Speakers

Dan Bruder is the Former Director of Recruitment the United State Peace Corps which underwent the most historic reforms since it was created by President John F. Kennedy in 1961. Under his direction, recruitment was transformed from a reactive to proactive model and FY2014 was the most successful for this federal agency in almost a quarter of a century. Dan is now the Chief Strategist for Bold Nexus, a well-established talent acquisition consultancy. His background includes 25 years of experience including building two successful search practices and he also held talent acquisition leadership roles at Verizon and D&B.

Andrew Burke is the Head of Recruiting at Squarespace, the leading web publishing platform headquartered in New York City. He joined Squarespace in 2010 and has been instrumental in driving the people growth from 30 to 500+ employees over the past 4 years. 

Prior to Squarespace, Andrew earned his recruiting stripes at Daversa Partners, where he helped build the engineering teams for some of the most influential and impactful startups in New York. He currently resides in Manhattan.

Kathryn has been working exclusively within employer branding for five years supporting big brand employers from Apple to Zurich. She has become a champion for global employer branding and carries a passion for social inclusion, diversity and talent attraction strategy to any audience. Kathryn’s background is as Account Director at major employer branding consultancy: trendence where she founded the STEMinism UK network before moving internationally to become Global Employer Brand Manager at chocolate giant Ferrero. Kathryn was appointed to the Universum Global Advisory Board in October 2013. Kathryn has shared a stage with high profile leaders such as Helena Morrissey CBE, Sandi Rhys Jones OBE and Dr. Sue Black. She has been featured as an authority in her field in national press for the Financial Times and the Guardian, on mainstream TV for BBCthree and featured on worldwide radio for BBC World Services Newshour. She has written opinion pieces and provided comment in industry press such as Marketing Week, Personnel Today, HR magazine, the CIM and so on. Kathryn is an experienced international keynote and has spoken in Istanbul, Vegas, Paris, London, Barcelona and Brussels.

Hinda Chalew joins ERE with experience managing marketing and  interactive services for HR leaders and staffing companies having spent 8 years with Staffing Industry Analysts as the Sr. VP Marketing and Interactive Services. Previously, she has been a product marketing, product management executive in the technology sector for such firms as: CaseCentral, ADP, JusticeLink and Giga Information Group. Ms. Chalew is an industry speaker on marketing and social media, she holds a BS in Business Administration from CSU Hayward.

Susan Collins is a results-oriented human resources executive with over 15 years of experience within the retail environment. In her current role, she serves as the manager of talent acquisition for The Talbots, Inc., with direct recruitment oversight for the I.T., retail field, store communications, finance, and loss prevention areas. Talbots is a leading women’s clothing retailer that has grown to 560 stores in 47 states and that now includes a chain of upscale outlets. Prior to Talbots, she held recruiting management and leadership positions for Ann Taylor, J. Jill, and Eddie Bauer. She holds a certification as a human resources professional (PHR). She is also a co-founder of Retail Networking Solutions, a retail networking group that hosted over 2,700 attendees within the retail community during 2014 and almost 10,000 followers on LinkedIn. She is also a member of the Society for Human Resource Management.

Mark Craig is based in Ohio and has 20 years of human resources and staffing experience covering several industries’ including insurance, consulting, and financial services.

In his current role, he is responsible for developing staffing strategies for each division and leading a team in attracting and selecting the best talent for Schwab. In addition, heis the Project Lead for Schwab’s employee referral network redesign, a two-year project that launched in May. He is a Gallup Certified Strengths Performance Coach and a Certified Talent Advisor through the Corporate Leadership Council.

Jeremy is managing principal of Riviera Advisors, Inc., based in Long Beach, California, a leading human resources consulting firm focused on helping companies improve their internal recruiting processes. In addition to his more than 11 years of consulting with corporate staffing teams all over the globe, he has more than 20 years experience leading the global staffing function for companies such as Universal Studios, Idealab, and Amazon.com. He is a leading speaker to organizations on the value of the staffing function, including chairing the ERE Expos in 2006-2007. He is vice president, national membership for the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruitment; is a professional member of the prestigious National Speakers Association and the Institute of Management Consultants; and has served on the national staffing management special expertise panel of the Society for Human Resource Management. He is the author of the book “RecruitCONSULT! Leadership: The Corporate Talent Acquisition Leader’s Field Book” (STARoundtable Press, 2011).

