About Us

OUR MISSION is to provide the quality of recruiting service that meets or exceeds our clients’ expectations.

The benefits our services provide:

• Significant company cost savings by:

→ Reduced lost work time with timely completion
→ No time wasted interviewing inappropriate candidates
→ High closing ratio with thorough interactive communication
→ Reduced long term hiring costs with the matching of our client’s opportunity with the candidates’ career desires

• Productivity improvement generated by highly qualified candidates

Our philosophy is to approach our clients’ requirements with urgency and thoroughness. Makai uses trained researchers and our systems provide us with quick and detailed access to our long established and highly valuable network as well as the multiple databases required for accessing the best candidates. We then use our recruiting expertise to identify, qualify, attract, and close superior candidates.

Mr. Buntrock has been in the Executive Search industry since 1987. He opened his office in 1991 and has developed it into a National practice in both Retail and Manufacturing covering Supply Chain Management, Engineering and Operations disciplines. Our clients range from Fortune 100 companies to small growing start-up’s that need specific management professionals to meet their company goals. Makai’s success stems from the belief that we must first ensure we have a thorough understanding of the client’s needs and desires and then provide:

→ Superior Candidates in skills and fit
→ A Quick Response to our client
→ Candidates that want the opportunity our client is offering
→ Candidates who are able to accept the offer

People ask Mr. Buntrock why he picked the name Makai, meaning “towards the sea”. As a native of Hawaii, he has always been drawn to water and the ocean in particular. He started swimming competitively at 8 years old, was certified as a NAUI diver at 16, join the Naval Reserves at 17, got his Naval ROTC scholarship at 18, and went off to the University of Michigan to get his degree, BS Engineering in Oceanography. He then served 7 years in the USN, where he was a Naval Diving & Salvage Officer, serving his last tour in Portsmouth England at the Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit, under the Personnel Exchange Program. Upon leaving the Navy, he went to work for Oceaneering International, the world’s largest commercial diving company and later joined CalDive International, to be General Manager of Southeast Asia, living in Singapore. His love of the ocean meant his leisure time was spent body surfing, diving, sailing, water skiing, and photographing it all.