May 19th Annual Talent Acquisition Symposium
Aligning the Stars to Navigate Todays Universe of Talent
Sponsorship Directory
Event Sponsor
Christine Johnson, Director Business Development
[email protected] | (708) 606-0192
www.manpowergroupsolutions.com
ManpowerGroup Solutions is a $20B leader in talent acquisition and workforce solutions
with over 27,000 employees in 80 countries and 3500 offices. Our global HQ is located
in Milwaukee, WI. For the 5th consecutive year Everest Group and Nelson Hall ranked
us a leader and largest in RPO. We support enterprise, regional and local recruitment
solutions. With over 3000 RPO resources and four Centers of Recruiting Excellence in
US (Milwaukee), Philippines, Peru and Poland, we have the vast footprint and scalability
to address your most pressing immediate or long-term hiring needs. Our RPO division
was named a 2015 Candidate Experience Award (CandE) winner by the Talent Board
this past October as rated by candidates on their hiring experience with us.
Pen Sponsor
Jack Downing, Managing Partner
[email protected]
(312) 348-1305
www.worldbridgepartners.com
WorldBridge Partners is a global search firm dedicated to organizations that strive to
attract high performance people. Our company was founded in 2002 and has since
grown to over 100 associates serving 10 distinct industry sectors. We’re in the business
of identifying, qualifying and delivering high impact players that drive corporate goals,
consistently deliver on commitments and systematically increase corporate revenues.
Lanyard Sponsor
Chris Hogan, VP Sales
[email protected] | (815) 530-3131
www.avature.net
Founded by Dimitri Boylan, co-founder and former CEO of HotJobs.com, Avature is a
highly configurable enterprise SaaS platform for Talent Acquisition, Onboarding and
Talent Management, and the leading provider of CRM technology for recruiting globally.
Avature has 64 of the Fortune 500 as customers and is used in 67 countries and 14
languages.
Notebook Sponsor
Russell Esquivel, Vice President
[email protected] | (602) 319-9777
www.pdnrecruits.com
Professional Diversity Network exists for the purpose of connecting Diverse job seekers
to employers who value and understand the business impact of recruiting a Diverse
workforce. With 1.5M monthly Diverse job seekers, including 50+ partners such as
NAACP, National Urban League, National Association of Professional Women, and
Black Data Processor Association, Professional Diversity Network directly supports
recruitment professional to find the talent they need to meet thier corporate Diversity
goals.
Lunch Sponsor
Anthony Adorno Director, Consulting Services
[email protected] | (866) 433-4276 x214
www.degarmo.com
DeGarmo develops and distributes innovative talent assessment solutions to help clients
maximize revenue growth, productivity, and workforce stability. Over the past 20 years,
we’ve grown our proprietary assessment library to span competency, work style, culture
fit, leadership and work tolerance domains. We’ve also developed technology that
enables our clients to use assessment for more than 1,000 different jobs, across every
industry, directly from our platform or through integrations with leading ATS providers.
As an organization, we work to establish solid partnerships with each of our clients to
provide the best experience possible. Through this collaboration we are able to respond
to changing business needs and deliver the best value possible to our clients.
Reception Sponsor
Matt Jones, Partner
[email protected] | (312) 407-7663
www.harmer.com
A 30 year old, Chicago based recruiting agency that provides clients with project-based
IT consultants for critical, time-sensitive and technically specific engagements. We
specialize in all aspects of technology, accounting and finance. Our highly skilled,
professional associates have developed extensive networks within the business
community making them among the most successful recruiters in the industry. We are a
dynamic, growth-oriented organization with a history of successful, long-lasting
relationships.
Exhibitors
Jon Jelinek, Managing Director
[email protected]
(312) 980-2840
www.advancedresources.com
Advanced Resources does two different things: 1) They are talent acquisition experts
and 2) offer workforce business solutions to organizations ranging from start-up to
Fortune 500. They consult and partner with businesses to maximize their ROI when it
comes to managing contingent workforce.
Matt Hogan, Account Executive
[email protected] | (617) 391-0582
www.bullhorn.com
Bullhorn provides cloud-based CRM solutions for companies in staffing business
services industries. Its data capture and customer insight technology puts the most upto-date and powerful information at users' fingertips to give them everything they need to
win customers and keep them happy. Today, Bullhorn serves more than 10,000 clients
and 350,000 users, and its software solutions are used by some of the world's most
prominent staffing and services enterprises to help increase sales, improve service
delivery, and streamline operations. Headquartered in Boston, the company has offices
in St. Louis, London, and Sydney, with 500 employees globally. The company is
founder-led and backed by Vista Equity Partners.