Shawna Ford began her career in management in 2001 and soon after being afforded the opportunity to lead a team, realized her passion and energy derived from fixing process and training team members. Throughout her career she held many roles as manager/trainer/project lead in real estate, health care, and recently mortgage. After joining loanDepot in 2012 as a leadership training manager, she was asked to step into a role in recruiting to help build the team as well as implement process and procedures. After three months of working on process improvement within the recruiting department, she was moved to focus solely on recruiting as director of talent acquisition. She considers her “calling” to enhance and strengthen the talent at loanDepot by not only leading a solid recruiting platform but also growing her team to be a best-in-class department.

Mark Fuell is the experienced hire talent acquisition leader at professional services firm EY (Ernst & Young). He is a member of EY’s Americas recruiting leadership team and oversees both the talent sourcing function and the employee referral program in the U.S. He is also a member of EY’s global recruitment operations team.

Brenan German is founder and president at Bright Talent Resources, Inc., a boutique human resources advisory, project management, and recruiting services firm. As lead consultant, he acts as an advisor to organizations wanting to re-engineer or develop a high performing, measureable, technology-enabled, human resources function. He has over 20 years of hands-on human resources leadership experience developing intelligent and successful talent management functions within some of the country’s most respected and well-known companies such as The Gallup Organization, Edwards Lifesciences, and Black & Decker. His particular expertise involves the alignment of talent management strategies to business goals, and the implementation of systems and processes to reach measureable objectives, demonstrating clearly the bottom line impact expected of strategic human resources programs. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, he is an active participant in a number of organizations: Chair of the Orange County Employment Managers Association (OCEMA), Founding Board Member of the Talent Acquisition Group of San Diego (TAGSD), Member of the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), and Advisor to Sigma Pi International Educational Foundation.

Jenny Gizzi is passionate about recognizing talent. She is a strong believer that talent acquisition involves a vision, planning, and executing a flawless strategy that when married with her love to win, provides her great satisfaction in making the right match. She started her career on the East Coast in pharmaceutical recruiting and fell in love with the sell … selling the company, selling the job, and selling the candidate. She tried a few different industries including telecom and high-tech but found that she was missing the connection to the company. She moved West to challenge herself where she landed in Forbes' fastest growing biotech -- running talent acquisition for six+ years. There she was able to set a vision and grow the recruiting function from the ground up -- setting up the process, EVP, tools, and reporting in a global environment. She hired and developed a high-performing global team that stood out as “talent magnets” to the industry and the organization. By being in an industry with little regulation, she was able to spread her wings and push innovation to the limit. In 2010, she returned to the East Coast to bring innovation to a larger organization and has been able to steadily transform BMS. She has mastered the art of a proactive recruiting model -- combining talent management, internal, and external succession planning, pipelining and workforce planning into a strategy to source, recruit and retain the very best talent for Bristol-Myers Squibb. Here she has assembled a high performing team and has reduced agency spend from $4M to $0 in just three years. She is committed to setting the bar higher for herself and her team and is a strong believer in creating a safe space to take risks - it’s okay to fail, as long as you have tried.

Tom Greifendorff possesses over 10 years of recruitment, technology, and operations experience and currently leads talent acquisition program efforts for San Diego’s largest software company, Mitchell International. Tom brings a variety of skill to the talent acquisition space that has helped transform Mitchell’s recruitment function from a reactive service provider to a proactive strategic partner. He earned his Bachelors of Science from Central Washington University and is a founding member of the Talent Acquisition Group of San Diego.

