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February 23, 2018

Job board provider Monster Worldwide Inc. announced a chief product officer and chief marketing officer as well as a new six-member leadership team for its Staffing and Recruiting business unit. Leading the team is Penny Queller, senior VP and general manager, staffing and recruiting. 

Monster named Chris Cho as chief product officer and Jonathan Beamer as chief marketing officer. Cho has led organizations such as TMP Worldwide and Jibe. Beamer founded and led Think-Digital after serving as CMO of SolarCity. Before that, Beamer held senior marketing positions at Progressive Insurance — where he led two campaigns that are still active — and Digitas.

In addition, Monster named six members to the leadership team for its Staffing and Recruiting Business Unit, they include:

  • Tim Robbins, VP, East US staffing and recruiting: Robbins brings more than 20 years of sales and sales management experience to the Monster staffing and recruiting business unit. During his previous 13 years with Monster, Robbins held several sales leadership roles focused on staffing.
  • Claudette Cunitz, VP, West US staffing and recruiting: Cunitz began her staffing career at Talent Tree before becoming owner and operator of an engineering and technical staffing firm. She joined Monster in 2014 and is a key leader of the staffing and recruiting business.
  • Jeff Weidner, VP, product innovation: Weidner’s staffing and recruiting experience spans almost 25 years during which he specialized in recruitment marketing activities. In his new position, he is responsible for strategy development and uncovering new technologies specific to the staffing industry.
  • Chase Wilson, VP, product innovation: Wilson has 20 years of talent acquisition and consulting experience. At Monster, Wilson will develop new enhancements, functionality, packaging and pricing for the company’s product suite. He will also work with the company’s staffing and RPO clients.
  • Jay Schupp, VP, new business development: Schupp has 20 years’ experience in the staffing and recruiting industry, including with Interim Technology, Manpower and The Bartech Group. At Monster, he will develop new business opportunities for the staffing industry.
  • Lee Phillips, senior marketing manager, staffing and recruiting: Phillips’ focus is on marketing activities that support the staffing and recruiting business unit.

CTG (NASD: CTG), a Buffalo, NY-based IT staffing provider, announced Susan Tidswell joined the company as sales leader for its North American Strategic Staffing line of business. Tidswell previously held senior leadership roles with three global staffing companies, including Randstad, Volt, and ManpowerGroup. At ManpowerGroup, she was responsible for the US sales practice.

Broadleaf Results Inc., an Aleron company, is promoting David Savarise to the new role of executive VP from VP of business development. He will focus on embedding the organization’s mature RPO service model within its total talent management programs.

RSR Partners, a Greenwich, Conn.-based executive search and leadership consulting firm, added Victor Arias, Jr. as managing director and senior member of the firm’s board recruiting practice. Arias was a nonexecutive director on the Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen board for 15 years until his retirement in 2016.

PrideStaff, a national staffing franchise, announced Christine Pressley and Chris Sollom, a wife and husband team, opened a North Orange County office in La Habra, Calif., on Feb. 19. The office targets both the clerical and light industrial sectors.

Glassdoor announced James Cox joined the company as CFO. Cox previously served as CFO at Lithium Technologies and at Advent Software. The company also named Christian Sutherland-Wong as COO, a newly created position; until recently, Sutherland-Wong was Glassdoor’s senior VP and general manager of monetization. And Samantha Zupan was named VP of global corporate communications; she helped launch Glassdoor in 2008 and was the company’s first employee dedicated to communications.

Daley And Associates LLC, an executive search and contract staffing firm, announced Marketing and Communications Manager Gauri Chandna will now lead all branding activities as its branding ambassador.

TempWorks Software, a provider of software and payroll funding to the staffing industry, added Allan Brown to its management team as senior VP. He previously was president of AllStaff Staffing & Recruiting in Chicago and has more than 20 years of experience in the staffing industry.

Executive search firm Korn Ferry International Inc. (NYSE: KFY) announced Daren Kemp will join the firm as a senior client partner and senior member of the board and CEO practice.