ZRG – Hub Recruiting

Situation

Since being acquired by RFE, ZRG has grown exponentially via organic growth and M&A efforts. To build on this momentum, ZRG and G2 identified avenues to diversify further expanding the human capital management services portfolio. Initially, the focus was on consulting, interim/outsourced services, and now recruiting process outsourcing (“RPO”). Through a targeted M&A effort, G2 focused on expanding ZRG’s product/service offering by adding RPO.

Engagement

G2 Capital Advisors, LLC (“G2”) has served as the exclusive buy-side advisor to ZRG for the past few years. This strategic growth work has recently included an acquisition strategy focused on identifying and engaging with potential candidates in the recruiting process outsourcing (“RPO”) market. ZRG and RFE continued their partnership with G2 to leverage the firm’s deep-rooted expertise across the Technology & Business Services practice.

Outcome

G2’s mandate with ZRG led to an acquisition of Hub Recruiting, a leading boutique RPO (Recruiting Process Outsourcing) firm. Headquartered in Bedford, MA, Hub Recruiting is a leading RPO that partners with growing technology companies by providing embedded recruiters and entire recruiting teams for hiring challenges that range from one hire to entire organizational buildouts. ZRG and Hub will leverage an extensive network of human capital search professionals, business consultants, and interim financial professionals to better serve its client base.

“Increasingly, our clients have asked for support for volume hiring in complex sales, engineering, and technical roles, but we did not have that capability,” says Larry Hartmann, CEO of ZRG. “Hub adds that capability, enabling us to support recruiting for project-based, volume hiring of more senior roles globally. “We believe when a company aligns strategy and culture with the right talent, amazing success can be achieved, and our offerings now address these core areas,” Hartmann continued. “We constantly strive to improve ourselves in order to improve client outcomes.”

Matt Corbett, Founder and CEO of Hub Recruiting, said: “ZRG’s commitment to their clients’ end-to-end needs, diversity and their innovative approach to data analytics are an immediate fit with Hub’s own values and action-oriented nature. Our RPO expertise added to ZRG’s established suite of talent advisory services is going to be a great benefit for all of our clients.”

Andrew Keleher, Director at G2 Capital Advisors, commented, “The Hub acquisition represents an important part of the growth strategy at ZRG. There has been consistent demand for RPO services, and Matt Corbett and his team are some of the best we have seen doing this work. Supporting one of the world’s fastest-growing executive search/talent recruitment firms on their growth strategy has been a real pleasure these past few years, and we look forward to continuing our work together. We are thrilled for both organizations and look forward to seeing their success together in the coming years!”.