Cat Hernandez is the Head of Talent at Chartbeat, a Made in NY tech startup focused on how to measure and monetize attention on the web. She leads the charge for creating a solid hiring infrastructure centered on hiring incredible data-loving talent across teams, while also helping grow a positive culture. In the last year, she's played a key role in the company's 70% percent growth and is excited by the challenges and rewards of scaling a high-growth startup. Before Chartbeat, she finessed her recruiting chops in the retail, software consulting, and web optimization fields. When she's not focused on people matters, Cat dabbles in skydiving, upstate wineries, and daily indoor cycling classes.

Matthew Jeffery, cited as one of the world's leading recruitment strategists and leaders, is VP, Head of Global Sourcing and Employment Branding for SAP. Matthew's role is very unique in the industry, with the merging of Sourcing & Branding.   Previously, Matthew was Head of EMEA Talent Acquisition & Global Employment Brand for software giant Autodesk. Previous to Autodesk, he was the Global Director of Recruitment brand for Electronic Arts, the leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment. Matthew is author to ERE's most successful recruitment vision series of articles:  A Vision for the Future of Recruitment: Recruitment 3.0; Recruitment 4.0: Crowdsourcing, Gamification, Recruitment as a Profit Centre, ….and the Death of Recruitment Agencies; Recruitment 5.0: The Future of Recruiting.  The Final Chapter.   Matthew was voted “1 of 11 Leading In-House Recruitment Leaders” by Recruiter Magazine in August 2013, and U.K. "Recruitment Personality of the Year" in 2010.

Lindsay Jurisch has worked for Sutherland Global Services in four countries and is proud to be helping lead the Sutherland transition to a social sourcing model.

Jill Larsen is VP of strategic talent acquisition at Cisco. She leads Cisco’s Global Staffing, Executive Recruiting, & University Relations efforts. She recently joined Cisco from EMC where she held the role of VP of HR strategy & operations. She was responsible for overseeing EMC’s HRIS (PeopleSoft migration to Success Factors), HR Shared Services, Employee Engagement/Brand, and HR Operations. She has held HR, University, and Staffing leadership roles in Fortune 500, Consulting, and startup organizations, including SunGard, Benchmark, Monitor, Raytheon, Quantum, and Robert Half International. 

Orly Lobel is the Don Weckstein Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and the award-winning author of three books and numerous articles. Lobel's research is published widely in the leading scholarly journals in law, economics, and psychology. Lobel's research focuses on the contemporary realities of the labor market, innovation policy, human capital and intellectual property. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Businessweek, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Sunday Times, Globe and Mail, CNBC, Fortune, CNN Money and HuffPost. Most recently, her book Talent Wants to Be Free received a Gold Medal in the 2014 Axiom Best Business Book Awards and is the winner of Best Business Book in the 2014 International Book Awards. A world traveler, Lobel has lectured at Yale, Harvard, UCSD, Tel-Aviv University and is a frequent speaker at top research and business institutes throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Lobel lives in La Jolla, California with her husband and three daughters. In 2013, Lobel was named one of the 50 Sharpest Minds in Research by The Marker Magazine.

Rob Lopez tripped and fell into recruiting and is now Head of Global Talent Acquisition at Vistaprint; a 5000 employee, $1.3B global ecommerce technology company. With a decade+ of corporate and agency experience, Rob is passionate about building an innovative recruitment program and high achieving team while finding talent and matching it with opportunity. He is also a diehard Maryland Terrapin fan, for better or for worse (usually worse).

Joris Luijke, VP of People at Squarespace, gets you thinking about how to get your talent acquisition team to think more creatively and get their ideas and messages to spread.

Jennifer McClure is President of Unbridled Talent LLC, a consulting and advisory firm providing services to clients in the areas of recruiting & human resources strategy, employment branding and leadership/career development.

Jennifer is a popular speaker who has spoken at over 150 industry-related conferences and events and she’s provided workshops and training for HR, recruiting and leadership teams at a variety of organizations - including Fortune 100 clients.

