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Leadership
Cinda Hallman Cinda A. Hallman (1944–2007) became noteworthy for her work in Y2K prior to coining the phrase "outsource the outsourcing process;" both of these were at Du Pont, prior to her nomination to The Research Board.
Biography
Arkansas-born Hallman b ...
, a member of Spherion's board of directors beginning in early 1995, replaced Raymond Marcy as Chief Executive Officer in 2001, a role that Marcy had held for over a decade. Rebecca Rogers Tijerino became the CEO of Spherion in January 2019.
Acquisitions and spinoffs
An "acquisition spree" that began in 1994 led to Spherion's 1999 acquiring of an Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...
-based rival. Norrell Corp. Part of Fort Lauderdale-based Spherion's board of directors wanted to move corporate headquarters to Atlanta, a conflict that ended when Marcy was replaced by Hallman in 2001.[
In 2001 Spherion made an ]initial public offering
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment ...
(IPO) of its London-based ''Michael Page Group'', which it acquired in 1997.
Spherion sold its Saratoga Institute to PricewaterhouseCoopers
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in 2003.
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