Ralph Andersen & Associates -- executive recruitment, management, finance, and personnel resources -- primarily serving local government

Our Team
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Meet Our Recruiters

Heather Renschler

Heather Renschler, President and Chief Executive Officer, has been with Ralph Andersen & Associates since 1985. Ms. Renschler has overseen the recruitment practice for the last 11 years and, as a result, is often involved with recruitments on a national scale and those of a highly sensitive and critical nature. As the project director and lead consultant dealing directly with the client on all aspects of the search process, she is experienced at working with city managers, city councils, board of directors, and other governing boards in the recruitment and selection process. Her network of contacts and potential candidates extends throughout the nation.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Renschler had extensive private sector experience working in the fields of construction management, healthcare, personnel management, and public accounting. As a native of Toledo, Ohio, Ms. Renschler initially attended the University of Toledo and majored in Accounting and Journalism. She graduated from the University of San Francisco with a Bachelor's degree in public administration.

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Robert Burg

Robert J. Burg, Executive Vice President, specializes in both executive search and management consulting assignments. He has over 29 years of experience in government, emergency management, human services and healthcare administration. Mr. Burg has held senior administrative positions in organizations ranging in size of less than 100 employees to over 1,000.

Mr. Burg’s broad spectrum of consulting experience includes performance improvement, organizational development, organizational diagnosis, labor management relations, leadership development, strategic planning, team building, and conflict resolution. While Administrator of the Attending Physician’s Office, United States Capitol he managed the healthcare delivery system serving the Members of Congress, Justices of the Supreme Court, staff and visiting dignitaries. Additionally, he was the Public Health Division Chief for Arlington County, Virginia and Chief of Operations for a Human Services Foundation.

International consulting activities include healthcare organizational design for the Knesset in Israel, Ministry of Health, China, South Korea, and the British Parliament. Mr. Burg has a Bachelors of Arts degree in Economics and a Masters of Business Administration with a specialty in Healthcare both from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. He has taught business management courses and lectured at several prestigious organizations.

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Matthew Monaghan

Matthew Monaghan, Consultant, is a public sector consultant and recruiter with Ralph Andersen & Associates. He recently served as Administrator of Public Health Emergency Management for the greater Phoenix metropolitan area where he lead the development of bioterrorism and public health emergency response planning for the 4th largest county in the nation (3.5 million population). Previously, Mr. Monaghan worked as senior advisor to Maricopa County’s Chief Health Officer supplying insight and high-level interagency management for the six associated agencies of Health and Human Services. In this capacity, Mr. Monaghan has worked closely with the directors and senior management of Correctional Health Services, Environmental Services, Human Services, and the Office of the Medical Examiner on numerous high profile projects. In addition to his work in the public sector, Mr. Monaghan has extensive business development and strategic planning experience with clients ranging from small firms exploring new market opportunities to international companies seeking complete end-to-end services including business planning, communications, cost cutting and online collaboration with customers and suppliers. As a management analyst for a number of full-service business communications agencies, Mr. Monaghan provided business development and marketing management for such companies as Kraft, Pfizer, Georgia Pacific, General Mills, and others.

Mr. Monaghan has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Columbia University in the City of New York and a Master’s of Business Administration from Clemson University with concentrations in Strategic Planning and International Business.

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Jeffrey G. Foltz

Mr. Jeffrey Foltz is a Senior Public Sector Consultant and Executive Recruiter. Prior to joining Ralph Andersen & Associates, Mr. Foltz had an extensive career in the public sector, totaling 33 years of public service. He retired in 2006 from the City of Yuba City, California; a community with a population of 60,000, with 340 employees and a budget of $115 million, after more than 20 years as the City Manager. Mr. Foltz developed a long-term vision for the city, created leadership programs, comprehensive employee training programs and routinely received outstanding budget awards.

Mr. Foltz has extensive experience working with multiple agencies and negotiating difficult deals, including the acquisition of fire and multiple water districts. He spent many hours in Sacramento and Washington lobbying for programs and funding. Mr. Foltz is a proven leader and practitioner of sound fiscal management in public agencies.

In the area of organizational development, Mr. Foltz has restructured city departments to significantly improve the use of technology on a city-wide basis.

Mr. Foltz holds a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from Western Washington University. Mr. Foltz also holds a lifetime teaching credential to teach at the community college level.

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Mike Hall

Mike Hall, Chief of Police (Ret.) is a Senior Public Sector Consultant, Executive Eecruiter and California POST Background Investigator with Ralph Andersen & Associates. Chief Hall is a 31-year veteran of law enforcement, an F.B.I. National Academy graduate who has extensive experience in municipal policing. Chief Hall worked as an undercover drug officer, detective, detective commander, intelligence analyst, patrol commander and is a Medal of Valor recipient.

As a deputy chief of police for the Lawrence Kansas Police Department, he developed, administered and was corporate president of the prestigious F.B.I. Central States Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar, Inc. - an annual command college for law enforcement executives from five Midwestern states. At Lawrence, he was a member of the city manager’s Management Team.

Chief Hall has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Baker University. He has lectured for many law enforcement groups and organizations.

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Paul L. Green

Mr. Paul Green is a Senior Consultant with Ralph Andersen & Associates and has extensive senior executive experience at the highest levels of the nation’s airline, aviation and marine industries. Well known for his strong strategic planning, project management, change management and negotiation skills, Mr. Green’s unmatched expertise is grounded in a track record of success developing and implementing creative solutions to meet complex operating challenges.

