HR operations has, historically, been an afterthought for most organizations in regards to technology. They had the use of existing ERP programs, or emerging HCM platforms to track the humans at work. We saw Talent Management programs pop into the industry in the 2000s helping organizations track individuals progress towards their goals. But all of those programs and platforms were based on...

Please share a few words about yourself and your journey as the CEO of 1E. I have always had a particular interest in the enterprise software industry. Before coming to 1E, I was in sales roles and served as the Chief Revenue Officer at LogicMonitor, as well as the SVP and General Manager for International at Autotask (acquired by Datto). My background in sales led me to 1E and my current...

Can you give us a brief of your career before Globalization Partners / G-P? Well, for starters, I’m a born-and-raised Bostonian and started my career with EY (Ernst & Young) following the classic audit or trail CPA path. From there, and for the past 25 years or so, I’ve been a C-suite executive at several, Boston-based technology companies, always with a big international...

Can you tell us more about yourself and your career before Model Match? I started a small business in college in the health and fitness industry and became comfortable with the “eat what you kill” model of small business and startups. After graduating, my wife and I moved to western North Carolina where I was introduced to the “passive” recruiting industry where I built...

What are the core values on which the organization is built and what is the mission of the organization? There are several values that are at the core of who we are and how we operate. We use these as our guiding principles for taking all people decisions. For example – the ‘Obligation to dissent’ is not just a right but is seen as a responsibility that each employee must...

His first job in the healthcare field was with United Group Associates, a Blackstone company and one of the largest healthcare brokerages in the country. Even though he didn’t have a long-tail view of the healthcare market, he noticed the inefficiencies. Shortly after his team made the top 10 list in the company, another agent joined me to form our own brokerage, Bayside Insurance...

Can you please share a few words about yourself and your journey as Founder and CEO at Explorance? I have always been a person that is fascinated by value creation. One thing that I had struggled with throughout the larger part of “my life as an employee” is how we were mostly expected to do things that did not match our core beliefs and values, in the name of...

Please share a few words about yourself and your journey as the Founder of Woven. The inspiration for Woven was born from the decade I spent consulting and developing software for franchisors and franchisees. During that time, my wife and I became multi-unit franchisees and lived through the struggles of scaling to multiple locations. The franchise industry, in particular, has been impacted by...

Could you share some insights about your career before Open LMS? I started in EdTech 20 years ago on the software development side. I grew with several companies as they evolved and became Blackboard before Open LMS itself spun off of Blackboard. I’ve also gained a great amount of international experience over the years running teams in Europe, the UK, Latin America, and Australia....

What sets SkillCycle apart from its competitors? What transformation does it bring to the industry? The most significant changes happening in small business organizations draws on three things: 1) the inability to scale people through learning to meet the needs of the organization; 2) the lack of resources in people development and retaining versus recruiting; 3) and the lack of People Tech...