Here’s who’s making moves in December in the HR technology industry.
Workday, Inc. announced the election of Liz Centoni, executive vice president and chief customer experience officer at Cisco, to its board of directors.
Centoni is a seasoned leader who has a passion for leveraging technology to drive customer success and deliver unparalleled experiences. Throughout her career, Centoni has been spearheading initiatives that have significantly enhanced customer satisfaction and loyalty.
DailyPay, a worktech company and the leading provider of earned wage access, has announced that Ryan Mang has been named to the newly created position of Chief Commercial Officer at DailyPay. Mang will report to Stacy Greiner, Chief Executive Officer, DailyPay.
“Ryan brings to DailyPay vast expertise in scaling organizations, exemplified by his leadership roles at companies including SaaS, professional services, commercial insurance, venture capital, and private equity,” said Stacy Greiner, Chief Executive Officer, DailyPay. “He will play an integral role in our continued rapid growth and expansion.”
Beamery, the AI-powered platform helping organizations to make better talent decisions, by putting skills data and intelligence at the core of their people strategy, today announces the appointment of Erinn Tarpey as its first Chief Marketing Officer.
In this role, Tarpey will oversee the company’s brand direction, corporate positioning and go-to-market strategies for its solutions and services. An experienced B2B technology marketing executive, Tarpey comes to Beamery with expertise driving growth in the HR software space, having previously served on the senior leadership teams at iCIMS, Inc. and Namely, Inc.
UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture solutions, today announced that Suresh Vittal will join as chief product officer (CPO) beginning on January 20, 2025. Vittal will lead the company’s global product strategy and development, including user experience and cloud operations, for the more than 80,000 organizations that use UKG products across 150 countries worldwide.
Vittal will serve on the UKG executive leadership team and report directly to CEO Jennifer Morgan. Vittal’s appointment will further elevate and accelerate the UKG product roadmap with a continued focus on embedding artificial intelligence (AI) and leveraging the company’s differentiated workforce intelligence across all of its world-class products.
ShiftMed, the On Demand workforce technology platform, announced today the expansion of its leadership team with the addition of two strategic executives: J.J. Ewing, RN, BSN, CCRN as Chief Nursing Executive, and Ashley Foster, MBA, SHRM-SCP as Executive Vice President of Acute Partnerships. Both Ewing and Foster bring a deep understanding of the healthcare workforce landscape and will contribute to advancing ShiftMed’s commitment to bringing labor cost savings, staff engagement, retention and flexibility.
These new additions to the team reinforce ShiftMed’s commitment to addressing the critical workforce challenges healthcare organizations face. With extensive experience working alongside health system leaders, both Ewing and Foster have a deep understanding of the economics of healthcare and the ability for technology to have a huge impact on hospital workflows and operations.
HireRight, a leading provider of global background screening services and workforce solutions, is pleased to announce the appointments of Ranojoy “RJ” Hazra as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Jamie Ikerd as Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, with immediate effect.
Mr. Hazra joins HireRight with more than 15 years of executive leadership experience in the finance and technology sectors. His most recent role was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the international division at Equifax. Prior to this, he spent several years in various leadership positions at General Electric.
Ms. Ikerd will lead HireRight’s strategic planning, enterprise project management, corporate development, and innovation initiatives in her new role as Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer. She joins HireRight from Built Technologies where she served as Chief Operating Officer. Ms. Ikerd’s extensive background includes executive leadership roles in multiple industries and functions including verticalized SaaS, technology, and hospitality. She also spent several years at Bain & Company, focused on scale business strategy and transformation work.
UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture solutions, today announced that Jennifer Hanley has joined as the company’s inaugural chief communications officer (CCO). Hanley has more than 25 years of experience leading internal and external communication strategies at organizations such as J.P. Morgan, KKR, and Flagship Pioneering’s Valo Health, and was formerly the press secretary for U.S. Senator and Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton.
Since joining UKG in October 2024, Hanley reports to CEO Jen Morgan and is responsible for developing and executing an integrated, global communications strategy while leading the company’s internal and external communications teams, thought leadership, and corporate branding. Hanley is also leading a customer-first initiative that aims to streamline the customer communication experience.
Pluralsight, the technology workforce development company, announced that Beckey Woodard Cole has been named Chief People Officer. In this role, Woodard Cole will oversee all aspects of Pluralsight’s human resources function, including company culture, organizational development and effectiveness, and talent management.
Woodard Cole is a seasoned people leader with over 20 years of strategic human resources experience. Before joining Pluralsight, she was the Chief Human Resources Officer at Avantax, where she led people-centered transformations that effectively improved company culture and team member retention. Prior to Avantax, Cole spent 10 years at Folience, where she played a pivotal role in enabling business diversification, led multiple HR initiatives, and implemented the company’s first HR shared services model.
TrackerRMS, a global leader in applicant tracking systems (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) software for the recruitment and staffing industry, today announced a new leadership team to usher in the next season of growth as the company expands globally, as well as to create centers of excellence to maximize knowledge sharing around each of its core functions.
Tracker continues to be led by CEO and co-founder Andy Jones, who is joined by Luis Guerra as Chief Financial Officer and Mark Hodgkinson as Vice President of Engineering. Completing the executive team, Frank Rosamond moves into a new role as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer.
UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture solutions, today announced that Sarah Hodges will join the company as chief marketing officer (CMO) on January 6, 2025. Hodges will report to UKG President, GTM, Rachel Barger, and lead brand awareness and creative experiences, product and industry marketing, field marketing, and customer advocacy and digital customer experiences.
“Sarah is a passionate leader with a customer-centric mindset, bringing more than 20 years of experience in impactful marketing and go-to-market strategy to UKG,” said Barger. “She possesses a deep understanding of frontline worker populations and has an exceptional track record of driving transformative change to grow brand affinity across key market segments worldwide. Building on our strong foundation and market leadership, Sarah will be influential in writing the next chapter of our UKG growth story with an enthusiastic focus on keeping our customers and their tens of millions of employees at the center of everything we do.”
Hodges is currently CMO at Procore Technologies (NYSE: PCOR) where she is responsible for the development of the strategic marketing plan and execution of all marketing activities globally. Prior to Procore, Hodges held various roles at multinational software leader Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK), including general manager of ShotGrid, the company’s cloud-based production planning solution, and vice president of product management for its Media and Entertainment portfolio.
