Kristin Vickery, President and COO of Strategic Workforce Solutions ("Strategic", formerly Strategic Legal Resources, SLR), is one of Strategic's founding partners and a member of its board. From Strategic's launch in 1995, Ms. Vickery quickly built the operational infrastructure, recruited a deep pool of highly-qualified legal professionals and ensured that the company successfully matched experienced attorneys and paralegals to the explosive growth in client demand. In the first two years of Ms. Vickery's leadership, Strategic had approximately 3000 active legal professionals in the candidate database. During this time Strategic placements shot up over 1000% and revenues increased by 1500%. Such enviable growth soon attracted the interest of investors who purchased the company in 1998. Ms. Vickery is the only Strategic founder to have stayed on following this acquisition by a public company. While maintaining responsibility for recruiting, placement, sales, marketing, billing, payroll and overall day-to-day management, Ms. Vickery oversaw the expansion of Strategic operations to new markets in New Jersey and Chicago. She later initiated the management buy-back that brought SWS under its present leadership. In 2001, Ms. Vickery played a key role in Strategic's acquisition of The Goodkind Group, forming the new company, Strategic Workforce Solutions, which offers its clients a "one-stop" source of over 10,000 professionals covering the full spectrum of legal, IT, administrative, financial services, accounting, human resources and sales/marketing. Following the acquisition, Ms. Vickery led the integration of Strategic's seventy-five member staff in five offices, and she continues to manage the company as its President and COO. Ms. Vickery started her career as a paralegal in the real estate and corporate departments at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Later, as in-house counsel at DynCorp, a diversified technology services company, she defended against and helped to successfully manage a multi-million dollar lawsuit. Hands-on expertise managing project staff in the legal and corporate environments informs Ms. Vickery's leadership of Strategic. Having won the respect of colleagues and competitors alike, she has spoken extensively at law firms, corporate legal departments, bar associations and trade groups. Ms. Vickery graduated with honors from Scripps College in 1989. In 1994, she received her J.D. from Pepperdine University's School of Law and became a member of the New York Bar.