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The Agency That Staffs the Agencies
Celeste Gudas started 24 Seven in 2000 to staff fashion and beauty brands. Twenty-five years and eight acquisitions later, it is the No. 2 marketing and creative staffing firm in America - and it is quietly betting that the future of hiring is a matching algorithm plus a human who has read 3,000 salary surveys.
Ursus, Inc.
Ursus, Inc. is a technical and creative staffing firm founded in 2015 by Jon Beck. It connects enterprises, mid-market companies and high-growth startups with vetted talent across IT, cloud, data, security, DevOps, creative, life sciences and government services. Recognized for four consecutive years by Staffing Industry Analysts as one of the fastest-growing US staffing firms and a repeat Inc. 5000 honoree, Ursus pairs a relationship-first, quality-first operating model with a distributed team spanning the US, UK and India.
Jon Beck
Jon Beck is the Founder and CEO of Ursus, Inc., a San Francisco-based staffing firm he built from scratch in 2015 into one of the fastest-growing in the U.S., recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts for four consecutive years. A UC Berkeley psychology graduate and three-time rugby All-American, Beck brings 25+ years of technology executive experience across startups and global enterprises — including a stint at Cisco-acquired Embrane — to a company built around technical and creative talent for the digital transformation era.