Our History

“What a long, strange trip it’s been.”

- Grateful Dead

While we prefer looking to the future, CBI is proud of our history because it has made us who we are today. CBI Group was founded by Chris Burkhard, who built the company on a simple premise, our focus on the customer. We have been serving customers with professional recruitment solutions since 2001.

We got here by being on the forefront of our industry and by being pioneers. Chris grew up in the industry and spent most of his career before CBI at Placers, a leading staffing powerhouse in Delaware for almost 30 years. His father established The Placers as the first independent temporary services company in Delaware in the early 70s and Chris established CBI Group as Delaware first’s recruitment outsourcing and consulting firm – both in response to the workplace realities of the day.

Culturally led since day one, our founding cultural tenets remain intact and guide our decisions each day as we adapt to the ever-changing business environment. While our culture and purpose have remained unchanged, our services have evolved based on our customers’ needs. Being flexible and adaptable is essential to our solutions approach, and our customers can count on that continuing as we change in an Outside-In® way!