As we countdown the days to recruitDC, we’re taking some time to give you a chance to meet each of our speakers. We’ll kick things off with Katrina Collier, founder of The Searchologist. Katrina will focus her session at recruitDC on why finding and contacting candidates is easy, but that engaging them is where the magic happens.
Check out the video introduction below!
See you on May 26th! – Still need tickets? Check out the Eventbrite page for tickets to the conference and AfterParty!
Tiffany Ballve
Senior Manager of Engineering Talent Sourcing and Diversity – Microsoft
Tiffany Ballve is Senior Manager of Engineering Talent Sourcing and Diversity at Microsoft. She has over 17 years of agency and corporate Talent Acquisition (TA) experience in roles from technical recruiter and sourcer to team lead and recruiting manager for consulting and software companies alike. Mrs. Ballve is keenly adept at building TA functions from the ground up and positioning companies for high-growth periods. She has years of experience growing and training best in class Recruiting teams and is responsible for the development of the TA infrastructure and Recruiting strategy. Tiffany is highly skilled in Employer and Talent Branding and built and managed multiple companies’ branding efforts across the board.
Tiffany holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology with a dual minor in Sociology and Information Technology from George Mason University. She is also an AIRS Advanced Certified Internet Recruiter, Certified LinkedIn Recruiter, and SourceCon GrandMaster Finalist. When not working, Tiffany enjoys spending time with her husband, Basim, and their six kids visiting museums, playing sports (soccer is her favorite), or traveling around the world.
Matt Bruni
President – Talent Acquisition Strategies, LLC
Mike Bruni possesses over 22 years of experience in Leadership, Talent Acquisition, Recruiting, and Human Resources in private industry and government. Since entering the field in 1997 he has taken on roles leading many initiatives to include Talent Acquisition Leadership and Management, Sourcing, Capture Staffing, Direct Recruiting, and Veteran Outreach.
Mike has built and led staffing programs over the course of his career with much success. In 2012, he led the staffing effort for a major program in excess of $1 billion. The effort resulted in the award of the program and the successful transition and staffing of this massive program. Mike has led and built staffing teams and programs for multi-million-dollar firms. Mike is heavily experienced in developing Talent Acquisition strategies tailored to each customer and skill set. As a Sourcing Manager, Mike designs and builds talent pipelines supporting diverse programs throughout the community. Provides staffing strategies in support of new business pursuits and proposals. Leads candidate outreach efforts to provide organizational and personal branding.
In December of 2009, Mike was instrumental in standing up a centralized Military Recruiting Program, Operation MVP. This program was designed to be a central point to recruit top talent from all Branches of the Military. This program continues to train and recruit Service Members to this day.
Mike has been quoted in HR Magazine, The Military Times, and USAToday. He’s been a guest on Federal News Radio’s “FedAccess” Show. He has also been a guest on the radio program “The Workforce Show”. He’s been featured on the Pentagon Channel’s “Hiring America” television show. He is a board member of recruitDC. He also the facilitator and leader for Project S.A.V.E. (Staffing Alliance of Virginia Employers) which is a networking organization for HR and recruiting professionals.
Mike is currently the President of Talent Acquisition Strategies, LLC where he adviseson recruiting and talent acquisition.
Kathleen Smith
CMO – ClearedJobs.Net
As Chief Marketing Officer for ClearedJobs.Net a veteran owned company, Kathleen Smith spearheads the community-building, and communications outreach initiatives catering to the organization’s many audiences including security cleared job seekers, military personnel, and cleared facilities employers in the defense and intelligence community. Kathleen has built key relationships with government contracting and recruiting industry leaders as well as agency insiders over the last 10 years in the community. Prior to joining ClearedJobs.Net, Kathleen led the marketing efforts of nationally-recognized nonprofit brands including the American Red Cross and World Wildlife Fund. Building upon her 20+ years of extensive marketing experience and insight, Kathleen brings a passion to creating unique and interesting ways to communicate with niche communities to build brand visibility, heighten awareness and establish viable, authentic relationships with colleagues, friends, supporters and followers.
In addition to being President and one of the founding members of recruitDC, Kathleen volunteers her time and resources to the AFCEA NOVA Military Government Career Transition Program, AFCEA Central Maryland Women in Intelligence Group, Women in Homeland Security and the Wounded EOD Warrior Foundation Undefeated Bike Ride.
