Allen Tansil

biography

Allen Tansil is a Managing Partner at Handler & Associates. He brings to the firm a strong management background and a broad generalist perspective that adds great value to the firm’s senior management searches. He gained his reputation for hiring top quality people and building high performing teams in previous executive positions at Georgia-Pacific Corp, Ivan Allen Co, and Genuine Parts Company. Allen’s extensive management background gives him valuable insight into our clients’ challenges and needs.

Allen began his career with Georgia-Pacific Corp’s building products distribution division. Over a 13 year period, he held positions of increasing responsibility, leading finally to National Sales and Marketing Manager. After leaving Georgia-Pacific, Allen joined the Ivan Allen Company, an Atlanta-based office products, office furniture, and printing company, as their Executive Vice President where he managed the office products and printing division. Following the sale of that division, Allen joined S.P. Richards Company, a $1.5 billion office products wholesale distributor and division of Genuine Parts Company, as Senior Vice President. There he led a strategic reorganization of the national sales department that resulted in a 20 percent sales increase. Prior to joining Handler & Associates, Allen was a partner at Executrack, Inc., an Atlanta-based consulting company, where he developed new human capital services for clients and led the company’s expansion into Florida.

Allen is an active member of Trinity Presbyterian Church and plays an ongoing role in mentoring and fundraising at The Bridge, a home for abused teenagers. He has served on the Boards of the School and Home Office Association and the American Office Products Association.

Allen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Tennessee.