The Kforce Story: 50 Plus Years of Great People Delivering Great Results

Both Dave and Bob believed the key to their business was to hire experienced employment agency counselors though that strategy produced “extremely marginal results” and they soon discovered their technical expertise and knowledge of the industry was “a refreshing change” for both candidates and clients. With that revelation, along with their

Legend and Lore

The story has always been handed down that when Ray Roy and Frank McCabe met at a Boston pub to discuss Ray’s future plans, they were enjoying a Lowenbrau. Struck by the regal-looking creature on the Lowenbrau logo, they decided to adopt it into their own logo. Years later when Romac had grown enough to merit a corporate newsletter, it was named The Griffin after the animal featured in the Romac and Associates logo.

dedication to high ethical standards, Dave Grimes and Bob Trotter set a course for

The stately lion (or was it a griffin?) used for the Romac logo.

the company that would stand the test of time.

As it turns out, the animal on the Lowenbrau label is, in fact, not a griffin. Lowenbrau, at one time the largest brewery in Germany, takes its name from the German words for “lion’s brew,” hence the lion in the Lowenbrau logo. While the mythological griffin did have a lion’s body, it had the head and wings of an eagle. In heraldry the griffin was used to denote strength, military courage, and leadership. Despite the confusion over the lion and the griffin, it is fitting that Romac’s beginnings should be linked to the ancient brew. Dunkel (as in CEO David Dunkel) is actually the name for a dark German beer, the origins of which can be traced to the ancient Bavarian countryside, and it is still brewed in Munich.

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When Mike Parr joined the management team in 1966, the

company began a period of tremendous expansion beginning with the San Francisco office, and the company changed its name to Source Edp, Inc.

Romac and Associates Also in 1966, two more former IBM employees named Ray Roy and Frank McCabe would play a role in Kforce’s history. While most people have always assumed that they started their new business together, according to Bob Bond it was actually Ray Roy who

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left IBM to enter the staffing business and started Romac with the blessing of his manager at the time, Frank McCabe. “Frank was a legend in the greater Boston area,” said Bob. “He was a very early hire in sales at IBM and worked his way up.” Frank never worked at Romac but Ray very

Source’s top performers receive an aerial welcome.

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