David Pollard

President and 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.

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Helen Sharron

CFO

Helen Sharron is the CFO of TalentFusion. She came from the financial services industry where she served as VP of Investment Technology for Putnam Investments in Boston, as an officer at State Street Bank and Mellon Bank. Her love of numbers, detail, and process is a real boon to TalentFusion where she currently manages the corporate office function and operations.

She also has the ability to step in and run with the ball when needed, and spent six months in Seattle getting the Amazon business relationship off the ground, has recruited for BearingPoint and Microsoft where she lead a team that was significantly more successful than their internal recruiting team at hiring product software engineers.

Helen is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a BS in Management.

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Jennifer Cranford

Director of Client Services

Jennifer Cranford currently serves as one of TalentFusion’s Directors of Client Services. Jen joined TalentFusion in 2007 serving a Client Delivery Specialist. Jen then left to pursue a Corporate recruiting role and returned to Talent Fusion in 2013. Jen started her career in recruiting in the 1990’s as a technical recruiter and has since held a variety of Human Resources roles including; Recruiting Manager, HR Generalist and HR Business Partner.

Jen has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business/Marketing from West Virginia Wesleyan College.

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Kara Mohler

Director of Client Services

Kara Mohler is a Director of Client Services. She has been with TalentFusion for 3 years and in that time has supported the Management Consulting client base at TalentFusion, along with a handful of TalentFusion’s IT Services clients. She originally joined TalentFusion as a Delivery Manager but was elevated to a Director’s role after excelling within the TalentFusion client base and achieving standout delivery of service excellence.

Kara has over 15 years of recruiting experience in both the Corporate and the Technical realm. Her accomplishments include managing the success of a Human Capital firm’s largest client and an ability to build excellent, cohesive teams with a drive towards continuous process improvement. As an experienced recruiter, Kara brings her broad knowledge of talent acquisition to a dynamic client structure at TalentFusion. She is actively interested in the development of people she manages and works with, and is a willing and active team member on the teams that she manages. Kara is known for her flexible and service-oriented style. She is remarkably well received and trusted by her clients and teams.

Kara received her Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration from the University of Wyoming.

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Kevin Huston

Senior Vice President, Client Services & Solutions

Kevin Huston is TalentFusion’s Senior Vice President of Client Services & Solutions. As such, Kevin is the company’s Operational leader and in this capacity oversees all delivery of services, solutions development, and extended operational matters within the firm. Responsibilities encompass all aspects of Operations and Customer Care within TalentFusion’s many different industry verticals. Kevin started with TalentFusion as a Delivery Manager/Director in the early part of 2004; during this time he bridged varying responsibilities as the needs of the organization dictated.

Prior to joining TalentFusion, Kevin served as Recruiting Manager for an IT services firm located in Denver, CO. He has been in the employment services space since 1996 and has served in several different capacities over the last 15+ years. Kevin’s roots in the industry began 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, sales, and management positions within the recruiting industry, which gave Kevin a unique and diverse view of how the multi-faceted world of corporate talent acquisition and employment services works.

Kevin’s passion and management philosophy is rooted in Servant Leadership – a passion that incorporates itself into the TalentFusion landscape by embracing the truth that our clients and our employees will be served with the highest level of integrity, excellence, and humility. Kevin takes this life philosophy outside of the TalentFusion landscape as well. He has mentored at-risk youth in Denver, CO for 10+ years, working with youths and their families to help instill core trust and a belief that they are significant and designed for great purpose. One of Kevin’s strongest desires at TalentFusion – and in life – is to see people move into all that they are created to be.

Kevin received his Bachelors of Science in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Tina Neal

Tina Neal was the first employee hired by TalentFusion in 2001. Since then she has kept the corporate office running smoothly while juggling multiple roles. Tina is the go to person for employee needs and benefits, insurance management, for our IRA plan, for HR, for payroll and paychecks, billing, and accounts payable and receivable. She has proven herself to be an invaluable and loyal contributor to the success of TalentFusion.

Tricia Hamilton

Director of Client Services

Tricia Hamilton currently serves as one of TalentFusion’s Directors of Client Services. Tricia joined TalentFusion in the fall of 2005 serving an Executive Recruiter. In 2006, she was promoted to Recruiter Manager at TalentFusion’s Corporate headquarters and most recently she was promoted to Director of Client Services. While at Corporate headquarters, Tricia was responsible for the hiring and training of new employees while serving some of TalentFusion's most important clients in crucial delivery roles. Tricia strives to give each client the personal and professional touch that is needed to ensure the successful deployment of each engagement.

Prior to recruiting, Tricia started her career in the animal science field and then transitioned to human medical customer service and insurance billing and referrals.

Tricia is an avid runner having participated in two marathons in Portland, OR and enjoys spending time with her family and dear friends.

Tricia received her Associates of Science degree from Becker College in Leicester, MA.

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