HR Examiner Podcasts with John Sumser: Recent Episodes
John Sumser
The complete collection of HR Examiner Podcasts from John Sumser, including HR Examiner Executive Conversations, HR Tech Weekly, and HRx Big Ideas. Each show is a 30-minute conversation about emerging ideas in HR Tech with a focus on AI and Intelligent Tools.
Laura Baldwin began working with O’Reilly Media in October 2001 as Chief Financial Officer and added Chief Operating Officer to her responsibilities in October 2004. She became O’Reilly’s first President in March 2011 and is currently responsible for O’Reilly’s businesses worldwide. Prior to O’Reilly, she was a consultant to the publishing industry through BMR Associates, and managed several large consulting engagements across all genres of publishing and media.
Laura’s media career started at Chronicle Books, the publisher of popular culture, art, and children’s books as well as gift products, where she served as CFO for ten years, establishing Chronicle’s successful distribution business and helping to launch Chronicle’s Gift Business. Exposure to Chronicle Publishings’s diverse media properties, including TV stations and newspapers, ignited Laura’s passion for the media business.
Laura has worked in banking as well as in corporate governance, holding positions in worldwide cash management and corporate finance. She attributes much of her success to the all-girls high school she attended, where she was taught that leadership is available to anyone who demonstrates initiative and drive regardless of their gender. She brings that philosophy to O’Reilly, where she helped to create a diversity scholarship program and continues to advocate for an inclusive and open workforce.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Mike Carden is the co-founder of Joyous – the inventor of Open Employee Feedback, used by the world's largest employers.
Mike Carden is an HR futurist. In 2006 he founded Sonar6, a revolutionary re-engineering of performance management software, under the moniker of ‘at last, performance reviews that don’t suck.' Sonar6 was acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand in 2012. Subsequently, Mike was involved in a huge range of leading-edge tech projects all the time keeping a very keen eye on how technology changes how we all work. This lead to co-founding Joyous in 2018, with a purpose of "making life better for working people."
Winner Writemark Plain English Award, and the Bayer Innovators Award. Author on marketing in start up businesses [On a teleconference no-one knows you’re a dog]. Has crashed a plane into the sea.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30 AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Mike Gioja is the senior vice president of IT and product development at Paychex. He leads the development of all Paychex applications including the company’s full-scale human capital management (HCM) offering, Paychex Flex. Committed to delivering highly available, effective, and secure solutions to help clients and Paychex employees succeed, Gioja also oversees all internal corporate applications, IT projects, and security processes. Combining innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology, and a mobile-first design, with the strong culture of service at Paychex, Gioja looks to empower America’s businesses with solutions that help them do what they want – when, where, and how they want.
Gioja has more than 35 years of experience in product management and strategy, as well as software and information technology. At Paychex, he’s led his teams through the creation of product road maps and the launch of the cloud-based Paychex Flex, which offers a streamlined and integrated approach to HCM. Gioja and his team have also orchestrated an agile transformation to drive innovation and cultural change at Paychex. Throughout his career, Gioja has led the implementation of large-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms, as well as best-of-breed SaaS applications. Prior to Paychex, he held senior leadership positions with companies including IBM, American Express, Fidelity, SAP, and PeopleSoft.
Gioja is a member of the board of directors for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He also serves on the advisory board for the State University of NY at Oswego, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Special post-show analysis from Stacey and John for The Annual HR Tech Event (the first virtual HR Tech Conference). Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Jeanne Achille chairs the Women in HR Tech Summit at the annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition as well as at the HR Festival Asia in Singapore. Founder and CEO of The Devon Group, Jeanne has more than 25 years of HR technology sales, marketing and PR experience. She has helped design and launch thousands of products in the HR tech category including sourcing, recruiting, onboarding, HRMS/payroll, relocation, talent management, succession planning and coaching solutions. Follow her on Twitter and connect on LinkedIn.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30 AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30 AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Henry Vasquez leverages his entrepreneurial spirit and more than 10 years of experience in software development to lead product initiatives around employee skills and capabilities at Cornerstone. As Principal Product Manager for Cornerstone’s Performance and Careers solutions, Henry is responsible for building solutions to enhance the employee lifecycle. Henry is most passionate about creating intuitive platforms that help people be extraordinary at work. Prior to joining Cornerstone, he worked at SpaceX as the Product Manager of Knowledge Management and successfully founded and sold his own company.
Ike Bennion is a seasoned marketing executive with an extensive background in talent management and learning. As the Principal Product marketing Manager at Cornerstone Ondemand, he drives new product innovation and market strategy for their Learning solutions. He uses his background in other parts of human capital management, including performance, succession, content, recruiting, skills, AI and blockchain, to thread innovation across the career lifecycle and build platforms that create a more empathetic workplace. Before coming to Cornerstone, Ike was a driver of change in the industry at HireVue and Bridge by Instructure.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Kenneth Matos, Ph.D. is Director of People Science, Customer at Culture Amp. He leads a global team of psychologists and researchers who provide clients with actionable advice on collecting, understanding, and acting on employee feedback through evidence-based methodologies. Dr. Matos educates and coaches the Culture Amp community and speaks to mainstream media on the strategic impact of emerging trends in workplace culture and employee experience.
Prior to Culture Amp, Dr. Matos provided technical and strategic leadership on a wide range of workforce research and consulting projects. His research covers issues of diversity and inclusion, employee wellbeing, leadership, and organizational culture. He completed his undergraduate work in psychology at Amherst College, received his master’s in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, and earned his Ph.D. in I/O Psychology at George Washington University.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
David Karandish is Founder & CEO of Capacity – an enterprise artificial intelligence SaaS company headquartered in St. Louis, MO. Capacity’s secure, AI-native support automation platform helps teams do their best work.
Prior to starting Capacity, David was the CEO of Answers Corp. He and his business partner Chris Sims started the parent company of Answers in 2006 and sold it to a private equity firm in 2014 for north of $900m.
David lives in St. Louis with his wife, Erin and four kids. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his family and playing ukulele.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Ben Waber, PhD, is the president and co-founder of Humanyze, a workplace analytics company. The Humanyze AI platform and one of a kind Humanyze Organizational Health Score provide the world’s most comprehensive objective measurement of the workday and the group collaboration behaviors that lead to an effective and healthy organization. Our SaaS-based analytics, benchmarks, and indicators are used by enterprises to inform and accelerate their Operational, HR, Workplace, and Digital Transformation initiatives. He is a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab, previously worked as a senior researcher at Harvard Business School, and received his Ph.D. in organizational science from MIT for his work with Alex “Sandy” Pentland’s Human Dynamics group. Waber’s work has been featured in major media outlets such as HBR, Wired, The Economist, and NPR. He has consulted for industry leaders such as LG, McKinsey & Company, and Gartner on technology trends, social networks, and organizational design. His book, People Analytics, was published by the Financial Times Press in 2013.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30M Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
A seasoned software executive, Dave Weisbeck’s experience ranges from building development teams to growing multi-billion dollar businesses as a General Manager. With twenty years in the information management and analytics industry, Dave’s prior roles include developing Crystal Decisions and Business Objects products and product strategy. Most recently Dave was the Senior Vice President and General Manager responsible for Business Intelligence, Enterprise Information Management, and Data Warehousing at SAP. Dave holds a position on the HR.com Advisory Board.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Kelly has spent the last 25 years in recruitment and recruitment technology, during which time he has grown, integrated, bought, and sold businesses in both the UK and US.
Founder of RedDot Media. A recruitment advertising agency with a particular skill in programmatic advertising campaigns.
Co-Founder of Paiger.co A platform used by recruitment agencies worldwide to advertise jobs in the most engaging way.
He founded Broadbean Inc 2001, which he sold to DMGT in 2008, launched in the US 2009, and lead the strategic acquisition by CareerBuilder in 2014.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Cecile Alper-Leroux is vice president of product innovation at Ultimate Software. She is a keynote speaker, author of From Dissonance to Resonance, and a visionary on HR trends and global strategies. An economic anthropologist with more than 20 years of industry experience, she focuses on helping companies design person-centered experiences that enable all people to achieve highly purposeful and productive work lives. A recognized voice in the HCM industry, Cecile has been featured in Forbes, HuffPost, HR Magazine, HRD Canada TV, and The Wall Street Journal; she was named a Top HR Influencer of 2019 by FitSmallBusiness.com, a Top 100 Influencer by HR Executive Magazine, and a 2020 Great Place to Work® For All Leadership Award Honoree.
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecile-alper-leroux/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cecilehcm@cecilehcm
Medium: https://medium.com/@cecile_leroux
Books:From Dissonance to Resonance
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Kevin Parker, CEO and Chairman of the Board of HireVue.
Kevin Parker is the CEO Chairman of the Board of HireVue. Previously, he was a Co-Founder and Senior Operating Principal of Bridge Growth Partners. He also serves as Chairman of Salient CRGT, a Bridge Growth Partners portfolio company. He is a recognized corporate leader in the technology industry, particularly in the information solutions and software sectors.
Parker most recently served as CEO of Deltek, a leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions. He was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" at the 2012 Ernst and Young Awards for the software services division. Before joining Deltek, Parker was CFO and later Co-President of PeopleSoft, a leading provider of management software technology, in the years prior to its acquisition by Oracle. He previously held senior management positions at Aspect Communication, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Standard Microsystems and Toshiba America. Earlier in his career, he was with the accounting firm Price Waterhouse. Parker is a Director and Chairman of the Board of Aptos, Inc., a current board member of Intermedia.net, Inc. and Plex Systems, and a former board member of Camber Corporation. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of Clarkson University, where he received his B.S. degree in accounting.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30M Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
A seasoned software executive, Dave Weisbeck’s experience ranges from building development teams to growing multi-billion dollar businesses as a General Manager. With twenty years in the information management and analytics industry, Dave’s prior roles include developing Crystal Decisions and Business Objects products and product strategy. Most recently Dave was the Senior Vice President and General Manager responsible for Business Intelligence, Enterprise Information Management, and Data Warehousing at SAP. Dave holds a position on the HR.com Advisory Board.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Martha Bird is a Business Anthropologist working in ADP’s Roseland Innovation Lab. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Anthropology, Martha has helped global brands create meaningful services, experiences, and products by both questioning and responding to the social and cultural dynamics of technology. Today, she supports innovation in global product development to ensure future generations of ADP HCM technologies are informed by the wisdom of human cultures and the everyday encounters out of which new practices take shape, evolve and transform the way we work.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Stacey Harris is the Chief Research Officer and Managing Partner at Sapient Insights Group and Lead Researcher for the Sierra-Cedar / Sapient Insights HR Technology Survey.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30 AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Don Weinstein leads ADP’s Global Product & Technology team, overseeing client-facing product development and internal technology (CIO/CTO) operations. In this role, Don is responsible for ensuring that the GPT organization is aligned with ADP’s strategic goal of becoming the world’s leading provider of HCM solutions. Don joined ADP in 2006 as VP of Corporate Strategy and has held a variety of roles in strategy, product management and business development.
Most recently, Don served as Chief Strategy Officer of ADP, where he stood up ADP Ventures group that built organic, net-new revenue-generating businesses for ADP and also led the Global Strategy team in completing numerous strategic acquisitions. Previously, he had been Senior VP of Product Management, where he was responsible for managing ADP’s portfolio of HCM products and directing the company’s annual product innovation investments. He also led the Global Product Management team through its transition to an Agile organization.
