SURESTAFF

SURESTAFF

Surestaff was founded in 1998 by Thomas A. Gimbel, who remains the firm's Chief Executive Officer. Headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, the company emerged as a regional workforce partner during the rise of Chicago's warehousing and distribution corridor. Donna Conroy serves as Chief Operating Officer, overseeing daily operations and client fulfillment across the firm's branch network. Surestaff focuses on high-volume, light-industrial staffing — warehousing, fulfillment, packing, and assembly — alongside administrative and clerical placements. The firm deploys a traditional branch-office model, with locations concentrated in Illinois and surrounding Midwest markets. Its client base includes third-party logistics providers (3PLs) and manufacturers managing seasonal and variable labor demand. Unlike generalist staffing platforms, Surestaff's operational density is clustered in distribution-heavy geographies, giving it real-time labor-pool visibility within a compact territory. The firm maintains multiple physical branches across Illinois, including offices in Elgin, Joliet, and Gurnee, with satellite reach into Indiana and Wisconsin. Surestaff is not a technology-first staffing marketplace — it competes through localized recruiting teams, on-site manager relationships, and rapid onboarding for clients with immediate shift-filling needs. The company has not publicly disclosed its total placement volume or revenue. Surestaff's structural differentiator is its deep integration with a single regional logistics corridor rather than a dispersed national footprint. This cluster strategy allows it to maintain standing labor pools at key distribution nodes — the kind of density that generalist national staffing firms cannot replicate without a local decade-long presence. Succession planning remains with the founding executive team, and the firm has not taken disclosed outside capital.