Women make up nearly half of the entire United States workforce, accounting for 47% of all employed people in 2021. Despite this balance, men are much more likely to serve in executive level positions, as women hold only 25% of C-suite jobs at the country’s top 1,000 companies, according to the American Association of University Women.
Compared to the entire labor market, the staffing industry generally performs better on these metrics—however, gender disparity still exists. Recent statistics released by the Women Business Collaborative and Staffing Industry Analysts show that while women represent a median 66% of internal workers at staffing firms, they represent only half of executive positions.
At The Barton Companies, we make a consistent effort to elevate women on our team across sales and business operations; about half of the people on our company’s executive team are women. Furthermore, the day-to-day operational leadership positions at our subsidiaries, Barton Associates, Barton Healthcare Staffing, and Wellhart, LLC are held by women. Read on to learn more about five exceptional female leaders at The Barton Companies.
Lina Gallotto
Executive Vice President at Barton Associates; President at Barton Healthcare Staffing
Extremely driven and highly skilled at building effective staffing teams, Lina Gallotto launched Barton Healthcare Staffing (BHS) as President in 2018. Since then, Gallotto has led BHS through the COVID-19 pandemic, growing the company from one small office with a handful of recruiters to a leading travel nurse and allied health staffing company with more than a hundred employees in three offices.
In addition to her role at BHS, Galotto also serves as Executive Vice President of Barton Associates, overseeing more than 500 employees. Before joining Barton, Gallotto flexed her staffing skills at Oxford Global Resources, where she started her career as an operations manager more than 20 years ago. At Oxford, Galotto quickly rose into executive leadership, eventually becoming Senior Vice President Consulting Services.
Anne Zukowski
Executive Vice President at Barton Healthcare Staffing
Anne Zukowski, a skilled sales leader with past experience in higher education and nonprofits, joined Barton Associates in 2010. Since she started at Barton, Zukowski has grown a small group of 36 inbound sales and recruiting employees to a robust and effective team of hundreds working across three offices. Highly knowledgeable about the private and government healthcare sectors, Zukowski has successfully staffed temporary medical providers at traditional medical facilities, emergency response and humanitarian clinics, and non-traditional locations supporting federal, state, and local government sponsored projects.
Over her career, Zukowski has spread her wealth of knowledge to hundreds of Barton employees. Recently, she has expanded her role, overseeing an expansion of Barton’s sister company, Barton Healthcare Staffing, as Executive Vice President. As a result of her ability to train, develop, and execute in the healthcare market, many needy patients across the United States have benefited from receiving medical care quickly and efficiently.
MaryAnn Stolgitis
President at Wellhart, LLC
MaryAnn Stolgitis has worked in the healthcare staffing industry for 31 years. A risk-taker and visionary, Stolgitis built Barton Associates’ sales and recruiting department before launching Bartons’ sister company Wellhart, a locum tenens business that tackles the medical staffing needs of understaffed government agencies. In 2021, Stolgitis led an initiative to staff a government project that provided care to unaccompanied migrant children at the border. This project deployed over 100 healthcare providers within 72 hours to the emergency intake center.
In 2023, Stolgitis oversaw the extension of Wellhart’s service lines, expanding the company’s existing footprint in the recruiting and staffing of locum tenens anesthesiologists, CRNAs, radiologists, hospitalists, and emergency medicine professionals.
Stacy Cyr
Director of Marketing at The Barton Companies
A marketing expert with more than 15 years of experience in the field, Stacy Cyr joined Barton Associates as the Director of Marketing in November 2020. In her current role, Cyr oversees a team of four and is responsible for the execution of all digital and offline marketing efforts that attract highly-skilled healthcare professionals and short-staffed facilities to partner with Barton.
Before joining Barton, Stacy honed her skills at businesses large and small, developing complex, omni-channel marketing strategies to drive revenue and overseeing comprehensive marketing plans for paid search, search engine optimization, email marketing, and more.
Erin Arbour
Director of Administrative Sales Support at The Barton Companies
Erin Arbour has worked in the healthcare staffing industry for 13 years, the entirety of the time spent at Barton Associates. Arbour, Barton’s Director of Administrative Sales, supports risk management, travel, provider & client relations, and administrative support teams, and serves as one of 10 members of the executive team. In her role, Arbour pivots between teams who support clients, locum tenens providers (1099 contractors) and travel nurses and allied health clinicians (W2 employees).
Arbour’s teams collaborate with more than 600 sales and account managers across three business units. During COVID-19, she spearheaded continuous education and training for the licensing team on changing laws and regulations. Since 2020, the team secured nearly 4,800 new state licenses, which helped highly-skilled medical providers to provide care at critically-underserved facilities. A proven mentor and leader, Arbour is a shining example of the business operations professionals who keep the healthcare staffing industry moving forward.
Katie Kuhl
Vice President of Talent Strategy at The Barton Companies
Katie Kuhl brings over 16 years of healthcare staffing expertise to the Barton Companies. She excels in building high-impact talent/human resources teams that not only meet operational goals but also drive strategic outcomes. Katie leads the development and execution of Barton’s talent strategy and culture initiatives, leveraging data and analytics for continuous improvement. Her focus on value-driven initiatives enhances the company’s reputation and prioritizes employee experience, affirming human capital as a competitive advantage.
Before joining Barton in January 2024, Kuhl served as Vice President of Talent Strategy for LRS Healthcare, an Omaha-based nursing and allied health staffing firm that was acquired by Jackson Healthcare in 2023. Prior to that, she spent over a decade in various roles at Medical Solutions, a travel healthcare staffing agency.
