Placements, Staffing, Mergers and Acquisition Advisors

Integrated Services

Peak Partners is focused on transacting great connections through the recruitment of exceptional employees and through its Mergers and Acquisition services. Our decades of experience is leveraged to deliver sound decisions, skilled employees and increased value for your business.

Peak Placements

The Peak Placement team prides itself on partnering with its clients to find the right candidates for their jobs. Whether you are in need for just one hire or help with all your recruiting needs Peak Placements is able to be your outsourced recruiter from start to finish.

What makes Peak Placements different than other Placement firms is that we strive to be a true partner with our clients. We listen to our clients cultural and technical needs and strive to screen and present only top talent applicants who can meet each client’s needs.

The scope of our services include:
– Create or editing job descriptions
– Sourcing candidates
– Screening candidates
– Negotiating salary and compensation packages

Peak Staffing

When your company has a staffing need for a long-term project, Peak Staffing can help you fill your staffing gap. Peak provides temporary staffing for Technology, Legal, and Finance professionals for any industry. Peak Staffing specializes in engagements 6 months or longer.

What makes Peak Staffing different than other staffing firms is that we pride ourselves in keeping communications open with both the client and leased employee so we can avoid any sudden issues that can cause the client or employee’s dissatisfaction.

Peak Staffing

Peak Strategy Advisors (M&A Services)

Whether you are a mid-size company looking to grow through acquisitions or a closely held company looking for an exit, Peak Strategy Advisors is here to help you navigate through the process. For more than 20 years we have been providing M&A services to both buy and sell side.

What makes Peak Strategy Advisors different from other M&A advisory firms is that we offer small and mid-size organizations the same processes used by large investment banking firms, allowing our clients to optimize value in their transactions.

Peak is happy to work with any of our clients on either a consultant or a contingent success fee basis.

The services we offer include:
– Financial and pre-marketing fact gathering
– Drafting offering memorandums and financial projections
– Sourcing and marketing the transaction
– Negotiation and closing the transaction

The Peak Partners

Jill B. Reamer

Principal

Jill has over 20 years of managing business transactions that include, personnel placements, strategic partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions.

Read Full Bio

Jill Reamer has over 20 years of managing business transactions that include, personnel placements, strategic partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions.

Jill began her career as a transactional advisor for CMG Health, Inc., a regional healthcare company. As CMG Health’s chief legal counsel and leading corporate development officer, she helped lead the growth of the company from a $20 million enterprise to $120 million national organization over the span of five years.

As a member of the company’s Executive Committee, Jill became a principal force in the $85 million sale of CMG Health. It was at that point in her early career that she realized her love of facilitating all types of corporate transactions and established Peak Strategy Advisors, a firm that provides personnel placements, and strategic merger and acquisition services to organizations in all industries and for all sizes.

In 2021 Peak Strategy Advisors expanded its personnel placement services by purchasing Professional Personnel Services (PPS). As a result, Jill now manages the operations of Peak Partner’s three divisions, Peak Placements, Peak Staffing and Peak Strategy Advisors, (M&A consulting).

Neal Fisher

Founder Professional Personnel Services (PPS)

Neal recruits and staffs IT professionals with some of the most well-known, well-respected, and technology-driven companies in the area.

Read Full Bio

In 1985, Neal Fisher opened Professional Personnel Services in Towson, MD, to provide professional personnel staffing services to the Baltimore region. In 1998, he changed the company name to PPS Information Systems Staffing to reflect his specialized efforts in the area of Information Technology.

Neal possesses extensive experience to fit the right person in the right job. His vast knowledge of the IT field allows him to navigate the screening process to make sure all applicants possess the necessary skills, both technical and soft, to be successful in any position in which they are placed.

Neal recruits and staffs IT professionals with some of the most well-known, well-respected, and technology-driven companies in the area. His areas of expertise include Clinical and Non-Clinical Informatics, all Information Technology disciplines, and Technical/Management Professionals.

Rob Lanahan

Vice President, IT Recruitment and Staffing

Rob has been providing IT recruitment services for over 20 years. He prides himself on providing full life cycle recruiting services.

Read Full Bio

Rob has been providing IT recruitment services for over 20 years. He prides himself on providing full life cycle recruiting services that include sourcing, screening, interviewing, negotiating compensation and presenting clients with a well screened selection of qualified candidates in a fast paced environment.

Rob works both on placing long term consulting candidates for clients with project based work, as well as full time direct hire placements. Placements have been with the regions largest financial, education, healthcare and legal firms, as well as for the logistics and non-profit organizations.

With more than 20 years under Robs belt he boasts placements in all IT disciplines including: Java Developers, .Net Developers, Network Engineers, Project Managers, Business Intelligence Analysts, Enterprise Architects, Middleware Engineers, Help Desk Technicians, NOC/SOC analysts, Cyber Security Engineers, Windows/Unix Systems Administrators, and Application developers.

Eric Rebbert

Senior Vice President, Growth and Strategy

Eric was first certified as a senior professional in human resources in 1996, and his career trajectory provides the perfect foundation for helping businesses make better decisions.

Read Full Bio

First certified as a senior professional in human resources in 1996, Eric Rebbert’s career trajectory provides the perfect foundation for helping businesses make better decisions.

Eric hired hundreds of employees during his 15-year career with Santoni’s Supermarkets, a former 13-store regional supermarket chain, where he advanced to Vice President of Operations. In ten years as Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Eric traveled the globe hiring, repatriating, and managing local and international staff working in 30 international field offices. As a Deputy Director at an international NGO in Manhattan, then CAO for a renowned architectural firm in Washington, D.C., he gained extensive executive management experience, and recruited and hired from entry level positions to senior executive and C-level roles.

Eric also owned and operated a local staffing and recruiting firm in Bel Air, Maryland and was Vice President of Business Development for a Baltimore-based community bank. His many years in corporate executive leadership roles have expanded his professional network and broadened the skills necessary to establish and foster solid relationships with clients and associates.

Ann Smekal

IT Recruiter

Ann has enjoyed a long and successful career as an IT professional. Recently, she decided to leverage her extensive technical background to pursue IT recruiting.

Read Full Bio

Ann Smekal’s love of computer systems began when she was in college as an accounting major. From the first computerized accounting class, she was hooked. Ann changed her major to Computer Science and never looked back.

As an IT professional, Ann has enjoyed a long and successful career. She has worn many hats over the years, but her passion has always been systems administration. Ann has worked as corporate professional in national companies including TaylorMade Golf Company, Microsoft, DA Davidson & CO as well as the Port of San Diego and therefore brings to the table an innate understanding of what companies need from their IT professionals.

More recently, Ann found herself considering the direction of her career and the opportunities available due to the changing employment climate. With some encouragement from colleagues, she decided to hang up her Systems Administrator hat and leverage her extensive technical background to pursue IT recruiting. Ann was delighted when she was contacted by Jill Reamer, President at Peak Partners, and offered a position with the company. Ann says she feels very blessed to be working with the team at Peak and loves her job!