Celinda Appleby is the Global Head of Digital Recruitment and Employer Brand for Oracle’s Global Talent Acquisition organization. In this role she leads Oracle’s talent acquisition digital strategy and also oversees their social media footprint to position Oracle has a top employer in the market. Prior to joining Oracle, Celinda was the Global Digital Media Program Manager for HP’s Global Talent Acquisition. She is passionate about digital recruitment marketing, sourcing, social recruiting and employer branding. She previously held recruiting roles within corporate and agency enterprises. Celinda has over 12 years of recruiting and human resources experience across a broad range of industries including technology, accounting, marketing and government sector.

Jay is responsible for leading the design and delivery of talent solutions used across the entire ADP enterprise.  Talent solutions are the processes and tools used to identify and close gaps between the organization’s talent supply and demand.  This includes strategic workforce planning, succession planning, talent review, and talent assessments.  During his time at ADP, Jay has also worked with the Global Talent and Learning organization to formalize a Change Leadership and Management center of expertise, revitalize performance management, and deliver global leadership development programs and tools.

Prior to joining ADP, Jay was the Manager of Organizational Effectiveness and Leadership Development at Selective Insurance.  His responsibilities included the talent review and succession planning processes, leadership and management development programs, talent systems, team development, individual development planning, and company-wide organizational development initiatives to intentionally shape the company’s culture.  Jay also led an immersive summer-intern program to develop a pipeline of early career insurance professionals. 

Prior to joining Selective, Jay was an Associate Consultant at the Leadership Research Institute (LRI).  Jay used research and data driven approaches to help his clients address their leadership and organizational development needs.  His areas of expertise included leadership and management development, talent and organizational assessments, cultural integration, and HR systems/processes.  Jay’s consulting work was focused in the Finance, Pharmaceuticals, and Information Technology industries.  

Jay is a member of the Conference Board’s Strategic Workforce Planning Council, th Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), the Association for Talent Development (ATD).  He earned an M.A. in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology from the University of New Haven and a B.A. in Psychology from Quinnipiac University.  In addition to earning his Senior Human Resources Professional (SPHR) Certification, Jay is a Certified MBTI and DiSC facilitator, and has completed Strategic Workforce Planning Certifications with both Human Capital Institute (HCI) and The Conference Board.

Lester S. Rosen is an attorney at law  and CEO of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a national background screening company.  He is a consultant, writer, expert witness  and frequent presenter nationwide on pre-employment screening. He is the author of “The Safe Hiring Manual,” (3d Edition 2017/826 pages), the first comprehensive book on background screening.  He served as the chairperson of the steering committee that founded the Professional Background Screeners Association (PBSA),  served as its first co-chair and received the PBSA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. 

Mr. Steven Rothberg is the Founder of CollegeRecruiter.com, Inc., and serves as its President. Mr. Rothberg focuses his efforts on managing CollegeRecruiter.com's employees, business development, and all strategic decisions. He is also primarily responsible for sales and marketing efforts. While in college, he spent a summer working in London, England designing and building the first management compensation database used by Argos Distributors, which was one of the United Kingdom's largest retailers. In his senior year, he convinced the University to outsource the publication of its campus map to his micro company. He gave the maps to the University for free and earned his revenues from the sale of advertising around the borders. After graduating, he sold the business to two of his friends and moved to Minneapolis. While he served as a judicial law clerk in the fall of 1991. He has become widely recognized as an expert in online marketing, particularly in the fast growing areas of affiliate /revenue share programs; job boards, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and blogging. In fall 2010, he was named by Fast Company's Influence Project as the 43rd most influential person on-line. He has been widely quoted by local, regional, national and international print and on-line media, including the Associated Press, Business Week, Chicago Tribune, CNN.com, Fortune Small Business, Journal of Career Planning & Employment (National Association of Colleges and Employers), Reuters, USA Today, Washington Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He enrolled at the University of Minnesota School of Law in1988. While in law school, he was selected for and had his article published by the University of Minnesota Law Review. In 1991, he graduated and was admitted to the bar. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) from the University of Manitoba in 1988.

Diana Yarbrough is known as a champion of diversity, upward mobility and recognition within ADP. She leads the Human Resources department for all of ADP’s Added Value Services

(AVS) division. As division vice president, Diana heads a team of nine associates who services all of AVS and Compliance and Payment Solutions (CAPS). In her more than 20 years with

ADP, Diana has held many positions in a Human Resource capacity.