In both her consulting work and at speaking events, Jennifer brings perspective and prior experiences as a Human Resources executive in privately held and Fortune 500 companies, as well as experience as an Executive Recruiter and Executive Coach. Throughout her career, she has partnered with business and executive leaders to develop the best strategies to find, attract, recruit and develop the talent needed in their organizations to achieve business objectives.

Rob McIntosh is Chief Analyst for ERE Media. He has a passion to connect Talent Leaders with each other on best practices and business talent trends that help advance the industry.

He was the previous SVP of global talent acquisition for large Fortune 100 companies at McKesson, Avanade, Deloitte, and Microsoft. A Global Talent Acquisition Executive: 18+ years’ leading Talent functions in over 30 countries, he has consistently delivered results through building high-performing teams and operational excellence.  He has led large globally distributed teams in a centralized and decentralized models while meeting aggressive hiring demand plans (Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific and India).

Experience creating and deploying Shared Services, CoE, Off-shore, Near-shore, In-sourcing, Outsourcing (RPO) Talent Acquisition structures and organizations.

Architected, designed and implemented global sourcing functions that focus on capturing global passive talent pools that drive pipeline ahead of the business demand while delivering against JIT recruiting demand.

Creation of advanced Talent Acquisition scorecards, KPI’s, and analytics that produce transparency and accountability to help evangelize and educate Senior business leaders around the ROI of go to market Talent Acquisition strategies.

Detailed experience and deployment of global: ATS, CTS; SEO, SEM; CRM, TRM; Raising of Employee Brand (EVP); Enhanced Candidate Experience programs; Diversity and Inclusion initiatives; Permission based marketing; Integrated Social Media platforms and Talent Communities; OFCCP and global employment law/Global Data Privacy; Advanced Sourcing/Research technologies; Competency, Cultural and Technical screening assessment; Global Career site development; VMS solutions; Global Background Investigation solutions; WFP and Financial recruiting tracking frameworks.

Tracie is responsible for leading the Talent Acquisition and Diversity division for Sedgwick; the largest Third Party Administrator in North America.  Her responsibilities include developing and managing strategic recruiting & sourcing strategies; diversity & inclusion, contractor management, compliance and workforce planning.  

Previously, she developed the strategy for Attracting, Acquiring, Selecting and Hiring for International Paper; as well as developed and managed the Social Media Strategy for North America Recruiting; to include visible branding. 

For over 20 years, Tracie has led the recruiting and diversity divisions of nationally recognized corporations.  She received her Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Sociology from the University of Memphis.  

Tracie resides in the Memphis area with her husband James and her two daughters, Krysten and Karlynn.

Passionate about the candidate experience and its impact on both workforces and employers, Elaine Orler is chairman co-founder of the Talent Board, founding organization of the Candidate Experience Awards.  As CEO and founder of Talent Function, Elaine has been developing and implementing HR solutions since 1993.

One of the talent acquisition industry’s most sought-after thought leaders, Elaine has helped global organizations transform their recruiting processes with actionable strategies and technology implementations that optimize talent acquisition for HR professionals, hiring managers, job candidates and the company overall. Elaine is always tuned into the latest trends, works with practitioners and serves an analyst to the solution provider community to shape the way talent management and recruiting solutions are delivered.

Often quoted in leading HR and business publications, including Wall Street Journal, and Talent Management, Elaine is well-respected as a talent acquisition and talent management expert and takes an active role in industry events and associations. She has presented one-of-a-kind recruiting and candidate experience thought leadership at some of the industry’s most innovative and popular events, including the HR Technology Conference, the SHRM Annual Conference, ERE, and HRO Today Forum among others.

In Jan 2006, Mike became one of nine people to have run a marathon on the Antarctic continent; 11 months later he returned to Antarctica to become the first American to complete the Antarctic Ultra Marathon, a grueling 100km (62.1 miles).  Since then Mike has completed many other winter marathons in the coldest and harshest climates on earth. His stories have been featured on CNN, Sports Illustrated, Fox, ABC, CBS Early Show, ESPN, and many other national and international sources.