In addition to helping enhance ADP’s brand as an innovation thought leader, Don has been instrumental in introducing key new products that have delivered rapid success in terms of new product sales, including ADP Mobile, ADP Analytics and the ADP Marketplace.
He also has served as Div. VP of Strategy & Product for ADP’s Small Business Services/Major Account Services divisions, where he led numerous successful new product introductions including RUN Powered by ADP®, ADP Workforce Now®, and ADP Talent Management.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7:30AM Pacific – 10:30AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Eyal Grayevsky is the CEO and co-founder of Mya Systems. Mya, the company’s conversational AI assistant, was launched in July of 2016 and quickly became the industry leader in addressing inefficiencies in recruiting and improving the experience for job candidates and recruiters. Prior to Mya, Eyal founded FirstJob, a job marketplace for early career talent, and worked for his family’s recruiting agency, giving him over 15+ years of expertise in the staffing and HR tech industries. Mya Systems has been recognized by CB Insight’s AI 100, AI Breakthrough Awards, Brandon Hall Awards, and Kairos Society’s K50, among others. The company is backed by top tier investors such as Emergence Capital, Foundation Capital, and Workday Ventures, and now supports over 450 enterprise brands, including 52 of the Fortune 500 and 6 of the 8 largest global staffing businesses.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Mike is the Founder/Chairman CEO of Arena, which applies predictive analytics and machine learning to rewire the labor market around outcomes. Arena is deployed into over 850 healthcare locations that together process approximately 2.6 million unique job applicants per year, or approximately 13% the US healthcare workforce, with clients including Mt Sinai Health System, Sunrise Senior Living, HCR Manorcare, the University of Maryland Medical System, and RWJ Barnabas. When using its technology to predict for retention, Arena has succeeded in reducing employee turnover at every single client, with a median impact of a turnover reduction by 21% at 12 months of deployment and 43% at 24 months. Other outcomes for which Arena’s technology predict include employee engagement, patient experience, time and attendance, and even unique predictions such as sales yield.
Mike is also Founder/Executive Chair of Catalyte, a company that uses predictive analytics and machine learning to build technology workforces for the world’s most progressive companies, with the goal of improving productivity and results of software engineering efforts by removing implicit biases related to race, class, gender, and other factors. Catalyte’s platform identifies the most exceptional individuals without relying on resumes and other poor signals of quality, and unlocks their potential to thrive in technical roles. The company serves Fortune 1000 clients who use Catalyte’s technology and approach to drive their strategies and to build more diverse, capable, and local workforces. Catalyte’s workforce, which today is over 750 people, has historically mirrored the metropolitan areas in which it operates.
Living in Baltimore with family, he has a JD from Harvard Law School, an MSc in Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from Harvard College.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Yvette Cameron provides research and advisory services to HCM technology firms, buyer organizations and investors as Founder and Principal Analyst of NextGen Insights, LLC. She also serves as Co-Founder and EVP of Ecosystem at Velocity Career Labs, establishing the Velocity Network Foundation (VNF). VNF is an industry-consortium approach to reinventing how career records are shared across the global labor market through the development of a public, open, trusted and self-sovereign professional profile powered by blockchain technology. Prior to her current work, Yvette served as SVP Global Strategy at SAP SuccessFactors, GM/VP Saba Learning and Performance, VP Product at Oracle, Research Director at Gartner and VP Principal Analyst at Constellation Research. She's an international speaker on innovations in HCM processes and technology and the future of work. Yvette holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Applied Statistics.
Specialties: Advisor, HRTech, HR Technology, HCM, Startups, Blockchain, AI, Investor, Accelerator, Future of Work, Employee Experience, Digital Trends, Digital Transformation, Human Resources, Product Management, Product Strategy, Strategy, Innovation, Design Thinking.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/YvetteCameron
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Simon is the CEO and Co-founder of QJumpers Recruitment Software.
He helped to start QJumpers in 2005 out of his home country - New Zealand. Before this, Simon was based in Singapore as the Asia Pacific Sales and Marketing Manager for a large Swiss multi-national company as well as holding other technical roles within the company. His current responsibilities include overall company management, product strategy and he is still actively involved in product management.
QJumpers recently rebuilt its entire platform using state of the art technology and opened its United States head office in Plano, Texas.
Ian Bailie is a Director at Insight222 where he is the Managing Director of the myHRfuture Academy. He is also an advisor and consultant for start-ups focused on HR technology and People Analytics, including Adepto (now acquired by Degreed) and Worklytics. In his previous role as a Senior HR Director at Cisco Systems, he was responsible for delivering the tools and insights to enable and transform the planning, attraction and management of talent across the organisation globally. Ian is passionate about HR technology and analytics and how to use both to transform the employee experience and prepare companies for the Future of Work.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Christian Sendler is a Co-Founder and the CTO at Giraffe. Founded in 2019, Giraffe offers an innovative SaaS platform for people insights and employee performance management, helping organizations transform their perspective on talent and drive stronger, more predictable performance across their teams. He is passionate about software’s ability to reinforce and build new, human connections while empowering individuals to engage with work as their authentic selves. Prior to founding Giraffe, Christian spent years in the technology sector working in Product and Project Management, Sales, and SaaS Implementations roles with companies such as PwC, Uber, and Yext. Christian received his Bachelor’s degree from Boston College and is currently based in New York City. If you’d like to connect with him, please reach out via LinkedIn or email (christian@hiregiraffe.com).
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Stacy Chapman, CEO, Swoop Talent
Stacy Chapman is the CEO and co-founder of SwoopTalent, an automated talent data management platform. Stacy has been in HR tech for more than 25 years, in many, many different roles, including being a proud PeopleSoft alum. Her long term obsession with data has morphed lately to include a more broad focus on bias, AI and what redirects technology from a utopic to a dystopic outcome (and vice versa). She is an immigrant in San Francisco who loves food, adores dogs, collects spectacles and is deeply, deeply squeamish about cane toads.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
David Green is a globally respected writer, speaker, conference chair, and executive consultant on people analytics, data-driven HR and the future of work. As a Managing Partner and Executive Director at Insight222, he helps global organisations create more cultural and economic value through the wise and ethical use of people data and analytics. David is also host of the Digital HR Leaders Podcast, which is hosted on myHRfuture.com, an online knowledge academy for HR professionals on people analytics, digital HR and the future of work.
Martha Bird is a Business Anthropologist working in ADP’s Roseland Innovation Lab. Since receiving her Ph.D. in Anthropology, Martha has helped global brands create meaningful services, experiences, and products by both questioning and responding to the social and cultural dynamics of technology. Today, she supports innovation in global product development to ensure future generations of ADP's HCM technologies are informed by the wisdom of human cultures and the everyday encounters out of which new practices take shape, evolve and transform the way we work.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Mike Hudy, Chief Science Officer at Modern Hire, is an industry expert in predictive modeling using human capital data with more than two decades of experience in experiment design and talent analytics. Mike is skilled in deciphering the complexities and ambiguities of talent acquisition to create the practical, effective and satisfying solutions that clients and candidates deserve.
Isaac Thompson, Principal Data Scientist at Modern Hire, pushes the boundaries of AI applied to assessments and interviews. His creative blend of advanced AI with traditional psychometrics has propelled the use of ethical AI in hiring and has won the Innovations in Selection award (2019, IPAC) and Open Source award by HR Examiner (2019). A 2018 SIOP Machine Learning Competition winner, Isaac then built and led the competitions in 2019 and 2020. He has over 40 pieces of peer-reviewed research papers and presentations on AI, deep learning, machine learning, and Bayesian statistics, mainly focused on hiring.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Charles Hipps founded Oleeo 25 years ago, launching the world's first e-recruitment solution. An innovator by nature, Charles has never stopped looking for new ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of talent acquisition. In recent years this includes the application of AI and automation in recruiting. He sees this Recruiting Enablement as a game changer for leaders, and the future of talent acquisition.
A graduate from Oxford University, Charles has lived all over the world. Known (by some) as Fishy or The Wave, you can find him in the pool or sea most days and he has swam with dolphins and followed a whale shark on his scuba adventures. In addition, he loves to cycle to work every day and has cycled in South America through the Atacama, in North America, in China, New Zealand, down the Nile, and through Vietnam in his time! Nowadays, Charles loves spending time with his family when not busy dealing with the day-to-day business of running Oleeo.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Jason Averbook is a global keynote speaker, industry analyst, thought leader and consultant in the area of human resources and workforce experience. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Leapgen, a digital transformation shaping the future of work. Author of The Ultimate Guide to a Digital Workforce Experience ~ Leap for a Purpose, Jason seeks to broaden executive mindset to rethink how to better design and deliver employee services that exceed the expectations of the workforce and the needs of the business.
Prior to founding Leapgen, Jason served as the CEO of The Marcus Buckingham Company (TMBC). In 2005, he co-founded Knowledge Infusion LLC and served as its CEO until 2012, when the company was sold to Appirio. Earlier in his career, he served as the Chief Business Innovation Officer at Appirio Inc., where he led the HCM business. He has also held senior leadership roles at PeopleSoft and Ceridian Corporation. Jason has more than 20 years of experience in the HR and technology industries and has collaborated with industry-leading companies in transforming their HR organizations into strategic partners.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Ray Sumser is a multimedia artist whose work explores underlying structural analogies between diverse art disciplines. His current practices include landscape painting, bluegrass mandolin and sketch comedy writing.
Randy Womack, CEO, Socrates.ai
30+ years of SaaS/healthcare/operations expertise, three IPOs, thoughtful/strategic thinker
“Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.” —Socrates
“We are building a new technology platform dedicated to making people feel connected, valued, and so much more significant than their employee id. We are on our way to simplifying all the departmental and point solutions and making the employee experience awesome and it starts with technology focused on serving the workforce first. Our employers are the single most important community in our lives after friends and family and offer amazing programs to assist us. My personal goal? Any one of us with invisible conditions like depression, dyslexia, diabetes, and all the other human conditions should feel safe to share it with colleagues without fear of discrimination, prejudice or favoritism. Hopefully Socrates.ai will bridge the gap between our jobs, our lives, and our company’s passion to support us.”
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Henry founded Limeade in 2006 and has led the company from an idea in his basement to a high-growth, industry-leading SaaS employee engagement company that serves some of the smartest companies in the world.
Before Limeade, Henry served as VP of Product Management at Bocada, an enterprise software company and a product, marketing and business leader at Intuit, where he launched a number of successful new business initiatives.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Mike founded Moovila in 2012 to create technologies that would enable the next stage of digital transformation in work. Prior to Moovila, Mike founded eThority, an award-winning business intelligence and analytics company, which was acquired by Equifax, and under Mike’s leadership scaled into a segment leader in the compliance arena.
He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and holds multiple technology patents related to the products and services produced by his companies. Mike’s passions are family, all things geek-related, and building a culture of humor and respect within his company.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Tracey Burns is a Senior Analyst in the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. She heads a portfolio of projects including Trends Shaping Education, 21st Century Children and Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning. Her most recent OECD publication is Educating 21st Century Children: Emotional Well-Being in the Digital Age. She was also responsible for the future thinking tool: Trends Shaping Education 2019.
