Directed by Kathryn Trott, e-TROTT.inc. is a leading specialty executive recruiting firm in
consumer credit, which focuses on credit card, consumer credit, online banking, internet, e-commerce,
and related emerging markets. Combining wide industry and management experience, Trott integrates
hands-on knowledge and business savvy with recognized ethical standards. Functional placements
include marketing, product development, operations, customer service, risk management, credit policy,
project management and information-based analytics. Experienced recruiters and researchers support
the process.
e-TROTT.inc. is committed to high efficiency in candidate selection, fair pricing, and pro-active
recruiting during all hiring stages. We combine the benefits of the big, generalist firms with all
the virtues of the best, focused, specialty recruiters.
Our reputation reflects this core belief: recruiting is leadership, innovation, ethics and chemistry.
Finding the best person to lead your company into the twenty first century we become an extension of
your team. We understand your vision, culture and the human capital that will take you to your objectives
and beyond. Serving your bottom line, finally, best serves ours.
A ten-year talent shortage, especially in leading-edge candidates, translates into excessive hiring costs,
hiring delays, and staff burnout. Traditional trends - downsizing, layoffs, mergers, and profit pressures
at one bank, issuer, or level - produce new job openings at other levels and institutions, especially for
the top talent. Thanks to our specialization, technology awareness, reputation for fair dealing, and countless,
long-term industry relationships, the best, high-demand talent is tracked by e-TROTT.inc.'s databases.
New trends, such as the explosion of online and e-commerce services plus related emerging markets sustain
shortages in key areas, but also serve as valuable sources to fuel growth in the consumer credit and financial
services industries.
Executive recruiting is the natural outcome of Kathryn Trott's business management experience, her
affinity for people, and her command of complex technology. Thirteen years of management experience at
Wells Fargo Bank, spanning operations and credit divisions, shaped her strategic, people, and organizational
skills in retail, accounting, systems, customer service, consumer credit, travelers cheques, human resources
and credit card.
It is her mastery of consumer credit (having directed Wells Fargo's card operations as Vice President and
District Manager), plus skills in customer service and operations that give her the hands-on industry
experience clients value. Kathryn Trott is that rare recruiter who combines high technical experience
(in business planning, management, and information-age technology) with equally keen insight and intuition
about people.
Kathryn Trott has 13 years of professional recruiting, including 9 years as President of Allard Associates,
plus various articles and trade conference speeches, have established her excellent industry reputation.
Kathryn Trott has successfully placed candidates at many of the top financial services companies and at
innovative leading edge companies. Some of those companies are American Express, AT&T Universal Card, Wells
Fargo Bank, Hewlett Packard, Chase Manhattan Bank, Renaissance Card Services, H.S.B.C., First Union Bank.
Bank of America, Capital One, Trajecta, First Data Corp., Portfolio Information Corp., Wright Express,
First Chicago, U.S. Bank, CitiCorp, and many others.
What distinguishes recruiting, according to Kathryn Trott, is that it provides mutually beneficial
solutions, to the candidate and the employer, during a sometime fragile hiring process. "We are multi-faceted
facilitators who know when and how to intervene, from candidate selection and the first handshake through
interview, negotiation, relocation, and lifestyle stages. Though focus on the big picture is essential to
matching the right people to the right job, equally important is making the match happen on schedule - which
means overcoming minor and major obstacles alike. It's a very exciting challenge, requiring creativity,
patience, judgment, and often the courage of your convictions."
Kathryn Trott holds a BA in Economics from the University of California Davis, graduated from its
Executive Program, and has taught college-level banking courses. She is the founder and president of the
Food Bank of Yolo County which provides over 1.25 million pounds of food annually to the hungry and needy.
