A Marine who served in SIGINT. A president who built and sold at scale. Now on your side of the table.
RedBeard isn’t a faceless agency. It’s run by an operator who has lived the mission, built the teams, and written the book on how to win talent — and who puts his own face on every search.
Gerry Gadoury spent 30 years on both sides of the line that separates how the cleared world hires from how the best technology companies do.
He started as a USMC SIGINT operator — where he learned the cleared world from the inside: the intelligence mission, the technology, the jargon, and the programs. That fluency is what clients and candidates feel in the first conversation. The hiring expertise came later — three decades in technology professional services as a recruiter, salesperson, manager, consultant, executive, and owner.
As president, he helped build and sell a 2,500-consultant technology services firm in five years, and has run 75+ early-stage company engagements — learning, role by role, what actually makes top talent say yes. That experience became a method, and the method became a book.
Destination Employer — his #1 bestseller on attracting, recruiting, and retaining the top talent in your market — is the methodology under everything RedBeard does. It is also why a cold prospect trusts a cold message: the judgment is earned, not asserted.
Today that judgment points at one mission: getting cleared talent — TS/SCI, CI Full Poly — into the defense-tech, intelligence, and GovCon firms that need it, faster, and at a price they'd choose to pay.
Building technology professional-services firms.
Routinely fills TS/SCI and CI Full Poly roles — former USMC SIGINT operator.
Built & sold a 2,500-consultant firm as president.
Destination Employer — on attracting & retaining top talent.
The first face you see on every role is Gerry’s.
No anonymous team behind a curtain. A 30-year operator owns the judgment and the engagement, with a dedicated recruiting team executing every search — and he opens each one with a video brief, so candidates and clients meet a named human before anything else.
Destination Employer
The methodology under everything we do: attract, recruit, and retain the top talent in your market — before your competitor does.
Buy on Amazon →How we think about GovCon hiring.
Gerry’s thesis, earned from 30 years on both sides of the line: GovCon hiring should steal some of how technology startups run talent — and never copy the rest.
- Speed-to-offer — stop losing cleared candidates to slowness
- Candidate experience — in a scarce market, they choose you
- Proactive pipelining — always sourcing, never reactive
- Hiring as a leadership function — owned, not buried in HR
- “Move fast and break things” — disqualifying in a cleared world
- Hype over substance — clearances don’t reward theater
- Comp gimmicks that don’t fit GovCon economics
Insider, never outsider. Knowing the cleared world from the inside is what keeps a hard conversation about its hiring from landing like an outsider’s.
Put a real operator on your hardest roles.
Book a 30-minute call. You’ll talk to Gerry directly — not an account manager — about the roles you can’t fill.