Send us Fan Mail Timothy Baxter is the CEO and founder of Baxter Research, a wholesale criminal research firm he built from the ground up in San Francisco in the mid-1990s and has since grown into what many in the industry consider the gold standard for court-based...
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Episode 70: The Veterans Panel: Matt O’Connor, Wanda Hess & Rory Bogdon
Send us Fan Mail I've been lucky enough to talk to a lot of impressive people on this podcast, but this one was a little different. These three didn't just work in background screening. They built the backbone of it, and they're still at it. Matt O'Connor, Wanda Hess,...
Episode 69: Remembering Mike Sankey
Send us Fan Mail Today we are honoring and remembering my good friend Mike Sankey, a man who shaped this industry and shaped the people in it, myself included. Mike Sankey founded BRB Publications and wrote the books that became the bible of the screening industry,...
Episode 68: How Timothy Baxter Built Baxter Research Into the Gold Standard of Criminal Research
Timothy Baxter is the CEO and founder of Baxter Research, a wholesale criminal research firm he built from the ground up in San Francisco in the mid-1990s and has since grown into what many in the industry consider the gold standard for court-based criminal research....
Episode 67: The Background Screening Collective with Izzy Stapleton, Jamie Frankos, Megan Martinson & Robin Shaffer
I have to be honest with you, I was not sure what to expect going into this one. Four guests, a panel format, all of them colleagues and friends with each other. But within the first few minutes I knew this was going to be one of my favorite episodes. In this panel...
Episode 67: The Background Screening Collective: Izzy Stapleton, Jamie Frankos, Megan Martinson & Robin Shaffer
Send us Fan Mail I have to be honest with you, I was not sure what to expect going into this one. Four guests, a panel format, all of them colleagues and friends with each other. But within the first few minutes I knew this was going to be one of my favorite episodes....
Episode 66: Jamie Pelchat on Compliance, Operations, and Leading With Fairness
In this episode, Jamie walks us through her career path at GIS and HireRight, from her early days testing a national database to leading compliance and operations teams, and now stepping into delivery transformation. She shares the mentors who shaped her, the hard-won...
Episode 65: The Outhouse Lawyer: Todd Higey on FCRA Compliance, and Building a Background Screening Law Practice
Todd Higey is a background screening attorney based in Birmingham, Alabama with 28 years of legal experience. After a decade and a half of litigation work and nearly a decade as in-house counsel for ESS and Global HR Research, he now runs his own solo law practice...
Episode 64: The Queen of Screen: Tammy Cohen on Building Infomart, PBSA, and 35 Years in Background Screening
Tammy Cohen is the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Infomart and one of the most celebrated names in background screening. Known across the industry as the Queen of Screen, Tammy has spent over 35 years shaping how screening companies are built, led, and run. In...








