"I solve your firm's people problems"

Mike Marino is a dynamic, respected senior-level human resources professional with almost twenty years of experience and a proven track record of success in all aspects of “people management”, including employee relations, recruitment/retention, training & development, executive coaching, benefits/compensation administration and employment/labor law.

He is a proven leader, problem-solver and strategic/tactical planner with numerous start-up, continuous-improvement, rightsizing and turnaround achievements.

Mike began his career as an employment attorney. He graduated from Brooklyn Law School, where he was a legal research assistant on employment and labor law issues. His first position was with a boutique Wall Street law firm, where he helped set two important legal precedents in the area of employment law. Mike went on to prosecute employment discrimination complaints for the Commission on Human Rights, then later served as chief employment counsel for the Human Resources Administration, one of the country’s largest public employers with over 30,000 “white/pink/blue-collar” employees.

Mike segued into the field of human resources by joining ECCO Staffing Services, Inc. as their head of HR for the U.S., where he was responsible for recruitment, compensation, benefits, training & development, employee relations and EEO compliance/reporting for 45,000 regular, temporary and “payrolled” employees in all fifty states.

He then joined Bloomberg, L.P., both establishing and implementing the employee relations/EEO function for this rapidly growing financial information services firm with 4,000 employees in over forty countries.

Mike went on to lead the HR function for the corporate headquarters and New York office of the world’s largest public relations firm, Burson-Marteller, where he managed employee relations/EEO, benefits and training & development, in addition to heavy-volume recruitment.

He continued in the PR industry as Vice-President of Human Resources for Noonan/Russo, Communications, Inc., an innovative, cutting-edge international public relations firm specializing in the bioscience sector, where he created the human resources function and established the HR department.

As a consultant, Mike has worked with clients throughout the US and Canada on a wide variety of human resources and employment law related matters.