The Editorial Advisory Board: Leaders, Practioners, and Experts
Rupert Bader is the director of workforce planning at Microsoft. Before that, he was director of workforce planning at Avaya. In previous positions, he led the internal workforce planning function at Towers Perrin -- a leading professional service firm, and provided operational, workforce and strategic consulting to various companies in the financial and transportation industries -- both from his own firm and as part of KPMG Consulting. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in economics, concentrating in multinational management. He is executive director of the Workforce Planning Roundtable, and a member of the advisory board for PWC/Saratoga. He coaches fundraising athletes to run marathons on behalf of the Leukemia Society Team-in-Training program; his teams have raised over $250,000 towards finding a cure for blood-related cancers.
Lisa Calicchio, SPHR, is Director of Recruiting -- Pharmaceuticals Team, for Johnson & Johnson Recruiting, the internal talent acquisition organization of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies. In this role, Lisa manages the development and delivery of talent acquisition strategies and execution for Johnson & Johnson's U.S. pharmaceuticals and biotechnology operating companies. In addition to managing this segment of the business and a significant client base, Lisa focuses on enhancing JJR's consulting capabilities through specialty teams for business analytics, training, and recruitment marketing. Her background includes extensive experience as an HR generalist and recruiting, though she started her professional career "on the line" and held several line positions across key functional areas before moving from sales and marketing into HR.
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.
Jeremy Eskenazi has more than 19 years of experience and expertise in helping companies assess and enhance their talent management systems and processes. Jeremy has served as Vice President, Talent Acquisition for idealab!, the world's premier technology business incubator. Jeremy continues to provide talent acquisition leadership and consulting services to idealab and its network. Prior to this Jeremy served as Director of Talent Acquisition for Amazon.com Holdings in Seattle. Later, Jeremy served in the role of Vice President, Strategic Growth, with worldwide responsibility for all Human Resource activities. Previously, Jeremy led the global staffing function for all of Universal Studios and the Universal Music Group businesses.
Today Jeremy has formed Riviera Advisors — an organization devoted to enhancing, improving, and optimizing the way companies acquire, retain, and deploy talent. Clients include Baxter Healthcare, AT&T Wireless, Avery Dennison Corporation, Invitrogen Corporation, Norwegian Cruise Line, Edwards Lifesciences, Philips Electronics, Chiron Corporation, Invensys, and James Hardie Building Products, among others.
Michael Kannisto joined B&L in July 2006, and is responsible for leading staffing policies and practices, the staffing team in the United States, and global internship and co-op programs. He received a B.S. in chemistry from Hope College and 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.
Catherine Keown's current responsibilities include recruitment advertising, recruiting and sourcing, workforce planning, for a workforce of more than 200,000 positions. Her experience in the field of human resources includes training, succession planning, employee relations, and talent management.
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.
Danielle Monaghan has recently been appointed to role of Director of HR for Microsoft China R&D based in Beijing. She and her team are responsible for hiring, developing and retaining top technical talent for this exciting emerging market. She previously lead the Executive Recruiting team responsible for the external talent acquisition of partner-level GM, VP, SVP candidates to fill Microsoft's most senior executive and technical positions. Prior to joining the company's Executive Recruiting Team, she led the staffing group for Microsoft's Information Worker and Business Solutions divisions and was formerly the Senior Talent Acquisition Manager of Sales and Executive Recruiting at T-Mobile.
Rodney Moses has more than 20 years of human resources and talent acquisition experience. Rodney is the vice president of global talent acquisition for Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. Coca-Cola Enterprises is the world's largest marketer, producer and distributor of Coca-Cola products. CCE has more than 74,000 employees and operates in 46 U.S. states and Canada with a territory encompassing approximately 81 percent of the North American population. In addition, CCE is the exclusive Coca-Cola bottler for all of Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco, and The Netherlands. He is responsible for recruitment and staffing for over 33,000 exempt and non-exempt employees per year representing 168 Collective Bargaining Units.
Prior to CCE, he served as vice president, global talent acquisition of Invitrogen Corporation. Invitrogen provides more than 25,000 products and services that support academic and government research institutions and pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide in their efforts to improve the human condition. Invitrogen has revenues in excess of $1.2 billion and over 5,000 employees in 50 countries. Rodney was responsible for hiring over 1,000 scientists per year.
Prior to Invitrogen, Rodney was the director of talent development and recruitment for James Hardie Industries, a worldwide leader in fiber cement building products. Prior to that, Rodney served as the general manager of recruitment and staffing for the Chicago Transit Authority, which is the nation's second largest public transportation system.
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.