Survival Requires “Half-Full” Mentality

Carmine Marinaro has a unique view of the economy. He is filling jobs in an industry struggling to survive. As the owner of Corporate Information Systems, a Rutherford based executive placement service- or headhunter- Marinaro specializes in placing sales executives in high-tech companies. Q. How would you describe the economy during the last two years? [...]

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Running Like a Machine

Carmine Marinaro takes systems seriously. “We even have a system for making coffee,” says Marinaro, founder of Corporate Information Systems (CIS), a high-tech executive-search firm in Rutherford, N.J. Marinaro launched CIS in 1987, and though business was good, revenues plateaued at the $1 million mark by the mid-90′s. We were doing well, but I thought [...]

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New Jersey’s Most Successfull Businesspeople

When Carmine Marinaro left Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1982, after earning a B.S. in management on a combination academic/baseball scholarship, he had no idea that his first job would turn out to be the basis of his whole career. Marinaro took a post with an executive-search firm – headhunters in common parlance – and after [...]

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