  OK, you’re thinking: WHY?  Surprisingly, it has very little to do with cold weather or sports.  Rather, it’s about the disciplines necessary to be successful in difficult situations.  Leaders today face the same challenges as those who first conquered Antarctica.  The question is this: Are we ready?

  Leading at 90 Below Zero is all about one thing: Making sure that leaders understand how to help their teams be ready to face any conditions and still thrive.  Mike will illustrate from Polar history stories the importance of showcasing your companies opportunity, picking the right people for the expedition, and conditioning and rewarding them so that they have the ability and desire to complete the expedition. 

  Mike holds his BA from the University of Colorado, Boulder in Marketing and resides in Encinitas, CA with his wife Angela.

Jojuane Porter is a talent acquisition leader for Capital One. As a member of the leadership team, he is leading retail recruiting efforts to change banking for good. We will bring ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking.  We dare to dream, disrupt, and deliver a better way. 

Previously, Jojuane has successfully recruited and supported the growth of Fortune 100 companies through periods of rapid growth and transformation, while also supporting turnaround efforts of an iconic retail brand and helping it return to relevancy.

Editor in Chief Todd Raphael works on planning ERE's conferences, the ERE.net website, the ERE daily email newsletter, the ERE Recruiting Excellence awards, and more. Contact him at todd@ere.net.

Dr John Sullivan is an internationally known HR thought-leader from the Silicon Valley who specializes in providing bold and high business impact; strategic Talent Management solutions to large corporations. He’s a prolific author with over 900 articles and 10 books covering all areas of Talent Management. He has written over a dozen white papers, conducted over 50 webinars, dozens of workshops and he has been featured in over 35 videos. He is an engaging corporate speaker who has excited audiences at over 300 corporations / organizations in 30 countries on all 6 continents. His ideas have appeared in every major business source including the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, CFO, Inc., NY Times, SmartMoney, USA Today, HBR and the Financial Times. He has been interviewed on CNN and the CBS and ABC nightly news, NPR, as well many local TV and radio outlets.

Fast Company called him the "Michael Jordan of Hiring”, Staffing.org called him “the father of HR metrics” and SHRM called him “One of the industries most respected strategists”. He was selected among HR’s “Top 10 Leading Thinkers” and he was ranked #8 among the top 25 online influencers in Talent Management. He served as the Chief Talent Officer of Agilent Technologies, the HP spinoff with 43,000 employees and he was the CEO of the Business Development Center, a minority business consulting firm in Bakersfield, California. He is currently a Professor of Management at San Francisco State (1982 – present). His articles can be found all over the Internet and on his popular website www.drjohnsullivan.com and on www.ERE.Net. He lives in Pacifica, California.

Jennifer leads employment branding and recruitment marketing strategies that yield 40K+ new hires each year.  Her team of recruiting professionals accomplish this through progressive media campaigns,  ubiquitous mobile integration, meaningful social media, diversity programs and by supporting searches for specialized roles. Using technology and a keen focus on the candidate experience, Jenn has evolved AT&T’s talent attraction strategy and elevated AT&T’s brand as a top technology employer.

Jennifer has 16 years of experience across the Talent Acquisition continuum. Prior to her current role, Jenn has led several full cycle recruiting teams.

Jennifer has been a featured speaker and panelist for the Human Capital Institute, Bersin & Associates, Women in Technology International, the National Association of College and Employers and Electronic Recruiting Exchange (ERE). She is also a member of the HR Policy Association’s Jobepedia.org project.

Jenn’s recruiting insights and accomplishments have been quoted in publications including The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. Under her leadership AT&T has garnered positive recruitment related coverage from several national outlets including Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, and The White House.

Jenn lives in Norman, Oklahoma with her family and enjoys all things arts & crafty, competes in esoteric board game marathons and watches really bad reality TV in her spare time.

