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Work History

• Ameriprise Financial, Inc
• Director - Talent Acquisition
• October 2009 to Present

• Lead a team of talented recruiters supporting The Personal Advisor Group, General Counsel's Office, Marketing, Human Resources, Corporate Communications and Campus Recruiting. Please feel free to contact me at brian.x.haukoos@ampf.com for any inquiries.

• Virtus Executive Search, LLC
• Partner
• Febuary 2009 to Present

• Virtus Executive Search provides executive search and consulting services to a variety of professional organizations. Virtus has specialty practices in the following areas:
  -Collegiate Athetics
  -Professional Sports
  -Athlete Career Coaching & Transition Services
  -Higher Education
  -Corporate Search

• Salo, LLC
• Recruiting Manager
• Febuary 2007 to July 2009

• Full-desk recruiter responsible for developing business relationships with companies in the Twin Cities area and recruiting senior to executive level finance and accounting professionals. Searches successfully completed include:
  -CFO
  -Controller
  -Vice President-Finance
  -Director-Corporate Accounting
  -Treasury Manager
  -Senior Financial Analyst
  -Senior Accountant
  -Senior Auditor

• Target Corporation
• Senior Executive Recruiter
• January 2005 to January 2007

• Developed recruiting strategy and conduct national searches for senior level talent in a variety of disciplines. Main client groups included Assets Protection, Store Support and multiple field based regions.

• Robert Half International
• Division Director
• December 2001 to December 2004

• Led a team of staffing managers to develop creative temporary staffing solutions for our clients. Named 2002 International Rookie of the Year for one of the highest volume divisions of the company.

Education

• Gustavus Adolphus College
• Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Economics
• 1996 - 2000