Employee Relations Associates Family of Companies, aka ER Associates, acquired human capital solutions firm TalentBridge USA, effective immediately. ER Associates is an affiliate company of Rochester, NY-based ER Select.

Charlotte, NC-based TalentBridge USA provides professional staffing, executive search, human resources advisory services, outplacement services and recruitment process outsourcing services. It will be ER Associates’ service provider in the Southeast.

TalentBridge USA will retain its brand name and operate as TalentBridge USA, an ER Select company. Brady Teague and Bradford Violette, founding partners of TalentBridge USA in 2002, will remain in leadership positions and have reinvested in the new entity with Violette serving as president of ER Associates’ southeastern region. Together they will be responsible for the oversight and expansion of ER Associates’ footprint in the southern geography.

ER Associates’ annual sales exceed $90 million and the acquisition will add almost $40 million annually to the company’s revenue base.

“We’ve worked with the TalentBridge USA team for several years and are delighted to align with such an energized and professional group,” said ER Associates CEO Thomas Ioele. “This strategic investment allows us to be closer to some of our largest national customers, improves the diversity of our client base, and adds 50-plus professional recruiters and 1,200 consultants to the company’s growing employee base.”