Management Team
David Pollard – President & CEODavid Pollard is President and founder of TalentFusion, leading the firm from inception through its current trend of rapid growth. TalentFusion has become a thought leading firm helping organizations optimize how they deploy their recruiting resources to take full advantage of the outsourcing option to create scalable, flexible recruiting capability.
Prior to forming TalentFusion, Pollard served as Vice President of Worldwide Recruiting at Keane, a $1b information technology outsourcing company. Under Pollard’s leadership, Keane hired 13,000 people over a three year period of time, growing from $300 million in revenue to over $1b. While with Keane, Pollard implemented numerous programs and project management disciplines that drove recruiter productivity improvements of over 70%, while reducing cost per hire by 30%. Many of these disciplines have become central themes in the TalentFusion recruitment outsourcing delivery model.
Helen Sharron – CFO
Helen Sharron has taken a temporary leave of absence from TalentFusion. She can still be reached at hsharron@talentfusion.com.
Kevin Huston – Senior Vice President of Client Services and Solutions
Kevin Huston leads the services and solutions delivery for at TalentFusion and in this role oversees the Senior Operational Delivery Managers within the firm. Responsibilities encompass all aspects of Service Delivery and Customer Care within the company’s IT Services and Industrial practices. Kevin started with TalentFusion as a Recruiting Manager in the early part of 2004 and has worked himself through the ranks into the role he currently holds.
Prior to joining TalentFusion, Kevin served as Recruiting Manager for Nims Associates, an IT services firm located in Denver, CO. Kevin has been in the employment services space since 1994 and has served in several different capacities over the last 12 years. Kevin’s roots in the industry came as a headhunter for a boutique firm in Chicago recruiting ERP professionals for what was then the “Big 6”. On the heels of this experience came a string of recruiting and sales positions within the industry that helped groom a diverse view of how the world of employment services works.
Kevin received his Bachelors of Science in Economics from the University of Illinois.
Mark Petruzzi – Senior Vice President, Business Development
Mark Petruzzi is an 20-year veteran of complex services business development and business strategy. Mark has a demonstrated record of business success in technology and diversified services businesses.
Mark was a founding partner of ThoughtDigital, a rapidly growing Oracle boutique consulting firm headquartered in Manhattan. ThoughtDigital has recorded 18 consecutive quarters of double-digit profit growth and has been profitable since its inception. ThoughtDigital has been sold to Zensar Technologies, a $175M Technology Firm listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
He has lead or been a key member in three business sales transactions totaling $75M in value. Mark has also held senior leadership positions at both Oracle and SAP, managing the P&L of operating groups greater then $50 million in revenue. As the youngest ever Director of Business Development at Deloitte Consulting, he was instrumental in building both the Oracle and Ariba practices into the largest Big Five practices in those market areas. Mark has been a prominent player within the Oracle Eco-System for nearly two decades.
Mark holds a dual BS/BA degrees in Accounting and Philosophy from Rutgers College within Rutgers University, and an MBA in Finance and Marketing at Columbia Business School. He serves on the Board of Directors for a startup social networking company, an entertainment production company and a Chinese sourcing advisory.
Mark is an Adjunct Faculty Educator for Duke University Corporate Education working within their Marketing, Sales and Business Strategy departments.