SPEAKER: Kristi Mark

Account Manager with Kforce Technology Staffing

Kristi Mark is a rising new talent on the recruiting scene, presently working as an Account Manager with Kforce Technology Staffing, in Boulder.  She opened the Boulder office earlier this year to help the Boulder technology community find the best world-class people for their teams, both for short-term projects and full-time employees.

She has spent more than five years in the technology staffing industry, starting at Hall-Kinion Technology Staffing in Silicon Valley. Her work focused on hi-tech companies, moved into recruiting and she ended up managing a small team while still managing the overall recruiting effort.  She moved to Boulder for quality-of-life reasons and was asked to help a local start-up company grow; she was an on-site recruiter with Tendril Networks, helping them grow from 18 to 64 people in seven months. 

Kristi graduated from Moorhead State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration.

MODERATOR: Dave Taylor

Senior Fellow at the DaVinci Institute; Blogger, Speaker, Workshop Facilitator and Radio Guest

Dave Taylor is a Senior Fellow at the DaVinci Institute and has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written eighteen business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. Dave maintains three weblogs, one focused on business and industry analysis, the eponymously named Ask Dave Taylor devoted to tech and business Q&A and APparenting.com, discussing topics of interest to parents. Dave is a highly-rated speaker, sought after workshop facilitator and frequent radio guest.

PANELIST: Nora Burns

Founder of Insightful Endeavors International, Inc.

Nora is passionate about helping individuals, teams and organizations find ways to use differences as the strengths they are versus the barriers we often make them out to be.

Her engaging and humorous style has captivated audiences from New York to China. Nora tailors every keynote, workshop and training session to her clients specific needs.

A strong believer in community involvement, Nora is an active volunteer with Habitat for Humanity both within the US and internationally. Originally from the Midwest, she lives in Denver, CO with her insanely cute labradoodle Bella and Bellas sidekick, Baxter.

See Nora On YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NlNt9gOt8s 

PANELIST: Terri Albee

Managing Partner of HR Ops Team LLC

Terri Albee, CCP, CPC is managing partner of HR Ops Team LLC, which provides scalable and affordable human resources counseling, identifies and recommends solutions for issues which may pose legal risks to human resources structures and provides processes to ensure human resources structures are streamlined for funding or exit events or just to ensure the company is optimized for day-to-day operations.  Terri has worked over 25 years in a variety of industry verticals from start-up/entrepreneurial organizations to the Fortune 500, both domestically and globally, and has planned and managed HR operations through numerous funding, acquisition and transition events.  Her experience encompasses design, implementation and management of compensation, benefit and equity plans, immigration, global expansion and legal compliance at all levels. 

Terri is also a certified professional coach who combines her human resources experience with coaching to collaborate, in a positive way, with clients in all phases of professional and life transition to identify, develop and attain goals.

PANELIST: Tim Wolters

Founder of Roundpegg

Tim is a well-known industry thought leader in the area of using statistical modeling to extract knowledge from unstructured data sources. His work pioneered the use of advanced analytical non-linear correlation models in building business applications. Wolters holds patents in the areas of Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM).

Mr. Wolters has more than twenty-two years experience in the software technology sector, working with a variety of start-ups and mid-market companies to invent, architect, market, sell, and deliver successful solutions to the marketplace. He attended Kansas University, specializing in Computer Science.