Stafford Joins Marketplace Sales Team

Upstate sales professional Tracie Stafford has joined the sales team at Marketplace Staffing, one of the Upstate’s largest and fastest-growing staffing and human capital solutions firms.

A native of Greer, South Carolina, Ms. Stafford is a former sales executive and business owner, and “offers a strong work ethic, excellent communications skills and deep understanding of how to help Marketplace Staffing customers grow their organizations by identifying the best available talent to advance their business,” noted Ray Lattimore, president and CEO of Marketplace Staffing. 

“In today’s competitive arena, clients need the very best talent available to grow and improve their organizations,” said Lattimore.  “Tracie is an experienced sales professional who is passionate about delivering world-class staffing and productivity solutions and committed to finding the best people to grow our clients’ business,.  We are very pleased to have her join the Marketplace team.”

A graduate of the University of South Carolina with B.S. degrees in Marketing and Business Management, Ms. Stafford has been involved with numerous civic organizations including Junior League of Greenville, the Rape Crisis Center, Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity and Delta Sigma Theta sorority.  Prior to joining Marketplace, Ms. Stafford served as a sales executive with Keller Williams Realty, the Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce, and Philip Morris, USA.  She also owned and operated TC Holdings, a UPS Store franchisee, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

As part of her Marketplace responsibilities, Ms. Stafford will work with new and existing clients across the Carolinas to provide staffing and human capital solutions that lead to increased growth and success for those clients.  She will largely focus her time on businesses and organizations in South Carolina’s Upstate, operating out of the organization’s Greenville and Fountain Inn offices. 

Founded in 1996, Marketplace Staffing provides high quality, value-added staffing services and solutions to leading companies across the Southeastern United States.  A certified minority business enterprise (MBE), Marketplace has grown to become one of the leading independent staffing providers in the entire country by providing world-class, comprehensive staffing and productivity solutions.  The organization provides a blue–chip client list with contract and outsourcing services, temporary staffing, temp-to-hire associates, executive recruiting and placement, and payroll and support services.

Marketplace was recently named as one of South Carolina’s Fastest-Growing Companies 2009 by the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and The Capital Corporation -- one of only two staffing companies so honored.

To learn more about Marketplace Staffing, please visit www.marketplacestaffing.com or call (864) 286-3900.