Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Your Co-Workers Might Be Killing You - New Article in Netsoft Career Center

Hours don't affect health much—but unsupportive colleagues do

The typical American will spend about 15% of his or her lifetime working at the office. Given this expanse of hours, it's not surprising that the details of our job can have a profound impact on our health. 

Traditionally, researchers have focused on the ways in which different kinds of labor affect the body, investigating the hazards associated with activities such as coal mining, truck driving and professional football.

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Monday, August 29, 2011

Netsoft Completes 4th Placement at GoPro

GoPro is the world's leading activity image capturing company. GoPro produces the famous HERO® line of wearable and gear-mountable cameras and accessories, GoPro's products are sold through Best Buy and specialty retailers in over 40 countries.

Netsoft has now placed 2 directors, a senior program manager, and a Sr Mechanical Engineer with GoPro. Congratulations to David Guasca, Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer.

Note this article about GoPro in the Wall Street Journal:

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Netsoft Completes 1st Placement at Spigit


Spigit’s Enterprise Innovation Platform is used by the world’s leading brands to invent new products and services, reduce costs and increase employee and customer engagement. Leveraging crowdsourcing, purpose driven social collaboration, game mechanics and big data analytics, Spigit helps companies identify and execute transformative ideas from their employees and customers at scale to drive business outcomes.

Netsoft completes it's first placement at Spigit, a SaaS platform for innovation, their first Solutions Architect. James McLaurin joins as the leader of the Solutions team.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

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We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Netsoft Completes 4th Placement at Sencha


Netsoft completed their fourth placement at Sencha, a Sequoia funded mobile applications company, Aaron Zallen as Director of Sales for the East Coast.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

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Netsoft Completes Two Retained Searches at 4D Inc.

Netsoft completes two retained searches at 4D Inc. Thomas Miller from Trolltech division of Nokia joins 4D as the COO of the Americas and Michel Gerin from Zend, BackBase and Borland joins as the CMO.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

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Monday, August 22, 2011

Netsoft Completes 17th Placement at Ruckus Wireless

Founded in 2004, Ruckus invented the market for smart access points, selling wireless solutions to both Service Providers and Enterprise Customers worldwide, including their new Wireless Broadband Access and 3GO products.

Netsoft began working with Ruckus in 2005 when the company was just 25 people.

Netsoft has now placed five Sr Directors and Directors, four managers, and eight senior engineers with Ruckus. We have now completed the Product Line Manager search.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Netsoft Completes 16th Placement at Ruckus Wireless

Founded in 2004, Ruckus invented the market for smart access points, selling wireless solutions to both Service Providers and Enterprise Customers worldwide, including their new Wireless Broadband Access and 3GO products.

Netsoft began working with Ruckus in 2005 when the company was just 25 people.

Netsoft has now placed five Sr Directors and Directors, three managers, and eight senior engineers with Ruckus. Congratulations to Sean Bian on his new position as Strategic Accounts Systems Engineer. 

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

New Article Posted in Netsoft Career Center

Small Firms, Big Options
Some High -Tech Executives Lured to Join Would-Be IPOs


A chief executive who boosted his company's stock price more than 50% in two years might be expected to trade up to a larger company as his next career move. Instead, Mark McLaughlin resigned last week from the top job at publicly traded Internet-infrastructure company VeriSign Inc. to join a Silicon Valley start-up.

Mr. McLaughlin has been tapped as CEO of Palo Alto Networks Inc., a closely held security-technology company widely viewed as a candidate for an initial public offering.

Read Full WSJ Article Here...

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

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We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.