Jim Stroud

www.jimstroud.com

Jim Stroud is a "Searchologist" with an expertise in the full life-cycle placement of Executive and Technical personnel, Recruitment Research and Competitive Intelligence. He has consulted for such companies as Google,Siemens, MCI and a host of start-up companies. He presently serves Microsoft as a Technical Sourcing Consultant and is a regular contributor to Microsoft's Technical Careers Blog.

Jim Stroud was nominated (and a top 10 finalist) for a "Best Blog Award" for his blog - Jim Stroud 2.0, by Recruiting.com in 2006 and cited in Bullhorn's Research Report: Tools of The Trade 2007 as being among the best blogs on the recruiting industry (50,000 staffing and recruiting professionals were surveyed). His podcast series - "The Recruiters Lounge" recently aired its 50th episode. His comicstrip series - "The Recruiting Life" has also celebrated its 100th edition and was nominated for "Best Ongoing Comic Series" and "Best Newcomer of 2006" by Gnomz, a community of Comic creators.

Jim Stroud also trains recruiters on how to source the internet for passive candidates and has trained recruiting organizations worldwide. His experience in using the internet to find hidden talent spans a decade.

Dave Copps

dave@purediscovery.com

Dave is a certified search geek and serial entrepreneur. He has been at the forefront of semantic search for the past 9 years following a pioneering effort in 1995 that resulted in the first real-time news service delivered via a web service.

Dave currently serves as Chairman and CEO of PureDiscovery Corporation, a company based in Dallas Texas that is redefining what is possible for the future of intelligent search. Prior to founding PureDiscovery he was co-founder and Director of Engenium Corporation (purchased by Marsh McLennan in November 2006), where he led the adoption of the Engenium conceptual search platform by the Pentagon, CIA, FBI and the US Department of Defense's Defense Messaging System. In addition to the DoD, Dave's intelligent search systems are currently enabling all major Electronic Discovery systems and over 260 hiring systems around the world including those of Korn Ferry and Heidrick & Struggles.

Dave received his BA from the University of North Texas where he was the first graduate to receive a degree in Industrial Anthropology / Corporate Culture. He is an active member of the American Entrepreneurs' Association, the Presidents' Forum and Leadership-Dallas. He is a frequent speaker and regular faculty member for events sponsored by American Lawyer Media, CLE International and other organizations. More importantly Dave enjoys collecting custom guitars and ocean sailing.

Joshua Letourneau

Managing Director | LG & Associates Search / Talent Strategy

Joshua Letourneau is the Managing Director of LG & Associates Search / Talent Strategy, where he assists companies establish strategic talent-sourcing programs that create competitive advantage and help companies "Win" among those highly pivotal talent pools that most drive their organization's success. As the former VP of an early-stage technology consulting/venture-capital firm (with his first 'real job' being a Sergeant in the U.S. Marines), he brings a very unorthodox (yet unique) sales/marketing/military strategy background to bear on the Talent Acquisition space.

Outside of helping clients "shake up" their thinking about talent through the use of visual thinking and Lego-building team-based events, Josh is the current Careers Community Manager for Fast Company magazine, a member of the HCI’s “Executive Acquisitions” Expert Panel, a contributing blogger for FistfulOfTalent.com, and holds an MBA from Mercer University's Stetson School of Business & Economics (Atlanta, GA).

Marvin Smith

Marvin Smith leads a Talent Community Development initiative for Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices (E&D) Division ($7.5B & 8000 employees). This initiative is to evangelize the respective "brands" of E&D (Zune, Xbox, Sync, Mobile, Surface etc) to the respective target talent audience (10 Pipelines: hardware, software, music, video, et al). Web 2.0 mythologies are employed to create community with staffing, the hiring teams and the target talent.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Marvin was in corporate recruiting/recruiting leadership with several early stage and developing technology organizations. Marvin's corporate recruiting was built on a foundation of two decades of middle and senior level search serving high technology and manufacturing firms. He was a principal with 3 different firms. Marvin has a BA from Pacific Lutheran University

William (Bill) M. Ryan Jr.

U.S. Recruiting Manager|IBM Global Business Services Commercial

As a HR and recruiting professional William (Bill) Ryan has 15 years of staffing, recruiting and human resource experience combined with a mix of both staffing agency and corporate exposure. Bill has worked in capacity as HR and Recruiting Manager for organizations like ALLTEL Information Services and is currently the Manager of Sourcing for IBM supporting Global Business Services Bill carries a BBA in Organizational Management and continues to seek new and innovative ways of enhancing and structuring recruiting organizations to deliver value to his clients.