Previous to her time at the OECD she worked on social determinants of health and well-being. As a Post-Doctoral Fellow at The University of British Colombia, Dr. Burns led a research team investigating newborn infants' responses to language, and was an award-winning lecturer on infant and child development. Tracey holds a B.A. from McGill University, Canada, and an M.A. and Doctor of Philosophy in psychology from Northeastern University, USA.
With over 10 years of work experience basically spread between Asia and Europe, Viktor has always pursued the road less traveled. With a background in business administration and a broad interest in business dynamics, Viktor fosters a genuine curiosity in why "things are as they are". Meanwhile, he loves to touch the scales of risk and return as this is what drives dreams...
He aims to combine his experience in venture capital & corporate finance with his strong interest in technology ventures where he can deploy his enterpreneurial drive to facilitate value acceleration projects for clients. Connect this competency with a passion for Asia and you can imagine him at work.
"Empires of the future are empires of the Mind" (Winston Churchill)
Specialties include: venture capital, ICT, ecommerce, new media, energy, food processing, industrial manufacturing, transportation & logistics.
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 8AM Pacific – 11AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.
Liz Wessel, Co-founder & CEO at WayUp
Liz Wessel loves helping people get hired. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of WayUp, the go-to platform used by millions of early-career professionals to get hired, and by thousands of employers to scale their early-career recruiting without scaling their recruiting teams—all with an emphasis on diversity and candidate experience.
Founded in July 2014, WayUp is a venture-backed startup based in NYC that has raised over $30M and was named by CNN as one of the 30 most innovative companies changing the world. WayUp has worked with top companies—including Fortune 500s, startups, and nonprofits—to help them attract and hire diverse and qualified early-career talent.
Liz has been featured as one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30, named one of the “18 Coolest Women in Silicon Valley” by Business Insider, and one of New York Business Journal’s “Most Influential Women.” Liz has also been a featured speaker at TEDx, the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, Advertising Week, TechCrunch Disrupt, SXSW, NACE, and several other notable events. Before founding WayUp, Liz worked at Google as a Product Marketing Manager in California and India.
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Chris leads the HR technology and solution provider strategy and research practice for Bersin, Deloitte Consulting LLP—helping to demystify the ever-changing HR Tech landscape for their corporate and solution provider members. She has worked diligently through her career with business and HR leaders on radically their improving organizations, talent, and leadership using technology as a catalyst-- as well as the vendors who serve them. She has also worked both as an internal HR & HR technology/strategy practitioner, and an external consultant/adviser. With a unique blend of technical, HR practitioner, business and vendor experience, she laughingly describes herself as a bit of a future of tech, talent and work "whisperer”. Chris has a degree in MIS, with a concentration in AI, from the UGA Terry College of Business. She loves figuring out how the latest trends and innovations in data, tools, and technology can help change the face of HR and the world of work.
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With over 10 years of work experience basically spread between Asia and Europe, Viktor has always pursued the road less traveled. With a background in business administration and a broad interest in business dynamics, Viktor fosters a genuine curiosity in why "things are as they are". Meanwhile, he loves to touch the scales of risk and return as this is what drives dreams...
He aims to combine his experience in venture capital & corporate finance with his strong interest in technology ventures where he can deploy his enterpreneurial drive to facilitate value acceleration projects for clients. Connect this competency with a passion for Asia and you can imagine him at work.
"Empires of the future are empires of the Mind" (Winston Churchill)
Specialties include: venture capital, ICT, ecommerce, new media, energy, food processing, industrial manufacturing, transportation & logistics.
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Athena Karp is the founder and CEO of HiredScore, an artificial intelligence HR technology company that powers the global Fortune 500. HiredScore leverages the power of data science and machine learning to deliver deep hiring efficiencies, enhance talent mobility, and help organizations adapt for the future of work. HiredScore has won best-in-class industry recognition and honors for best solution delivering business value and transformation in the HR industry.
Prior to founding HiredScore, Athena was an investor in New York, most recently at Altaris Capital, where she managed and sourced healthcare investments in highly regulated data environments. Previously, she was an Investment Banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, focused on public technology and media companies.
Athena is a member of the technology advisory board of Belmont Charter Network schools and founder and board member of Belmont Sprouts. She was a former board member and advisor for efforts to alleviate poverty and improve the public education system in West Philadelphia, through Community Education Alliance’s network of charter schools with over 1,000 disadvantaged students, focused on preparing youth with skills for the future of work. She is a member of the 2018 Class of Henry Crown Fellows
within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers.
Athena holds a BSFS in international politics from Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is also a Founder of Future of Work Non-Profit: Tech Literacy for America across US Public Schools as an Aspen Institute 2018 Henry Crown Fellow.
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Mike Gioja is the senior vice president of IT and product development at Paychex. He leads the development of all Paychex applications including the company’s full-scale human capital management (HCM) offering, Paychex Flex. Committed to delivering highly available, effective, and secure solutions to help clients and Paychex employees succeed, Gioja also oversees all internal corporate applications, IT projects, and security processes. Combining innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology, and a mobile-first design, with the strong culture of service at Paychex, Gioja looks to empower America’s businesses with solutions that help them do what they want – when, where, and how they want.
Gioja has more than 35 years of experience in product management and strategy, as well as software and information technology. At Paychex, he’s led his teams through the creation of product road maps and the launch of the cloud-based Paychex Flex, which offers a streamlined and integrated approach to HCM. Gioja and his team have also orchestrated an agile transformation to drive innovation and cultural change at Paychex. Throughout his career, Gioja has led the implementation of large-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms, as well as best-of-breed SaaS applications. Prior to Paychex, he held senior leadership positions with companies including IBM, American Express, Fidelity, SAP, and PeopleSoft.
Gioja is a member of the board of directors for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He also serves on the advisory board for the State University of NY at Oswego, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science.
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Joe Hanna joined the executive team as Chief Strategy Officer, Workforce Logiq and Managing Director, ENGAGE Talent in October 2019 with the acquisition of ENGAGE.
Joe founded ENGAGE in 2015 and served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer leveraging his long experience in enterprise applications, predictive analytics, and building technology businesses.
He previously held executive positions with both Fortune 500 companies as well as startups. Joe is obsessed with taking on tough challenges – including connecting the dots between the millions of data feeds we process every day – or navigating grueling offshore sailing races!
Joe holds a B.Sc. in Software Engineering from Alexandria University and an MBA from Duke University where he was named a Fuqua Scholar.
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Elizabeth Clarke is executive editor of Human Resource Executive. She earned a journalism degree from the University of Florida and then spent more than 25 years as a reporter and editor in South Florida before joining HRE. Elizabeth lives with her family in Palm Beach County. She can be reached at eclarke@lrp.com.
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Drew D’Agostino is the CEO of Crystal. Previously, Drew was CTO of Attend.com, an event management software company. He is a thought leader on Personality AI and has been featured in Inc, Fortune, CNN, Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, Wired, and the Guardian.
Greg Skloot is the President & COO of Crystal and a passionate evangelist for leveraging AI to help people understand anyone’s
personality and build stronger relationships. Previously, Greg was Vice President of Growth at fitness-technology startup Netpulse, which was acquired by eGym in 2018 and the CEO of Attend.com.
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Ellen Nussbaum is the Chief Executive Officer at Humanyze. Previously, she was the Senior Vice President of Services and Customer Success at Veracode; she also led consulting and technical teams at software firms including Fidelity Information Services, ProfitLogic, and Oracle. Ellen holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and serves on the Board of Advisors of WGBH, a leader in public broadcasting and content creation.
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Eric Sydell is the EVP of Innovation at Modern Hire and oversees all research and product innovation initiatives, including the data science-focused Labs team. He is passionate about applying machine learning, and deep learning in particular, to candidate data to more effectively match candidates with career opportunities. Eric is highly motivated to show the power of these new AI-based technologies and guide them to ensure they benefit individuals as well as organizations. He writes extensively on and has spoken around the world on these topics. Eric is one of the founders of Shaker and has a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Akron. He previously served as a Consultant at CEB/SHL.
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Don is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches strategy, serves on the committee overseeing MIT's Master of Business Analytics program, and co-founded and co-directed the X-Lab to run randomized controlled trials in organizations. In 2019 he co-founded CultureX, an AI-driven data analytics company that helps organizations measure and improve their cultures. CultureX recently launched the Culture 500 in partnership with Glassdoor and MIT, which measures the corporate cultures of 500 of the largest employers in America.
Sull was formerly a Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and the London Business School. He earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctorate at Harvard University. Prior to academia, Don worked as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company, and a management-investor with the leveraged buyout firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
The Economist named him "a rising star in a new generation of management gurus" and identified his theory of active inertia as an idea that shaped business management over the past century. Fortune listed him among the ten new management gurus. Don has published five books and over 100 case studies and articles, including ten best-selling Harvard Business Review articles. He has advised top teams of over 50 Fortune Global 500 companies.
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Judd Kessler is an Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School. He received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University in 2004, an M.Phil. in Economics from Cambridge University in 2005, and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University in 2011. In his research, Judd uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to answer questions in Public Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Market Design. He investigates the economic and psychological forces that motivate individuals to contribute to public goods, with applications including organ donation, worker effort, and charitable giving. He also investigates market design innovations, placing particular emphasis on bringing market design from theory to practice, with applications including course allocation and priority systems for organ allocation. His research has appeared in general interest journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Management Science. In 2012, Judd was named one of Forbes Magazine's "30 under 30" in Law and Policy.
Corinne Low is an Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School, specializing in labor and development economics. Her research brings together applied microeconomic theory with lab and field experiments to understand the determinants of who gets how much across gender and age lines. Current ongoing projects focus on a new technology to examine hiring discrimination, the tradeoff women make between career and family in the US, and the impact of teaching girls negotiation skills in Zambia. Corinne received her PhD in economics from Columbia University and her undergraduate degree in economics and public policy from Duke University, after which she worked as a consultant for McKinsey and Co. At Wharton, Corinne teaches Managerial Economics in the MBA program.
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Kyle Jackson is the co-founder and CEO of Talespin, an enterprise software solutions company that leverages immersive technology to transform the way global workforces learn, work, and collaborate. A prolific entrepreneur and prominent public speaker, Kyle has founded and led five successful companies spanning enterprise software, media technology, and IT infrastructure, including two successful company exits.
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Recognized as an influential doyenne in the HR technology category, Jeanne Achille has more than 25 years of industry-specific sales, marketing and PR experience. Chair of the Select HR Tech Conference, she also chairs the Women in HR Tech Summit at the HR Technology Conference & Exposition and the HR Festival Asia in Singapore. She is the founder and CEO of The Devon Group, and has helped launch thousands of HR tech products and companies including sourcing, recruiting, onboarding, HRMS/payroll, relocation, talent management, succession planning and coaching solutions. Before founding Devon, she ran product management at Ceridian. Jeanne is a graduate of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. Follow her on Twitter and connect on LinkedIn.
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Don Weinstein, leads ADP’s Global Product and Technology team, overseeing client-facing product development and internal technology (CIO/CTO) operations. In this role, Don is responsible for ensuring that the GPT organization is aligned with ADP’s strategic goal of becoming the world’s leading provider of Human Capital Management solutions.
