About Us

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in suburban Philadelphia, ProActive Strategies is a strategic IT resourcing firm providing:

• Staffing and contract staff augmentation services
• Consulting services with vertical market and technology based expertise
• Direct placement services

that meet our client’s required functional and technical skillsets, fit their company or team culture and are available within the needed timeframe.

With over 30 years of IT industry and professional services firm experience, ProActive Strategies was formed by like-minded industry veterans to provide high value, full lifecycle IT resourcing services to its clients while operating with the utmost integrity, shared principles and common values.

With qualifications and credibility gained from years of IT services and industry experience, our goal is to partner with organizations who value our subject matter expertise, comprehensive resourcing business process experience, and network of thousands of highly skilled practitioners to optimally fulfill their IT resourcing needs.

Joe is responsible for Resource Management and Talent Acquisition.  Joe brings over 30 years of IT recruiting experience.  He works closely with Business Development and Delivery, as well as our client base, to insure our people are the best at what they do.  “It’s our people that make us successful.  Finding good people is the hard part, keeping them is easy… when you have a team of partners with the same philosophy: Good people deserve to be treated great.”

Joe spent many years as an employee for various companies in the IT Consulting and Staffing industry including CDI, Cap Gemini, and Actium.  He played a key role in their success by building the organization’s human capital.  In 1998, Joe started his own agency in suburban Philadelphia, ProActive Staffing Strategies (PASS).  PASS has since transformed into ProActive Strategies, leveraging the IT industry and services expertise and experience of the additional partners.  ProActive has been delivering quality staffing, consulting and direct placement solutions to the Delaware valley, and beyond, ever since.

Jay is responsible for account management and delivery including the development of service offerings and solutions focused on project management and operations.  Jay has 25 years of consulting experience in the management, development and delivery of services to a diverse portfolio of clients in the financial services, healthcare, life sciences, pharmaceutical, consumer package goods, automotive and non-profit industries.

Jay was formerly Vice President of Professional Services at Business & Decision (B&D).  As a Principal of Hesta Corporation, Jay was instrumental in the planning and execution of the acquisition of the company by Mi Services Group / Business & Decision.

Prior to Business & Decision, Jay worked at Andersen Consulting in the Philadelphia technology group.  Jay received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering/Mathematics from Bucknell University.

Mark is responsible for account management and engagement delivery including the development of service offerings and solutions focused on enterprise technology and infrastructure.  Mark brings over 25 years of IT industry experience in the development and delivery of business and IT services to a diverse portfolio of clients. He has held senior industry and management consulting positions ranging from Interim CIO of a multi-billion dollar global manufacturing and distribution company to Vice President of several professional services delivery divisions.   He has extensive experience with enterprise, ERP, and Cloud technologies and solutions in the healthcare, life sciences, consumer packaging, and financial services industries and has presented to trade and users groups and global leaderships team on technology and management topics.

Mark was formerly Vice President at Business & Decision (B&D) where he held various IT consulting and management roles including building the Systems and Applications Support, Managed Services, and Datacenter Outsourcing lines of business.  As a Principal of Hesta Corporation, Mark was instrumental in the planning and execution of the acquisition of the company by Mi Services Group / Business & Decision.  Prior to Business & Decision, Mark held various technology solutions positions with both Integrated Systems Consulting Group (ISGG) and Shared Medical Systems (SMS).

Mark received his B.S. in Business Administration, Computer and Information Science from Bloomsburg University.  He holds various technical certifications including ITIL Foundations and participates in numerous technology users group.