Fred
Kaplan
Executive Vice
President
Fred Kaplan began
recruiting candidates for medical/dental device clients for The
Downs Group in November 1999 after a 30 year career in sales and
marketing management with international chemical manufactures
including Bayer, Occidental Chemical and Elf Aquatiane. He has held positions in
regional and district sales, national accounts, business,
distribution and product management. Highlights of his career in the chemical
industry include developing and implementing a total-quality
management process, developing and growing a $20mm sales region over
a 5 year period while increasing regional revenues by $3mm and
revitalizing and restructuring an industrial market in a recessed
market place.
Fred’s professional
background in the chemical industry is vertically parallel to the
positions he recruits for in the medical device industry. This benefits his clients by
allowing him to genuinely understand what shoes need to be
filled. This, combined
with hands-on medical device experience while a pre-med major at
Ohio University, gives him confidence in his ability to find and
place candidates for a list of satisfied clients that include
BSN-Jobst, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Sunrise
Medical and Remel (a division of Sybron
International).
The capacity to understand
a client’s needs and match them to candidates in a timely fashion is
what makes Fred successful.
He has completed executive searches for positions ranging
from field sales representatives, product managers and marketing
managers to national account managers, directors of marketing, and
vice presidents for clients in the medical device, dental device,
microbiology and life sciences industries. Raised in Ohio, Fred has
spent all of his life in the Midwest prior to moving to North
Carolina in 1999 and now the Pamlico Sound in Eastern North
Carolina. He is married
with three children with three son-in-laws, nine grandchildren
and fills his free time with his family, fishing, boating, golfing,
hunting and photography.
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