Stephen James Associates expands Philadelphia Banking team

Online, October 7, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Philadelphia, PA -- Stephen James Associates (SJA), a division of the privately held $5.7 billion Allegis Group, announced the hiring of Natalie Pacifico to its Executive Banking and Financial Services Group. Ms. Pacifico will focus on the Greater Philadelphia area and will be responsible for performing executive search in banking and financial services at the mid to senior executive level for the firm's Banking Practice. She will be based out of SJA's Berwyn, PA office. Pacifico is a graduate of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania where she obtained her Bachelor's of Science in Business Economics. Prior to joining the Banking group at SJA, Pacifico spent five years at SEI Investments. In her most recent role at SEI, she was in the Private Banking market unit, where she acquired her financial licenses and supported the sales and growth initiatives as part of the US Asset Management team. As a liaison to the Private Banking team, she was responsible for leveraging key relationships. Throughout her career, Pacifico has exceeded the expectations of the elite, top-tier key accounts across the Independent RIA Advisory, Institutional Client and Private Banking client base.

"Our Banking group has made a key hire for our Philly expansion efforts in bringing on Natalie Pacifico. Her knowledge of the industry, the market, and the players will certainly allow her to make an immediate impact to our team and for our clients, said Carlos J. Arboleda the Executive Director for the Banking and Financial Services Group at SJA. This is an exciting time for our firm, and every new strategic addition to our team will allow us to further our efforts and deliver on the client driven demand that we are facing," Arboleda commented.

About Stephen James Associates
Stephen James Associates is part of Allegis Group. Founded in 1983, Allegis Group is a $5.7 Billion privately held company with 260 offices across the globe and is the world's largest privately held recruiting firm as well as the overall largest recruiting firm in the U.S. SJA provides Professional, Managerial, and Executive Recruitment and Talent Acquisition for contingent and retained engagements for permanent placement or interim/project assignments.

Stephen James Associates is a national search firm specializing in the recruitment and placement of mid to senior level professionals in accounting, finance, banking and asset management. We streamline the difficult and time-consuming task of locating and screening premier candidates for higher level positions. With an unmatched recruiting network, our veteran search consultants leverage their industry knowledge to locate and deliver top-tier active and passive candidates. Thanks to our comprehensive time-proven search processes, we are able to identify the best talent in less time, locally or nationally.

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