The Editorial Advisory Board: Leaders, Practioners, and Experts
Jeremy Eskenazi, SPHR is managing principal of Riviera Advisors, Inc., a highly specialized consulting firm that is focused on helping clients improve, enhance, and optimize their internal staffing functions. Jeremy and his team have had many years of experience honing their experience as real recruiting and staffing leaders, not just as observers of the staffing function. Jeremy spent more than 18 years as an executive leading the global staffing functions of such organizations as Universal Studios, Amazon.com, and Idealab before forming Riviera Advisors in 2000. Uniquely, Jeremy draws on many years of mistakes and learning in real-life corporate staffing situations to share with his global corporate clients and the many participants in his speaking engagements, seminars and roundtables.
Engin Crosby has been conducting analysis and forecasting of the Army's civilian force for the past two decades. She has been heavily involved in the development and refinement of leading-edge analysis and forecasting tools that have been recognized government-wide. Her office conducts policy and procedural analysis to flag needed changes in civilian force planning and to identify improvements needed in the Army's personnel business processes, programs, and procedures. She oversees the army-wide operation of the analysis and forecasting systems. She has provided analytic products in support of the Army's decision-making needs, which include the impact of realignments, separation incentives, retirement forecasts, turnover, intern requirements, predictors of career progression, and more.
Mike Grennier is currently the Senior Director, Corporate Recruiting for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. In this role, he has responsibility for leading the recruiting team responsible for corporate functions for Wal-Mart. In addition, his teams lead campus recruiting efforts, candidate sourcing, temporary sourcing, and recruitment technology strategies. Prior to joining Wal-Mart in April 2007, he was the National Director of Recruiting for Pulte Homes, Inc., based in southeast Michigan. He also spent nine years in the information technology field working with a couple high-tech and dot-com companies.
As the Director, Talent Strategy, Paul's primary responsibilities include developing the Rogers Talent Strategy Framework and overseeing process optimization initiatives designed to improve the end-to-end recruitment function. Key programs that he manages as part of the Talent Strategy Framework include workforce planning, campus recruitment, Recruitment branding, recruitment technology and diversity.
Prior to joining Rogers in 2007, he served as the Global Business Process Program Manager for Microsoft. During his seven years at Microsoft, he was responsible for improving recruiter capability worldwide through utilizing his strong change and project management skills. He delivered staffing programs and process improvement initiatives in global locations such as China, Russia, Germany, Japan, India, France, Singapore, and Canada.
Michael Kannisto began his career with BASF Corporation as a college hire performing original research in the area of polyurethane formulation -- today he oversees Staffing, University Relations, and Employment Branding for BASF. Between those two vastly different roles, He spent over six years at Johnson & Johnson in a variety of staffing and university relations positions, and several years as Global Staffing Director at Bausch & Lomb. He received a B.S. in chemistry from Hope College, a Ph.D. in chemistry from Texas A&M University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Society for Human Resource Management, has earned certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources from HRCI, is a certified Process Excellence Greenbelt, and a member of the MBA Focus Advisory Board. His professional interests include employment branding, and the impact of multiple generations in the workforce.
Since June of 2002, Kent Kirch has led recruitment worldwide for Deloitte. He works with country HR and recruitment leaders to develop and implement strategies, tools and programs to attract and hire top talent. To date, this has included the implementation of a global selection methodology, an award winning global career website, a global recruitment management system, an international internship program and the negotiation of worldwide agreements with several providers of recruitment related services. Kirch works out of Deloitte world headquarters in New York City.
Tom is a business executive with more than 25 years of experience following his first job out of college as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Central America. He began his business career as an external auditor in Columbus, Ohio, and after becoming a C.P.A. in 1982, left Coopers & Lybrand to join The Coca-Cola Company.
Tom grew up in the finance function at Coke, eventually leading Finance in the company's German Division following the fall of the Berlin Wall. After playing a key role in expanding Coke's business into the former East Germany, Tom returned to Atlanta to work as part of the marketing management team reporting to newly hired Chief Marketing Officer, Sergio Zyman. Tom became a Marketing Division Vice President, and in addition to managing the marketing finances of the company, was directly responsible for re-branding the World of Coca-Cola and expanding the licensed merchandise business of the company. Tom played a key role negotiating worldwide advertising agreements that led the way on establishing the industry trend towards fee based compensation. From 1997 to 1999 Tom led the talent acquisition function at Coca-Cola, sourcing general management and marketing talent for worldwide operations and all talent for North America. In late 1999 he moved into a general management role in Latin America and built the market level strategy and integration plan for Peru following Coke's acquisition of Inca Cola.
In 2000, Tom joined Zyman Marketing Group in Atlanta as Chief Operating Officer. After developing and marketing a suite of web-based marketing strategy applications at ZMG, he formed his own consulting venture, establishing Human Capital Formation, LLC. In this business Tom provided consulting services that guided the redesign and reorganization of the human resources functions and processes at clients including Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory Healthcare.
In 2003, Tom joined Revlon, Inc., in New York City, serving as Revlon's Chief Financial Officer and then as President, Revlon International. During his tenure at Revlon, Tom led multiple debt and equity financing transactions totally more than $2 billion, built the company's investor relations function, and implemented procedures to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and other SEC mandated reporting.
Tom is a strong advocate for focus on strategically growing intellectual capital as a means of sustaining the value proposition of a business. To this end, he has presented on the topic to various industry groups including the Institute for International Research, NYC, and the Canadian Marketing Association, Toronto.
Tom rejoined The Coca-Cola Company in October 2007 as Director, Global Talent Acquisition, and is focused on supporting the company's growth through developing and executing talent acquisition strategies in the U.S. and around the world. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and three children.
Rodney Moses is a talent acquisition leader, visionary, and innovator. He is currently vice president of global talent acquisition at Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry® line of products and solutions and participates as an advisor to groups such as ERE, Direct Employers & Job Central, and .JOBS. With a global perspective and past experience with both recruitment and HR at Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc, Invitrogen, Chicago Transit Authority, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, he has produced millions of dollars in cost savings, increased productivity in high volume and high-growth environments, championed Six Sigma Black Belt projects, and provided training to thousands.
Dr. John Sullivan is renowned the world over as a provocateur and strategist in the field of human resources and talent management. For more than 30 years he has offered his critique and insight to professionals seeking to develop a true competitive advantage for their organization through strategic talent management planning and practices. As an author, corporate advisor, public speaker, and educator, Dr. Sullivan has established a body of work including numerous books and more than 700 articles that serves as a key resource for functional leaders and line managers when developing and implementing best practices.
Kevin Wheeler is the President and Founder of Global Learning Resources, Inc., and is a globally-known speaker, author, and consultant in human capital acquisition and development. He is also a noted columnist for the Electronic Recruiting Daily. His extensive career, global client base, and research affiliations make GLR a leading provider of both strategy and process. GLR focuses on assisting firms architect human capital strategies, guiding them through comprehensive talent acquisition processes and procedures. GLR's clients include organizations of all sizes, including Sun Microsystems, Eli Lilly, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and others.