Roz Goldfarb, President, established Roz Goldfarb Associates, Inc. in 1985, and founded her firm on the concepts of "civilized headhunting" and career management. Since that time, Roz has focused her recruitment practice in Design, Branding and Interactive Media for positions in Creative, Management, Account Services and Marketing and Business Development. She has cultivated the loyalty of clients and candidates who are the leaders in every category of the global business world and who demand the highest degree of professional expertise.

Roz's responsibilities also include assisting in the establishment of mergers, acquisitions and new business ventures, as well serving as a management consultant to growing creative divisions and companies of all sizes. In 2001 Roz led RGA to become a founding member of Aravati, a Global Search Network.

Roz's skills emanate from her distinctive career path, entailing many years of hands-on business management, early training in fine arts and art history, and her tenure as The Director of Pratt Institute's Associate Degree Programs, where she hired and trained numerous faculty, as well as wrote design curricula and developed innovative programs, seminars and foreign programs.

Throughout her career, Roz has strived to bring to the design and creative communities an understanding of commercial issues and a grounding in business practices. With that aim, she created educational programs at Pratt that emphasized professionalism and wrote Careers by Design: A Business Guide for Graphic Designers (Allworth Press, 3rd edition 2002 and Windsor Books, London 2002). Roz is also the author of The Design Firm and It's Employees, a chapter of the AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design (Allworth Press 1998, co-authored with Jessica Goldfarb); and The Art of Consulting (The Design Management Journal, Spring 1996 and Winter 2002).

Roz frequently addresses professional groups and numerous educational institutions about career opportunities and the changing design environment, including creating a Professional Practice Workshop for The Portfolio Center in Atlanta (2003) and making presentations to: MBA students at Columbia University; The Conference Board's Advertising Conference: Charting New Territory (2001); The International Institute for Research (2002 and 2003), The New Mexico Advertising Federation 2001; the HOW Conferences Design 2000 and Minding Your Own Business 2000; and the AIGA National Conference (1997). She also developed The First Business of Design Conference (2000) for the Center for Visual Communication (with Jessica Goldfarb). Roz often is a visiting guest lecturer and critic at institutions including The Delaware College of Art and Design, The Portfolio Center, The Academy of Art, San Francisco, Syracuse University, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, The Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute in New York, and the Association of Professional Design Firms. She has been interviewed on CNBC and WBIS-TV, as well as in a variety of publications.

In 1998 Roz was proud to be honored by Pratt Institute at the Hershel Levit Scholarship Fund dinner for her contributions to the design community.

Roz holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College of the City University of New York, where she studied painting with Robert Motherwell.

Rita Armstrongjoined RGA in 1986 and has sourced talent for a wide range of design specialties, growing as the industry has evolved and become more integrated. She heads up all search work for design and creative specialists and managers within Corporate and Consumer Branding, including in Print, Visual Identity and Packaging. Rita's many years of experience have given her rare insight and in-depth knowledge of the design industry. She has become a valued recruitment resource for her clients by helping them develop job titles and descriptions, identify and hire the talent they require, as well as assisting in structuring departments and providing advice that helps keep them competitive. Rita's clients include corporations, consultancies, marketing communication firms, and design boutiques. She graduated from Fordham University with a BA in Communication and applied her writing and speaking talents to advertising, theatre, publishing and non-profit work before joining RGA. She frequently writes on industry issues and speaks at schools and conferences.

Frank Dahill joined RGA in 1997 and has focused his recruitment efforts in the areas of Advertising Account Service, Strategic Planning and Marketing. He brings with him a wealth of advertising industry knowledge gained at such firms as Ogilvy & Mather, Chiat/Day and Saatchi & Saatchi. Prior to his career in advertising, Frank worked in company management at The Brooklyn Academy of Music. Frank has a reputation for honesty and integrity and the acumen to understand the different needs of his clients, from large corporations to creative boutiques. A true New Yorker, Frank was born and raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and is a graduate of Fordham University.

Benjamin Finkel is RGA's Associate for Creative positions in Digital and Direct Advertising, as well as Information Architecture & User Experience. Formerly a copywriter himself, Ben was recruited into the recruiting industry at the dawning of the interactive boom in 1996; and joined Roz Goldfarb Associates in 2004. Over the years, as the industry has evolved, he has worked with virtually every size, shape, and incarnation of interactive agency, digital shop, and consultancy out there. Ben is appreciated throughout, for his ability to see through the clutter, identify needle-in-a-haystack talent at every level, and keenly match it with opportunity. He is also highly respected for his ability to walk the fine line between persistence, and being a complete nuisance. Benjamin was born and bred right here in Manhattan, and he received his B.A. in English/Theater from Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Jessica Eve Goldfarb, Managing Partner, joined RGA in 1995 and serves as its Counsel and Director of Business Development, as well as Recruitment Consultant for Branding Specialists. She came to RGA after six years experience as an attorney and specialist in employment law and technology policy. Jessica was a political appointee within the Clinton Administration, working for Vice President Gore, the Labor Department, and The National Commission for Employment Policy. She also practiced employment law at a firm in New York City. Jessica has written on employment issues for various publications and is co-author with Roz Goldfarb of The Design Firm and Its Employees, a chapter of the AIGA Professional Practices in Graphics Design (Allworth Press, 1998). Jessica is active with several professional and political organizations. She has served on the Board of Directors and the Career Development Committee of New York Women in Communications (NYWICI) and on the Program Committee of the New York New Media Association (NYNMA). Jessica is a graduate of the NYU School of Law, SUNY-Binghamton and the Bronx High School of Science.

Margot Jacqz joined RGA in 2000 as Associate for Architecture and Environments. She is responsible for assignments involving cities, buildings, and interiors, including specialties such as retail design and other branded environments, exhibits, entertainment venues, and environmental graphics. A leading recruiter in this arena since 1983, she is sustained by a deep interest in organizations and creative professionals as both designers and managers. Before being recruited to consulting, Margot spent four years at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, mostly as managing editor of their newspaper Skyline, while also an associate editor of Interiors magazine and contributor of the architecture notes for the first Access Guide to New York. Margot has been an active member of the AIA/New York Chapter as a leader of the Women in Architecture Committee and the Society for Environmental Graphic Design, for whom she was a regional representative. She has an AB from Princeton; although this degree is in architecture, she can't draw.

Kurt Steiner joined RGA in 2006 and focuses on recruiting for strategy, marketing, management and client services in interactive and emerging media, as well as for management consulting and corporate clients. With nearly a decade of management consulting experience for both McKinsey & Company and Booz Allen Hamilton, Kurt also brings business development and marketing expertise to RGA. Kurt has significant ties to the design community, having consulted for both graphic design and architecture studios, including Steiner&Co. in Hong Kong. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Kurt holds a BA in Political Science from Franklin & Marshall College and a MA in Media and Communication Studies from NYU.