DAVE CURRIE

VP, TALENT ACQUISITION & SEARCH

DAVE CURRIE

VP, TALENT ACQUISITION & SEARCH

BACKGROUND

I was born in the Philadelphia area, and then moved to Indiana when I was eight years old. I grew up in Northwest Indiana and went to Crown Point school system. While in Indiana, I became a big Chicago and Notre Dame sports fan. I played various sports growing up including baseball, soccer and ran track. I moved to Chillicothe, Ohio my junior year of high school and then attended Ashland University as a Finance / Accounting major.

My father was an automotive executive and he and my mother were together for over 60 years. My brother, sister and I all worked with AlliedSignal Bendix at one time. My brother Bryce is currently Vice President – Global Products Operations at Johnson Controls. My sister Leanne is a former Navy engineer and is an author of young adult books (https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/leanne-k-currie-mcghee/594671/).

I met Jenanne, my wife, in 1983 — she was the sister of one of my friends at Ashland. We got married in 1985 and have 2 children — Preston (age 29) and Abby (age 27). Preston is a Senior Crop Protection Cost Accountant & Global Product Cost Analyst at Corteva Agriscience in Indianapolis and Abby is an HR Business Partner with Amazon in Las Vegas. We have 2 dogs — Hilda (10) and Dixie (6).

CAREER HISTORY

I started with Price Waterhouse — South Bend out of college and am a licensed CPA (non-practicing). I worked for PWC for 5 years before moving to AlliedSignal Bendix in 1990. While there, I completed my Masters Degree in Business at Indiana University. I transitioned into operations and led AlliedSignal’s Total Quality group for the Automotive Brake sector in 1993-1995. I then moved to HR management roles at both non-union and union plants.

Throughout the remainder of my career, I worked in progressively more challenging HR roles for Libbey Owens Ford, Bosch, Hendrickson International, Hayes Lemmerz, Dow Corning and Dana Corporation. My last position was VP of HR for the Dana Light Vehicle Driveline Group where I oversaw HR operations for 40 plants globally.

During my career, I learned the importance of networking and bringing in great talent — I first used a recruiter by the name of Greg Dunn of AIM Executives in 1995 to place a materials manager in my Tennessee plant (Mike Clem, a very successful VP today). I formed a partnership with Greg that continued over my career at various companies and also worked closely with Mark Simonetti and Mark Melfi for many years. The partnership we formed led to the creation of great talent in my company and on my HR teams, which has allowed me to have a great network of connections throughout the world. Most recently, while working at Dana, I contracted with the endevis team to fill many key roles within my group as well as in the new electrification space. This led to endevis enhancing its relationship with Dana.

NICHE & SUCCESS STORIES

Currently, I am performing both Business Development and PDP work with endevis. We have successfully engaged several new clients including Pace industries, AGC, Gentherm and have others in process. I also have found that I enjoy working jobs (particularly HR jobs) and expanding my network while providing clients great talent. Some recent candidate placements include Dawn Skinner (Benefits Specialist) and Danielle Haugh (HR Manager) at Pace Industries;as well as Brandon Lentz (District Sales Manager) and Kruthi Marri (Sr Quality Engineer) at Dana.

ENDEVIS

I enjoy our commitment to client service and love the challenge of finding a great candidate fit for each client position we are engaged to fill. I also enjoy the people who work at endevis, some of whom have been friends and colleagues for many years.

OUTSIDE OF WORK

Jenanne and I attend a significant number of concerts yearly — in the last couple weeks we have seen Cheap Trick, Goo Goo Dolls, Styx and Train. We are heading to Summerfest in Milwaukee next week to see a variety of bands. We average around 5-10 concerts a year.

We also travel with our dogs a lot. We take winter trips to get away from the Ohio cold — planning on visiting Savannah, Fort Myers and Ocean Springs (Ms) in 2022. We also spend a lot of time in Michigan and love the UP. You can generally find me in or near a casino.

FAVORITES

I enjoy reading novels by John Sanford and John Grisham.
When watching TV, we generally watch some type of series such as Stranger Things or Schitt’s Creek — something that we can watch all at once.