Contingent Staffing (past event)
July 11 - 13, 2016
1.888.482.6012
Speakers
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Sukh is a passionate, results-focused go-getter offering a diverse history of creating organizations, developing teams, and defining operational procedures. Unquenchable spirit to face and solve challenges head-on. He has 17 years of high-level business experience. Strategic thinker and with Big Four professional services experience. Executive authority over $80 million and senior leaders across Europe, Asia and North America. Serves as catalyst and brings energy/creativity to any organizational initiative. He is a coach, mentor, and team-focused executive. Inspires and builds strong teams to peak levels of performance. Powerful communicator and influencer across diverse groups. He is the distinguished recipient of the OC Human Relations Award.
Michelle is an experienced Operations, Vendor Management, Customer Service, Human Resources, Speaker, Life Coach and Sales leader with extensive experience managing results focused and profitable operations. She has demonstrated success in operational excellence, cost containment, process optimization, and risk mitigation.
Mr. Stephen W. DeWitt has been Chief Executive Officer at Work Market Inc. since January 13, 2015. Mr. DeWitt previously served as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Marketing at Hewlett-Packard Company. He is responsible for leading Hewlett-Packard's enterprise marketing mix to drive demand and profitable growth for HP’s enterprise businesses. His focused team oversees a pan enterprise portfolio that includes server, storage, networking, software and services worldwide.
Matthew Elliott is the Director of Resource Capacity Management for IT at DignityHealth, the fifth largest health system in the United States. In his role he's responsible for delivering to the IT organization a complete picture of the nearly 2,000 person IT organizations resource needs required to meet the project and operations demand, identifying gaps in capability and working with leadership to address those gaps. As part of this responsibility Matthew oversee’s the ‘best-in-class’ Managed Service Provided (Bartech)/ Vendor Management System (Fieldglass) program managing the identification, engagement, payment and on/ off-boarding of the 400+professional service contractors engaged by IT. In the last financial year this program managed nearly $70m in spend and realized $2.8m in savings.
Located in Phoenix, Arizona, PMP certified since 2003.
Located in Phoenix, Arizona, PMP certified since 2003.
Dr. Springer was appointed on September 1 of 2006 to be Director of the Executive Masters Degree in Emergency and Crisis Management at UNLV. She is also Founder and Principal of Red Tape Limited a strategic management and communications firm incorporated in 1986 with offices in Nevada and Arizona. Dr. Springer has spent most of her adult life specializing in turning around organizations, capacity building and intergovernmental collaboration.She was named one of the 100 Most Intriguing People in the World by the American Biographical Insitutute and International Who’s Who (2003) and Nevada Business Leader of the Year at 2004 Congressional Tax Summit based upon her contributions to Society and the expectation that she will continue to contribute as a role model, activist and achiever.” She grew up in Las Vegas and graduated from Western Highschool, returning to Las Vegas 7 years ago to be closer to her mother.
In addition to serving as Director of ECEM at UNLV and teaching in the graduate school of public administration there, Christine teaches in the interdisciplinary graduate program of Ethics (EPS). She has served as Associate Professor at Arizona State University in the College of Public Programs where she co-founded the Nonprofit Management Center degree program. In these positions as in her consulting practice, Christine cuts red tape within and between organizations and builds team and teamwork.
In addition to serving as Director of ECEM at UNLV and teaching in the graduate school of public administration there, Christine teaches in the interdisciplinary graduate program of Ethics (EPS). She has served as Associate Professor at Arizona State University in the College of Public Programs where she co-founded the Nonprofit Management Center degree program. In these positions as in her consulting practice, Christine cuts red tape within and between organizations and builds team and teamwork.
Kanita is a procurement professional with strategic sourcing experience in industry and consulting roles. She has a broad range of capabilities in category management for Automotive, Consumer Products and Oil & Gas industries. Categories sourced include: Contingent Labor, Professional Services, HR Services, Recruiting, and Legal Services. She is adept in the development and execution of strategies to reduce cost, streamline supply base, and simplify work processes to exceed customer requirements.
Talent Acquisition Leader experienced in successfully aligning staffing solutions to business needs Track record of empowering business operations by transforming Talent Acquisition/Staffing functions in contingent, contingent-to-hire and employee direct hire staffing workflows.
Passionate in strategic planning, development and implementation of innovative, goal-oriented solutions that positively impact service to customers and revenue generation. Committed to planning and structuring service delivery components that institutionalize continuous improvement. Rigorous in establishing strategic goals, planning processes and building metrics for positive program development. Twenty year history of delivering staffing solutions including developing costing models, management structures and service delivery workflows.