Bill was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin but is a military brat at heart living in parts of the world that includes multiple countries with Japan as his favorite Far East destination. Bill is an avid golfer and poker player and has a wife and two boys. Whether its' an internal client seeking top financial services consultants or one that requires a specialty search for niche SAP skills, Bill continues to test new approaches to sourcing as well stretch the abilities of the teams he manages.

Ben Gotkin

National Director, Experienced-Hire Recruiting | RSM McGladrey, Inc.

Ben is the National Director, Experienced-Hire Recruiting for RSM McGladrey. In this role since late 2006, he develops and delivers programs and strategies designed to enhance the firm's overall recruiting efforts. Ben has over 14 years of experience in recruiting, providing strategic and tactical recruiting services to organizations including The MITRE Corporation, Intelsat and BAE Systems. In each of these roles, Ben has been a leader in advocating the applications of technology in recruiting, utilizing metrics to improve performance, providing interviewing training to management and staff, and developing out-of-the-box tactics to identify talent. Ben is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park with a bachelor's degree in Psychology. Ben has served a board member of WTPF, a DC-based HR organization, from 2006-07, was an Expert Advisor with the Human Capital Institute in 2006, and an Advisory Board Member of Jobster in 2005.

Donato Diorio

Founder & CEO | Broadlook Technologies

Donato Diorio is a highly successful entrepreneur in the recruiting and software industry. He started his career pioneering offline data storage software and eventually moved into IT recruiting at MRI, 3 years later he was a top billing recruiter. He left to start his own recruiting company, which eventually evolved into Broadlook Technologies. Donato founded the company in 2001 with a vision to create technology solutions that leverage the right mix of human and machine interaction as it related to sales, marketing and recruitment. In less than 4 years, Donato has helped Broadlook acquire over 3500 clients worldwide, including some of world's most prominent and innovative companies. Broadlook's products have been recipients of the Sales Tool of the Year award, Technology Knockout Award (TKO), and the Innovation Quotient award (IQ) for software innovation.

Donato's charismatic personality, combined with his high level of enthusiasm, make him a highly motivational speaker. He is a frequent speaker, thought leader, and educator on best practices in sales and recruitment. Focusing on managing technology and human interaction in the recruiting industry, Donato's presentations have been sought after by multiple large recruiting organizations across the US; including the Management Recruiters, National Association of Personnel Services, the Wisconsin Business and Technology Expo, ACC Conference and a multitude of other small recruiting groups.

Donato lives in Wisconsin with his wife Christina, three children, and his Newfoundland dog and company mascot, Captain Janeway.

Michael Marlatt

Recruiting Consultant | Microsoft | v-michm@microsoft.com

Michael Marlatt is a recruiting professional with 10+ years of full life-cycle experience, including expertise and passion around internet research & sourcing, training, and Web2.0 technologies. He is presently employed by Microsoft as a Recruiting Consultant and is primarily responsible for prospecting consulting talent for Microsoft's U.S. Enterprise Services within the East Region.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Michael served in many recruiting lead roles for top-tier organizations such as Ernst & Young-LLP, Capgemini, Deloitte Consulting, and Amdocs Consulting. Michael's diverse talents have allowed him to take on a variety of positions to include lead recruiter, sourcer, trainer, and mentor. As a former AIRS Certified Internet Recruiter, Michael has designed and delivered recruiting training for many of his previous employers. He has addressed a broad range of training topics, trends, and sourcing "best-practice" methodologies.

Michael started his recruiting career back in 1997 with a national agency out of Atlanta, GA. He remained within the agency environment for three years where he performed full life-cycle recruiting, as well as managed key accounts across multiple industries such as telecom, high-tech, retail, and consumer products. He quickly rose through the recruiting ranks and became a "top-producer". By mid-2000, he was recruited by the former Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (now Capgemini) and remained there for close to four years. During that time, Michael held several national recruiting roles and was responsible for hiring ERP-(SAP, Oracle, & JDE), CRM-(Siebel & Clarify), and Telecom consultants.

Michael is very passionate about the evolution of Web2.0 technologies, particularly as it relates to "best-of-breed" social-bookmarking tools, the impact of social-networks, Lifestreaming Aggregators, Open Standards, Dataportability, as well as predictions around the emergence of Web3.0.

Michael currently resides in Atlanta, GA with his wife and 2.5 year old son.

Kay Kelison

Researchologist | Microsoft

Researchologist Kay Kelison has been in the Recruiting Industry for almost 10 years and has made a career as a Sr. Internet Researcher/Name Generator. She likes to consider herself to be a Sherlock of the internet.

Kay has great passion for the internet and loves the hunt and doesn't believe in stopping. She has a gift of making strategic sourcing make sense to her clients, which are mainly Recruiters. With the high demands of finding great talent and keeping our clients happy she partners with recruiters to create a strong recruiting/sourcing plan so that the clients are satisfied with recruiting efforts.

She has worked with some awesome companies: Saltmine, Amazon, Microsoft -Ad Center as well as Microsoft India, Wachovia, T-Mobile, and a few starts -ups. At the present time she is the Sr. Researcher (aka Researchologist) for aQuantive -a Microsoft Corporation subsidiary, helping to build a sourcing team that takes on all different arms of the sourcing pieces which allows the recruiter to develop the relationship with the candidate and their experience. She is all about sharing old and new techniques and developing strong relationships with her recruiters.

John Sloan

Corporate Staffing Consultant | Strategic Sourcing Team | Lockheed Martin Shared Services

John Sloan is a member of Lockheed Martin's Strategic Sourcing Group. They lead an enterprise wide effort at building pipelines of candidates in many different skill sets. John started his professional career as a Aeroscout Observer (helicopter pilot) in the U.S. Army. A veteran of the Gulf War, he was the recipient of an Air Medal for conspicuous gallantry while under hostile fire while serving with the 1-101st Airborne Division. Leaving the service after 11 years, John finished his degree in Political Science and reluctantly accepted a position as a headhunter for a firm based out of Flower Mound, TX. He served as their regional recruiting manager covering the tri-state region of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana for two years recruiting Junior Military Officers before accepting a position as the western military relationship manager with Lockheed Martin in Las Vegas, NV. From there John moved into a sourcer position with the Aeronautics business unit in Fort Worth, TX. His responsibilities included sourcing for all engineering departments and production operations to assist in recruiting candidates for the F-22 Raptor, the F-16 Falcon, the F-35 Lightening II/Joint Strike Fighter, the C-130 Hercules, the MC-130 Talon II special operations aircraft, the F-117 Stealth Fighter/Nighthawk, the U-2 Lady Killer, the C-5 Galaxy transport plane and other unmentionables associated with Lockheed's famed Skunkworks, Advanced Development Programs. In 2005 John left Aeronautics to head up the pilot project of the Strategic Sourcing Group. His recruiting assignments have ranged from finance professionals, plasma propulsion, high performance computing, landing gear designers, electro-optical engineers, nano particle engineers to low observable/RAM developers. John has become the "sourcing expert" within Lockheed Martin by training under the talented Shally Steckerl. John has become the "sourcing expert" within Lockheed Martin by training under the talented Shally Steckerl. John is widely known for his depth and breadth of knowledge, which goes beyond the defense industry. He continuously amazes people with how much he knows and is able to contribute. John has an insatiable desire to think outside the norm to provide unique and efficient solutions to issues that surround strategic sourcing and corporate staffing struggles. He has affectionately been referred to as the "Howard Cosell" of Lockheed's recruiting effort. His penchant for telling it like it is, while unique for a corporate environment is still politely referred to as a breath of fresh air.

Peter Bugnatto

Strategic Sourcing Consultant | Lockheed Martin

Pete Bugnatto is a Strategic Sourcing Consultant at Lockheed Martin, where he has worked since 2004. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, he was the Director of Staffing & Operations at Mark X, Inc., where he was the 3rd person of a Silicon Valley Start-up. It was at another start-up, iPrint.com, during the dot.com boom that Pete climbed quickly from Senior Recruiter to Director of Staffing & Operations before leaving there to help build Mark X. Pete holds a BA degree from San Jose State University and an MS degree from Miami University in Ohio. Prior to jumping into high tech recruiting he had a 10 year career in College and University Administration at various campuses across the United States, including working for Semester At Sea where he had the opportunity to sail around the world. He is CIR and ACIR certified and lives in Sunnyvale, CA.

Scott Biggerstaff

Managing Consultant | The Newman Group

Scott Biggerstaff is a Managing Consultant with The Newman Group, a Futurestep company and leading provider of talent acquisition and management consulting services to Fortune 500 companies. In his role with the Newman Group, he provides project management expertise to help clients effectively implement talent management initiatives. Prior to joining The Newman Group, Scott provided consulting services in talent management and conducted seminars on effective talent acquisition. Prior to his consulting career, he managed recruiting metrics, staffing strategies and staffing technology for a Fortune 50 telecommunications provider. Scott has presented at workshops and seminars for several recruitment and staffing conferences. He has also been quoted in Fortune Magazine and Wall Street Journal in articles related to staffing technology and staffing metrics.

Jeremy Langhans

Prospecting Consultant | Microsoft

Jeremy Langhans is currently the Prospecting Consultant for the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft. His team sits under what used to be called "the BillG group" & is now referred to as Corporate R&D. Jeremy is formerly the Senior Executive Sourcer at Cisco Systems where he supported key organizations on finding & qualifying Senior Director and Vice President level talent primarily within the fields of IT Services, Technical Marketing, Sales, and Engineering. Prior to joining Cisco; Jeremy was a Senior Sourcer for Autodesk, Panasonic, Yahoo, Kyocera and Microsoft. His background also includes consulting work with Electronic Arts (EA), Walt Disney, and others which contracted his expertise in; Internet Research, Sourcing, Candidate Development, and Staffing Tools (CRM). Jeremy began his Technical Recruiting career in the late 90's while working for Agencies during the dot com hay days. He is very active in the global Talent Acquisition community & has been an Expert Member of such associations as ERE and as the Grandmaster Sourcing Challenge winner of SourceCon 2007. Jeremy currently runs a private online community for Top Talent in Sourcing.

Traci Wicks

Candidate Generation Leader | Intuit

Traci Wicks is the Candidate Generation Leader for Intuit. Traci has been involved in fast-paced, high-volume staffing for over 12 years where she has developed multiple Candidate Generation models to support a variety of business strategies. Traci's candidate generation experience includes both agency and corporate environments. Prior to Intuit, Traci held leadership roles working with Northern Telecom, ACS Guidant, and Manpower. During her tenure with Intuit, the Candidate Generation organization has been recognized by the Electronic Recruiting Exchange's "Best Employer Brand of 2007", has several best practices in lead generation published by Recruiting Roundtable, and recently received the "HR Innovation award of 2008" by the HR Symposium in Northern California. Traci has also been recognized with Intuit's Vision-Impact-Partnership (VIP) Award for Excellence in Human Resources.

Chris Galy

Talent Acquisition Leader | Intuit

Chris Galy is the Talent Acquisition Leader for Intuit's small business and personal financial management products such as QuickBooks, Quicken, Quicken Healthcare, Intuit Payroll and Intuit Payments. Chris's global Talent Acquisition leadership experience spans 13 years in the software, networking, and semiconductor industries. Prior to Intuit, Chris worked in Human Resources and/or Talent Acquisition roles at Xilinx Semiconductor, Harmonic, and Integrated Device Technology. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and received a Masters in Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco in 2002. During Chris's tenure with Intuit, the Talent Acquisition organization has been recognized by the Electronic Recruiting Exchange's "Best Recruiting Department of 2008".

Moises Lopez

Sr. Researcher Recruiter | TalentBridge

Moises Lopez is an Internet Research/Sourcing professional. He is a distinguished writer and trainer in Advanced Sourcing techniques with more than a decade of innovation and leadership in talent acquisition, both working within corporate and consulting environments in recruiting organizations. Having created sourcing strategies, he has also successfully established three sourcing/internet research teams and is skilled at developing targeted sourcing plans and building and managing successful sourcing initiatives.

Moises stumbled into the recruiting industry almost by accident. Little did he know that it would be a lucrative and rewarding life-long career. His passion for sourcing has driven him to mentoring, training, and helping others share the same success.

Mr. Lopez began his career in recruitment in 1992 and has devoted the last 5 years to developing and training sourcing teams. His background includes sourcing and recruiting in a variety of industries including Healthcare, Aerospace & Aircraft Engineering, Oil & Gas, DOD, and Information Technologies. A Sourcer to the core Moises thrives on the challenges of finding top talent.

