Mr. Rick Underberg

biography

Rick has successfully built partnerships with Twin City businesses from the smallest entrepreneurial niche business to the largest multinational corporation; all sizes, all sectors. This partnership for Rick means active listening, responsive and effective communication, approaching the work with humility and respect for the client organization and a dogged persistence for finding the “right” candidate. Rick is efficient in reaching out to candidates at the most senior level of organizations, an audience that can be insulated within corporate environments. He particularly understands the sales and operations role that have a direct interface with the customer. Over his tenure as an executive recruiter he has placed hundreds of professionals that have added long term value to their organizations.



Rick has exceptional insight into navigating and managing customer relationships learned and mastered during his years in business management and consulting. Rick’s background includes key leadership roles in several Twin Cities based organizations. Rick served for seven years as President of Doherty Employment Group, a $125 million employer services company which delivers staffing, human resources, payroll processing, employee benefits and risk management services to over 400 companies. Prior to this he was a Managing Consultant with James Bissonett & Associates, Inc., one of the leading employee benefit consulting firms in Minnesota. Rick’s background also includes several years as a Vice President of a national distributor of music, video and personal computer software, where he developed, implemented and managed turnkey entertainment software departments for major national retailers such as Target, Wal-Mart, and Sears. Rick joined Abeln, Magy,Underberg & Associates in January, 2003.

Rick is a graduate of Moorhead State University and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science.