About the Partners

Partners (from left)
Tony Sorensen, Paul Beard, Tony Fornetti, Kurt Rakos and Chris Ohlendorf

Paul Beard
Paul provides a wide range of counsel and advice to many of Minnesota’s leading companies, specializing in the manufacturing industry with a particular emphasis on consumer packaged goods, durable goods and the industrial sector.

Chris Ohlendorf
Prior to his career in executive recruiting, Chris spent 11 years at PepsiCo, joining the company out of college and rising quickly through the ranks to manage a business district and 600 people.

Kurt Rakos
One of Kurt’s specialties is corporate change dynamics, guiding clients with their leadership and staffing needs as their organizations undergo every kind of change. Prior to launching McKinley Group with his partners, Kurt was an award winning sales management executive at Monarch Foods, a division of multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 food giant Sara Lee.

Tony Sorensen
Tony’s role within Mckinley is to help drive the vision and marketing efforts of all companies. Also, oversees specialty teams responsible for recruiting at the vice president, director and manager level and provides senior strategic staffing counsel to clients across all of the firm’s specialty practices including technology recruiting, sales recruiting and marketing recruiting as well as professional services.

Tony Fornetti
Tony is a Certified Public Accountant and spent seven years with Ernst & Young LLP. While there, he was an Audit Manager within the Retail, Distribution and Manufacturing practice group. He left Ernst & Young to become the Manager of External Reporting for SuperValu, Inc. He joined McKinley Group in 2003 to start the Accounting and Finance division, McKinley Finance.