In 2020 – a pandemic year no less – ZRG posted $67 million in revenue, a 73 percent rise from the prior year, according to 2020 Hunt Scanlon Media Top 50 Recruiters rankings data. Backed initially by capital partner Northcreek Mezzanine and for the last several years by RFE Investment Partners, Rochelle Park, NJ-based ZRG has achieved sustained double-digit growth through strategic acquisitions, key hires and building out several interconnected and highly synergistic business lines – among them: executive search, interim talent solutions, and culture transformation consulting. Hartmann still has a knack for rolling the dice – and winning. It’s in my DNA – enjoying the game of business and looking at how to compete better,” he said. That’s what excites me – growth and being an underdog and winning. “I’ve always been an entrepreneur who loves growing things. It was a start-up that he and some colleagues grew to go public and sold to American Express. Hartmann’s first business, post-Monopoly, started fresh out of college. “But in my spare time I did enjoy that game and thinking about strategy.” Mr. “I was playing basketball, football and doing all those things,” he said. And though the leader of one of the fastest growing mid-sized global executive search firms chuckles at the memory, there is no denying the skills he honed buying and selling properties with one-sided, multi-colored currency is now paying big dividends in the real world of deal making. But, as one old friend tells it, he also had another youthful passion: the board game Monopoly. He was an excellent team player by all accounts. Septem– When Larry Hartmann, chief executive officer of ZRG, was a youngster, you could find him playing sports with the other kids in his neighborhood.
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