Chuck Sudina, a leader in Greater Baltimore’s recruiting industry, has died of congestive heart failure. He was 61.

Chuck launched Timonium’s Sudina Search in 1983. The company specializes in placing accounting and finance and information technology professionals, and has been a mainstay atop the Baltimore Business Journal’s largest professional search firms list for two decades.

Chuck was involved with the Greater Baltimore Committee, the Maryland Business Council, the Greater Baltimore Technology Council and other business and philanthropic groups. He was also an avid Baltimore sports fan and trivia buff whose collection of Orioles, Colts and Ravens memorabilia greeted visitors to the Sudina Search office.

Chuck graduated from Archbishop Curley High School and earned a business degree from the University of Baltimore. He is survived by his wife, Patricia, as well as his daughter, brother and mother.