Gail Tolstoi-Miller, an entrepreneur and innovator, she serves dual CEO roles within her organizations. Tolstoi-Miller directs strategic staffing at Consultnetworx, a national staffing firm providing consulting and permanent talent in the HR, IT, Pharmaceutical, Corporate Support, Sales and Finance Space. Additionally, she manages the day-to-day operations of Speednetworx, a B2B speed networking event company.

Tolstoi-Miller spends a lot of her time thinking about the everyday plights of recruiters and job seekers--and searches for solutions. Her firms’ recent initiative, SpeedHIRE, is the only highly targeted invitational recruiting event in the nation. These revolutionary events help employers find and hire top talent quickly, while providing job seekers with much-needed dignity and efficiency in their job search.

Amidst the shrinking job market, Tolstoi-Miller has been on the forefront of putting Americans back to work.  Her innovative business ideas have singled her out as a resource in her field, frequently sought after by the media. She has shared her insights on the subjects of networking, workforce trends, and the job market with outlets such as Inc., Forbes, MSN, Fox Business, Careerbuilder and many others. She has received the NJBIZ Top 50 Business Women 2013 award and was named as a Finalist for Enterprising Women for 2013 sponsored by Enterprising Women magazine and named a 2014 Top Business by DiversityBusiness.com.

Gail holds a Bachelors from New York University.  Gail is also involved in charities such as EIF Revlon’s Walk/Run for Women and Red Bull’s Tickets for Troops initiative. She is a former board member of Good Grief and is the founder of Human Resources NJ Networking group. Gail will be sharing her insight in her first book, which will be published later this year. Tolstoi-Miller is a member of SHRM and her companies are WBENC-certified.  Gail is a huge Red Bulls Soccer fan.

Corrie Waarum is a Microsoft consultant, previously recruiting director at Healogics. She is a tenured recruitment leader with experience leading recruitment teams within large software, logistics, and healthcare firms. She began her career in 1997 as a technical recruiter with Computer Associates International, became a top-rated recruiter, and quickly took on management responsibilities. She has been able to use predictive analytics, alternative sourcing strategies, and enhanced employer branding programs to drive down the cost-per-hire and increase both the quality and time-to-fill. She has experience working with the business sides of organizations in determining root cause; developing organizational development/culture improvement programs, assessment technologies, and improving applicant tracking systems. She has experience partnering with training organizations to craft unique offerings which directly impact the onboarding and career development of candidates/employees, thus enabling the significant growth of large firms.

She served in the US Air Force and is passionate about hiring veterans; she volunteers with many veteran organizations to assist veterans transition into the civilian workforce. She studied at Trident University and Florida State College, as well as the Community College of the Air Force.

Molly Weaver, MBA, is the director of employment for Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics. She is responsible for all hiring for the hospital with the exception of physicians and has been with the hospital for five years. Prior to joining Children’s Mercy she was a senior recruiting manager with responsibilities for recruiting programs for T-Mobile USA. Her focus is on attracting and keeping top healthcare talent for Children’s Mercy while ensuring the candidate experience is the best it can be. Current initiatives include using social media, video interviewing, and talent pooling to fill openings timely and with quality candidates.

Scott Weaver is the Director of Talent Acquisition and Development at Cumming Corporation, an international project and cost management consultancy with more than 20 offices world-wide. Possessing over 10 years of experience in Talent Management, Scott specializes in leading recruitment strategy with predictive data analytics, passive candidate sourcing and developing scalable talent initiatives in-line with corporate strategy. He has been leading Cumming Corporation’s Talent Acquisition team and strategies for 8 years and started his recruiting career within a staffing environment where he was the top revenue producer for his position nationally.

Scott is based in San Diego, CA with his wife Francesca and their daughter, Juliet. He enjoys time with his family, the San Diego craft beer scene and cheering on his Alma Mater, the Crimson Tide. 

