Georgia Tech has hired the firm Turnkey Search to assist with its search for its next athletic director.
The company, based in Haddonfield, N.J., recently assisted Michigan and Minnesota in their searches for athletic directors. The company’s senior executive director is Gene DeFelippo, the former athletic director at Boston College and Villanova.
Tech is searching for an athletic director after Mike Bobinski took the same position at Purdue Aug. 9. School president G.P. "Bud" Peterson named a search committee two days later, headed by Georgia Tech Foundation president and Tech grad Al Trujillo.
For the search that resulted in Bobinski, the school used CarrSports Consulting, paying the firm $45,000.
Typically, a search firm can provide a variety of services, such as identifying and evaluating potential candidates, performing background checks, serving as an intermediary to gauge interest and handling logistics for interviews and visits.
Former Tech senior associate athletic director Paul Griffin will begin his tenure as interim athletic director next Monday. Peterson said that he hoped to find a replacement for Bobinski in four months.
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