment, meaning we will never recruit from our client companies.

4. Executive Transition

New Directions (www.newdirections.com) helps leaders in the corporate, professional and public arenas achieve their full and unique potential, professionally and personally. For 20 years, our work has centered on helping our sponsor companies develop and retain their most valuable talent while we help our executive clients find new full-time positions, launch entrepreneurial ventures, consulting practices and new careers.

We focus on the right next move. For most of our clients, this is a new full-time leadership post. What sets New Directions apart from traditional coaching or outplacement is the perspective we help clients bring to their careers. We encourage clients to look at their next opportunity as part of a strategy designed to meet their long-term work and life goals.

5. Financial Printing

Bowne & Co., Inc. (www.bowne.com) Financial Printing: IPO, M&A, Compliance Filings and Virtual Data Room. As the world’s largest financial printing company, Bowne provides document logistics services for IPO and M&A transactions throughout the world. More specifically, they electronically code documents for filing with the SEC, host the registration statements on our proprietary system for editing speed, accuracy and distribution purposes and of course print and distribute the Prospectuses. Bowne also offers complimentary reference materials associated with IPO’s and other registrations.

Bowne Virtual Dataroom
Bowne’s Virtual Dataroom is a secure, confidential, dedicated website providing access for authorized users to an online repository of deal owner documents, relevant to the due diligence for IPO or M&A transactions. The deal owner has complete control over a user’s ability to view, download or print any information on the site. Since users receive unique passwords, the deal owner can monitor their activity on the site.

Contact: Gerard Phelan, Sr. Vice President, (508) 958-8021

6. HR Compliance: EEO and Affirmative Action

Gaucher Associates (www.gaucherassociates.com) is the largest human resource compliance practice in the eastern United States. We specialize in the design, development and implementation of strategic Affirmative Action and EEO Programs. Since our founding in 1994, we have provided consulting services to hundreds of organizations in many industries, including Healthcare, Banking/Financial Services, BioScience/Pharmaceutical/Medical Devices, Consulting/Retail, Education/Government, Information Technology, and Manufacturing.

7. HRIS Consulting

Executive Alliance (www.executivealliance.com) is a multi-discipline management consulting firm specializing in Human Resources, Payroll and Finance technology business services. Our services include strategic planning, vendor evaluation/selection, process design/improvement, implementation project management, and interim payroll management.

8. HR Search

Gatti & Associates (www.gattihr.com) specializes in the search and placement of human resources professionals. Founded in 1985, we have placed over 4,000 human resources practitioners in 31 states, Mexico, Canada and Europe. In the past few years alone we have successfully completed nearly 300 senior level assignments, covering most industries and all human resources functions. Our completion rate is the envy of the search industry.

9. International Benefits

Benefits Direction, Inc. (www.bensdirect.com) provides international employee benefits management consulting to the emerging and medium size multinational organizations. Through its International Benefits Management Services (IBMS), Benefits Direction offers clients an efficient alternative to additional staffing. BDI’s core reason to exist is to help define, pursue and manage international employee benefits, related programs and services in alignment with client interests and company goals.

Benefit Direction’s International Benefit Management Services (IBMS) serves as an alternative to short term (often only specific project focused) and customarily more costly international benefit consulting organizations. Conversely, Benefits Direction maintains a low overhead expense structure and sees itself as an extension of the management staff. It helps clients to focus upon philosophical direction, strategic initiatives, alternative program designs, efficient funding, vendor selection, management and accountability.

10. Investor Relations and Corporate Communications

Sharon Merrill Associates (www.sharonmerrillassoc.com) has been executing award-winning programs and staying in daily contact with Wall Street and the media since 1985. Today, SMA are one of America's preeminent investor relations and corporate communications firms, serving public and private companies in a broad range of industries.

SMA also are recognized as a great firm to work with. SMA eschews the usual agency "bait and switch," where the firm's senior people make the initial contacts and then delegate ongoing client service to the junior staff. At SMA, the day-to-day interactions with clients take place at the senior level only. And the exceptional stability of their senior team assures SMA clients of continuity and a high level of familiarity with their businesses and their communications objectives.

Above all, SMA delivers experience and judgment. During the course of hundreds of engagements over the past two decades, SMA has assisted clients across a wide range of industries in virtually every type of situation a business might face.

11. Legal Counsel

As one of Boston’s premier law firms, Choate (www.choate.com) has helped leading, blue-chip companies and institutions, across the US and abroad, complete their most important transactions, address their most important challenges and achieve their most important goals, for decades. Our team of 200 lawyers, many recognized for excellence in their fields, partner with clients to tailor programs that fit their specific needs and objectives in the areas of private equity, securities, finance, technology and intellectual property.

A transaction powerhouse, Choate has been involved in public company securities offerings with proceeds near $13 billion and mergers and acquisitions with value over $23 billion. In addition, lawyers with PhDs, MDs and other advanced degrees perform cutting edge work in patenting and maximizing the value of a company's intellectual property. Named among the "Most Active Law Firms" worldwide in private equity and venture capital in Private Equity Analyst, Choate has maintained its position as one of the nation’s leading law firm’s for over a century.

12. Proxy Solicitation

Morrow & Co., Inc. (www.morrowco.com) is a world leader in security-holder services. With unmatched experience in the industry, leading-edge strategies and solid tactical implementation, Morrow is the advisor of choice for more than 600 publicly traded companies, mutual funds, and others looking to reach and influence shareholders.
With our understanding of the investment community and a disciplined approach to research and strategic analysis, Morrow provides a broad range of fully-integrated services including:

Strategic counsel and corporate governance advisory
Stock surveillance and security-holder identification
Global services
Proxy solicitation services
Information agent services
Shareholder communications

13. Sales Effectiveness Consulting

DSG (www.dsgconsulting.com) is a management consulting firm specialized in helping companies operationalize their business strategy. In most cases, our clients will have recently prioritized a strategic change to drive growth, and we help them turn their strategy into results. DSG is recognized for its specific expertise in strategy alignment, strategy implementation and channel execution. Our firm has 13 years’ experience delivering business results for companies in IT, healthcare, manufacturing and business services.

14. Staffing

The Winter, Wyman Companies (www.winterwyman.com), a leading staffing firm for more than 30 years, is one of the largest and most recognized staffing organizations in the Northeast. Winter, Wyman specializes in permanent, contract and contract-to-perm staffing in Accounting & Finance, Investments & Financial Services, Human Resources, Information and Software Technology including Quality Assurance and Information Design & Delivery, as well as Technology Sales & Marketing, and Customer Support and Materials. Winter, Wyman also serves the metropolitan New York market in Accounting & Finance, Information Technology, Information Design & Delivery, Software Engineering & Technology, Web Design, and Human Resources.

15. Strategic and Organizational Consulting

At Stone + Company (www.stoneandcompany.com) we partner with leaders and their teams to surface the critical thinking and feelings needed to achieve superior results, attain the right goals faster and create lasting strategic change in their businesses.

We offer a wide range of customized services to make your organization more successful…from executive coaching to developing a strategic team game plan to meeting facilitation. We’ve also developed, tested, and refined a whole portfolio of real world programs and tools designed to deliver rapid and sustained improvements in your team’s performance. On a standalone basis, each of our offerings can help you resolve a pressing need. Together, they become a customized, integrated strategic planning platform that can take your organization to a whole new level.