Marcus is a business veteran with over 20 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. The Advocates' unique processes, designed to save our clients time and reduce turnover through a deeper level of understanding of our clients and candidates, reflects the best practices learned over that career. He has consulted with several law firms, both local and national in scope, on interviewing practices and consultative sales techniques.

Marcus' practice at the Advocates is focused on senior lateral associate and partner level placement along with retained search and consulting services. He has been asked to speak and consult to national and local law firms on hiring practices, law firm compensation and differentiation and has been published in Colorado Lawyer on law firm best practices and other publications.

Prior to founding The Advocates, Marcus served as Vice President, Western Region for Randstad, N.A. In that role, he opened several branches for the company in California, Colorado and Oregon, while successfully managing as many as 30 branches and over 160 people in five states. At its peak, his region was responsible for putting in excess of 2000 employees to work weekly. Marcus was quoted in various news outlets in Seattle and Denver on employment trends during that time.

Marcus started his professional career serving the Lt. Governor of Colorado for three and a half years. He started out a special assistant, was promoted to Special Projects Director and liaison to Always Buy Colorado, and finally served as Chief of Staff. He left the Lt. Governor's office to learn about corporate sales at Airborne Express.

He spent five years at Airborne Express serving as an Account Executive, Sr. Account Executive and District Sales Manager in that time. Among his accomplishments at Airborne were several multi-million dollar national account sales and turning the second smallest district of its class into the second largest one in his first year as a manager. As a sales manager, he first employed an early version of a Behavior/Trait-based interview process, parts of which were later incorporated into the Chronological Behavior-based interview utilized by The Advocates. While there, he also initially employed a consultative sales approach featured in the best selling book "The Discipline of Market Leaders" for the excellent way that this approach develops a deeper understanding of prospects and clients.

In 1995, Office Specialists (which became part of Randstad through acquisition) recruited Marcus to tackle the newly created Major Account Executive position. In that role, he sold multi-million dollar accounts while assisting the company with the development a national account sales process, products and training tools. After that he served as Area Manager for Colorado, Western Regional Manager and finally, Vice President of the Western Region.

His most recent experiences at Randstad included: starting a successful legal staffing business for the company in Denver based on interviewing and selling principles learned; performing due diligence in several acquisitions, which helped him gain additional insight into best practices around the country; working on a team with the Hay Group to re-design the company's compensation structure; implementing new behavior-based interviewing and hiring practices; and assisting in the design and implementation of a completely new field structure for Randstad. In 2001/2002 Marcus was one of three executives chosen from North America to study international staffing trends at IESE and TIAS in Europe.

He is active in the community volunteering his time as a soccer coach and serving on the Logan School Board of Trustees, and in his spare time, Marcus enjoys spending time with his family, reading, biking, hiking, travel and just about any active pursuit.