Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 12, 2001

Gerry Stanton – E-cruiter.com Inc (ecru)

GERRY STANTON is President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of E-Cruiter.com, Inc. Mr. Stanton has built a successful career in human resources. After seven years as Vice President of HR Worldwide with Mitel Corporation, he founded his own HR consulting firm. In 1984, Stanton & Associates was born. Then in 1986, with momentum from his first venture, Mr. Stanton founded the career transition firm Drake Beam Morin (Ottawa) Inc., an affiliate operation of Drake Beam Morin Inc. Ten years later, in 1996, his vast HR experience and remarkable vision became the foundation for him founding E-Cruiter.com, Inc. Foreseeing the Internet quickly becoming the communications vehicle of the future, Mr. Stanton's mandate was to make corporate recruiting easier, faster, and less costly by using streamlined communications and information management. E-Cruiter.com is currently a market leader in Web-based recruitment solutions in Canada. In 1998, E-Cruiter.com won the Award of Excellence for Best Implementation or Innovative Use of Information Technology from the Society of Canadian Office Automation Professionals (SCOAP). In 1999, E-Cruiter was named one of the Top 50 Web Development and Web Services Firms in Canada in the Branham Group's ranking of the Top 250 IT Companies. Also in 1999, Mr. Stanton took the company public on NASDAQ, making E-Cruiter the third dot-com company to go public in Canada. Profile
TWST: Could we begin with a brief overview and history of the company?

Mr. Stanton: E-Cruiter.com is a leading Web-powered hiring management

system that empowers companies to attract, select,