Prior to merging with Conexus, Matt served as co-founder and partner for Citadel, helping clients and candidates find the right match for their strategic business hiring needs and career path objectives. With over 13 years of accounting and finance recruitment and business development experience, as well as long standing relations within Orange County and surrounding communities, Matt brings a wealth of knowledge and hiring expertise to hisapproach. Having started his career placing interim and interim-to-hire CPAs and MBAs and degreed accounting and finance professionals, Matt then shifted to placing direct hire finance and accounting professionals and passive candidates at the Manager, Controller, Director, VP and C-Levels. Prior to joining Citadel, Matt has managed both direct hire and interim practices for large human capital companies such as Robert Half International and The Mergis Group/Randstad Company. In addition, Matt spent the past eight years as Director of Business Development for Beacon Resources, serving as a key member in helping the company grow from a start up to one of Orange County’s fastest growing companies according to the Orange County Business Journal. Matt graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication.