Management Team

David Pollard – President & CEO
David 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 – Director of Service Delivery
Kevin Huston is a DSD at TalentFusion and in this role serves as one of the Senior Operational 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.

Juliana Barela – Director of Service Delivery
Juliana Barela is one of the two acting service delivery executives for TalentFusion. In this role she is responsible for the overall delivery of services to a variety of clients within TalentFusion’s Financial Services, Insurance and Banking Practices.

Prior to joining TalentFusion, Juliana worked at Knowledge Workers, a human capital management consulting firm as a Director of Client Services. She has experience in the areas of recruitment strategy development, definition of recruitment processes and effectively optimizing recruitment metrics.

Juliana has 12 years of recruitment and consulting experience. She has a Master’s in Organizational Development from Colorado State University.