Executives

Meet the members of our executive team

John Aylsworth, CPA - Chairman

John is our Chairman and most mobile team member. He splits his time between our LA, Chicago, San Diego, Las Vegas, and NYC offices on a consistent rotation. John brings over three decades of finance, public accounting, corporate turnaround and entrepreneurial experience to his role as Chairman of TriWorth Solutions. He is an important member to our executive team as he spent the majority of his career on the other side of the fence and is our constant reminder of our clients’ perspectives. He challenges us to continue to evolve our industry and pushes us to run a fiscally responsible firm.

Currently, John serves as the Chairman of Jet Luxury Resorts which manages a portfolio of four and five-star condo/hotel and estate properties around the world. Previously, John was the CEO of a NASDAQ traded gaming company with operations in Biloxi, MS, Davenport, IA and St. Louis, MO. In this role he successfully completed a dramatic turnaround of the operational profitability of each of the three casino operations and structured a successful divestiture of all existing assets for the benefit of all of the stakeholders of the company totaling in excess of $300 Million.

Earlier in his career, John served as Chief Operating Officer of the Davis Oil Company founded by energy and oil-industry legend and maverick Marvin Davis. Reporting directly to Mr. Davis, John was central to the operation of the oil and gas exploration company as well as to the negotiation and management of affiliated projects and/or companies related to oil and natural gas. These included multiple oil trading and product trading companies throughout all of the regions of the United States. John was crucial to negotiating and completing the sale of oil and gas properties owned by Davis Oil for $630 million and $180 million, respectively. He was instrumental in creating enterprise value of over $1B for the Davis Oil Company. Additionally, John assisted Mr. Davis in a multitude of other projects in various industries including sports, health and fitness as well as entertainment. He directed the operational turnaround of several corporate acquisitions for the Davis Companies including Sports Club Companies and Spectradyne.

Previous to Davis Oil, John began his career with the Big 8 public accounting firm KPMG. John is a graduate of Lehigh where he received a BS in Accounting and played wide receiver all four years.

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Bob Aylsworth - CEO

Bob Aylsworth is a Founder and serves as our Chief Executive Officer. He is based out of our Chicago office and is our team’s quarterback responsible for getting everyone in the right position and making big plays. Bob has a knack for rallying the team even when times are tough and spirits are down. His optimistic attitude in life sets the tone for our company.

Bob has broad-based experience in executive search serving nearly all industries and functions on a domestic and international basis. He has successfully completed Board of Directors, CEO, COO, CFO, and President searches for prominent clients representing the legal, financial service, investment banking, insurance, venture capital, real estate, health care, consumer product, software, manufacturing, hospitality, gaming, information technology, and advertising industries nationwide. Additionally, he has built many organizations from the ground up, filling multiple positions with one client at all levels.

Bob began his career at DHR International where he managed research and was responsible for all executive search execution, management, administration, and training. Bob grew the research organization from 15 to 150 researchers and DHR as a whole grew to be the fifth largest executive search firm in US revenue. In 2002, Bob was asked to take on additional responsibility and become the President and CEO of JobPlex while continuing to serve as a Partner of DHR International where he executed many senior level searches. With existing revenues of $600k and declining sales Bob began a turnaround with a team of four. Using his industry knowledge and sales ability JobPlex grew to $6 million in revenues in less than one year’s time and has been extremely profitable. Over the next five years, he continued to grow the business at a rate of over 50% annually and expanded the service offerings to include, Middle Management search, OnSite events, and large scale enterprise programs (RPO).

Bob graduated from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania where he attained All American Honors as a quarterback and was a two-time MVP for the Patriot League. He resides in Chicago and is an active member of the Chicago Chapter of Entrepreneur Organization (EO).

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Steven Ziegler - President

Steve is a Founder and serves as our President. He is based out of our Denver office and is a key member of our executive team providing strategic direction to all aspects of our business. His entrepreneurial spirit is contagious and he is constantly living and breathing our WHY.

Steve has broad-based experience in executive search serving nearly all industries and functions nationwide. He has successfully completed executive and middle management assignments for early stage start-ups, entrepreneurial ventures, micro-caps, and private equity backed firms. His expertise focuses on serving clients in technology, analytics, outsourcing and professional services industries. Additionally, Steve has orchestrated searches within the sectors of financial services, manufacturing, energy, precious metals, engineering & construction and healthcare.

