Keith Allaun
Keith has been actively involved in Recruiting and Human Resource Consulting in the Silicon Valley since 1983. He has had the responsibility of building internal staffing organizations for start-ups as well as for established Fortune 500 companies. Most recently, Keith was the Director of Human Resources & Professional Staffing for Ventro Corporation (previously Chemdex) where he helped lead the growth of the company from 85 employees to over 500. Prior to Ventro, Keith was a senior member of the Silicon Valley Technology Practice of Tasa International, one of the world’s elite Executive Search Firms. His clients have included Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Eastman Kodak, USWest, @Home, Yahoo, SciQuest, Ariba, 3Com, E-Steel, Intuit, and AT&T among others. Keith is the Principal Consultant at Allaun & Company, a specialized executive search firm, focusing on the needs of “The Players in the New Economy”. He graduated from Stanford University in 1983.
Erik Brynjolffson
Director, Center for eBusiness at MIT
Erik is a tenured professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research analyzes how businesses can effectively use the Internet and other information technologies. He serves as a member of Time Magazine’s Board of Economists and as Associate Member of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Before joining the MIT faculty, he co-founded Foundation Technologies, a provider of knowledge-based systems and he currently serves as a strategic advisor to numerous Internet commerce ventures. Erik holds A.B. and S.M. degrees from Harvard and a Ph.D. from MIT.
Rui da Costa
President & GM, HP Latin America
A native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Mr. da Costa has over twenty-five years of experience in management in Latin America. He has spent 29 years in Hewlett-Packard, most recently holding the position of President, Managing Director for Hewlett-Packard Latin America. More recently, Mr. da Costa has been a consultant and private investor in early stage companies. He holds an MBA from Michigan State University and completed the Executive Program of the Darden Business School, from the University of Virginia.
Marc G. Dee
Co-Founder
Marc directed AfterCollege’s University Relations efforts during the company’s early years. He developed and managed the efforts to build a network of partnerships with over 1,500 academic departments and pre-professional student organizations on college campuses, the largest such network in the country. Marc studied Economics and International Relations at Stanford University.
John Floisand
Mr. Floisand has over thirty years of experience in the computer and consumer electronics business. He was formerly a Director and CEO of Rogue Wave Software, Inc. Prior to this, he was President of Personic, Inc. Previously, Mr. Floisand spent 12 years at Apple Computer as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and President of Apple Pacific. Mr. Floisand has strong experience in the software development industry, and has expertise in domestic and international sales and marketing.
Susan Hailey
CEO, Forum for Women Entrepreneurs
Susan Hailey was formerly Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for Resumix. Previously, Susan was an executive search consultant and part of the team that started Egon Zehnder’s High Technology Group in Palo Alto, CA. Susan graduated with honors from UC Berkeley with a degree in Economics and received her MBA from Harvard University. Susan is also the General Manager of Silicon Valley Film Fund I, which raised capital to produce the recently completed feature film “Her Majesty”. Susan is on the Board of Advisors for The Global Fund for Women, a Palo Alto-based grant making organization funding women’s human rights globally. She has been a member of the Advisory Council for the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and the Women’s Technology Cluster and is an officer of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association.
Karen C. Heifferon
Co-Founder
Karen served as the Director of Healthcare was responsible for the creation, implementation and strategic growth of AfterCollege’s healthcare initiative. Karen established AfterCollege as the premier name in entry-level healthcare recruitment through her many collaborations with leaders in the healthcare industry.
Karen attended medical school at Loma Linda University prior to joining the AfterCollege team. As an undergraduate, Karen earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry as well as her Masters in Physiology. Previously, she served as a nursing instructor for three years and has five years of experience in various clinical settings.
Karen is currently enrolled as a student at University of California, Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business.
Tom Mohr
Tom Mohr is the founding director of the New Media Innovation Lab at Arizona State University. In this role, he is studying the future of interactive media, working on behalf of media clients. He is also an executive in residence at Charles River Ventures in Menlo Park, identifying start-ups in the media and information space for investment. Prior to these assignments, Mohr was president of Knight Ridder Digital until June, 2006.
Under his watch, Knight Ridder Digital posted 50% year-over-year revenue growth in 2005 and was running 36% up in 2006 right up to the sale of Knight Ridder to McClatchy. Traffic grew 9% to 11M unique visitors. The Real Cities network grew as well, up 17% to 29.7 unique visitors.
