Leadership
Patrick Maher
Director, nAblement
Pat Maher has an extensive sales and marketing background and has also served the disability community extensively since the onset of his spinal cord injury in 1981. He was injured while studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and returned to complete his B.S. from the College of Commerce & Business Administration following his rehabilitation at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Mr. Maher has represented a wide breadth of organizations during his career as sales executive, including a Fortune 500 healthcare organization, a rehabilitation technology start-up, and both the durable medical equipment and assistive technology industries. Of note, he joined Sigmedics, Inc., a 1988 venture capital supported rehabilitation technology firm, as Director of Sales Support and remained with the organization as they launched the development, marketing, and implementation of the Parastep-I® System to the rehabilitation community.
Currently serving as the President of the Board of Directors for The National Spinal Cord Injury Association (NSCIA), he also served as Chair of the SCI Hall of Fame selection committee in 2006. Founded in 1948, the National Spinal Cord Injury Association is the nation's oldest and largest civilian organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of Americans living with the results of spinal cord injury and disease (SCI/D) and their families.He has also served on and chaired a Chicago area Center for Independent Living (CIL) board as well as on the IL SCI Association's board. In 1994, he co-founded Moving Mountains, a unique outdoor-based growth and adventure program for individuals with spinal cord injury or other disabilities and the healthcare professionals who work with them. Over the years, he has been an avid adapted-sports competitor and coach.
Other board affiliations include the Spinal Cord Leaders Council (SCLC), Northwest Airlines Consumer Advisory Board for Air Travelers with Disabilities (NWCAB), Abilitylinks Marketing/Education & Steering Committees, and the Illinois IT Association's Academic Outreach Committee.
Todd T. Nilson
Director, Talent Acquisition Partners
Todd brings over twelve years of Information Technology recruiting and leadership expertise both in consulting and executive placement. As director of Talent Acquisition Partners, he works directly with customers on new search approaches, engages in top-level searches, and deploys the SPR recruiting team on all direct hire business. Todd helps his customers hire more effectively by bringing a vigorous focus and disciplined, deliverable-driven approach to all of his searches.
In 2001, Todd began his career with SPR as the senior technical recruiter and employment manager of the Milwaukee SPR office, where he sourced, screened, and placed Information Technology professionals in a wide variety of technical disciplines.
Prior to SPR, Todd has been a senior Information Technology recruiter for Olsten Professional Staffing and Adecco and a consultant specialized in Information Technology recruiting projects, contingency and retained hire search, and recruiting process. He has served as the director of Internet Research and led IT focused searches and consulting engagements with the acclaimed boutique retained search firm Spano Pratt.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Print Journalism and English from Penn State University, a master's degree in English literature from Duquesne University, and is all-but-dissertation towards a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kentucky. Throughout his academic career, he incorporated heavy use of computers in the classroom as a research tool.
Todd is a published writer on recruiting process and is a professional speaker on the topics of recruiting, web technologies as they impact the recruiting process, effective job search techniques, and networking. Todd currently serves as president of the Wisconsin Professional Recruiters Resource; as president of eInnovate, a Milwaukee tech sector non-profit; and as chair of the placement committee at AbilITyConnection, a Goodwill Industries organization dedicated to finding meaningful employment in IT for persons with disabilities. He is also a board member of Milwaukee's Bucketworks, a meeting place for technology, business, the arts, and leadership excellence. Finally, he is an active member of the Illinois Recruiters Network, the Chicago Skilled Recruiters Network, and Web414.
Andy Stanis
Executive Director of Sales
Andy has 18 years experience with global firms as well as boutique providers of IT professional services. Grounded in many years in sales and recruiting, he currently contributes to the SPR Family of Companies as the Executive Director of Sales guiding the business development team.
Andy's strong background in sales, recruiting, and service delivery positively impacts all areas at SPR. He defines market vision and strategy, while developing and communicating business goals as a team builder, motivator and trainer.
Prior to joining SPR in late 2007, Andy ran a sales training firm coaching hundreds of professionals in many of today's leading sales, negotiation and management strategies. Andy also held positions as Vice President of Sales, National Director of Business Development, and Regional Director for companies such as Keane, Inc., Spherion, Computer Power Group and TAC Worldwide.
Andy has a bachelor's degree in Communications from Illinois State University.