Thomas H. McAleer is a Managing Partner with MG2. He began his career in recruitment in 1986 with Norman H. Gershman Consultants, a New York-based executive search firm. Tom was instrumental in growing the company’s Denver branch that later became the predecessor for PR1ME Consultants Inc.

With PR1ME Consultants, Tom was a Senior Vice President and later became President of this Executive Search firm that specialized in the placement of executive, senior management, sales and international professionals in the financial services industry. Tom’s clients were all NYSE listed, financial service and brokerage firms.

Tom was the driving force in securing relationships with the industry’s A-list of firms including PaineWebber, CIBC Oppenheimer, Bear Stearns, Wertheim Schroder and Morgan Stanley. Tom was also a guest speaker with several firms, including the investment bank Stifel Nicolaus, where he taught successful recruiting techniques to their top branch managers.

In 1998, Tom joined Accounting Principals, Inc.’s Denver branch as a Senior Executive Recruiter, where he was responsible for building the Executive Search Practice. Tom established relationships with many of Denver’s leading companies — Coors Brewing Company, Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and the real estate investment trust companies AIMCO and ProLogis. Tom was consistently the Denver branch’s top producer.