Rutgers coach Kyle Flood is on the verge of shaking up his recruiting operations staff with the expected hiring of a business consultant who is a financial supporter of the football program, three people with knowledge of the decision told NJ Advance Media on Wednesday.

Jeff Towers, who, according to his LinkedIn profile, is an "executive with 30 years of experience leading robust marketing, communications and fundraising programs in some of the largest nonprofit organizations in America,'' is expected to be appointed as the Rutgers football recruiting coordinator, the three people told NJ Advance Media on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about athletic department personnel.

Towers doesn't appear to have any football experience but, according to LinkedIn, he is said to have managed "his own consulting agency assisting nonprofit organizations in strategic planning, board development, marketing, communications and fundraising.'' The profile says he is principal of a New York nonprofit firm called Jeffrey Towers & Associates, which doesn't have a known website, and lists his previous employers as the American Red Cross, UNICEF and Public Interest Data, Inc.

In addition, Flood is expected to hire University of Illinois director of player personnel Marcus Berry and appoint E.J. Barthel, who has spent the past six months working as a volunteer assistant, to his recruiting department, according to the three people.

Reached on his cell phone, Flood told NJ Advance Media "nobody has been hired as of yet.''

Flood, however, confirmed that Towers, Berry and Barthel were among the candidates who interviewed for positions in the recruiting department.

"Nothing will happen this week,'' Flood said. "I have people I'm talking to, I have interviews I'm doing. We have a process that we're going through.''

Berry spent this past season at Illinois after serving in the same player personnel role at North Carolina for the past four seasons. According to his Illinois coaching bio, Berry helped coordinate the Illini's recruiting efforts by managing on-campus recruiting visits and promoting the high school coaches' clinic and summer camps.

On its university human resources job board, Rutgers listed three openings on its football staff for a recruiting assistant last month. Former Paramus Catholic coach Chris Partridge was in line for one of the positions, but Flood rescinded an offer to join the staff, NJ Advance Media reported on January 18.

The recruiting-department positions, which are no longer are listed on the university job board, required "a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and/or coaching experience'' as well as "good organizational and communication skills and computer literacy.''

While the salary wasn't listed, the posting stated that it was a non-state funded position (the complete job description can be found by clicking HERE).

The recruiting coordinator position was formerly held by Phil Galiano, who on Tuesday was promoted to special teams coordinator and tight ends coach by Flood.

While there is no information of Towers' net worth, he is married to Amy Towers, whose former husband is hedge-fund billionaire Larry Robbins. According to a 2007 NYMag.com profile, Amy Towers was a partner in Robbins' Glenview Capital Management hedge-fund firm and is well-regarded for her charity work with UNICEF.

Jeff Towers supports Rutgers football on his Twitter feed, posting numerous tweets about the Scarlet Knights' success and recruiting efforts in recent months. The person he followed second on Twitter, after his wife, was Kyle Flood.

His most recent tweet appeared to reference the recruiting class for 2016 with a #RUDreamteam16 hashtag and included a link to a 2014 Rutgers football highlight video.

Keith Sargeant may be reached at ksargeant@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @KSargeantNJ. Find NJ.com Rutgers Football on Facebook.