Don joined ADP in 2006 as VP of Corporate Strategy and has held a variety of roles in strategy, product management and business development.
Most recently, Don served as Chief Strategy Officer of ADP, where he stood up the ADP Ventures group that built organic, net-new revenue-generating businesses for ADP and also led the Global Strategy team in completing numerous strategic acquisitions. Previously, he had been Senior Vice President of Product Management, where he was responsible for managing ADP’s portfolio of HCM products as well as directing the company’s annual product innovation investments. He also led the Global Product Management team through its transition to an Agile organization.
In addition to helping enhance ADP’s brand as an innovation thought leader, Don has been instrumental in introducing key new products that have delivered rapid success in terms of new product sales. These include ADP Mobile, ADP Analytics and the ADP Marketplace.
Prior to joining ADP, Don held senior strategy roles within IBM Corporate Strategy and PriceWaterhouseCoopers Strategy and Change Consulting. He began his career in 1990 with General Electric as an Edison Engineer.
Don received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
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Christy is the Chief Talent Economist at ENGAGE Talent. She leads the development of the science behind ENGAGE's predictive algorithms and machine learning models as well as the product as a whole. Christy holds a PhD in Economics from Clemson University and has focused her career on employment and labor economics.
Her previous experiences include key data science roles with PeopleMatter (acquired by Snag A Job) and Equifax. Christy is a frequent speaker in HR Analytics and machine learning conferences. She is also an active member of the Federal Reserve Roundtable.
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At every intersection of the talent revolution, Tracey seized opportunities to push innovation and be the change agent. Tracey is the President at Parsons Strategic Consulting, a consultancy at the intersection of employer brand, recruitment marketing and systems to create delight for talent and brands. Tracey has extensive experience in talent strategy, social recruiting and marketing, thought leadership, brand development and consulting at companies like SmashFly, TMP Worldwide, and her own startup, CredHive. She’s also been a contributing writer at SmashFly, her own blog, Work it Daily, and Social Media Explorer.
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Mr. Lipscomb is a 30-year veteran in the technology industry including launching several software and consulting startups with successful exits. His companies provided unique, forward-thinking solutions focused primarily on Fortune 500 companies and government organizations at the federal and state level. Prior to launching Ferretly, a powerfully simple application that incorporates AI to mitigate employment risk, Darrin was the Global CTO for Public Safety and Smart Cities division of Hitachi Data Systems that was formed from the acquisition of his company (Avrio Group) in 2014. Mr. Lipscomb founded Avrio Group in 2003 and within 5 years became known as the premier city-wide video surveillance and smart cities company in the Western Hemisphere. Darrin has published numerous articles on smart cities, open source intelligence, and employee risk management. Mr. Lipscomb obtained his (M.S.) Masters of Science degree in Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech with emphasis on decision support, system dynamics, and statistical modeling.
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Andrew is the Founder of OrganizationView, one of the earliest European People Analytics practices now specialising in workforce text analytics with their Workometry service.
Before starting OrganizationView in 2010 Andrew spent a decade in corporate HR departments managing global technology / analytics projects especially in the areas of global resourcing and employee experience. His earlier background was in the management consultancy sector.
A hands-on data scientist he learnt to program in the 70s on a kit-built home computer. He is a member of the CIPD’s advisory group on People Analytics and teaches HR Analytics as part of the leading Swiss HR Masters degree program.
Andrew lives with his family in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Outside work he enjoys skiing, skeleton and long-distance swimming.
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Arthur leads Talent Acquisition for Better.com - a rapidly scaling direct digital lender using technology to change the way people finance their homes for the better.
Prior, Arthur led Strategic Talent Sourcing for Wayfair where he helped the leading destination for home e-commerce scale from 7,000 to 14,000+ employees within two years.
Previously, Arthur was responsible for talent strategy at innovation consultancy Fahrenheit 212 and worked in general management at the global hedge fund Bridgewater Associates.
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John Bell, is the Founder and CEO of reThinkData LLC. With over 25 years of experience in the Talent Acquisition Industry as a leader in technology innovation and market delivery. John began his career in recruitment as the head of his own IT staffing firm, that reached markets nationwide. It was through this experience that John launched Boxwood Technology, Inc., one of the largest US based white-label job board platform, a SaaS provider with over 1,200 professional societies and trade associations sponsored career centers under sales and operations management.
John led the sale of Boxwood in 2015 and soon after launched reThinkData LLC as an Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) technology company, exclusively focused on integrating data systems and improving workflow inefficiencies in the Talent Acquisition industry.
For the past 10 years John has served on The Association for Talent Acquisition Solutions (TATech) Board of Directors. Tapped for speaking engagements and conference leadership, John continues to give back to the recruitment industry.
John and his wife Kate live in Monkton, Maryland, and raised two children and have five grandchildren. John is a graduate of Randolph Macon College in Ashland Virginia.
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Cecile Alper-Leroux is VP of HCM Innovation at Ultimate Software. She is a keynote speaker, author of the upcoming book, From Dissonance to Resonance, and a visionary on HR trends, hot topics, and global strategies. An economic anthropologist with more than 20 years of industry experience, she focuses on helping companies design person-centered experiences that enable all people to achieve highly purposeful and productive work lives. Cecile has been featured in Forbes, HuffPost, HR Magazine, HRD Canada TV, and The Wall Street Journal.
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Jason Roberts is the global head of technology and analytics for Randstad Sourceright. A leading authority on HR analytics and systems, Jason has more than 16 years’ experience using big data to drive recruitment strategies for Fortune 500 companies. Before his current role, Jason served as a senior vice president for strategy and standardization at Randstad Sourceright. Before Randstad, Jason worked in executive recruitment for both Accenture and Cisco Systems. Jason holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas and isl a resident of the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
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Jamie is PredictiveHR’s founder and CEO. Jamie noticed-year after year, job after job - an industry wide HR data problem and attacked it with a clear vision and talented team. With 20 years experience, Jamie launched PredictiveHR in 2016; combining HR domain expertise, cutting edge technology and extreme business acumen. Jamie’s success with Fortune 500 company, Monster Worldwide and innovative technology companies, Altisource and Novo Nordisk A/S were pivotal in establishing Jamie as a leader. With rich reporting, visualization capabilities data analysis and interpretation, PredictiveHR distinguishes itself with consulting services and a dynamic HR analytics solution platform that is unmatched in the HR arena. In two short years, PHR has tripled in size and is on target to triple again in 2019.
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Carol Leaman (BA, MAcc, FCPA) is an award-winning thought leader with an impressive track record of successfully leading tech companies. Not only is she a disruptor in the corporate learning space, but she’s also the brains behind the Axonify Microlearning Platform. Prior to Axonify, Carol was the CEO of PostRank Inc., a social engagement analytics platform she sold to Google. She was also the CEO at several other technology firms, including RSS Solutions and Fakespace Systems. Carol is a celebrated entrepreneur and trailblazer (Sarah Kirke Award 2010, Waterloo Region Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Intrepid Award 2011 and the Profit500 Award for Canada's Leading Female Entrepreneur 2017) whose articles appear in leading learning, business and technology publications. She also sits on the boards of many organizations and advises a variety of Canadian high-tech firms.
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Jack joined ADP in August 2018 as the Senior Vice President of Product Development for DataCloud. As the leader for the ADP DataCloud team Jack is responsible for ADP’s vision and approach to AI. With data across ADP’s population of nearly 30 million employee records in the US ADP has a unique position in the market to deliver unmatched insights to clients. Jack came to ADP from Oracle, where he was Vice President, Products and Data Science for Oracle’s Adaptive Intelligence program. In this role, he oversaw the market, technical and sales strategy for Oracle’s suite of next generation intelligent applications, combining web-data, data science and platform Cloud computing.
Prior to Oracle, Jack spent 20 years in both product development and implementation of intelligent information systems, most recently involved in Web-scale search and recommendation systems, data driven applications, and the Semantic Web. He has been on the executive team of 4 startups involved in search, reasoning or meta-data driven applications (Attivio, Siderean, Cerebra, and Reef Software) and he co-founded edapta, which enabled dynamic user interfaces and personalization for mobile and web clients. Berkowitz has delivered solutions with a wide-range of Global 50 clients from Financial Services, Consumer Web, and Healthcare. Early in his career, he was involved with DARPA and FAA sponsored programs for user-experience and intelligent systems, FAA Aviation Security, and the certification of the B777 flight deck.
Jack has a master's degree in industrial engineering and operations research from Virginia Tech, and a bachelor's degree in psychology from the College of William and Mary.
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Damon is passionate about working with teams and helping them realize better ways of utilizing technology, and through understanding data. At Vervoe, Damon has channeled that passion on the hiring process with a keen concentration on diversity and inclusion. His previous experience building teams has led him to believe that job candidates should be selected based on how they perform a job, not on their background.
As a president of North America at Vervoe, Damon promotes the company’s mission, leads their go-to-market and operational strategies, and is responsible for all things customer-focused globally. Before joining Vervoe, Damon's specialty was in leading the go-to-market strategy for cutting-edge SaaS-based startups, and enabling growth from zero revenue through acquisition. Damon was part of the early WebEx team that was instrumental in the Cisco acquisition, and he worked with Cisco for many years after.
Having been a leader at both large corporations and in the startup sector, Damon has a unique perspective on workplace culture, motivation, and what makes teams successful. Damon holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Colorado State University with a concentration in Marketing. Damon lives at the coast in Northern California with his family. Having sailed the South Pacific for three years when he was young, Damon has a lifelong love of the ocean and is an avid surfer.
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Joey Price is an award-winning Human Resources executive, business coach, thought leader, and professor. He is the founder of Jumpstart: HR, LLC, an HR Consulting Practice specifically for small businesses and startups, and host of Business, Life, and Coffee, a weekly personal and professional development podcast. As the CEO of Jumpstart: HR, LLC, Joey innovates by creating HR solutions for small business owners and start-up founders who want to build better, more competitive businesses. As a podcaster on the Business, Life, and Coffee show, Joey shares carefully curated conversations on personal finance, psychology, professional development, and business for emerging professionals and business owners alike. BLC is a podcast focused on enhancing the quality of your business and life through relevant content that endures over time. Joey is a recent SHRM Top 30 Under 30 award winner, one of HR Executive Magazine's Top 100 HR Tech Influencers, Forbes Magazine's Kevin Kruse's Top 100 Employee Engagement Experts in the World, and frequently cited HR and Startup Thought Leader in publications such as Forbes, HR Magazine, Inc., Businessweek, AMEX Open Forum, Money Magazine, and more.
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Jeanne Achille chairs the Women in HR Tech Summit at the annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition as well as at the HR Festival Asia in Singapore. Founder and CEO of The Devon Group, Jeanne has more than 25 years of HR technology sales, marketing and PR experience. She has helped design and launch thousands of products in the HR tech category including sourcing, recruiting, onboarding, HRMS/payroll, relocation, talent management, succession planning and coaching solutions. Follow her on Twitterand connect on LinkedIn.
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Ben Eubanks is the Principal Analyst at Lighthouse Research & Advisory and the author of Artificial Intelligence for HR: Use AI to Build a Successful Workforce.
