Jeff Ziegler

Owner of Euro-Contrat specialist provider of contract IT personnel across France and the EU. Also Managing Partner of Certus IT Contractors, France.

Recently CEO of Specialist Search Limited. Former UK Director of Infinity Search, Inc. Previously experienced interim manager turned CEO/Managing Director of Interim Management Service provider in the UK. Previous roles include Director of Strategic Marketing (ICL-Tplc), CEO (Newlands Relocation), Marketing Manager (Industrial Purification Systems), Managing Director (AllWorld UK Ltd.) and numerous others.

Other professional experience includes Marketing Manager (ICL), General Manager/Marketing and Business Development Manager (FCB Associates), Executive Director - National Security Advisory Board (Council for Inter-American Security) and others.

Jeff Ziegler’s Specialties:

From our base in France, we run a specialized practice that supplies long and short-term IT contractors for businesses across industry sectors. My recent recruitment practice is Specialist Search, affiliate of Infinity Search and Exclusive UK provider of the Worldwide Executive Search Network.

We find our clients the right people: particularly specialist skills ... so when you or your clients need to find specialists, call on me to help find great people!

Jeff Ziegler’s Experience

Strike Team

VMware

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

2008 — Present (less than a year)
Managing Partner

Certus IT Contractors

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

June 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Certus IT Contractors is an off-shoot organisation founded by Jeff Ziegler and Stuart Haugen (Managing Partner of Certus Executives). We provide IT contract management and delivery services across the EU (and former Eastern Bloc). Our contractors have a range of skills from Help-desk to heads down coders and are available on both a short and long-term contract basis.

All contractors must supply updated details and references before being added to our growing database. All contractors are vetted prior to being placed on client contract. All contractors are experienced professionals.
Owner

Euro-Contrat

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Owner of Euro Contrat - French based IT Contract management organisation. We provide short and long-term IT support to businesses across the EU. All staff speak fluent English, and where possible speak the local languages as well.
CEO/Founder

Specialist Search

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

November 2005 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Founder and CEO of Specialist Search.

Specialist Search are headhunters, working with companies in the technology, engineering, pharmaceutical, health and biotechnology industries across the US and UK. We search for health professionals, IT professionals, finance, management, engineering and other functional specialists.

Technology, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, engineering and health are all very specialist sectors of industry, and the personnel our clients seek can only be found by using specialist techniques only the best headhunters will employ. Specialist Search utilises every means at our disposal as headhunters and we find specialists across functional disciplines in the technology, biotechnology, engineering, pharmaceutical and health care sectors.
Director

Infinity Search

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

April 2004 — April 2008 (4 years 1 month)

As of November 2005, I have started my own recruitment practice but still remain an affiliate and the European office of Infinity Search, Inc. This relationship is indefinite, so if anyone is looking for staff in the US, UK or across the EU, Infinity Search and Specialist Search have the capabilities to deliver end-to-end, full-cycle recruitment solutions.

Since December 2004, I have been UK Director of Infinity Search, Inc. I owe my position with Infinity to one of my contacts on LinkedIn, John Doffing, I joined Infinity Search in Silicon Valley to help clients recruit personnel into their Start-up businesses in SF, Silicon Valley, Seattle and LA.

We only work with top-notch technology start-ups that have secured VC or Private equity funding. We work with many startups in stealth mode and invisible to the general recruitment industry.
Manging Director

Charter Interim Management

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

August 2001 — April 2004 (2 years 9 months)

Appointed as Interim CEO August 2001, and immediately undertook radical transformation of operating model. Accepted total commercial responsibility for all operations of partnership and later of the limited company (becoming Managing Director in April 2002). Post September 11, had to undertake a radical reorganisation and update of background verification and checking procedures of Interim Managers and Non-Executive Directors to comply with new trans-national employment regulations implemented by Department of Trade and Industry. Further developed new methodologies for supplying interim managers to corporate clients through a back-office solution and implemented first-ever application with world renowned membership organisation. Later applied this same “White Label Solution” commercially; meeting exacting standards and cost/benefit set by the UK’s 7th largest accounting firm.
Interim Manager
Ziegler Business Services (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 1997 — July 2001 (4 years 1 month)

Spent four years as a Senior Interim Marketing and Business Manager for 6 companies, including ICL and Charter Interim Management.

During this time, I was also the Chairman of the British-American Business Group in the North West, a Trustee of the BABG and two other charities, CEO of Newlands Relocation, Consultant to Knowledge Mechanics and HighAvailability, and VP of UK Operations for AllWorld Currency Exchange.
Marketing Manager

ICL Tplc

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year)

Was promoted from Channel Marketing Manager to Corporate Marketing Manager prior to departing to set-up on my own.
General Manager

FCB Associates

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

1991 — 1996 (5 years)
Corporate Communications Officer

MITRE Corporation

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

1995 — 1995 (less than a year)

Jeff Ziegler’s Education

Cambridge University

M.Phil, International Relations, October 1993 — September 1994
Georgetown University

MA, National Security Studies, August 1991 — May 1993
London School of Economics

MA, Modern British History, October 1990 — August 1991
University of California, Santa Barbara

BA, History, 1988 — 1990

Activities and Societies:

Drums, Alpha Epsilon Pi, YR, Baseball (Semi-Pro), Skateboarding, Mountain Biking, Reggae music, the Graduate, Motorcycles
California State University-Fullerton - College of Business and Economics

None, Econ and International Business, 1986 — 1987
Acalanes High School

1982 — 1986