Type Private Headquarters Detroit | Website www.talascend.com Founded 2008 | |
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Industry Engineering, Staffing, Training Key people Ron Wood, CEO
Andrea Hopkey, COO
num_employees = 1,500 (2014) Motto Worldwide Engineering Resources Profiles | ||
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Talascend is a global engineering resource company founded in 2008. Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, the company has 15 offices worldwide and employs 1,500 people.
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The company operates predominantly in the Oil & Gas, Power, Manufacturing, Automotive, IT, Healthcare IT, Telecoms and Rail engineering industries with a growing presence in Nuclear energy.
Talascend was formed from the merger of three engineering recruitment companies in September 2008. EPCglobal, founded and owned by Bechtel; Quality Technical Services, the Mobile based EPC specialist and Modern Professional Services, a well known name in the Detroit automotive market in business since 1946.
The Talascend Global Training Academy trains engineers and designers for jobs in other industries, when jobs in their current area of expertise are in low demand. The Academy has successfully created jobs for engineering designers within the distressed Detroit market.
The Oil & Gas industry is the key beneficiary of the cross trained engineers.
Talascend has retained its headquarters in Detroit and has been actively involved in pushing the engineering and construction industry to make Michigan a part of future planning, beyond the auto industry.
The company's Australasia operation has offices in Abu Dhabi, New Delhi and Brisbane in addition to four European offices in the United Kingdom, Norway and Switzerland. The company's North American operations comprises 8 offices; seven in the United States and one in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, which began operations in late 2011.
The company has been a champion of renewable energy, pressing for greater investment and development in the long-term future of the global energy industry.