He has developed hundreds of reports, case studies, and other resources to support his life’s mission: make HR better one HR pro at a time. Ben is the founder of upstartHR, a blog that has touched the lives of more than one million business leaders since its inception, and he also hosts “We’re Only Human,” a podcast that examines the intersection of talent and technology in the workplace.
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Over the past decade, Jim Stroud has built an expertise in sourcing and recruitment strategy, public speaking, lead generation, video production, podcasting, online research, competitive intelligence, online community management and training. He has consulted for such companies as Microsoft, Google, MCI, Siemens, Bernard Hodes Group and a host of startup companies. During his tenure with Randstad Sourceright, he alleviated the recruitment headaches of their clients worldwide as their Global Head of Sourcing and Recruiting Strategy. He now serves ClickIQ as its VP, Product Evangelist. (Best job ever!)
When he is not spreading the gospel of automation as it relates to job advertising, he is producing the online video series – The Jim Stroud Show, producing The Jim Stroud Podcast or speaking about the Future of Work at a HR conference near you.
When not online, Jim Stroud suffers from withdrawal symptoms that can only be soothed by chocolate chip cookies and family time.
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Prior to founding Grokker, Lorna was President of the publicly traded company, Move Inc. (NASDAQ: MOVE). She also held a number of executive positions at Yahoo! including Chief of Global Personals online dating service and Head of Marketing for their multi-billion dollar worldwide Search & Marketplace businesses (Shopping, Travel, Autos, etc.).
Lorna entered the Internet world back in 2000, when she launched eBay Canada out of her guest room in Toronto, Canada and went on to serve as eBay Inc.’s Vice President & General Manager. Lorna started her tech career at Hewlett-Packard.
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Bobby Kolba is the VP of Engineering at Textio and leads the engineering, data science, and technical program management teams. He was Textio’s first employee and has done a little bit of everything as the company has grown, from building the initial prototypes of Textio’s service to doubling the team several times over. Prior to Textio, he worked at Microsoft on Office and Bing.
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Danny Abdo is a results driven executive specializing in Learning and Talent strategy and technologies for over 20 years. Danny is currently VP of Solutions Engineering at Degreed. Prior to Degreed, Danny served as Senior Vice President in Bank of America's Global Learning Organization leading various functions including Learning Experience and Enterprise Learning Technology. Danny has led dozens of learning and talent initiatives for Fortune 500 companies throughout his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM.
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Stacia is a researcher and thought leader on talent management, leadership, D&I, people analytics, and HR Technology. A frequent speaker and writer, her work has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, and The New York Times, among others. Stacia co-founded RedThread Research in 2018, after leading talent and workforce research for eight years at Bersin by Deloitte. Before Bersin, Stacia spent nearly five years conducting research and creating learning content for the Corporate Leadership Council, part of CEB/Gartner. She has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.
Bonnie Tinder, Founder & CEO is a 20+ year veteran of the HR Technology space, holding positions in HR Implementation, Marketing and Sales leadership with companies like Cornerstone, NGA HR, Ceridian and ADP. Throughout her career she helped software companies create and build sales messaging and marketing programming around software, yet continued to see customers disappointed with implementation, with few resources to make an informed decision about the consulting partner they chose… so she founded Raven Intel in April, 2018.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonnietinder/
Quote: “As someone who has been in the HR Technology space for 20+ years, I saw a need to help raise awareness and transparency into project work. While analysis on cloud software features and functions is voluminous, the analysis of the actual project work to get those systems implemented was non-existent…until now. Raven Intel is fulfilling that need, while making the selection process easy & more fun.”
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For over 25 years, Richard Milam has empowered leaders in financial services, healthcare, insurance, and other industries improve productivity in their organizations by recognizing and eliminating time-consuming business processes. Richard is founder and CEO of EnableSoft, an Inc. 5000 company and developer of Robotic Process Automation “robot” software known as Foxtrot. Over 500 organizations use Foxtrot by EnableSoft technology to automate tasks inside of almost any software application. He is also a regular contributor to many media outlets, including Bloomberg, CEO Magazine, TalkRadio, CNBC, American Banker, and elsewhere.
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Mike Erlin is a human capital technology veteran & entrepreneur, with two decades experience spanning the coal-face of e-learning with DigitalThink with pioneers such as Josh Bersin, to leadership roles in innovative technology companies such as DigitalThink, Blackboard, Cornerstone & now, AbilityMap.
AbilityMap was born at the intersection of Mike’s business & athletic passions. As a former America’s Cup Sailor & Offensive Lineman for the Oregon Ducks, Erlin saw how much data went into the selection of a team of athletes & how matching the individual to the role, always hand-in-glove, was absolutely critical. Turn to hiring in the business world & there was nothing even close. People-focus not role-focus was the standard. With hiring managers consistently reporting they would not rehire one third of the people they’ve employed, it was clear to Mike that something needed to change. Then a chance meeting with employment industry veteran & behavioural psychologist, Kevin Chandler, put them both on a path to re-imagine how hiring is done.
The result was AbilityMap, a criterion-based technology that determines what is actually necessary to perform a specific job at the highest level & then find or develop the people who can do just that. It takes the ‘art’ out of hiring, the questions out of talent management & replaces it with an objective, data-based model. By measuring the objective drivers of success in a job, with the same degree of detail as candidates, personnel decisions can finally be based on evidence rather than emotion. Employees are freed to find the best jobs for their potential, productivity goes up, & Human Resources becomes a profit centre.
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Beth White has over 15 years experience as a Human Resources professional and 10 years experience in developing software technology, with an emphasis on disrupting business processes. Beth saw an opportunity to help HR initiate AI and machine learning processes by leveraging chatbots to act as Virtual Assistants for HR. Through chatbot interactions, HR is able to obtain valuable real time data that can be used to drive employee engagement strategies.
Beth founded MeBeBot in 2018 and the HR TalkBot solution as the first step for an HR path to an AI strategies. By automating routine HR frequently asked questions, HR gains valuable time back in their day for strategic tasks and employees have access to HR anytime, from anywhere (via mobile and computer devices). The HR TalkBot improves efficiencies, saves costs and drives optimum performance and productivity.
Beth ives in Austin, Texas and has a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from St. Edward's University (where she was also an Adjunct Professor of HR). While she has a passion for driving technology changes to enhance the employee experience, she also enjoys spending time with family, friends, the great outdoors, and exploring other countries and cultures.
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Jason Finkelstein is an entrepreneur and technology business leader obsessed with work tech and the future of work. A computer scientist turned product manager turned strategic marketer, Jason is now the CRO of Traitify, a new category of HR tech company using personality science to change hiring for the modern era. Traitify measures personality data to radically improve candidate and employee experience, inform data-driven hiring and give value to both workers and companies across the employee lifecycle. Previously, he was CMO of publicly traded company AVG Technologies (acquired by Avast for $1.3 billion) and CMO of growth-stage company Location Labs (acquired by AVG for $220 million). Jason has an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a bachelor's in computer science and economics from Duke University. He is based in San Francisco.
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Manish Goel is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at TrustSphere, pioneer of next-generation Relationship Analytics. Under his stewardship, the company has achieved exponential growth including successfully partnering with many of the world’s leading technology platforms such as IBM, Salesforce.com.
Manish has over 20 years of experience in the software and services sector, having started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Strategic Change Consulting practice. He then went on to become an Investment Director at PwC Venture Partners, the firm’s London based principal investment unit. There he led the Investment Selection team and, built a personal specializiation in the Financial Services Technology (FinTech) sector.
Manish believes strongly in contributing to the technology ecosystem. For several years he Chaired the Online Trust Alliance (OTA), an industry alliance formed to protect the vitality of the online ecosystem, promote individual privacy and best practices, which enhance trust in e- commerce globally. He also served on the Board of the Asian Cloud Computing Association.
Manish is committed to supporting teams to develop solutions which leverage technology and data analytics to improve decision making and help drive digital transformation for enterprises and governments around the world.. He is also a Partner at Greenoak Capital Partners, a venture capital firm specialising in early stage technology and data analytics investments.
Manish holds an L.LB in International and Commercial Law and a B.Com in Finance from the University of New South Wales. He also holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia.
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As Chief Technology Officer, Loren Larsen is responsible for guiding HireVue’s product direction through the product management, user experience, and engineering teams. Larsen is an award-winning technology veteran with more than 20 years of engineering and research experience. Prior to joining HireVue, Larsen led the development of innovative mobile device applications and video relay services for the deaf as director of Engineering and Mobile Products at Sorenson Communications. Earlier in his career, he served as Vice President of Engineering at Move Networks – where he was responsible for development of the Move online HD video player, which was deployed to over 50 million users – and as Chief Software Architect at World Wide Packets where he architected carrier-grade ethernet platforms.
Larsen was previously co-founder and board member for Pepun.com, which enables independent filmmakers to market and monetize their films online. He has earned both a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Clemson University and the University of Utah, respectively.
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Chris Butler is an HR data and analytics expert and consequently the founder and CEO of One Model. Chris started his career working with HR data many years ago at Infohrm, the first HR analytics software company. With hundreds of HR data warehouse deployments under the belt and the successful acquisition of Infohrm by SuccessFactors, and subsequently SAP, Chris could see that no vendor was able to scratch the itch HR departments had to build an analytics function that would first enable them and then grow with them as they matured their capabilities. One Model was born to deliver it's customers with a complete HR data strategy that would complement and work independently of the HR technology the customer currently chooses to use. With a focus on understanding the construction, and behaviors of each system One Model is able to deliver analytics as a by product of good data management and allow customers to effectively switch transactional technologies without skipping a beat (or losing a data point).
Chris believes One Model is ultimately an HR insurance policy providing value from trapped transactional data that the vendor can't deliver on and to allow the customer to regain choice in the technologies and vendors they use by returning control and ownership of the managed data set back to the customer. Recently Chris' team have made incredible strides in the development and release of One AI, an Automated Machine Learning solution built specifically for the HR practitioner to easily use and extensible for the HR data scientist to gain enormous productivity.
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Mike Riordan is the Director of Sales & Operations for BenefitEd. Mike helped launch BenefitEd within the Nelnet Innovation Hub and forge a partnership with Ameritas. He has a passion for helping companies better recruit and retain talent through education benefits. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Franciscan University of Steubenville and an MBA from the University of Nebraska. Mike spent time in public accounting where he earned his CPA certificate and also spent time in service as a full time job at Boystown. He and his wife took care of high school aged girls who needed out of home placement due to behavioral issues.
Mike resides in Lincoln with his wife and growing family. He volunteers with various organizations in his community and is active in his local parish.
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Michael Kannisto is the founder of MindemicLab, a think tank that uses a Scenario Planning format to bring remarkable people together in an ongoing conversation about the future of work. He started off as a research scientist, but has spent most of his career running talent acquisition for large global organizations. Dr. Kannisto received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Texas A&M University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Materials Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan. He has two teenage children, and is an amateur artist.
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Erin Spencer is a Senior Research Analyst at Sierra-Cedar. She is responsible for the programming and data analysis of the Sierra-Cedar HR Systems Survey and the Sierra-Cedar Finance and Supply Chain Survey. She also provides Benchmarking data and writes industry White Papers, blogs, and articles based on her research. Previous experience includes research and analysis at Brandon Hall Group, learning administration at ACS Learning Services (Xerox) and instructional design and LMS selection and management at MRI. She also has experience in the non-profit sector.