Passionate in strategic planning, development and implementation of innovative, goal-oriented solutions that positively impact service to customers and revenue generation. Committed to planning and structuring service delivery components that institutionalize continuous improvement. Rigorous in establishing strategic goals, planning processes and building metrics for positive program development. Twenty year history of delivering staffing solutions including developing costing models, management structures and service delivery workflows.
Devra Keenan
Talent Acquisition and Recruiting Operations Consultant
Formerly New York Life Insurance Company
Talent Acquisition and Recruiting Operations Consultant
Formerly New York Life Insurance Company
Devra Keenan is a highly talented and driven human resources professional with 15+ years of varied experience combining a solutions focused orientation, recruiting expertise, operational innovation and progressive leadership to align HR and talent acquisition processes, practices and technologies with business goals. She has demonstrated success driving change and providing creative solutions to existing and emerging talent challenges.
Tammy Kirksey-Myrah works in the Talent Acquisition Dept forGENCO a FedEx company. She has worked there for 2 years. Her roles include: All HR recruiting for over 150 facilities throughout North America, she manages all of the contingent labor for the company which is over 130 million in annual spend and she regularly trains and assists field HR with developing recruiting strategies for their facilities.
Tammy is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, she retired with the rank of Master Sergeant. She held several recruiting posts during her 20-year career with the USAF and was responsible for skilled-professions recruiting, including programmers, electricians, mechanics, physicians, nurses and pilots.
She earned a BS in Business Management from Hodges University, Florida, and a MA in Human Resources Development from Webster University, Missouri.
Tammy is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, she retired with the rank of Master Sergeant. She held several recruiting posts during her 20-year career with the USAF and was responsible for skilled-professions recruiting, including programmers, electricians, mechanics, physicians, nurses and pilots.
She earned a BS in Business Management from Hodges University, Florida, and a MA in Human Resources Development from Webster University, Missouri.
Brian Kyle is the Managing Director of Strategic Sourcing & Contracts Management for the American Cancer Society. With a deep investment in helping to end cancer as a major health problem, he joined ACS in 2014, and is currently leading an initiative to operationalize a category management framework across the Society. Prior to joining ACS, he spent 12+ years at Siemens, where he held numerous international leadership positions, including Head of Real Estate Procurement Americas and,while living in Beijing, Manager of Asian Procurement.
Leading a strategic purchasing department is well-suited to Brian’s passion for developing teams and continuous improvement. Brian focuses on cultivating employee talent with the goals of managing supply chain risks, optimizing costs, strengthening supplier relationships, driving innovation and enhancing revenue.
Brian and his wife, Dr. Rachel Bowser, live in one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods, Candler Park, along with their talented 10-year-old daughter, and their less talented cat and dog. Sometimes with those partners and sometimes on his own, Brian enjoys music, reading, creating glass mosaic art, hiking and camping.
Leading a strategic purchasing department is well-suited to Brian’s passion for developing teams and continuous improvement. Brian focuses on cultivating employee talent with the goals of managing supply chain risks, optimizing costs, strengthening supplier relationships, driving innovation and enhancing revenue.
Brian and his wife, Dr. Rachel Bowser, live in one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods, Candler Park, along with their talented 10-year-old daughter, and their less talented cat and dog. Sometimes with those partners and sometimes on his own, Brian enjoys music, reading, creating glass mosaic art, hiking and camping.
Marcelo is a broadly experienced entrepreneurial and problem-solving leader with 14 years of experience in strategic sourcing, management consulting and manufacturing. Experience gained with domestic and international consumer good industry, international management consulting firm and leading technology companies.
He is committed to the goals of organizational development, efficiency and business transformation. Have set up and managed development and consulting projects in foreign environments and consistently recognized for outstanding management, delivery performance and product development. He has received professional awards from the IBM Corporation, including recognition for leadership and invention achievement
He is committed to the goals of organizational development, efficiency and business transformation. Have set up and managed development and consulting projects in foreign environments and consistently recognized for outstanding management, delivery performance and product development. He has received professional awards from the IBM Corporation, including recognition for leadership and invention achievement
Over 15+ years experience in sourcing, contracting,and supplier management. Led sourcing and contracting inboth mid-sized and Fortune 50 companies (telecom, manufacturing,pharmaceutical, and large non-profit organizations). Managed up to $4B inprocurement contracting. On the Institute for Supply Management (ISM)Risk Management Board of former President of ISM-Northern Virginiaaffiliate. Certifications include CPSM, CPSD, CPCM, and CTL. Degree inEducation from Marshall University and Masters in Supply Chain Management andLogistics from Penn State.
Brandon is a distinguished HR and Talent executive with 20 years of impressive achievements leading and developing entrepreneurial and global teams(Americas,EMEA, APAC). He is a pioneer on developing and implementing leading edge recruitment strategies, technologies, and tools that connect the right talent to an organization.
