Gail Auguston is the President and founder of Auguston and Associates, an international retained executive search firm specializing in global medical and dental device and equipment manufacturers. Since 1978, Auguston and Associates has continued to grow as a national and international presence in the healthcare recruiting arena with ninety-eight percent of their business coming from satisfied customers and candidate referrals. In 2000 we moved our corporate office from Portland, Oregon to Pompano Beach, Florida. Gail has been a guest speaker at numerous international search and recruiting conferences in Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe, and the United States. A former President of the National Association of Personnel Services (NAPS) and past President of the International Association of Personnel Services Associations (IPSA), Gail was honored in 1996 as the Harold B. Nelson Memorial Award Recipient the highest individual honor given by the National Association of Personnel Services. She is a founding partner and past member of the Board of Directors for Search Net International, a Swiss based global retained search network and a past member of the Board of Directors for First Interview Sales and Marketing Network. Since 1995 Gail has been a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International. Gail earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Political Science from Arizona State University and lived in Switzerland as a AFS exchange student. Gail is active in the Gift of Life Transplant foundation, Rotary International, The Broward County Humane Society, Cystic Fibrosis Gold Coast Guild, and Operation Brave Kids which supports the children of service men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.