About ASGroup

Roy is former Partner & Executive Vice President of The Protocall Group.  He has over 48 years experience in the Staffing Industry. The Protocall Group became the largest staffing industry provider in the Southern New Jersey Market. He and his partners sold the business and retired in December 2020.

Roy is Founder and Chairman of the Affiliated Staffing Group, aka ASGroup, a national staffing industry network of non-competing independent staffing companies located throughout the United States and in Canada.  The mission of ASGroup is to “share best practices” among members to consistently improve customer service and efficiency of operations. In 2022 the membership has grown to 37 top; staffing companies with annual revenues from $8M-$495M.  Collectively the membership employees over 1 million staffing employees.

Roy is still active in the Southern New Jersey Business Community serving on the Board of Trustees for Samaritan Hospice, and on the Advisory Board for Liberty Bell Bank, a Bank of DelMarva Bank. The Bank is a community Bank with assets of over $1Billion.

Roy was on of the founding members of Samaritan Healthcare and Hospice in 1981. He stays active beyond his Board duties  as Co-Chairman of the Samaritan Hospice Annual Golf Fundraiser for the past 15 years and also serves on its Strategic Planning Committee.  

Roy resides in Ship Bottom, New Jersey with his wife Pamela. They have three children Zachary, Abbey and Rice.

The Advance Group, President

Stacey Bigelow founded The Advance Group in 1990 and is passionate about the staffing industry. She is proud of the work staffing professionals have the privilege of doing- supporting people and businesses in a way that really matters! Stacey is active with industry groups and enjoys being able to pay it forward to help increase the visibility and growth of the staffing industry as a whole.

She has worked with hundreds of clients in NW Ohio and SE Michigan to develop solutions to their workforce challenges by providing everything from Staffing, Human Resource Consulting, and On-Site Staffing Management.The Advance Group knows experience and expertise is their greatest resource and utilizes this fully to exceed candidate and client expectations.

Stacey lives in Sylvania, Ohio with her husband, Mark. They have four daughters. She is invested in her community and lives by the adage that we don’t just work here, we live here.

Ben Ferguson is a member and the President of Personnel Placements Holdings, LLC (PPL) a staffing and recruiting firm based in Jackson, TN. PPL services employees and clients in TN, MS, AR, and KY with 12 branches and multiple on-site locations. Ben began his career in the staffing industry in 2005. Ben also serves at the Chairman of the Southwest Tennessee Workforce Development Board and currently serves on the State of Tennessee Workforce Development Board.

Outside of staffing, Ben is passionate about educating youth for success while creating a thriving ecosystem for entrepreneurs in West Tennessee. He is the co-founder and CEO of theCO a non-profit entrepreneur center, makerspace, and coding bootcamp. Ben serves as Chairman of the Board of Servant Directors at Northside Church and has served on the boards of many other local organizations. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and Stetson University. Ben his wife Holly and their daughters Elena, Holland, and Piper are proud to call Jackson, TN home.

Terry Malone and his twin brother Ted are the youngest of all the Malone brothers. Originally from Louisville, Terry earned a Bachelor’s in Communications at Western Kentucky University. He continued his education at the University of Louisville, where he received his MBA. Terry joined Malone in 1992 to help grow the business and branch out into other ventures. In his spare time, Terry enjoys traveling, golf, sports, animals, reading, and music. He plays drums in a local band and is an avid dog walker.

Jeffrey O’Brien is the founder, President, and CEO of WSI (Workforce Strategies, Inc.), an award-winning recruitment and staffing firm headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Having recently celebrated 20 years of providing employment solutions to light industrial, warehouse and distribution clients, WSI services its clients with seven branches and several on-sites throughout Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. WSI also has a direct hire division specializing in advanced manufacturing supporting several tier 1 automotive clients throughout the U.S.

The Reserves Network, CEO

Neil Stallard is CEO for The Reserves Network (TRN). TRN is uniquely positioned to provide staffing services to middle-market manufacturing companies throughout the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast United States – staffing any technical, industrial, office and professional talent needs. Headquartered in Fairview Park, Ohio, the company operates over 40 branch offices and on-site locations in 11 states.

Neil joined TRN in 1991. Over the course of his 20+ year career in the staffing industry he has held a wide-range of positions specific to the areas of operations, sales, recruiting, marketing and management.

He is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College, holds a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) accreditation and is a Certified Personnel Consultant. Additionally, Neil is an former member of Vistage International, and a certified aircraft pilot.

A resident of Strongsville, Ohio, Neil and his wife, Leisa, have two children, Paige and Preston.