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Stela Lupushor is the founder and Chief Executive Re-framer of Reframe.Work Inc., a consulting firm advising organizations on workplace inclusion in order to bring resiliency and access to talent in an environment disrupted by demographic shifts, technology, value chain disintermediation, and human behavior evolution.
She is also the Program Director, Strategic Workforce Planning and HR Business Partners Councils at The Conference Board facilitating conversations with Fortune 500 corporations-members on building new global workforce strategies to deliver business performance. Additionally, she is the Human Capital Analytics Center Leader at The Conference Board shaping its research agenda.
Stela is the Founder, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of amazing.community, a non-profit organization extending the work horizon for women, empowering them to thrive in the workplace of the future.
Most recently, Stela established and led the people analytics functions at Fidelity Investments and TIAA where she developed analytics capabilities across the organizations and enabled data-driven workforce decision making.
Previously, Stela led the HR Strategy and Social Analytics function at IBM where she built the “future of work” strategy for IBM. One outcome was the sentiment analysis solution which is now used to understand the engagement of IBM’s global and complex workforce. She brought to these initiatives her consulting experience acquired at Price Waterhouse and the successor organizations – PwC Consulting and IBM Global Business Services.
Read more at https://www.linkedin.com/in/slupushor/
Enterprise software industry analyst Brian Sommer covers the ERP, finance and HR sectors for Diginomica and other publications. Brian began his career began by re-writing a payroll/time-reporting system for a fast food chain and subsequently reworked, implemented, etc. numerous application software systems. He went on to run Accenture’s Global Software Intelligence organization where he advised hundreds of clients on software selection and shared services initiatives. Brian also headed up Accenture’s Global HR Center of Excellence and its Global Finance/Performance Management Center of Excellence.
More recently, Brian has led several HR/ERP software selections/negotiations and had been an expert witness for major software litigation cases.
Brian has won Software Advice’s Authority Award – ERP Expert and numerous ERP Writers' Awards. He has keynoted numerous software conferences globally including events for NetSuite, PeopleSoft, Sage and many more.
Kate Bischoff is an enthusiastic management-side employment attorney and SHRM-SCP/SPHR-certified HR pro. She advises organizations in a wide range of industries on employment law and human resources issues, from recruitment and workplace culture to terminations. Kate is passionate about improving company culture and using technology (social media and data analytics) in the workplace. Kate speaks from experience when advising clients when administrative and court matters commence. Prior to founding tHRive Law & Consulting, Ms. Bischoff served as a Human Resources Officer for the United States Department of State at the U.S. Embassy Lusaka, Zambia and for the U.S. Consulate General Jerusalem. Kate is also an Adjunct Professor at Mitchell Hamline, serving as faculty for the School of Law’s HR Compliance Certificate Program.
Jason Finkelstein is the CMO and CRO at Traitify which is building the personality layer of the internet by re-imagining the measurement of personality. He was formerly CMO at AVG Technologies and Location Labs. Prior to Location Labs, Jason served in various product management, investment professional, and entrepreneurial roles at Funambol, Vindigo and Millennium Technology Ventures. Jason holds an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from Columbia Business School. He also holds a Bachelors in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University.
Stacy Chapman is the CEO and co-founder of SwoopTalent, an automated talent data management platform. Stacy has been in HR tech for more than 25 years, in many, many different roles, including being a proud PeopleSoft alum. Her long term obsession with data has morphed lately to include a more broad focus on bias, AI and what redirects technology from a utopic to a dystopic outcome (and vice versa). She is an immigrant in San Francisco who loves food, adores dogs, collects spectacles and is deeply, deeply squeamish about cane toads.
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Josh is the Co-Founder and CPO of Koru, the leader in predictive hiring. Josh is an experienced innovator and executer in people analytics and higher education technology. Prior to Koru, he led education innovation programs for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in areas such as learning analytics/big data, interactive courseware and tools, diagnostic assessments, and competency-based learning. Earlier in his career, Josh served as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, product manager at Enkata Technologies, and business planning consultant for the National Park Service.
Josh is a frequent author, presenter, and advisor to recruitment and early career-focused technology startups, college presidents, and senior White House and Education Department policy leaders. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and he holds a graduate degree in business from the Harvard Business School.
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Ed Donner has a 20 year career in technology and financial services as a software developer and leader in New York, London and Tokyo. Before starting untapt, Donner worked at a FinTech startup and most recently as a Managing Director at JPMorgan, leading a global team of 300 technologists building risk management software. At JPMorgan, he found it incredibly difficult to hire developers, discovered that developers were also frustrated, and had an idea. Donner teamed up with scientists, leaders and serial entrepreneurs to transform the hiring process for companies and engineers alike, founding untapt in 2013. In the years since, Donner has grown the team to 13 world-class Data Scientists, Engineers, and more. Ed Donner holds an MA in Physics from Oxford.
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Amit Mohindra is founder and CEO of People Analytics Success, the premier advisory, coaching and education firm in the people analytics space. He applies his engineering background and over 20 years of business and people analytics experience in guiding organizations and individuals toward success in their people analytics initiatives.
Amit has built and led people analytics teams at companies such as Apple and McKesson (a Fortune 13 global healthcare company). He began his professional career as a labor economist at The World Bank and has worked in business consulting and corporate HR for organizations such as Goldman Sachs, IBM, Lucent Technologies (now part of Nokia) and Willis Towers Watson. He held global leadership roles in HR, compensation, benefits, talent management, diversity & inclusion, M&A, operations and mobility.
Amit enjoys helping people succeed. He coaches HR leaders to thrive in a people analytics world and people analytics practitioners to develop their vision and execute their roadmap. He teaches Introduction to Human Capital Analytics at UC Berkeley and is a guest lecturer in people analytics at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He delivers People Analytics SuccessTM on-line training (forthcoming) and hands-on workshops around the world.
Amit is based in the San Francisco Bay area and travels extensively for client work and speaking engagements.
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Marc is responsible for leading the research and development of Automatic Data Processing’s (ADP’s) Analytics and Big Data initiative. In this capacity, Marc drives the innovation and thought leadership in building ADP’s Client Analytics platform. ADP Analytics provides its clients not only the ability to read the pulse of its own human capital…but also provides the information on how they stack up within their industry, along with the best courses of action in order to achieve its goals through quantifiable insights.
Marc was also an instrumental leader behind the small business market payroll platform; RUN Powered by ADP®. Marc lead a number of the technology teams responsible for delivering its critically acclaimed product focused on its innovative user experience for small business owners
Prior to joining ADP, Marc’s innovative spirit and fascination with data was forged at Bolt Media; a dot-com start-up based in NY’s “Silicon Alley”. The company was an early predecessor to today’s social media outlets. As an early ‘Data Scientist’; Marc focused on the patterns and predictions of site usage through the harnessing of the data on its +10 million user profiles.
Marc received his Master’s degree in Business Communications from Emerson College in 1995 with a focused study on industry innovations through technology. Marc received his Bachelor’s degree from the University at Albany in 1993.
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Matt founded Ascendify to help visionary talent leaders at global companies simplify their complex talent management and recruiting systems. Matt brings 25-years of enterprise product leadership within the human capital industry to Ascendify. He started his career as the founder of ResumeMaker Workforce Solutions, a market-leading cloud platform that earned several patents and numerous HR awards for reimagining the candidate’s experience.
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Jason Lauritsen a keynote speaker, author, and consultant. He is an employee engagement and workplace culture expert who will challenge you to think differently.
A former corporate Human Resources executive, Jason has dedicated his career to helping leaders build organizations that are good for both people and profits.
Most recently, he led the research team for Quantum Workplace’s Best Places to Work program where he has studied the employee experience at thousands of companies to understand what the best workplaces in the world do differently than the rest.
Jason is the co-author of the book, Social Gravity: Harnessing the Natural Laws of Relationships, and author of his new book, Unlocking High Performance, to be published by Kogan Page in October 2018. Connect with Jason at www.JasonLauritsen.com or by sending him an email.
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Mr. Mirovic has been active in M&A & private equity since 1994. He started his career in South-East Asia where he worked in a family office which originates, monitors, and controls the direct investment activities of a branch of one of the most internationally active Thai-Chinese families with interests ranging from real estate, trade and industrial manufacturing into consumer foods, banking & insurance and technology. Back in Europe he worked for a family office of one the premier Dutch private equity investors. During his tenure he became CFO of AND Publishers, a publicly listed software company that he successfully turned around from financial distress back into profitability.
Since 2004 Mr. Mirovic is the founding partner of Helius Ventures, a privately held advisory and investment firm. In this function he has developed a deep insight into the dynamics that drive value at fast growing ventures and connecting them with multinational corporations. He has formed a tightly knit team of entrepreneurs with a passion for intellectual property development with a portfolio of capabilities that include artificial intelligence, data analytics & visualization, hard & software product design and business development. Helius has been active in new media, real estate, infrastructure, ICT, biotechnology and healthcare.
KeenCorp is a brainchild of this team and Mr. Mirovic has been working on its formation since 2011.
Mr. Mirovic received a BA in Business Administration from Nyenrode University and completed his studies in Japan at Waseda Busines School. He is a proud father of a boy and a girl and lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Contact information: vmirovic@keencorp.com Mobile : +31 6 415 05 486.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktormirovic
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Angela has overall product responsibility for the Tax and Compliance Solutions for Equifax Workforce Solutions. The portfolio includes Unemployment Cost Management, I-9 Management, Compliance Center, Tax Form Management and Tax Credits and Incentives. In 2017, Angela was recognized as a leader in HR technology and named as one of the ”300+ Women in HR Technology Worth Watching“ by Recruitingdaily.com. Angela’s team played a key role in the development of I-9 Management’s innovative I-9 Audit and Remediation and I-9 Anywhere, which were recognized at the HR Technology Conference as one of HRE’s Top Products of the Year in 2015 and 2017 respectively. Angela has worked for over 20 years assisting employers and governmental entities with competitive growth strategies, incentive negotiations, job creation and attraction strategies, regulatory compliance and technology implementations.
Prior to joining Equifax, Angela was the Southeast Tax Credits Practice Leader for KPMG LLP, where she was instrumental in the development of a national tax credit and training incentives database. Angela received her Certified Economic Developer (CEcD) designation in 1994. She serves on the executive board of the National Employment Opportunities Network (NEON), the leading advocacy group for the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, and previously served on the editorial board of Strafford Publishing’s Tax Incentives Alert. Angela is a past president of the South Carolina Economic Developers Association and has served on the tax study committee of the South Carolina Department of Revenue.
Angela has co-authored several articles on domestic and international tax issues for the Journal of Multistate Taxation, and has authored several articles on I-9 management and unemployment cost management best practices.
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Tom Walsh is the director of data science at Kronos, where he leads the application of cutting edge Machine Learning and AI techniques to workforce data, including compliance auditing and retail business forecasting. Tom received a PhD in computer science from Rutgers University and held several research positions in academia and industry, including a research position at MIT. His work has covered diverse fields from robotics to educational modeling, and now workforce management.