Gina Sanderson, Business Development
[email protected] | (312) 259-2764
www.halo.com/gina-sanderson
HALO Branded Solutions has been an industry leader for over six decades by combining
award-winning creativity, world-class customer service, and a guarantee of complete
satisfaction. Gina Sanderson provides expertise in integrated marketing solutions that
feature creative and cost-effective dimensional marketing products. We deliver global
product sourcing and distribution, online and traditional marketing support, company
stores and incentive programs, art services and design creation and warehousing and
fulfillment services —all with exceptional speed to help drive the hectic pace of your
promotional efforts.Promotional products are powerful marketing tools. They are useful,
long-lasting and appreciated by the recipient. Put HALO’s creative expertise and product
integrity to work for you on your next promotion. Over 40,000 clients nationwide trust
HALO to share their brand vision with customers, employees and prospects. Make a
lasting impression at a trade show, demonstrate support for a fundraiser and attract new
clients. Whatever your objective, your HALO representative will work with you to power
your brand —on-time, under budget, and beyond expectations—with every order.
Mike Vogel, Director of Sales, Agency Relations
[email protected] | (312) 919-6171
www.indeed.com
Indeed is the #1 job site worldwide, with over 180 million unique visitors per month.
Indeed is available in more than 50 countries and 28 languages, covering 94% of global
GDP. Since 2004, Indeed has given job seekers free access to millions of jobs from
thousands of company websites and job boards. As the leading pay-for-performance
recruitment advertising network, Indeed drives millions of targeted applicants to jobs in
every field and is the most cost-effective source of candidates for thousands of
companies. Founded by Paul Forster and Rony Kahan, Indeed is a subsidiary of Recruit
Holdings Co., Ltd. Indeed has offices in Austin, Mountain View, New York and Stamford
in the US, as well as offices in Dublin and London. For more information about Indeed,
see our blog or contact us.
Joe Shaker, Jr., Vice President
[email protected] | (708) 358-0364
www.shakeradvertising.com
Celebrating 65 years of recruitment marketing expertise, Shaker Recruitment Advertising
& Communications provides insight into the latest and most appropriate solutions for
improving the candidate experience, attracting talent, articulating employer brand, and
enhancing employee engagement.
Rich Post
[email protected] | (773) 342-5738
www.smashfly.com
SmashFly’s award-winning Total Recruitment Marketing Platform enables talent
acquisition teams to attract, engage, nurture and convert candidates into qualified
applicants using a centralized management system that automates and measures
recruiting strategies and programs. Customers use SmashFly to unite their previously
disconnected recruiting tools into an integrated software platform for Job Marketing, Web
Sourcing, Candidate Relationship Management (CRM), Talent Networks, mobileresponsive and SEO-optimized Career Sites, Employee Referrals, Social Recruiting and
Recruiting Analytics. Used to target pre-applicants in the front-end of the talent
acquisition process, SmashFly integrates with any applicant tracking system (ATS) to
provide unparalleled, real-time analytics on the sources that produce the best hires for
the organization. Learn more at smashfly.com and follow us on Twitter @SmashFly.
Jim O’Malley, Partner
[email protected] | (312) 878-4104
www.talentrise.com
TalentRISE provides tailored, high-touch consulting and recruitment solutions to meet an
organization’s most pressing talent acquisition challenges. The firm’s core
service offerings, delivered by a partner-led team of senior consultants and expert
recruiters, include retained executive search to fill critical leadership roles; on-demand,
project-based contract recruiting for scalable support of internal resources; and talent
acquisition consulting to help formulate a roadmap for sustained competitive advantage.
John Fortino, Co-Founder / Sr. Managing Partner
[email protected] | (630) 848-0888
www.velocityresourcegroup.com
Velocity Resource Group is the Global leader in Candidate sourcing and Qualification
services. For the last 15 years, Velocity has helped our clients identify interested
candidates at all levels and most functions within companies in virtually any industry.
Velocity Resource Group delivers quality candidates fast!
Ron Yazzetti, Sr Sales Director
[email protected] | (224) 856-5299
www.work4labs.com
Work4 has been in business since 2010. Founded by Stephane Le Viet and a global
leader in the social recruiting space. We work with top brands in global organizations
such as Amazon, Facebook, Intel, Pepsi, Disney, Accenture and more.
Contributing Sponsor
Todd Humes, Director, Strategic Accounts
[email protected] |(312) 994-6585
www.volt.com
Volt Workforce Solutions (Volt) is a premier staffing and consulting firm, servicing clients
through our international network of company-owned and operated servicing
locations. Volt is the largest business unit of Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a Fortune
1000 organization regarded as a leader in the talent acquisition and workforce
management industry. Reliably delivering quality talent is our core competency, and as
such, we specialize in providing a full-service spectrum of talent acquisition and
management solutions: Contingent staffing, Contingent-to-hire staffing, Direct
hire/professional placement, Payroll services/referred employees, Master vendor/vendor
on premise solutions, Recruitment process outsourcing and Statement of work/projectbased services.