Richard (Rich) B. Wilder Partner and Managing Director

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Rich Wilder is a Partner and Managing Director at Adam James International.  His areas of specialization are board and chief suite positions within private equity and Fortune 50 companies.  Before joining Adam James in April 2006, Rich was an Executive Vice President with a nationally recognized top five search firm. His prior experience includes five years with a boutique financial search firm in New York, NY and twenty three years of corporate human resources assignments, the last eleven as Chief Human Resources Officer.
Rich received his Bachelor's degree in Pre-Law and Business Administration from the University of Alabama.  He also served overseas in the U.S. Army Artillery as a Firing Battery Commander.

A cross representation of his clients include: American Express, Bay Travel Gear, Bell Automotive, Campbell Soup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Emtec, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Express Bill, FFCA, Merrill Lynch, National Grange Mutual Insurance Company, Patchlink, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Phoenix Convention and Visitors Bureau, TriWest Healthcare Alliance, Community Food Bank of Tucson, Universal Technical Institute, and Viacom.

Kenneth (Ken) R. Philbrick III, CPA, MBA Partner

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Ken Philbrick is a Partner at the Denver office of Adam James International. Ken emphasizes the importance of building long lasting and sincere relationships with his clients and candidates, and specializes in conducting searches for Chief Financial Officer, Controller and Vice President of Finance positions. Ken has served in multiple roles with the firm including development of the company strategy and values, corporate development and managing the executive search function. During his time with the company, Ken has helped Adam James grow from three employees to over twenty while performing multiple executive search assignments for more than 120 companies.

Ken joined Adam James in 1997 shortly after the company was formed in 1996. Prior to working for Adam James, Ken worked as an auditor for Deloitte & Touché in the Denver office. He has a Master of Business Administration from the Daniels College of Business at The University of Denver and is the former Chair of the Daniels College of Business Alumni Board. Also, Ken is the Chairman of the Board of Assistant Coach, Inc., which is a non profit that provides athletic training and mentoring to children. Ken is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of Colorado.

Warren Nadolsky, CPA Partner

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Warren Nadolsky is a Partner at the Denver office of Adam James International.  He founded the company in 1996 and has been involved in the start-up of several staffing related organizations, including practices in accounting/finance, information technology, light industrial and sales/marketing.  Warren currently oversees the strategic direction of Adam James International and its sister company, AJS Partners.  He also provides consulting services to start-ups and small business and serves on a number of advisory boards.

Prior to working for Adam James, Warren worked as a manager in the audit practice for Deloitte & Touché.  Warren is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of Colorado and has a Bachelors of Business Administration with a major in Accounting from The University of Iowa.

Kenny Stakis Associate Director

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Kenny Stakis is an Associate Director/Executive Recruiter in the Scottsdale, Arizona office of Adam James International. His recruitment focus is in senior level positions from VP’s to officer level executives. His area of expertise is in senior finance positions specifically conducting CFO searches. However, he is also versed in other sectors which include sales and marketing, human resources and operations. Kenny is very skilled at identifying and directly sourcing candidates not active in the job market and stresses the importance of identifying all potential candidates for each search.

He has 12 years of experience in sales, marketing and recruiting. He spent two years with a start up staffing company and developed it from a two person operation to an eight person operation, conducting business development and fulfilling search assignments. Prior to entering the business world, Kenny attended Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management.