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Jeanne Achille chairs the Women in HR Tech Summit at the Annual HR Technology Conference (#HRTechConf) and is founder and CEO of The Devon Group. She has more than 25 years of HR technology sales, marketing, and PR experience. Jeanne has helped design and launch thousands of products in the HR tech category including sourcing, recruiting, onboarding, HRMS/payroll, relocation, talent management, succession planning and coaching solutions. Follow her on Twitter @jeanneachille and LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/jeanneachille.
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Eyal Grayevsky is the CEO and co-founder of Mya Systems, formerly known as FirstJob. Mya, the company’s AI-recruiter, was launched in July of 2016 and quickly became the industry leader in addressing inefficiencies in recruiting and improving the experience for job candidates and recruiters. Mya Systems has been recognized by CB Insight’s AI 100, Bersin by Deloitte's 2017 Disruptions Report, and Kairos Society's K50, among others. Eyal's 12+ years of expertise includes co-managing his family's recruiting agency and founding FirstJob, a job marketplace for early-career talent. He is also a founding partner at DoubleTap Ventures, a community for entrepreneurs to share advice.
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Matt Bingham serves as the Vice President of Product Innovation and Strategy for Bridge, an employee development suite from the makers of Canvas. He is responsible for driving product vision and marketing for the business. An insatiable innovator, he builds teams and products that create solutions for today’s modern workforce. From meaningful talent management offerings to dynamic learning management systems, Matt and his team constantly challenge themselves to identify and meet unmet corporate needs while helping companies manage and develop their most valuable asset, their people.
Prior to Instructure, he served as Director of Product Marketing and Management for LANDESK, where he ran the emerging technologies division. With more than 18 years of experience driving product messaging, strategy, research and development for software companies, he has developed extensive experience in global product marketing, product management, digital content marketing and in building teams and partners both US-based and international.
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Jon Stross is President and Co-Founder of Greenhouse. At Greenhouse, Jon drives the product strategy and works closely with customers and partners to build a platform that improves recruiting performance. Before founding Greenhouse, Jon served as the GM of International at BabyCenter.com International and was responsible for the global rollout of the business.
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Michael Beygelman is the CEO of Joberate, a Boston-area technology company that has developed a unique workforce analytics platform that helps organizations make better talent decisions. Prior to co-founding Joberate, Michael was the Global RPO President of Pontoon Solutions (an Adecco Group company) and was the inaugural executive director the HR Technology & Services Association.
Goutham Kurra is the chief product officer and co-founder of Glint. Most recently, Goutham founded Rock Paper Labs where he created a software platform that helps glean meaningful insights hidden in large amounts of raw data. Prior to that, at Turn Inc., he helped pioneer the algorithmic, real-time bidding revolution that has transformed how advertising works online. Earlier, at Kazeon (acquired by EMC), he helped build one of the first eDiscovery products in the market. Goutham has spent the last 15 years creating innovative products and technology across advertising, data science, machine learning, robotics, enterprise search, and virtual computing.
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Regina Viadro is a technology services professional with over 18 years of high-paced consulting experience and orchestration skills. Regina is responsible for EPAM's business portfolio across the NYC Metro area, South East and Midwest, owning the accountability for client satisfaction, delivery health and P&L metrics, while managing complex, globally-distributed engagements. She also serves as an Adviser to the Intelligent Automation Practice, and leads RPA and other Intelligent Automation services and implementations. Prior to EPAM, Regina worked at G2X/Navagate, a CRM-focused product company, for six years where she was responsible for product management and client management functions. Regina is based in the NYC area. She is passionate about traveling and raising her four kids.
Richard Milam, CEO and founder of EnableSoft is a pioneer in the Robotic Process Automation technology movement, Richard Milam brought a revolutionary operational efficiency solution to organizations worldwide with his conception of Foxtrot, EnableSoft, Inc.’s flagship product. Prior to founding EnableSoft in 1995, he worked for the inventor of the ATM as an implementer of ATM networks around the world, held sales and consulting positions for several of the largest banking software companies, and served in the United States Navy as a nuclear-trained engineer in the Navy’s submarine service.
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Jodi is the Head of Product at SHL. Global responsibility for end to end product development lifecycle for assessment products used by Fortune 500 companies to assess and development talent. Functional leadership responsibilities include Product Management, R&D, Product Development and Alliances/Partnership with distributed teams across the US and Europe. With over 20 years of experience in digital technology, analytics and product management, Jodi has worked at both start-up and established firms including comScore, USA TODAY, Visual Sciences (acquired by Adobe) and AddThis (acquired by Oracle). She is passionate about building technology products with a strong emphasis of using data to drive user experience, design and the product development process.
She is an active member of NextGen Venture Partners Washington, DC chapter, an entrepreneur friendly venture group specializing in seed and Series A funding in the DC start-up space and also sits on the American University Kogod Business School Information Technology Council. From 2012 to 2015, Jodi served as a board member of the Digital Analytics Association where she served in both the Treasurer and association President roles during her tenure. Jodi graduated from Pepperdine University with a B.S. in Business Administration and holds an MBA from American University with an emphasis in Finance and Management of Global Information Technology.
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Jonathan “JD” Duarte, is a veteran CEO and Founder in the HR Tech industry, having started GoJobs.com, one of the first job boards, in 1996, when dial-up modems and fax machines were considered “high-tech”. Over the last 22 years, JD has built recruiting software companies across the spectrum, from recruitment marketing solutions for Fortune 10 companies, to high- growth background screening companies focused on the small business markets.
His most recent company is GoHire.com, where they’re building universal messaging and chatbot solutions to help employers acquire, engage, and communicate with candidates and employees across multiple messaging platforms, like text messaging, Facebook Messenger, web chat.
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Devin Cook is the Executive Producer of the Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC). Launched under Devin’s leadership at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, the IIC awards over $1.5 million to technology-driven organizations globally that are reinventing the future of work and creating a more equitable economy in the digital age.
Devin’s expertise lies in accelerating entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems for economic growth. As a Fulbright Scholar, she researched how entrepreneurship drives economic opportunity among textile artisans in India. She has conducted research and theory development alongside leading innovation and entrepreneurship faculty at MIT. Devin was an early employee at multiple start-ups, has mentored over 100 start-up founders, and currently teaches entrepreneurial strategy at accelerators nationwide. She holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she was awarded the Ronald I. Heller Award for her contribution to entrepreneurship education on campus, and a BA from Middlebury College.
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Ankit Somani is the co-founder of AllyO, creator of AI recruiter Ally. Prior to founding AllyO, Ankit worked as a Product Manager at Google on the growth team of Google For Work, as well as a senior engineer on the data center research and development team. He also worked at Oracle as a data center architect and program manager. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2007 with a degree in mechanical engineering, and received his Master's in Thermal-Fluid Sciences and Economic Decision Analysis from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Joe is the founder and CEO of ENGAGE Talent, the world’s first AI-powered platform to combine Talent Mapping, Competitive Intelligence, Passive Candidate Sourcing, and Outbound Recruiting in one brilliant Candidate Identification and Engagement engine.
Joe has over 25 years of global experience in enterprise applications, analytics, and SaaS. Joe has established and successfully led the growth of a number of businesses with large companies including Oracle and CSC in addition to startups and small firms including OneNeck, Tenzing, and Angoss.
He holds an MBA degree from Duke University where he was named a Fuqua Scholar. Joe is also a competitive sailor who enjoys long range ocean races and offshore navigation.
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Matt founded Ascendify to help visionary talent leaders at global companies simplify their complex talent management and recruiting systems. Matt brings 25-years of enterprise product leadership within the human capital industry to Ascendify. He started his career as the founder of ResumeMaker Workforce Solutions, a market-leading cloud platform that earned several patents and numerous HR awards for reimagining the candidate’s experience.
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Jameson Fauver is the Vice President of Business Development for Kashable, where he is responsible for leading the national sales team and growing Kashable’s employer client base. Jameson is passionate about ensuring that all working Americans have access to low-cost, socially responsible credit, and his team partners with benefit consultants and employers across the country to achieve that mission.
Starting with Sun Life Financial, Jameson has spent his entire professional career working in employee benefits. When not spreading the word about Kashable, Jameson likes to be physically active, playing for a soccer team in Boston during the week and golfing & hiking outside the city on the weekends. Jameson is also on the Board of Directors for Camp Pemigewassett, a boys summer camp based in New Hampshire, where he chairs the Finance Committee.
Jameson graduated cum laude from Colgate University with a degree in economics and was also a member of the school’s Division-1 soccer team.
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Robin leads talent acquisition, engagement, and retention research for Bersin, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Recognized as a thought leader in her areas of expertise, Robin offers more than 20 years of experience, including prior experience in talent strategies consulting and research for Deloitte’s Human Capital practice. Robin led Deloitte’s global Talent 2020 longitudinal survey series and, in addition to writing for Bersin publications, has appeared in multiple Deloitte Review and Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trendspublications. She holds a doctoral degree in organizational communication and change, as well as a master’s in communication, from Northwestern University. Robin also has a master’s in theology from Northern Seminary and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago.
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Hessam Lavi is Director of Product at SmartRecruiters with the primary focus on data-driven recruiting solutions. He previously co-founded Jobspotting, a smart recommendation engine for job seekers which was acquired by SmartRecruiters in 2017. Previously, Hessam managed a team at Google for four years, working with search quality. Hessam holds a MSc degree in Cognitive Science with a Computer Science emphasis from Lund University, Sweden.
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Craig Shoneman is an Offering Management Director in the IBM Talent Management Solutions Business. Craig has a passion for bringing change to HR and talent strategy and has been doing that since 2010 when he joined Kenexa. He is responsible for defining the strategy and roadmap for IBM’s talent acquisition and Watson Talent capabilities. Craig and his team of offering managers are currently focused on developing a new breed of talent solutions that leverage the power of cognitive computing to complement core solutions in the existing HR technology stack.
Craig has worked in the enterprise software space since 1997 in various roles including consulting, sales, product marketing and product management. Craig has been focused specifically on the talent management space since he joined Salary.com as a product manager in 2008. In 2010 Craig joined Kenexa and led the strategy and product management team for BrassRing, Kenexa’s(and now IBM’s) flagship applicant tracking system. Since joining IBM in 2012 via the Kenexa acquisition, Craig oversaw the expansion of the talent acquisition portfolio to include sourcing, career development, and AI based capabilities.
Mr. Shoneman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Pennsylvania State University.
Outside of work, Craig chairs the outreach committee at his local church, helps out coaching his son’s soccer team and generally loves spending time with family.
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Jonathan Kestenbaum is the Managing Director of Talent Tech Labs. He is a lawyer by education, and an entrepreneur and investor by trade. Jonathan is passionate about being on the cutting edge of innovation and capitalizing on industry trends. He currently spends his days managing TTL’s innovation lab and advising the recruitment technology companies of tomorrow. Jonathan can be found at HR technology conferences all over the country as a sought-after speaker and panelist sharing deep insights into the evolution of the Talent Acquisition Ecosystem.
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Noel Webb is co-founder and CEO of Karen HR (Your Cognitive Recruiting Assistant). A veteran of business development and out-of-the-box thinking, Noel has been a leader in his roles over the years for several companies, including Bam Digital, SpeakFeel and Agnition.
