Company Profile

Company Profile

CCT Inc. was established in 1993. Our Associates are placed with many of southern Ontario’s leading manufacturing companies. We have long-standing relationships with many of our clients and have become their single source for Engineering and Technical Personnel.

Bob Van Slyck, CET, RPR
President

Bob is responsible for the management and administration of day-to-day operations and sales in Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Hamilton and Burlington. Bob is an Electronics Technologist graduate from Fanshawe College in 1971. He has over 30 years experience in Service, Sales and Management functions in Manufacturing and Engineering related industries in Southern Ontario. Bob is past Chairman of the Program Advisory Committee for Mechanical Engineering Technology at Conestoga College in Kitchener. He also presently chairs the Program Committee for the Grand Valley Chapter of the Ontario Association of Technicians and Technologists. Over the past 10 years Bob has held many positions with OACETT including Regional Councilor.

Bob’s excellent interpersonal, communication and management skills combined with ethics, and astute business and entrepreneurial talent helped him establish and grow CCT Inc. Inc. into a profitable and successful Engineering Personnel Agency. Bob’s achievements were recognized at the OACETT, Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists, special awards presentation in Toronto in 1995.

Brad Braekevelt, BA
Stratford, Ontario

Brad was born and raised in Sarnia. He has a Bachelors degree from The University of Western Ontario and has 16 years of continued success in the recruitment business. He has worked with Ian Martin Associates, Express Personnel, ATS Reliance and Noramtec. In British Columbia Brad was a partner in an Express franchise before coming back home to reside in Stratford.

He is a healthy avid sports fan, active downhill skier, boater and cottager on Lake Huron. Brad and his wife own a century home in Stratford and continues to be conscious of his ecological footprint.

James Van Slyck, MBA, CMC
Executive Recruiter

James is responsible for originating and completing retained and contingent executive, management and university recruiting assignments contracted by CCT Inc. James has held executive positions in finance, marketing and manufacturing with corporations in Kitchener/Waterloo, Montreal, Hamilton, San Francisco, New York, and Toronto. James was a Strategy Consulting Principal with a major international consulting partnership. He has carried out business transactions in the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean.

James former executive mandates included locating, recruiting, training and managing talent available in Canada and the United States for leading corporations. James draws on international business connections and expert knowledge of competency-based recruitment and selection techniques to execute his searches. His direct Silicon Valley experience sustains understanding of the essential management ability required in building a brand or early-stage technology companies into “large-cap” organizations.

James holds an Honours Business degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business and a Master of Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business and is a Certified Management Consultant and member of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants

David J. Varley, BA MPA
Search Consultant

CCT Inc. Recruitment is pleased to have David Varley work as a Search Consultant in Ontario. David is responsible for all Public Sector organizations in South Central Ontario employing engineering personnel. This Sector includes Federal, Provincial, and Municipal Governments as well as Municipal Utilities and Conservation Authorities. David has a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Queen’s University, a BA in Political Science and a Diploma in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University. For 26 years David held senior positions in municipal administration and has also been teaching Business Studies for the Adult Education Department of the Waterloo Catholic District School Board. This followed a successful earlier career as a bush pilot, chief flying instructor, and airline pilot.

David’s knowledge and understanding of the public sector will be of great benefit to public sector hiring authorities. His proven experience with the hiring practices of the public sector will ensure the right fit for both candidate and employer

David Andrew Newbigging , BA
Senior Recruiter

Dave has a Bachelor of Technology in Business Administration from Ryerson University and has been a Certified Human Resources Professional since 1986 and a Certified Safety Professional since 1994. Dave’s career has been in the Human Resources and Safety fields with such Companies as Ian Martin Associates, Bechtel International, Canada Wire and Cable, Amdahl, ADP and Toronto Hydro. Dave has worked in Chicago, Houston, L.A., Asia and the Middle East.

Dave has been married for 28 years and has two grown sons. Dave‘s hobbies are competitive sailboat racing competing the world over, snow and water skiing and cottaging.

Rachel Stewart , BA Administrative Assistant
Rachel has been part of our team since 1996. Rachel continues to act as Administrative Assistant in various research, analysis and accounting functions.