Otis Collier

Assistant Vice President | Alternate Channels Sourcing Manager | Wachovia Corporation

Otis Collier is a seasoned Certified Internet Recruitment Trainer with hands on experience in the areas of internet and diversity recruiting, candidate sourcing, and core recruitment skills training. He has fifteen years of experience with military and civilian recruiting and is considered one of the country's top experts in e-recruiting.

Mr. Collier has traveled across the United States teaching well over 5,000 recruiters the art of passive candidate mining via the web. He is the previous Director of Corporate Training for the well known recruitment solutions company, AIRS. While at AIRS, he provided training to the company's most valued clientele and was a leading contributor to the research and course development team. One of his last major achievements before leaving AIRS was writing the now popular "Find Diversity Candidates" curriculum.

Today, Otis Collier is an Assistant Vice President with Wachovia Corporation. At Wachovia, Otis advises team leaders on how to set quarterly / annual performance objectives and goals for their sourcing consultants. He coaches relationship and process management and delivers ongoing training to approximately 60+ Wachovia team leads, consultants, and recruiters.

Otis also holds the role of Alternate Channels Sourcing Manager where he is responsible for building and opening new sourcing channels for the company's recruiting department. Those channels include military, military spouses, disabled persons, returning workforce, and second career candidates. Since taking the helm, Wachovia has been recognized as the Top 50 Military Friendly Employers and the Top 10 Military Spouse Friendly Employers. Mr. Collier was also recently interviewed by GI Jobs magazine and appeared on the front cover of their April 2008 issue.

Matt Grove

Matt Grove leads the national research and sourcing organization at KPMG LLP. With nearly 10 years of experience in the Big Four professional services environment, he built the current team responsible for Research, Sourcing, Employee Referral and Alumni Recruiting, and Vendor Management. Under his leadership, the national research organization has consistently contributed top-quality candidates for the firm's most challenging searches. Matt has been recognized for his contributions as a leader who identifies, develops, and leads high performers and is in demand as a trainer for a variety of sourcing and recruiting topics.

Over the years, Matt has built his reputation as an executive researcher with an uncanny ability for connecting with the most elusive passive talent. Prior to working in corporate America, Matt was a teacher and stage performer where he learned the value of dedication and creativity. This unique background has played a major role in shaping Matt's leadership style and professional perspective into what it is today.

Outside of work, Matt loves to travel the world with his wife, Adrienne.

Dave Pritchard

pritchard@JacksonHealthcare.com

Dave Pritchard, originally a New Orleans Cajun, has directed the overall talent sourcing strategies at the Jackson Healthcare family of companies for over 9 years. When hired as corporate evangelist in 1999, Dave joined Staffing industry Pioneer, serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Richard L. "Rick" Jackson, and has been with the Jackson Healthcare family since. He applies his Christian and Cajun influences into his recruiting style and has been responsible for growing the JHS family from 2 to 11 companies by acquiring and retaining Jackson Healthcare's most critical assets.

Dave spent his early career in for marketing, sales & sales management as the top salesman in the U.S., with manufacturers of technology such as, Johnson & Johnson, Medical, Unisys and Xerox.

With overall retention of 78%, the Jackson Healthcare family of companies and its uniqueness has been blessed with more than 660% growth in recent years. Revenue growth in 2007 exceeded $380MM while receiving a long list of prestigious accolades:

• Ranked 7th on Atlanta Business Chronicle's "Pacesetters" list of Atlanta's fastest-growing companies (also ranked in the 2005 and 2006 rankings)


• Ranked 28th among Entrepreneur Magazine's "Hot 500" fastest-growing businesses in America.


• Ranked #87 among the top 100 health-related companies on the "Inc. 5000" list of fastest-growing private U.S. companies.


• Ranked 26th among "America's Fastest-Growing Private Staffing Companies 2007" by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) based on total revenue.


• Ranked 9th (based on healthcare staffing revenue) among Top U.S. Healthcare Staffing Providers by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA)

To celebrate its success Jackson Healthcare will be moving to their new World HQ in July 2007. This state of the art facility will boast amenities such as Starbucks, an outdoor Café Bistro, HITECH Game room, Racquetball, Fitness Center and the Hospital of the Future Technology Vision Center.