Being passionate about operational and financial efficiency,Brandon enjoys establishing core metrics that optimizes team performance with unique influencing,coaching, and mentoring abilities that lead and build highly effective teams in order to enhance the value of Human Capital.
With deep domain knowledge in talent and innovation, change management and operational effectiveness, Brandon provides HR and talent leadership for emerging and leading edge companies. His has an innate ability to deliver proven results to organizations seeking a strategic people leader that requires building out strong global teams, creating a robust talent pipeline, enhancing the quality of hires, and improving the candidate experience.
As a former HR Professional of the Year by San Diego Business Journal, Brandon is an active member of the Talent Acquisition Group of San Diego Board of directors.
Brandon is a California native where he received his undergraduate degree in business from the University of LaVerne. He attended the Global Leadership graduate program at USD and is a certified professional coach from iPEC.
Being passionate about operational and financial efficiency,Brandon enjoys establishing core metrics that optimizes team performance with unique influencing,coaching, and mentoring abilities that lead and build highly effective teams in order to enhance the value of Human Capital.
With deep domain knowledge in talent and innovation, change management and operational effectiveness, Brandon provides HR and talent leadership for emerging and leading edge companies. His has an innate ability to deliver proven results to organizations seeking a strategic people leader that requires building out strong global teams, creating a robust talent pipeline, enhancing the quality of hires, and improving the candidate experience.
As a former HR Professional of the Year by San Diego Business Journal, Brandon is an active member of the Talent Acquisition Group of San Diego Board of directors.
Brandon is a California native where he received his undergraduate degree in business from the University of LaVerne. He attended the Global Leadership graduate program at USD and is a certified professional coach from iPEC.
Sunil is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is transforming the way world-class companies think about and acquire talent. Blending vision, technology and business skills honed in the most innovative corporate environments, he has created a new model for recruitment which is being tapped successfully by large technology companies like Google.
He refined his management and technology skills at Fortune 500 heavyweights IBM, EMC, and Symantec, and learnt entrepreneurship by working with cutting edge start-ups.
In 2000, Sunil founded Indosys Corporation (now part of Zenith Talent), a company offering software and staffing solutions to the world's most successful businesses, including Microsoft, Brocade, Medtronic, Google, and IBM.
In 2012, Sunil founded Zenith Talent, introducing a new overseas model with profit sharing for recruiters which delivers measurable value to large VMS clients. He has also launched complementary talent brands HelpYouRecruit, Candidate Insights and Hiring Humor. These offerings bring powerful innovation to the way talent is identified and hired globally.
Steve Silver
Sr. Director, Total Talent Acquisition and Contingent Management Program
Kaiser Permanente
Sr. Director, Total Talent Acquisition and Contingent Management Program
Kaiser Permanente
Steve currently serves as the senior director, Total Talent Acquisition and Contingent Talent Management Program where he has oversight of enterprise wideIT Recruitment and contingent talent program that houses more than 4,000 workers. Additionally, Steve is responsible for the executive focus on the out of program human capital that exceeds over 30,000 supplemental workers at Kaiser Permanente. He joined Kaiser Permanente in September 2010 and brings over 20 years of global business, human resources and consulting leadership to Kaiser that span across a broad range of business and industry segments.
As Senior VicePresident of Sales at Upwork, Eric oversees the company’s global salesinitiatives. Prior to joining Upwork, he led the staffing and healthcare groupsat CareerBuilder. Eric is passionate about talent engagement and workforcehiring trends. His unique perspective on the evolution of the industry has beenfeatured in The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Forbes and at industry-leadingconferences including Staffing Industry Analysts’ Executive Forum and theAmerican Staffing Association’s Staffing World.
Michael Werblun brings over 19 years of Executive and Business Development experience to ZeroChaos and joins the company after the acquisition of eWork, a leading Vendor Management Company focused on the Healthcare vertical. At eWork Mr. Werblun held the position of Chief Executive Officer and led the company to a growth rate of 500%. Prior to eWork he held several leadership and sales positions in the Contingent Labor industry at Ensemble Workforce Solutions, Comensura (now the Guidant Group) and Corestaff Services. During his tenure Mr. Werblun has worked with over 100 large enterprise clients including Toyota, Bayer, Morgan Stanley, UCSF Medical Center, Capgemini, Cisco Systems, Visa and others to develop and deploy leading labor solutions.
Mr. Werblun holds a BS in Industrial Organizational Psychology from California State University, San Francisco with honors. He has been a key note speaker on effectively managing contingent labor and volunteers his time with several organizations, including The Salesian Boys and Girls Club and San Francisco Little League.
