Chris Forman is the CEO and Founder of StartDate Labs Inc., the parent company of Appcast and StartWire. As the former Chief Executive Officer of AIRS and Chief Development Officer of The Right Thing, Chris has worked in the recruiting industry for 19 years, developing smart recruiting tools that have helped hire millions of people around the globe. Chris is a nationally recognized expert in recruiting and talent management and has been quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Staffing Industry Review.

Peter A. Gudmundsson is the President & CEO of RecruitMilitary, a sixteen year old company that helps organizations excel by leveraging the talent of our nation’s finest people, our veterans. RecruitMilitary helps companies attract, appreciate and retain high quality veteran employees and students. 

Prior to RecruitMilitary, Gudmundsson founded the Dropout & Truancy Prevention Network, a social enterprise that combined the use of location verification technology with phone-based personal mentor/coaches to keep kids in school and on track to graduate. Many of the mentor/coaches were physically disabled veterans or others with physical challenges that brought maturity, empathy and compassion to their roles.

Most of Gudmundsson’s career has been dedicated to leadership in media, education, information and intellectual property intensive businesses. Before DTPN, he was the founder of the Priceless Legacy Company, a custom publishing company that helped people preserve their life stories and lessons in print and electronic formats

Jeff began his career at Leo Burnett in Chicago where he became the youngest VP Account Director in the agency’s history, earning seven of the American Marketing Association’s EFFIE Awards for superior business results.  Before joining JB Training Solutions, Jeff was the Marketing and Creative Director for the Houston Rockets and Vice President of Marketing for Four Hands Imports, which was featured on Inc’s 500 Fastest Growing Company List three times. Currently, Jeff consults on business skills, sales, and marketing for companies in multiple industries including Marriott, Phillips 66, Leo Burnett, and the Major League Baseball Network. When Jeff isn’t traveling or training, he is spearheading content development and enhancement to keep JB programs at the peak of innovation.

Max Dubroff, SHRM-SCP, has HR experience that includes teaching, consulting, as a strategic business partner and as a director.  He retired from the U.S. Air Force, having specialized in security, law enforcement, and anti-terrorism.  He is also the former Chairman of a non-profit board, a former Oklahoma Employment Security Commissioner and is a mentor on Veterati.  His education includes a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master's in Human Resources.

Zack pushes the Syndio team to provide customers with the most applicable and advanced network analysis solutions on the market. His more than five years of experience researching, teaching, and applying social network analysis to the marketplace guides the team in building tools, scaling solutions, and creating value for customers and shareholders.

Chloé Rada is a forward-thinking, creative and analytics-driven employment branding leader with fifteen years of experience in the recruitment advertising industry and a passion for social media!

Leading Sodexo’s "award-winning" Employment Branding team, she is responsible for building awareness of Sodexo’s culture and workplace experiences in the US by managing their social, digital and mobile strategy. By leveraging technology like Avature CRM and QueSocial, she has spearheaded talent community re-engagement and employee advocacy programs to help bring their brand to life!

Named “the voice of Sodexo Careers” in January of 2012, she now manages a team that cares for Sodexo’s seven social media profiles, the career site and seven discipline-specific microsites and more than two dozen media relationships to improve their source of qualified candidates. She also is the chief content curator for the Sodexo careers blog, the number one most helpful social space for their candidates.  

In her previous role at Rada Advertising, a privately owned national recruitment advertising agency, Chloé consulted with employers on strategy and process to effectively communicate with and attract the right talent.  Leading the agency in new product development, she built strategic partnerships with HR technologies companies to develop and launch digital solutions for the agency. In addition to designing go-to-market strategies, she provided training, mentorship and education to co-workers and clients on these emerging recruitment trends and technologies.  Chloé’s previous two years’ experience at Edelman Worldwide, allowed her to hone her public relations and marketing techniques and adapt them for the recruitment marketing industry.

Chloé volunteers for Society of Talent Acquisition & Recruitment (STAR Chicago), formerly the Staffing Management Association of Greater Chicago (SMAGC), for the past eleven years and enjoys providing job search training to community organizations and students.

Chloé graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelors Degree in Liberal Arts and resides in Chicago, IL. Learn more about Chloé's here or by following her on Twitter (@CRada) or Instagram. 

As Chief Marketing Officer at iCIMS, Susan Vitale is ultimately responsible for shaping and sharing the iCIMS story across various audiences, including prospective and existing customers, the media, industry thought leaders, employees and candidates. She is also responsible for iCIMS’ brand strategy across public relations, events, advertising, product marketing and content marketing.

After graduating from Lehigh University in 2005, Vitale began her career as a marketing coordinator at iCIMS. She quickly grew alongside the company, becoming the director of marketing, and by the age of 30 was promoted to chief marketing officer.

Vitale takes pride in converging the worlds of recruitment and marketing, and incorporating this passion into the company’s own recruitment marketing strategy. Given iCIMS’ role in talent acquisition, she has a deep understanding of how to effectively manage recruitment advertising investments, social recruiting strategies, candidate relationship management (CRM) and recruitment events. As a member of several online mentoring communities, Vitale provides career advice and insight on finding the right career fit for young professionals. She also serves on the board of advisors at Switch, a job matching technology, and Oodi, a marketing services marketplace, and is a member of the board at NY/NJ Baykeeper Association.

Carol Fishman Cohen works closely with employers to create reentry internship programs for returning professionals. Her TEDx talk “The 40-Year-Old Intern” makes the case for why reentry internships are the most effective way to engage with the high caliber pool of talent returning from career break, and what this means for other non-traditional career transitioner populations. A graduate of Harvard Business School and mother of four, Carol’s return to work at Bain Capital after 11 years out of the full-time workforce is documented in a Harvard Business School case study. She speaks globally about career reentry strategy and is frequently quoted on the topic in the national press.