Jay Perreault
Principal – DCTechRecruiter, LLC
Jay Perreault has been involved in the recruiting, retention, and selection process for a variety of different disciplines since the fall of 2000. He is currently the Principal of DCTechRecruiter, LLC offering recruiting, training, and RPO services to the IT, Intel and a select few Commercial environments. Previously he has worked in a Talent Acquisition leadership capacity for CRGT, AECOM and others. He especially excels as an IT social media strategist, who focuses on the big picture for workforce/succession planning, retention, and employee relations while being operationally driven.
He has been involved with recruitDC contributing as a volunteer or working as a lead volunteer coordinator since early 2005, and has been a featured speaker and panelist for both Project S.A.V.E and recruitDC. He also contributes regularly to ERE, RecruitingBlogs and other recruiting forums.
Jay grew up in Connecticut, but has been a local Northern Virginia resident since 1998. His wife Karen and his “dogters” supports his passions such as teaching scuba diving and getting out on the Harley as often as possible. He is a graduate of Nichols College, located in Massachusetts with a bachelor’s degree in Business Management. Find Jay on LinkedIn or Twitter.
Matt Duren
Recruiting Manager – Tenable
Matt Duren has been in recruiting since he graduated college in 2001. Despite what Pete Radloff says, Matt knew he wanted to get into recruiting as early as his Junior year of college. Starting out in a technical staffing agency, Matt quickly transitioned to corporate recruiting and has lead recruiting teams responsible for IT and college recruiting, as well as Employment Branding. Matt is currently the Recruiting Manager at Tenable, located in Columbia, MD.
Originally from Virginia, Matt has lived in Maryland since graduating from James Madison University. He also holds a Masters in Organizational Development and Strategic HR from Johns Hopkins. When he’s not recruiting, you can find Matt enjoying family-time with his wife and two daughters, training for the occasional Obstacle Course Race, and eating Gummy Bears…lots of Gummy Bears.
Follow his shenanigans on LinkedIn and Twitter
Moe Hutt
Senior Consultant – HireClix
Moe Hutt has been part of the Washington DC talent community for over 20 years with experience in roles from recruiting assistant and recruiter to program manager and recruiting manager. She has designed and implemented enterprise intern, employee referral, contingent, and recruiter training programs. After a successful career as a practitioner, Moe joined HireClix’s strategic consulting team where she helps talent acquisition teams solve complex problems. She is passionate about striking a balance between creativity and efficiency.
Moe began her journey with recruitDC as a volunteer at events and helping to select speakers in the content committee. She joined the recruitDC board in 2015 and now directs the organization’s programs. When she’s not assisting recruiting teams, you can find Moe with her husband and son. She is a lifelong learner who is happiest cozying up with a book.
Suzie Grieco
President – SG2 Recruiting
Like most recruiters, Suzie Grieco “fell” into recruiting. After her previous employer in media advertising closed their DC Office, a neighbor who owned a staffing agency suggested recruiting. Learning that she would get paid to talk to people over coffee and lunch, she dove in! Over the next five years, she successfully transitioned from recruiter to recruiting manager and then account management and discovered that she loved nearly every aspect recruiting. But after five years of agency recruiting, she wanted to try her hand at corporate recruiting. She joined the team at Booz Allen Hamilton helping to build their consulting team that developed strategy and operations solutions to clients in the Intelligence Community. While working closely with internal clients, she discovered unique challenges facing government recruiting and transitioned to Booz Allen’s Human Capital consulting team and served as the technical recruiting practice lead. Following a sabbatical from Booz Allen, she co-founded SG2 Recruiting, a boutique recruiting firm headquartered in Virginia. She continues to deliver talent acquisition solutions to identify, engage, screen, recruit and on-board hard-to-find candidates for large and small companies alike.
Suzie Grieco was introduced to the recruitDC organization in 2012 where she found others who shared her passion for recruiting and wanted to actively work toward elevating the profession. She joined the board as VP of Marketing to help inform those who are new to the industry about the resources and information available to them to become successful, effective recruiting professionals.
Ms. Grieco has a BS degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland and an MBA in Marketing from George Washington University. She resides in Great Falls, VA with her husband and four children