Prior to joining Ralph Andersen & Associates, Mr. Green was the Chief Operating Officer for the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) for eight years. Mr. Green also served as the Chief Executive – Marine Division of the Washington State Department of Transportation. Additionally, Mr. Green’s experience includes time as Chief Executive Officer of a private travel management company as well as a 24 year career, as an executive, with United Airlines.

Mr. Green has served on the boards of the Marine Board of National Academies and the International Marine Transit Association, and was the president of the Washington State Maritime Cooperative. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Arkansas.

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Jeff Bowman

Mr. Jeff Bowman, Fire Chief (Ret.), is based in San Diego California as a Senior Associate and Executive Search Consultant with Ralph Andersen & Associates. Chief Bowman has had an expansive career in the public sector having served 33 years in local government. Twenty-Nine years were spent serving the City of Anaheim, California Fire Department where he advanced through the ranks of Firefighter, Paramedic, Captain, Battalion Chief, Division Chief, and ultimately obtaining the rank of Fire Chief in 1986 and serving until 2002.

Chief Bowman was selected as the Fire Chief for San Diego, California in 2002 where he has served with distinction for the past four years until recently retiring. Chief Bowman has an exemplary track record of professional achievements and affiliations both nationally and within the state of California. He is currently serving as the Chairman of the Scripps Health Board of Trustees.

Chief Bowman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco. He also holds an Associate of Science in Fire Technology and Paramedic Science from Santa Ana College.

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Marsha Noble

Marsha Noble, is a Senior Associate with Ralph Andersen & Associates serving clients primarily in California and other Western states as well as the Southeast. She has more than twenty years of professional human resources experience in healthcare and higher education and has most recently provided recruitment serves to an array of public sector clients. Before joining Ralph Andersen & Associates, Ms. Noble was a Senior Manager with a nationally known executive search firm for four years based in Los Angeles. Prior to this, she directed the human resources function for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine for ten years, including the University’s programs at affiliated County and veterans administration (VA) hospitals. As a member of the Dean’s senior management team, she was personally responsible for conducting searches for all top management personnel in the medical and dental schools, as well as oversight of the organization’s entire staff recruitment effort. In that capacity, she also provided human resource management services to the not-for-profit Venice Family Clinic.

Additionally, Ms. Noble spent nearly twelve years with the City of Los Angeles in the Personnel Department. During that time she coordinated recruitment activities, and managed the competitive selection processes for public safety classifications. Ms. Noble was also the liaison to many large City departments, including the Department of Water and Power. In this role she was responsible for writing job specifications and making recommendations with regard to appropriate classifications for many technical and administrative positions in this large, public utility. Earlier in her career, Ms. Noble reviewed equal employment opportunity (EEO) efforts for several City departments and investigated complaints of discrimination.

Ms. Noble received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Elementary Education from Northeastern Illinois State University, and has completed graduate work in Political Science at California State University Northridge, with an emphasis in Public Administration.

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John Goss

John Goss, Senior Associate with Ralph Andersen & Associates, specializes in both executive search and management consulting assignments. He has over 40 years of experience in local government, working with both counties and cities.

Before joining Ralph Andersen & Associates, Mr. Goss was the Assistant County Administrator, Economic Development and Public Services Group for San Bernardino County, California for five years. Mr. Goss has also served as City Manager of the City of Chula Vista, California and the City of Alameda, California and as the General Services Director for the City of Oakland, California.

Additionally, Mr. Goss has received the Mark E. Keane Award for Excellence from ICMA in 1991. He has also served as President of the City Managers Department of the League of California Cities from 1993-1994.

Mr. Goss earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fresno State majoring in Political Economy. He also holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California.

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Meet Our Support Staff

Teresa Heple

Teresa Heple joined Ralph Andersen & Associates in 1981 and currently serves as the Manager of Support Services . Throughout her tenure with the firm, Ms. Heple has provided administrative and technical support to all of the firm's operating divisions. Prior to joining Ralph Andersen & Associates, Ms. Heple provided administrative support to a capital investment firm and served in the United States Navy. Ms. Heple has more than 30 years experience in the field of administrative and executive level support. She holds an Associates degree from American River Community College.

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Diana Haussmann

Diana Haussmann is an Administrative Assistant with Ralph Andersen & Associates. Prior to joining Ralph Andersen & Associates in 1993, Ms. Haussmann provided administrative support to the legal profession and also worked in the fast-paced world of title and escrow. Ms. Haussmann has more than 25 years experience and holds an Associate of Arts degree in legal office administration.

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Diana Lee

Ms. Diana Lee, based in Dallas, has been with Ralph Andersen & Associates since 1987 in progressively more responsible positions. Throughout her tenure with the firm, Ms. Lee has provided administrative and technical support to all of the firm's operating divisions. Her current responsibilities include candidate outreach and identification on a wide array of recruitment projects. Additional involvement on assignments includes providing high level support and research to the project team on each phase of the search process. Prior to joining Ralph Andersen & Associates, Ms. Lee served as office manager for one of the largest general contractors in Dallas and secretary to the Chief Civil Deputy for Dallas County. Ms. Lee has over 30 years experience in the field of administrative and executive level support.

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Meet Our Interns

Jennifer Netzley joined Ralph Andersen & Associates in 2006. Jennifer provides administrative support and is involved in candidate research. She is currently attending California State University, Sacramento in pursuit of a Bachelor's degree.

Alex Erkenbrecher joined Ralph Andersen & Associates in 2005. Alex provides administrative support and is involved in candidate research. She is currently attending Sierra College and plans to transfer to California State University, Sacramento, in order to obtain her Bachelor’s degree.

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