Recruiting firm CEO discusses creating career opportunities in 2021
Ari Kaplan. Photo by Lauren Hillary. Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Michael Potters, the co-founder and CEO of the Glenmont Group, a recruiting firm in the legal industry. Ari Kaplan: Tell us about your background and the genesis of the Glenmont Group. Michael Potters: I co-founded the Glenmont Group with my wife, Katie, 20 years ago. We looked at many different businesses, and the one that seemed to make the most sense for us and our lifestyle was executive recruiting. We started it by buying a franchise of a group called Management Recruiters International, which at the time had offices around the world. We had a 10-year contract and always saw ourselves as a boutique recruiting firm. At the time, I knew a lot about information management, consumer electronics and legal technology. The area that took off early was legal technology. We started by supporting vendors but quickly began working with law firms on filling a range of roles, including litigation support, legal IT and marketing. Now, we work with an array of law firm and law department leaders.