Mary Kai Macken

Mary Kai has extensive experience in both staffing and executive search.  Mary Kai began her career in the staffing industry working for TRC Staffing Services, Pro Staff Personnel and then PIC Marubeni Group providing skilled professionals to independent power producers and utilities worldwide.  Mary Kai transitioned from staffing domestic and international large-scale projects to retained executive search while serving as Director at Wyndham Mills International (the retained executive search division of PIC Marubeni prior to spinoff). During her tenure, Mary Kai cultivated and managed a portfolio of retained searches for key accounts worldwide and traveled extensively to manage client partnerships, provide consulting services and implement human capital acquisition strategies. Mary Kai has placed executives and senior managers for leading non-regulated and regulated energy companies with a focus on power generation, strategy, commercial marketing & trading and financial services.  Inc. 500 recognized WMI as one of the fastest growing private companies while Mary Kai was a member of the leadership team.  Mary Kai joined Corps Team, a talent advisory, search and staffing firm with franchise locations nationwide, in 2011 to oversee Operations, Sales and Strategy.   Mary Kai holds a BA from Elon University, Paralegal Certificate-Contract Law from the National Center for Paralegal Training and recently completed Human Resource and Organizational Management Professional Development Coursework from Harvard University, Extension School.   Mary Kai is a Certified Staffing Professional (CSP) through the American Staffing Association and served on the ASA Search and Placement Council from January 2017-April 2018.