Steve has been in the executive search industry since 1995 where he began his career as an Executive Recruiter with The Stratford Group, the retained division of AIM Executive. He left to join international retained search firm Jackson Group (now Downing & Teal) in 1997, where he built their technology practice. Upon leaving in 1998, Steve founded ZDS Executive Search. He built his company to one of the Top 5 Permanent Recruiting Firms in Colorado as recognized by the Denver Business Journal. In January 2005 he sold to JobPlex, the middle management division of DHR International. Steve served as their EVP of Strategic Sales and was a key component in JobPlex’s revenues tripling during his tenure. Additionally, he partnered with several of DHR’s top producers in winning executive level searches.

Steve is extremely active in the Denver community. He is an active member of the Colorado Chapter of Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) having served on their Board for 4 years, he recently served as the Chairman of the Board of YouthBiz, he is a graduate of Impact Denver, is on the Board for Flobots.org and has been an active volunteer at Namaqua Center.

Steve earned a BS in Marketing from the University of Colorado in Boulder. During college he worked for the Southwestern Company in their sales and sales management training program. In his freshman year he was a member of Creighton University’s tennis team.

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Stephen Aylsworth - Partner

Based in Los Angeles and one of the Founders of TriWorth Solutions, Steve is a key leader of the executive team. Always the optimist, he brings an unbelievable enthusiastic and positive attitude to our organization.

Previous to TriWorth, Steve was a key executive at JobPlex serving as Executive Vice President and Managing Director of the Western Region. Steve left his mark at JobPlex as he created and lead the National Sales Recruiting Division for the company which consisted of several of the largest and most successful RPO projects in the history of the firm resulting in well over 1000 placements. Additionally, Steve has managed numerous single searches within the advertising, technology and hospitality business sectors.

He began his career as a research associate for McDonald Investments Inc., a Century City based investment-banking firm and continued on to become head equities trader at B. Riley and Co., a Los Angeles full service brokerage firm. In addition to trading, Steve was responsible for recruiting, pre-screening, and hiring institutional equity sales people for the company.

Steve Aylsworth graduated from Lehigh University with a B.S. in Finance. There he was awarded the scholar-athlete award three times, and was a featured student-athlete in John Feinstein’s novel The Last Amateurs. During his prep career, Steve won the prestigious Los Angeles County All Sports Athlete of the Year.

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Johnny Aylsworth, CPA - CFO

Johnny serves as our CFO and is a key member to our executive team. He handles all of our accounting and financials and has created several proprietary dashboards that assist us in running our research organization in an incredibly efficient manner. Additionally, he is a key resource for all of our senior level finance and accounting searches.

Johnny began his career working for Arthur Andersen as an Audit staff and manager from 1994 to 1998 performing audit services for a variety of private and public clients. He then became the Manager of Financial Reporting for Mediaone (Public Cable and Telephone Company). After Mediaone was acquired by AT &T Johnny went to become the initial finance member of a start-up Company DivX, Inc. (Video Compression Software Company) (ticker Divx). Johnny built the Finance department and staff from one to fifteen and was the Controller for the Company’s IPO in September 2006 managing all finance and accounting functions from the general ledger and financial Reporting to budget and planning. He then went on to become the initial Finance member of another start-up Brickfish (Social media marketing) where he helped develop and mature the company’s finance department. Johnny is now serving as the Chief Financial Officer of both TriWorth Solutions and Jet Luxury Resorts (Hotel Management Company for condo hotel owners).

Another accomplished athlete, Johnny was a walk-on wide receiver at UCLA. He graduated from the University of Colorado with a BS in Accounting and was a member of the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity.

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Allison Halpern - CAO

Based in New York City, Allison is one of our original Founders and has worked with Bob Aylsworth for over 10 years. She serves as our Chief Administrative Officer and acts as our utility player - she manages clients, conducts research for senior level assignments and handles our internal recruiting and on-boarding. On top of all of those key responsibilities, Allison handles operations, marketing, vendors, invoicing, collections, RFPs, and scheduling.

Previously, Allison was an Executive Vice President at JobPlex, an affiliate of DHR International, the 5th largest executive search firm where she led a large scope of responsibilities including internal recruiting, research, operations and assistance to the Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining JobPlex, Inc., Allison was head of research for the east coast division of DHR International. She managed 65 researchers as well as served as the Account Manager to a DHR board member. Allison lead projects dealing with executive searches for Fortune 500 companies and was instrumental in implementing retained search practices and methodologies to the JobPlex model.

Allison has a BS in Economics from State University of New York, Oneonta and an MBA from St. John’s University.