Over the past 26 years, Mohr has held a series of senior roles, including corporate director, KR / VP Classifieds, KRD; SVP marketing and sales at the Minneapolis Star Tribune; VP advertising at the Nashville Tennessean and director of marketing and ad sales at the Bakersfield Californian.
He, his wife Pageen, daughter Mary Catherine (17) and son Jack (16) live in San Jose, CA.
Warren Recicar
CEO, Coast to Coast Ventures
Mr. Recicar brings extensive knowledge of hosting infrastructure and customer service to The Job Resource. He enjoyed an extensive career at EDS in managing its Information Technology infrastructure. From 1996 to 1998 he was Vice President of Operations and Customer Service at BBN/GTE Internetworking, a premier Fortune 500 hosting and Internet service provider. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Operations at Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Curtis Rogers
President, CKR Group
Curtis Rogers was formerly the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers & Associates Advertising, one of the largest recruitment advertising agencies in North America. His experience at Rogers included the development of one of the nation’s first on-line career web sites, CareerTaxi.com. After Rogers & Associates was acquired by TMP Worldwide, he remained as Division President and was active with Monster.com. After TMP, Curtis moved to EmployChina.com where he was Executive Vice President/General Manager overseeing US operations. He was responsible for growing the site from a small regional operation to one of the largest full-service employment companies and job boards in China. Today Curtis is President/Founder of CKR Group, a recruitment advertising agency that specializes in employment communications with a strong focus on consulting and marketing driven strategy.
Aaron Ross
Former Senior Director, Sales, Salesforce.com
In 2007, Aaron Ross founded BlackBox Revenue (“We create sustainable revenue for b2b companies”) and PebbleStorm (“Make money through enjoyment”). Previously, he was an EIR (Entrepreneur-in-Residence) at Alloy Ventures. Prior to that he was at salesforce.com, where he built a ‘Cold Calling 2.0’ sales team that has sourced $100 million in recurring revenue, and spent a year in the acquisitions and investments team, helping acquire and launch the AppExchange Mobile and Salesforce for Google AdWords products. Aaron was CEO of LeaseExchange (now eLease.com), an online equipment leasing marketplace. As an entrepreneur, he has been in Time, Businessweek and The Red Herring. Prior to LeaseExchange, Aaron worked at Pandesic, an Intel/SAP joint venture, did M&A at the investment bank Robertson Stephens, and graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Environmental Civil Engineering. Aaron is on the advisory boards of Clickability, 4INFO, ConnectAndSell, Personiva and Flywheel Ventures. He is an Ironman triathlete, graduate of the Boulder Outdoor Survival School and volunteer mentor at SCORE, “Counselors to America’s Small Business”.
Mike Saranga
Mike Saranga has 36 years of extensive experience in system architecture, product development and executive management. Mike spent 30 years at IBM with assignments that included MVS System Manager, responsibility for development of IBM’s relational database DB2 and the General Manager of Application Software Business Unit. Mike joined Informix in 1993 as Senior Vice President of Product Engineering where he established Informix as the leader in parallel databases. He joined Siebel Systems in 1998 as Senior Vice President of Engineering. Mike received a Bachelor’s Degree from Northeastern University in 1959. Mike is a board director at XIS, a pre-IPO start-up. He is also an advisory board director at Speedera, Bridgestream and Infogain, which are pre-IPO start-ups.
Bruce Skillings
President, Bernard Hodes Advertising
A pioneer in the recruiting industry, Mr. Skillings was the Founder and President of CareerMosaic (now merged with HeadHunter.net), one of the first employment sites on the Internet. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., he oversaw CareerMosaic’s affiliate sites, including its international sites, and developed new online business ventures and strategic alliances. As President of Bernard Hodes Advertising, Bruce Skillings is responsible for the overall operations of the company. Prior to joining Bernard Hodes Advertising in 1975, Mr. Skillings spent three years in a general advertising agency, developing campaigns for business-to-business and consumer product accounts including National Semiconductor and its consumer products division, Novus; Rolm Corporation; Tread II; and Amdahl.
Colin Wilson
Colin is an executive search consultant in the European high technology sector. He spent seventeen years with Hewlett Packard and five years with Silicon Graphics. Highlights included three years as General Manager for HP in Saudi Arabia, two years as HP’s HR Director for Asia in Hong Kong and opening the HP subsidiary in Turkey. With SGI in the role of European HR Director Colin helped take SGI from 200 employees in Europe to 1,500.Colin has also done considerable work in ‘early stage’ companies.
