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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Laurie Tennant joined Stanton Chase in 2007 as a senior associate.  She started her career at Andersen Consulting, working as in information systems consultant, a change management manager, and then spent five years as the Director of Human Resources of the Northern California office.  In that role, Laurie and her staff managed the recruiting, training, staffing and other personnel functions for more than 2,000 consultants. 

Laurie is also a certified professional coach and facilitator.  Since 2003, she has worked with individuals and groups to help them maximize effectiveness in their careers and in their lives.  Laurie has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Kalamazoo College, a Graduate Certificate in Coaching from John F. Kennedy University, and is currently working toward a Masters Degree in Integral Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. 

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Suzanne Terry joined Stanton Chase International in July 2007 as an executive assistant.  Her background is in the legal industry where she spent the past 18 years working as a legal secretary and, more recently, office manager, for firms specializing in Labor and Employment law and the False Claims Act.  Suzie finds her shift from the legal field to executive recruiting to be rewarding.  She is enjoying the client-interaction and working with such a fantastic team of professionals.  Suzie has B.A. degrees in Pre-Law and English from the University of the Pacific in Stockton and is a third-generation San Franciscan.  She currently lives in Petaluma with her husband and twin daughters.

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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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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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