During his career as a technology leader, Noel has developed a passion for products and innovations and has been the driving force behind products such as: OOLYO, Tech & Design and TeamHQ. In addition, Noel has been a strategic advisor for high profile clients such as Torstar Digital, Syngenta, Toyota and Modis and helped them to build a product driven approach to business.
As a man of many talents, Noel can also be found crafting music with a legendary and iconic Canadian band, Skydiggers, crafting interesting and eclectic brews and charcuterie, and spending time with friends and family.
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Heather Bussing is an employment lawyer, writer, and photographer who tries not to believe everything she thinks.
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Loren Larson, CTO at HireVue is an experienced product development executive leading teams building innovative technology in a wide range of technology areas ranging from embedded software to large-scale SaaS.
Specialties: internet video delivery, video conferencing, SaaS, software architecture, team leadership and development.
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Dr. Ben Waber is the CEO and co-founder of Humanyze. He is a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab, previously worked as a senior researcher at Harvard Business School, and received his Ph.D. from MIT for his work with Alex “Sandy” Pentland’s Human Dynamics group. Waber’s work has been featured in major media outlets such as Wired, The Economist, and NPR. He has consulted for industry leaders such as LG, McKinsey & Company, and Gartner on technology trends, social networks, and organizational design. His book, People Analytics, was published by the Financial Times Press in 2013.
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Alan Stukalsky, Chief Digital Officer, Randstad North America, is responsible for leveraging digital tools, big data and artificial intelligence to create industry leading solutions. He is also instrumental in integrating the company’s marketing strategies with its sales and delivery approach. Alan has a strong focus on digitizing processes and improving interactions with clients, talent and employees to help them be successful in their interactions with the company. He looks to new products, social technology and analytics to move the company forward, and he plays an integral role in conceptualizing and implementing Randstad’s global infrastructure.
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Iain Scholnick is the founder and CEO of Braidio, a cloud-based collaborative learning platform that focuses on learning, networking and collaboration. A veteran of the Internet, wireless and security vertical industries with 20 years of technical, business operations and start-up experience, Iain was also the founder and CEO of LicenseStream, the first comprehensive platform allowing owners of digital content to significantly extend the reach and revenue potential of companies already licensing their content online.
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Abakar Saidov is the co-Founder and CEO of Beamery. Prior to Beamery he worked at Goldman Sachs and Francisco Partners, and founded Seed.jobs. He’s currently leading Beamery’s mission to transform recruitment by empowering companies to treat candidates like customers.
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Maia Josebachvili is a cross-functional executive, currently serving as the Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Greenhouse, where she’s part of the executive team that’s led the company through 10x growth in under three years. Previously Maia has been a Founder & CEO, a derivatives trader on Wall Street, an engineer, and a pro-skydiver.
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Mark is the founder of HRmarketer. Since 2002, companies have relied on HRmarketer to help build awareness and interest in their products and employment brands. HRmarketer includes up-to-date listings for events, speaking and award opportunities, journalists, analysts and influencers, combined with business intelligence reports and a social marketing and advocacy platform — built for HR.
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Prior to joining G2 Crowd, Michael served as an executive and senior analyst at technology market research firm IDC for more than a decade, where he led worldwide business application software research. He’s also held senior and executive roles with a series of different software vendors including large companies such as Autodesk, Inc. and PeopleSoft, Inc.; and three silicon valley startups.
In addition to heading G2 Crowd’s research team, Michael is a published author, blogger, photographer and accomplished public speaker. An established industry thought-leader, Fauscette routinely speaks at software industry events ranging from vendor-user conferences like Oracle OpenWorld, Salesforce Dreamforce, and SAP Sapphire, to solution-focused conferences like CRM Evolution.
His award-winning software and technology-focused blog, located at www.mfauscette.com, has broad readership and is syndicated on several leading destination sites such as www.enterpriseirregulars.com, www.cxotalk.com, www.smartdatacollective.com, www.socialmediatoday.com and www.seekingalpha.com.
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Jason Corsello is SVP of Strategy and Corporate Development for Cornerstone. He is responsible for driving the company’s product innovation, go-to-market strategies and new corporate initiatives. Jason has over 20 years of experience in enterprise software, market research and management consulting.
Prior to joining Cornerstone in 2011, he worked with HR consulting firm Knowledge Infusion (now Appirio), where he was senior vice president of strategy and corporate development, responsible for the organization's strategy and solutions. He also developed and launched many new services for the firm and played a lead consulting role with many of Knowledge Infusion’s Global 2000 clients, such as Nike, Dell and Metlife. His background also includes a research director role with Yankee Group, leading the company's human capital management and talent management advisory and consulting services. He also spent six years with Flextronics International (now Flex), where he worked with large, multi-national clients in developing their outsourced manufacturing and supply chain strategies.
Corsello is an active participant in the human capital management community, speaking at events such as the HR Technology Conference and LA Tech Summit. He has also been featured as an industry expert in media outlets such as The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and CIO Magazine. Jason holds a BBA in Business Administration from the University of San Diego. Follow Jason on Twitter @jcorsello
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Tanya Bakalov is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the human resources industry. She has strong entrepreneurship professional skilled in Go-to-market Strategy, Global Delivery, Professional Services, SaaS, and Big Data.
Athena is the Founder & CEO of HiredScore, an Artificial Intelligence HR technology company that powers the Global Fortune 500. HiredScore leverages the power of data science and machine learning to drive deep recruitment process efficiencies, enhance talent mobility, and help organizations move to a fully optimized Talent Acquisition function. HiredScore has won best-in-class industry recognition and honors, including IBM’s 2016 Beacon Award, for best partner solution delivering business value and transformation in the HR industry.
Prior to founding HiredScore, Athena was an investor in New York City, most recently at a private equity fund, Altaris Capital, where she managed process automation and healthcare investments in highly regulated data environments. Prior to that, she was an Investment Banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, focused on M&A and IPOs for large Technology & Media companies.
Athena spent a decade as a Board Member of Belmont Charter School, a network of West Philadelphia schools with +800 disadvantaged students, focused on preparing youth for the workforce and a successful life. She also founded Belmont Sprouts, which builds urban gardens and educational experiences around healthy eating. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers and Thousand Network, a global entrepreneurs network. Athena received a B.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/athena-karp-aaa32627
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Alfonso Diez David of Nissan, is an experienced international HR Director with a fact-proven record of transformation and making-business-happen in the big-corporation arena. He has 27 years in the automotive industry (19 in HR, 8 in IT) leading large business initiatives, mostly in global/regional/multi-company scenarios.
- www.linkedin.com/in/alfonso-díez-david-62a39a14
Alfonso will be presenting the following session at the HRTech World Conference in Amsterdam on Tuesday, 10/24/17 at 2:50 local time:
Winds Matter: Our Journey to a Global Digital HR ecosystem
Description: Nissan started its journey to a Global Digital HR ecosystem (Workday + Cornerstone) in 2013, completing deployment in main regions (110k people) by 2016. Three learnings:
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Be extremely end-user centric: Ensure Business Continuity and maximize User Adoption with simple, trustable, friendly, predictable Processes and Data. Invest on Change Management from day one. Compliance with Data Privacy is key.
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Transform your HR Organization and HR Governance in line with the new ecosystem....and learn how to manage SaaS projects.
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And enjoy the sailing: "smooth seas never made skilled mariners."
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Dr. David Kippen is the CEO and Chief Strategist at Evviva Brands, an agency he founded in 2009 with partner Cate Newsom after a number of years as TMP Worldwide's Head of Global Brand Strategy.
Evviva's a brand agency with a simple purpose. We combine the power of insight with the art of identity to make people act. Since Evviva's launch, we have been fortunate to support some of the world's most admired brands, including Amazon, Alaska Airlines, Atlassian, Blackrock, Google Fiber, Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton and Walmart.
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Karin Bootsma is Vice President of Marketing at RiseSmart, the leading provider of contemporary career transition services, which combines services with technology to help impacted employees move into new jobs faster – while proving HR with full support during workforce reshaping events. Bootsma has two decades of technology and human capital management marketing experience at public and private companies. In her role at RiseSmart, she is responsible for global marketing, including product marketing, demand generation, sales enablement, branding, communications, and customer advocacy. Prior to RiseSmart, Bootsma had global responsibility for Product Marketing, HR Alliances, and the Talent Management Suite product line at Monster Worldwide. Bootsma holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from UOP.
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Jeanne Achille is the founder and CEO of The Devon Group. Throughout her career, Jeanne has launched and promoted hundreds of new HR tech products and companies and generated thousands of high profile media placements. Under her guidance, Devon has supported numerous successful exits from initial public offerings to strategic mergers and acquisitions. She is a sought-after speaker on PR, marketing and women in tech topics whose issues management experience positions her as trusted counsel to CEOs and investors during times of crisis and unanticipated change. Jeanne is the co-founder of the Master Class in HCM and currently finishing her studies in organizational leadership at Northwestern University.
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Jason Averbook is the CEO and co-founder of Leapgen to work with HR organizations globally to challenge established thinking and shape their future of work. Jason continues to be a leading analyst, thought leader, author, and keynote speaker in the area of human resources, the future of work and the impact technology has on that industry.
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Charu Malhotra has over 12 years experience leading global Employer Branding & Digital Talent Acquisition change programs at companies including BP, Unilever, Primark. Currently at Ferrero SA, leading the transformation of employer branding and talent attraction. Charu's career has been driven by her inquisitive nature, focus on inclusion, and she is constantly finding resilient solutions for tomorrow's workplace challenges.
Tom Hammond assumed the role of vice president of corporate strategy and product management in January 2017 with more than 25 years of experience at Paychex.
He leads an organization that develops strong, intuitive, and relevant Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions for small and mid-size businesses, embracing the challenge of remaining cutting-edge in an increasingly competitive market. He also shapes and directs the execution of the company’s strategic vision.
Earlier in his Paychex career, Hammond spent six years as the senior director of product and program management, putting his stamp on Paychex software development initiatives. He oversaw the creation of Paychex’s flagship payroll application, CORE Advanced, and has since played an integral role in its evolution into what is now Paychex Flex, the company’s full suite of HCM solutions.
A graduate of St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y. Hammond earned his Bachelor of Science degree in marketing in 1990.
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IT industry analyst Brian Sommer covers the ERP, finance and HR sectors for Diginomica and other publications. Brian’s HR expertise is extensive. He began his career began by re-writing a payroll/time-reporting system for a fast food chain. He served as a member of the IHRIM.link Advisory Board for several years. He was a guest editor for this publication and continues to contribute to other IHRIM publications like Workforce Management magazine. Brian was a senior partner at Accenture with leadership roles in their Software Intelligence and Human Capital groups. Brian has led finance & HR shared services projects for major global firms and was a quality assurance partner on large global HR projects, too.
Brian has won the Software Advice’s 2011 Authority Award – ERP Expert (2011) and the 2014 and 2015 ERP Writers' Awards. He has keynoted numerous software conferences including events for NetSuite, PeopleSoft, Sage and many more.
Brian is a frequent speaker at major HR shows globally and a guest lecturer at major university MBA programs. He has a BBA (Marketing) and a MBA (Finance) from the University of Texas at Austin.
This week's guest is Neil McCormick, founder of HRM Advisory Pty Ltd, an Australian consultancy that helps organizations harness the effectiveness of their people.
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