Atlantic Group – Guiding Smart Hiring Decisions and Connecting Companies with the Most Qualified Candidates

The Silicon Review

Executive recruiters are skilled specialists who identify and place the best-fit candidates for your management team. While an executive search can be undertaken internally or by an HR department, the best executive search firms are ultimately more efficient and effective than either of these two means. With their extensive network of professional contacts, best-in-class recruitment strategies, and years of refined experience, executive search firms are adept at adding value to your organization’s upper-level management team. Proven executive hiring firms help their clients to evaluate their expectations and organizational structure while also defining more realistic profiles and compensation structures for the position. The best executive search consultants provide objective feedback and advice to their clients.

Atlantic Group is one of the industry leaders in executive search. Headquartered in New York City, with offices in Philadelphia, Boston & Stamford, the company is able to penetrate networks and execute searches regionally, nationally and globally across several verticals. Their goal has always been to provide thoughtful, targeted recruitment research, apply strong business ethics and combine it all with unmatched industry expertise. Their success is a result of these efforts and reflects how they differentiate themselves from the rest of the industry. All professionals that seek Atlantic Group's services, clients or candidates, deserve nothing less than the very best efforts, attention and care. The best the industry has to offer.

Leveraging Best-in-Class Executive Search Services for Various Sectors

Temporary Staffing: Their Staffing division specializes in placing short and long term consultants supporting all areas of Atlantic’s recruiting verticals. The Staffing team provides deep market knowledge, quick execution and an extremely efficient process. As your hiring needs grow, their temporary consultants can offer value immediately without the long term commitment and expense of making a permanent hire.

Finance & Accounting: The Finance & Accounting division is comprised of recruiters that possess over 100 years of recruiting experience, many with backgrounds as professionals within this space, and others who have specialized in these disciplines their entire careers. Consultative in nature, the firm applies a retained approach to contingency recruiting but without the prolonged process – they execute as quickly as you need them to.

Construction: The Mechanical & Construction division at Atlantic Group specializes in recruiting Business Development, Estimating, Engineering, Project Management and Superintendent Professionals all across the United States. Their team of recruiters has over 75 years of expertise with a network of passive candidates who are open to learning about opportunities that their clients are offering. The firm focuses in the commercial, mechanical, marine, and civil construction space.

Legal & Compliance: There has never been a time where regulatory and reputational risk posed a greater challenge to your organization. Their highly experienced team understands the requirements of this ever-changing risk landscape and will deliver talent whether the need requires full time partners or highly qualified and credentialed consultants.

Healthcare: As healthcare continues to evolve, healthcare organizations and providers will rely increasingly on the staffing industry to provide highly trained and qualified healthcare professionals across all healthcare disciplines. The firm specializes in providing highly skilled, qualified professionals to many of the top healthcare facilities and organizations.

Leadership | Atlantic Group

John Ricco is a Co-Founder of Atlantic Group. He started the firm in 2006 with a focus on serving the Accounting/Finance needs of companies over a broad range of industries, specifically asset management. Since inception the firm has grown to an industry leading recruitment and temporary staffing firm serving multiple locations, industries and lines of business.

John has a passion for the recruitment industry and believes that strong relationships are what drives success in both business and in life. He is a CPA and a graduate from the State University at Albany with a BS in Accounting. John resides on Long Island, is an accomplished musician, and enjoys traveling, spending time with his wife and coaching his sons various sports teams.

Rich Scardina is a Co-Founder of Atlantic Group. He is actively involved with the strategic vision of the firm as well as continuing to manage a full cycle recruitment desk focusing specifically on Private Equity and Hedge Fund back and middle office roles within the CFO & COO verticals. From the beginning, Rich had a vision of a recruiting firm that was focused operationally on honesty and integrity, complete transparency, with a process that was cleaner than the industry was, and still is, accustomed to.

Prior to founding Atlantic, Rich spent a few years as an auditor in public accounting and then joined Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where he helped oversee their Private Equity accounting & finance operations for eight years as a Vice President. He graduated with honors from SUNY Oneonta with a double major in Economics & Accounting and was a member of the varsity basketball team.