Our company was built by an entrepreneur who was ahead of his time – a visionary and agent of change for elevating and educating staffing professionals through national certification. Decades later, new systems to qualify and precisely match talent with opportunity were created by second-generation recruitment professionals who put their hiring ideas into practice through a three-part process defined as The Q – Quality of Job, Quality of Interview, Quality of Presentation.
LLoyd Staffing was founded in 1971 by current CEO Merrill Banks, CSP. Under his direction, LLoyd has grown into the largest privately owned staffing firm on Long Island (NY) and is a well-respected name in the industry. Merrill continues to direct corporate-wide initiatives, including the continued expansion of Executive Search engagement and the leadership of LLoydSouth, our southern hub. One key element in Merrill’s leadership role and management plan is his emphasis on national certification and his visible role as an advocate of professional development within the staffing industry. In this regard, he has served as President of both the Long Island and New York State Associations of Personnel Consultants, chaired the Ethics, Law, and Certifications committees of the State Association, and received the Industry Service Award, the organization’s highest honor. Merrill’s activities in professional development on an industry level are combined with an emphasis on individual growth and education.
Keith Bank is a well-known leader within the staffing and employment industry. Since 2002 Keith has served as President of LLoyd Staffing, with offices in New York, Florida and its headquarters on Long Island. Prior to taking the helm of LLoyd, Keith worked in various departments at the company including Talent Acquisition, Workforce Solutions, Franchise Operations, Contingent Staffing and General Management, and was one of the co-founders of RINGO in 2001.Today he maintains a dual role as president of both LLoyd and RINGO and has overseen the growth and expansion of both. Keith has been actively involved with LLoyd’s participation in the Greater NY Chapter of the Family Business Council and served on the Board of Directors for the New York Association of Temporary and Staffing Services. He has worked on behalf of the Children’s Medical Fund, Ronald McDonald House, the New Leadership Division of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Hospital and the Long Island Chapter of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation. Active in the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) since 2000, he served as YPO’s Northeastern Membership Chair.
Jason Banks, CSP, entered the staffing and recruitment industry in 1998, after a successful five-year career in advertising sales at CNN, a division of Turner Broadcasting. This experience put him at the forefront of the eMedia movement and at LLoyd, he spearheaded the placement of nationwide web talent through a division originally known as Spider Staffing, which eventually morphed into LLoydCreative & Digital Talent. Today Jason oversees all of LLoyd’s Direct Hire and Contract/Temporary Staffing divisions and specialized disciplines. He is the guiding hand for LLoyd’s recruitment stack which he has built on a tech-human and social community platform. He has incorporated AI sourcing tools to harvest active and passive talent through both the open web and LLoyd’s own candidate tracking and engagement system. Jason was named a rising star in the 40 Under Forty by the Long Island Business News. He is a member of the American Staffing Association’s Search and Placement group and is an active board member of the Long Island Software & Technology Network (LIST.net), where he works to promote collaborations between technology companies and their user audiences in the NY Metro Region. Jason is a supporter of the Woodward Children’s Center, a non-public NYS Education department approved school, providing programs to emotionally disabled students ages 5 to 21, and he is active in the NY/LI Chapter of JDRF.
