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Reverse Recruiters Assn.

The people behind the standard

Leadership of the NRRA

A standards body is governed by people who put their names on it. Meet the founding President, the officers, and the board of directors of the National Reverse Recruiters Association.

From the President

A welcome from the founding President.

“For a decade I have watched talented people lose searches they deserved to win — not for lack of ability, but because nobody was on their side of the table. Reverse recruiting fixes that. The NRRA exists so that when a job seeker puts their career in a practitioner's hands, they can know exactly what standard that practitioner is held to. We built this association the way we tell our clients to run a search: deliberately, transparently, and to a written standard. I invite you — as a client or as a colleague — to hold us to it.”

Arno Markus

Founding President, National Reverse Recruiters Association
Founder & CEO, iCareerSolutions

Officers

The founding officers.

The officers carry out the day-to-day governance of the association, subject to the bylaws and the oversight of the board.

Arno Markus

BA, MSc, CPRW Founding President & Chair of the Board

Arno Markus is the founder and CEO of iCareerSolutions, an award-winning executive career services firm, and one of the earliest practitioners to build a dedicated reverse recruiting practice for senior and C-suite candidates. He has represented hundreds of executives into roles that were never publicly posted, and founded the NRRA to give the profession he helped pioneer a published standard, an earned credential, and an enforceable code of ethics. As President he chairs the board and represents the association publicly.

Tamara Cameron

MA, BA, BEd Vice President, Standards & Certification

Tamara Cameron is Vice President of Professional Services at iCareerSolutions, where she leads service delivery, quality standards, and practitioner training for reverse recruiting engagements. A career educator by training, she oversees the NRRA's competency model, the certification curriculum, and examination integrity — the machinery that makes an NRRA credential mean something. She serves as the association's chief standards officer.

Secretary‑Treasurer

  Founding appointment in progress

The Secretary‑Treasurer keeps the corporate records and minutes, oversees the association's finances, and files the annual reports required of a Delaware corporation. The founding board expects to fill this seat during the founding year.

Placeholder — to be announced

Board of Directors

The founding board.

The board holds fiduciary responsibility for the association, adopts standards on the recommendation of committees, and confers honors. By design it includes seats that no member firm controls: independent directors and a public member who represents the interests of job seekers.

Arno Markus

BA, MSc, CPRW Chair · Founding Director

Chairs the board and holds the founding-member seat. Recused, like every director, from any certification, judging, or ethics decision in which he or his firm has an interest.

Tamara Cameron

MA, BA, BEd Director · Standards

Holds the standards seat on the board and chairs the Standards Committee, which owns the competency model and the Code of Ethics.

Independent Director

  Ethics & Integrity seat

An independent professional from outside any member firm — typically from law, HR, or an adjacent standards body — who chairs Ethics Review and safeguards the blind-judging protocol.

Placeholder — recruiting now

Independent Director

  Certification seat

An independent credentialing or assessment professional who chairs the Certification Committee and rules on appeals, insulated from every member firm's commercial interests.

Placeholder — recruiting now

Public Member Director

  The job seeker's seat

A director drawn from the public the profession serves — a former client or consumer advocate — who brings the candidate's perspective to every standard the board adopts.

Placeholder — to be announced

Member-Elected Director

  Elected by the membership

As the certified membership grows, this seat converts from appointment to election — the first step in the bylaws' transition from a founding board to a member-governed one.

First election — with the founding class
Founding-period disclosure. During the founding year, officer and board seats are held by founding members while independent seats are filled. Founding status confers no exemption from any standard: founding firms and their principals certify, compete, and answer to Ethics Review under exactly the rules that bind every member. See Governance for how powers are separated.

Serve the profession

Independent seats are open.

The NRRA is recruiting independent directors and committee members from credentialing, law, HR, and consumer advocacy. If governance of a young profession interests you, we would like to hear from you.

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