Mr. Werblun holds a BS in Industrial Organizational Psychology from California State University, San Francisco with honors. He has been a key note speaker on effectively managing contingent labor and volunteers his time with several organizations, including The Salesian Boys and Girls Club and San Francisco Little League.
Jeff Hebert is the MetaProcure contingent workforce management subject matter expert and the architect of the MetaProcure MSP Development Framework. As company Vice President, Mr. Hebert is responsible for leading current state opportunity assessments and producing customized client roadmaps to viable future states of contingent workforce management.
Mr. Hebert has more than fifteen years of experience in contingent workforce management, strategic sourcing and procurement delivering solid business results in labor-related categories such as contingent labor, consulting, professional services, training and recruitment.
Before joining MetaProcure, Mr. Hebert worked developing the market for enterprise crowdsourcing as an alternative to traditional contingent staffing by plugging into how companies acquire, utilize and manage contract labor and how they outsource services.
Prior to crowdsourcing, Mr. Hebert served as Procurement Director at MetLife and Procurement Vice President at State Street where he drove multimillion-dollar category management strategies to achieve the organizations’ cost, quality and service delivery objectives. He now applies many of the same business principles and practices to produce similar results for MetaProcure contingent workforce management clients.
Mr. Hebert earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Managerial Economics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management from Rhode Island College. He is a Certified Contingent Workforce Professional (CCWP).
Over the last fifteen years, Leslie’s career has been ajourney of professional & personal growth that has allowed her tocontribute her leadership and expertise to the world of Staffing, Operations,and Human Resources. Leslie holds a Masters of Science in Industrial &Labor Relations from the University of Wisconsin, SHRM certification, and hasheld leadership roles for the implementation and management of multiplecontingent workforce programs in a variety of industries. Currently, she is anenthusiastic collaborator and thought leader in the evolution of the contingentworkforce management space.
Mark Zisholtz is a Vice President of Workforce Management & Compliance Solutions at ACS Group, which includes HireGenics, ComforceHealth, AIC and Analysts. He previously served as General Counsel over ACS Group. In his current position, Mark is responsible for ensuring nationwide compliance of ACS Group’s contingent workforce, and structuring contractual and business relationships between ACS Group and its clients in the compliance context. Additionally, Mark is responsible for overall workforce compliance strategy; special projects and risk mitigation on a company-wide basis; and oversight of independent contractor compliance strategies and services.
Prior to joining the ACS Group team, Mark was a practicing attorney specializing in labor and employment, contract and general corporate law, including acquisitions. He also founded, led and sold two companies, including an international legal recruiting firm.
Mark has publicly spoken on a wide range of topics in the contingent workforce space, including the Fair Labor Standards Act (misclassification issues), discrimination matters and pay issues. He has authored numerous legal briefs and written on the topic of restrictive covenants on a regular basis. Additionally, he has researched, drafted and negotiated a wide range of master service agreements, restrictive covenants, employment agreements and other types of contracts, policies and procedures for companies engaged in the contingent workforce industry.
Mark is recognized for his legal skills, building strategy and creating effective compliance solutions. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, with honors; a Master of Science in Management; and a Juris Doctorate, with honors.
Andrew has over 30 years experience working as an analyst,executive, and adviser at the business intersection of technology and services.His first brush with procurement came early in his career when he was a networkplanner for a Ford Aerospace telecom services subsidiary, responsible forleasing high speed digital bandwidth facilities from emerging suppliers. In hislong career, he followed the thread of information and communicationstechnology (ICT) across a number of different service industry verticals andsmall to large companies in a variety of analytical planning and managementroles (both buy and sell side). In more recent years, beginning as a researchanalyst at Staffing Industry Analysts, he has become focused as an analyst, writer,and adviser researching the rapidly changing services and labor supply chains(especially the impact of technology). Andrew holds an MS in Policy Analysisfrom Carnegie Mellon University, where he first learned to code in FORTRAN anddeveloped a deep appreciation for the value of data and statistics He lives inthe San Francisco Bay Area, where he enjoys time with his family andvolunteering as a Pet Assisted Therapy dog handler.
James Lucier is Executive Vice President forUSTECH/Workspend, specializing in providing advisory-led talent supply chainand procure-to-pay workforce solutions embracing management interventions,technology platforms and operational analytics serving the Fortune 500 andother valuable brands.
He is a sought-after expert, advisor and hands-onpractitioner utilizing innovative strategic workforce planning, human capitalvalue management and talent acquisition strategy to help enterprise clientscreate agile workforces and achieve best-possible business outcomes andsustainable competitive advantage through the talent supply chain.
Jim is Executive Director of The Workspend Institute, whichinvests in acquiring and sharing practical insights on critical managementissues and local-to-global trends in the new world of work. He is also anactive member of Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA), the Human Capital Institute(HCI), and the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC).