Leadership
The InSource Group is driven by an outstanding team of committed professionals with a rich history in technical services.
Linda Dietrich
A. Steven Raab
Jim Thompson
Wayne Rampey
Executive Leadership
Linda Dietrich
Founder and Board Member
A. Steven Raab
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Steven is responsible for the overall strategic direction of The InSource Group.
In 1995, Steven worked with the founder of InSource Solutions to begin InSource Project Staffing, which provided interim or contract technical staff to companies on a project basis. Later that year, the two companies merged to form The InSource Group.
Steven has a long and diverse management and sales background in the information technology, financial and real estate industries.
Prior to forming The InSource Group, Steven served as Executive Vice President of Corporate Sales and Marketing for B.R. Blackmarr & Associates, a management and information technology consulting firm. It was there that he defined the business plan that would eventually be implemented to form The InSource Group.
He began his technical career at IBM, where he held various line and staff management positions in sales and vertical industry markets over a period of 17 years.
Steven has also been founder and president of his own custom home building company, Executive Vice President of Real Estate and Real Estate Lending for Champion Savings & Loan, and Executive Vice President of Real Time Financial Systems, Inc.
Philanthropic activities are an important part of Steven's personal life. For the past several years, his main focus has been Dallas Social Venture Partners, where he is currently Chairman. He has also served on the board and is a past chairman of Mothers Against Teen Violence and will join the board of The Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture in September 2006.
In addition to philanthropy, Steven is keenly interested in geopolitics and world affairs and is active in the World Affairs Council of Dallas. He is also a member of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center, and is a series subscriber to Arts and Letters Live, TITAS, the Tate Lecture Series and many of the other wonderful arts venues in Dallas.
An avid outdoorsman, he is involved in motorcycling, fly-fishing, running and, most recently, equestrian sports. Steven is married and has a son and grandson.
James E. Thompson
President
Jim is responsible for all of The InSource Group’s operations, including sales, recruiting, finance and administration of the company.
Prior to joining The InSource Group, Jim served as Senior Vice President of HSM Equity Partners and as a consultant with various technology companies in the U.S. and Europe on acquisitions, operations and raising equity capital.
Jim has more than 24 years of experience as a Sales Executive and General Manager with a variety of IT services and consulting organizations. He has worked with numerous clients ranging from Fortune 100s to start-ups.
He began his career in sales working for the International Business Machines Corporation and was promoted through a succession of executive management positions.
In the late eighties, he was asked to establish IBM’s International Marketing Office for the Asia Pacific Group, which was located in Tokyo, Japan. This role involved increasing sales, support and customer satisfaction for IBM’s largest global clients and necessitated extensive coordination with Europe and the Americas.
In the early nineties, Jim was president of a boutique executive search firm specializing in senior information technology placements. In the late nineties, he was vice president and member of the executive committee of a privately held software services company with responsibility for 600 billable consultants and P&L responsibility for $60M in revenue.
Jim holds a B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin.
A Dallas native and Jesuit College Preparatory School alum, Jim is actively involved in the cultural side of the city and is an avid sportsman. On weekends you will likely find Jim training with his hunter jumper or working with his Labradors. Jim is married and has two children. He and his wife share a passion for reading, running and travel.
Wayne Rampey
Vice President 
Wayne is responsible for business development at The InSource Group, including executive level relationships, client satisfaction, training and client seminars.
Wayne joined The InSource Group in 2001 through a merger with his company, Acclaim Services, Inc. Wayne founded Acclaim Services in 1993 to provide information technology and technical consulting and staffing services.
He has over 30 years of high-tech industry experience, including engineering and software development, sales and regional sales management, and company operations. Wayne brings a unique perspective to the ownership and management of The InSource Group through his past professional experiences in technology development and as a client requiring staffing services.
Wayne began his career as an engineer with E-Systems, later acquired by Raytheon. He then moved into sales and sales management with Hewlett Packard and Cadre Technologies. He entered the IT resource service provider side of the industry as a manager of a very profitable staffing office for one of the largest national staffing firms from 1983 to 1989.
Wayne is active in the technology community through participation in professional organizations, including the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC). Wayne is a member of the Board of Directors for the MTBC, and also serves as the lead tri-chair of the 1st Friday Management In High-Tech Luncheon series. Wayne also serves on the Advisory Board for the E-Business degree curriculum for Texas Christian University (TCU). Wayne is married and has two children, and he is currently very active with his youngest son in the Boy Scouts.
Wayne holds a BS in Engineering from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an MBA from Texas A&M.