Romance for the Wealthy: SPIES helps people find the right date. Tempe Daily News, Mesa, Chandler Arizonan and Gilbert Tribune News

SPIES helps people find the right date . . .

By Paul Giblin  -  Tribune writer

Jason Boreyko wants to make one thing perfectly clear: he has no problems finding dates.

He runs a multimillion-dollar company, New Vision International of Scottsdale, which markets nutritional products. Plus, he also gets out often enough, he said.

Therefore, finding dates has never been a problem, he said. Finding girlfriends, though, well, that’s another matter.

“I’m burned out on the bar scene. I’m 31 years old and I’ve never met anyone in a bar. I wanted a new approach,” he said.

Enter Roseann Higgins, president of SPIES Romance Headhunters, a dating service geared specifically toward wealthy professionals. The year-old company charges $2,000 for eight introductions. (Fees and results have climbed since this appeared. Call for latest information.)

“The whole reason I went with Roseann is that she is very selective. And I’m very selective with whom I date, so I don’t want to waste a lot of time or go on wild goose chases,” Boreyko said.

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 KTAR interview with Valley Matchmaker Roseann Higgins of SPIES Single Professional Introductions for the Especially Selective.

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“Girls are more likely to find that a man can become more attractive the more they talk with them if he is listening and attentive and nice.” – Roseann Higgins

A recent study out of UCLA actually found the not-so-handsome guys were nicer to their ladies. The study suggests that women who date them might actually find themselves in a happier relationship.

“I don’t think you can generalize that only less attractive men are going to work hard to keep their partner. I think who’s motivated, no matter what they look like…”

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There’s not even a drizzle right now. But when it does, ladies, you gotta date down.

A study out of UCLA tracked couples in their mid-20’s. Turns out the less attractive guys were nicer to their partners. Continue Reading →

The Arizona Republic: March 14, 2002

By Doug Carroll for The Arizona Republic

Power Love Broker: Romance Headhunter Roseann Higgins handpicks prospects for the Picky --The Arizona Republic, March 14, 2002

It’s 6 p.m. on a Wednesday, and Roseann Higgins has arrived at work. Her office for the evening is the Phoenix Art Museum and its monthly “After Hours” event, guaranteed to draw what she calls “the three A’s” – artists, architects and attorneys.

Higgins, a striking blonde of 42, begins mingling with the single professionals who have come for food, drink, socializing and maybe even art.

Within minutes, she is chatting up two women in the appetizers line, discreetly handing one of them her card and making mental notes on others she’d like to meet. This is work?

Yes. Higgins is a “romantic headhunter,” whose job involves looking for love in all the right places. Not for herself, but for about 100 discriminating – some might say unusually picky – clients who have paid $4,000 apiece to find that special someone. She calls her 7-year-old business SPIES, an acronym for Single Professional Introductions for the Especially Selective. (Call for newest fees and services info.)

If there were a black belt for networking, Higgins would have one. She just might be the best-connected woman in the Valley; when the Business Journal came up with a list of 11 ideal power-lunch companions last year, she was the only female on it. Continue Reading →

PROMOTIONS AND HIRES

Roseann Higgins received the Charity and Commitment Award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for raising more than $20,000 for the organization. Higgins is president of S.P.I.E.S. (Single Professional Introductions for the Especially Selective).

Q&A . . . By Richard Phillips – Photography, David Brandt

Roseann Higgins

When the athletic, 6-foot tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed Roseann Higgins enters a room, her presence is immediately felt. Unlike when a twister is heading toward a barn, your instinct is not to go underground.

Instead, you willingly surrender to Higgins’ energetic whirlwind as she sweeps you up in all her effervescence. However, beneath this bubbly Hello Dolly veneer lies the strategic ability of General Norman Schwarzkopf and the purpose and heart of Mother Theresa. Roseann Higgins is a super-motivated, world-class matchmaker.

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Matchmaker, Matchmaker . . . Edited by Kathy Khoury

Singleness is at an all-time high since the beginning of the century. Experts report that a whopping 41 percent of the people in Phoenix over the age of 21 are lovelorn. So how do the 800,000 unattached people in Maricopa County find each other?

Meet Roseann Higgins. With a king-sized Rolodex jam-packed with business cards and a schedule as tight as any corporate president, the owner of S.P.I.E.S. (Single Professional Introductions for the Especially Selective) has made it her business to make introductions. And while she welcomes word-of-mouth referrals, Higgins is also brazen enough to approach anyone, anywhere – handing out her business card with that perennial question: “Are you single?”

At a Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce mixer, the 6-foot blonde carrying a fedora hat – a S.P.I.E.S. trademark – pushes her way through the crowd. Eyeing her S.P.I.E.S. name tag, a 30-something man with dark curly hair, horn-rimmed glasses and an olive-colored designer suit approaches.

“What’s S.P.I.E.S.?” he asks. Continue Reading →