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Hometown:

McKinney

About Me:

PETER GOODSPEED
802 Tree Hill Ct
McKinney, TX 75070
(w) 214-417-4742
peter.ahcr@sbcglobal.net

I am looking for a position in a new city and new environment to utilize many years of customer service and sales skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2004 to Present Peter Goodspeed Healthcare Recruiters, Inc.
McKinney Texas

A retained search firm focusing on middle management positions in hospitals and other health care organizations

PRESIDENT/OWNER

• Generated over $400,000 in search fees during the first full year in business
• Clients include community hospitals, hospital systems, HMO’s and group practices
• Retained by several clients to conduct multiple searches including seven searches for a large healthcare system in Georgia.

1987 to 2004 Witt/ Kieffer Ford Hadelman & Lloyd
Dallas, TX

A top ten executive search firm and the largest healthcare search firm in the country.

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT/SHAREHOLDER (1997 to 2004)

• Was elected Vice President and Shareholder in the Dallas office in 1997 and promoted to Senior Vice President in 2000
• Typically sold $700,000 a year in search fees
• Sold and successfully completed hundreds of retained searches for hospital clients.
• Multi-hire clients included Boca Raton Community Hospital, Porter Memorial Hospital, Baxter Regional Medical Center, San Juan Regional Medical Center, St Vincent Hospital (Santa Fe), Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, George Washington University Medical Center, St Joseph’s/Candler Health System, NorthBay Healthcare System, Warm Springs Rehabilitation Health System and Northeast Georgia Medical Center

CONSULTANT (1987 to 1997)

• Conducted an average of 20 retained searches per year. Personally sold most of these searches.

1984 to 1987 KPMG Peat Marwick
Houston, Texas

One of the Big 8 accounting firms with audit, tax and consulting

MANAGER, CONSULTING PRACTICE

• Manager in the Houston executive search practice
• Promoted from Senior Consultant to Manager after one year
• Worked in healthcare, real estate, banking, savings & loan, municipal government, construction and manufacturing

EDUCATION

University of Houston
Houston, TX
MBA 1977

Lafayette College
Easton, Pennsylvania
AB 1972

PERSONAL
Married for 25 years
Five children
Active runner
Triathlons
Half Marathons

Website:

http://www.petergoodspeed.com

Last Seasonal Job:

1970

Favorite Seasonal Job:

Yellowstone National Park

Where have you lived and worked?

Texas for 30 years. 5 kids and all out of the house and my wife and I decided to call it quits after all that

Dream Job:

YNP

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At 4:39pm on September 10, 2009, Kathi said…: Hi Peter. Looks like you're ready for a big life change, huh? Are your kids the ones encouraging you to work seasonally?

At 3:36pm on September 10, 2009, janice ball said…: hey richard, you have extensive profile there.. what is it you like to do for fun? i see running, anything else?