Paul K. Herrerias, MA, CPA, has over twenty years of Executive Search and Leadership Consulting service to Bay Area organizations. He is the founder of three search and consulting businesses, consultant to Bay Area companies, and has acted as an advisor to over one thousand professionals in their career development. His professional career affiliations also include Deloitte & Touche and KPMG Peat Marwick.

His understanding of organizations is further enhanced by an active CPA license, over twenty years as a business owner, and a Master's degree in Organization Development and Human Resources (MHROD) and Bachelors in Business Administration, both from the University of San Francisco. Additionally, he serves on the State Board of the California Society of CPAs. He is the recipient of the San Francisco Chapter's Golden Quill Award for Outstanding Leadership.

Mr. Herrerias has become well known as an expert speaker in leadership and career development through talks to community, professional, alumni and trade organizations in the Bay Area and the state. He founded, and was a seminar leader for, The LIBRA Group, an educational organization dedicated to the development of leaders, professionals and organizations.

Mr. Herrerias has performed hundreds of searches for Bay Area companies, from young professionals to CEOs, and he has an extensive network in the business community. Clients value Mr. Herrerias' responsiveness, sensitivity, attention to and understanding of corporate cultures, accurate screening, and tenacity in pursuing the best candidate.

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Laura Ferracane joined Herrerias & Associates in February 2006 as a Senior Associate.  Prior to her affiliation with H&A, Laura had her own Human Resources consulting practice where she provided HR expertise to such companies as Ask Jeeves, Pillsbury Winthrop, APL and Yoga Journal.  Laura was the previous HR Director for Deloitte & Touche in San Francisco, an international public accounting and consulting firm cited by Fortune Magazine as one of the "100 Best Companies to work for" due to their HR practices.  Laura holds a B.S. degree in Human Resources Management from DePaul University in Chicago.

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Lisa Gunther-DePhillips joined Herrerias & Associates in October 2006.  Lisa previously spent three years at Barclays Global Investors as both Executive Assistant to the CFO and as a Travel Manager in their Travel Department.  Previously, she was an Account Executive at Sierra Pacific Mortgage in their Wholesale Banking Group and a West Account Team Coordinator for A.T. Kearney.  Lisa received her BA in Communications Studies from California State University, Sacramento which she followed with an internship for Governor Pete Wilson's campaign.  She then spent 2 years as Assistant to the Chief Deputy Legislative Secretary in the California State Governor’s office where she liaised between constituency/legislature/lobbyists on behalf of the Governor’s office.

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Danielle S. Herrerias has over 15 years experience in industry managing projects in real estate, mortgage banking, development and planning. Her functional areas of expertise include: project management, marketing, market research and feasibility analysis. Ms. Herrerias is currently the Director of Research at Herrerias & Associates.

Ms. Herrerias is an accomplished technical writer. She has written training manuals and given seminars on the subjects of market-feasibility analysis and long-term financing options, and developed a quarterly report summarizing the San Francisco Bay Area's apartment market.

Ms. Herrerias holds a Master's degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government with a concentration in real estate development and finance. She earned her B.A. at Stanford University in physical sciences and is a licensed California Real Estate Broker.

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Mary Richardson enjoys a background in Organization Development, Education and Human Resource Management. She joined Herrerias & Associates to lead the Human Resources Recruiting and Organization Development practices. Mary has worked with clients and organizations to define competencies and skills for success, assess the organization and individuals for those skills, and develop strategies for improving them. With a focus on the functional areas of Human Resources and Organization Development, Mary assists clients in building their executive team. Internally, Mary manages Herrerias & Associates' continuing education program.

Prior to Herrerias & Associates, Mary was Director of Education for SOLA International. She has served as adjunct faculty at Sonoma State in the psychology department, teaching Conflict Resolution, Training and Development, and Marriage and Relationship, and has managed her own consulting firm for the past 15 years. Mary holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and a Master of Arts in Psychology/Organization Development from Sonoma State University.

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Anne E. Taylor joined Herrerias & Associates as a research associate.  She is returning to the workforce after an 8-year hiatus spent raising her 2 boys and chairing many of her children's school fundraisers.  Prior to being a "Mom," Anne was a Vice President/Relationship and Sales Manager at Scudder Stevens and Clark in San Francisco, a financial asset management firm now a division of Deutsche Bank.  Anne attended both Central Washington University and University of Massachusetts where she completed coursework in business.

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