Kevin Wheeler is an entrepreneur, teacher, consultant to many Fortune 500 companies, as well as a noted author. He has founded a number of organizations including the Future of Talent Institute, Global Learning Resources, Inc. and the Australasian Talent Conference, Ltd.  The Future of Talent Institute provides research, white papers, and a forum for senior talent leaders to learn, discuss, and share with each other their best practices, success stories and problems. The essence of the Future of Talent Institute is to bring smart people together with experts and researchers and probe at the edges of talent trends to see what emerges. In 1998, he founded and is the President of Global Learning Resources, Inc. which focuses on helping organizations architect long lasting and flexible talent strategies.

Kevin has been a research affiliate at the Institute for the Future and his consulting practices takes him all over the globe where he sees, firsthand how the impact of economics, education, diversity, and age affects talent and how it is valued and appreciated.

In May of 2007 Love was enlisted to take on the global role as Chief Talent Officer at the Young & Rubicam New York Head Quarters.  Prior to moving to New York, Mr. Whelchel served as a senior HR executive at TBWA/Chiat/Day in Los Angeles, CA. Whelchel, previously served as Chief Human Resources Officer for music mogul Sean Combs at Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment/Combs Enterprises.

Love has over 20 years of HR experience in various industries. Mr. Whelchel, is passionate about talent and committed to excellence.  "My role places me at the nucleus of the intricate interface between employee, enterprise, industry, and I enjoy the challenge of helping to align all of those segments to business strategy". Love is currently Chief Talent Officer at DeVries Global an IPG owned Public Relations and Communications firm based in New York.

Love earned a Bachelor of Science in business with a focus on Hotel Restaurants and Tourism from Morris Brown College in Atlanta, GA.

Judy Wright specializes in talent attraction, employee engagement, employer brands, and values-based, best-place-to-work cultures.  She consults with senior executives on the impact of company culture, engagement, and signature experiences that connect, attract and retain talent. What she loves about her career is helping organizations tell the story of why exceptionally talented people should work for them and improving brand delivery by cultivating the culture.

Judy is currently the Director of Talent Acquisition Solutions and Brand for Providence Health and Services.   Her career has been across a variety of industries with T-Mobile, Safeco/Liberty Mutual Insurance and Gene Juarez Salons & Spas.

Judy graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communications.  She loves to travel and is actively involved in the thoroughbred horse racing industry with her family, who raises and trains horses in Washington, Arizona and California.

Chris Yeh is a respected Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, mentor, writer, and co-author (with Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha) of the best-selling book, THE ALLIANCE: Managing Talent in the Networked Age (Harvard Business Review Press). He has been blogging since 2001, both on his personal blogs and as a guest author in outlets like TechCrunch, Mashable, and VentureBeat, and has written over 2,000 posts on topics ranging from the psychology of entrepreneurship to achieving happiness in Silicon Valley. In addition to his writing, he has founded, funded, or advised over 50 startups, including Ustream, the world's leading live video platform. He earned two Bachelor's degrees with distinction from Stanford University (Product Design Engineering and Creative Writing) and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar. 

Samer Zaben is the Lead Technical Recruiter at Vimeo. In this role he’s responsible for all talent acquisition within engineering, product, and the Cameo mobile app team. Samer also leads Vimeo's campus and career fair recruiting, along with all external events involving the engineering team, and sometimes contribute to tasks and challenges involving talent management which include culture, retention, growth, talent development, manager training, and employee interview training.

Samer reports into Vimeo’s VP of Talent, Lindsay Deak Friedman and grow the company from 95 to 185 employees, facilitating 35% of the total placements

John Zappe is the editor of The Fordyce Letter and contributing editor to ERE.net. Principal in his own firm, Zappe Media Services, he serves as content manager and social media strategist for several small to mid-size organization, including search and staffing firms. John joined ERE Media in 2007 after working as a publishing consultant with the AIM Group. Earlier, John served as Vice President of Digital Media for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, building it into a profitable operation with a highly successful recruitment advertising service. A professional journalist, his early career includes turns as city editor for a major Southern California metro and reporting stints in Nevada and San Francisco. In addition to launching one of the earliest information-oriented websites in 1994, he was general manager of a 10,000 customer, regional ISP. John has a law degree from Syracuse University, and an undergraduate degree from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY.