HR Achievement Awards Judging Committee

Chair: 
Caitlin MacGregor, CEO and Co-founder
Plum, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Caitlin MacGregor, CEO and Co-founder at Plum, is passionate about identifying people’s potential. After building two businesses for others, she founded Plum to quantify people’s potential and give organizations access to the critical talent data needed to match people to jobs in which they will flourish and thrive.  An award-winning business leader, Caitlin was named an Inspiring Leader by Inspiring Workplaces^TM, and recognized as one of TAtech’s 100 Most Influential Talent Acquisition Leaders. 

Setting the agenda for innovation and improving recruiting operations’ effectiveness and efficiency, Caitlin regularly speaks at global events, including CES, Human Resource Executive HR Technology Conference & Exposition, Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) Women Connect, HRCI Higher Standards Summit, Catalyst Empowerment Summit, and more. She also is a sought-after guest on podcasts, including Recruiting Daily, The Recruitment Flex Podcast, and 3Sixty Insights. In addition, she has been quoted in the NY Times, World Economic Forum, Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, The Record, Global News, Human Resource Executive, and Benefits Pro.

Moreover, under Caitlin’s leadership, Plum was listed on the first-ever global Top 100 Inspiring Workplaces and received the 2023 Gold Stevie Award for Great Employers Talent Acquisition & Retention Solution Provider of the Year.

Committee:

Sourabh Bajaj, Co-founder & CTO
Uplimit, San Mateo, California, United States
Sourabh is the co-founder and CTO of Uplimit where he works at the intersection of the application of AI in education. Prior to that, he worked at Google brain working on Tensorflow and at Coursera and Neeva.

Kevser Celik, Employee Experience Specialist
Architect Information Systems Inc, Istanbul, Turkey
Kevser graduated from the Department of Politics, then worked in different departments of an Islamic Bank for more than 10 years.  She has been working as an HR Employee Experience Specialist at a tech company for 6 months.  She also has a blog where she shares her thoughts through stories.
 

Tiffany Fell, City Manager
City of Clarksburg, Clarkburg, West Virginia, United States
Tiffany Fell is a seasoned professional with over 18 years of experience in economic and community development. Holding a Bachelor of Business Administration, an MBA in Global Leadership, and currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Communications, she leverages her expertise to drive positive change as a city manager.

Gunduz Guldamlasi, Learning, Culture and Employee Experience Designer
Augdemy, Maltepe, Istanbul, Turkey

Anna Krusteva, People Business and Success Partner      
FusionPoint HR Consulting, Sofia, Bulgaria
A seasoned HR Business-focused Human Resources Executive with 20 years of diverse industry experience. Expert in launching and transforming HR departments, reducing costs, and negotiating vendor deals. Known for balancing compassion with objectivity, and inclusion with purpose, it creates trusted HR practices aligned with business goals.

Münteha Mangan, Employer Branding Team Leader
Aselsan, Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey
After 16 years of communications and marketing experience, Munteha led Employer Brand Communications of the sector's fastest-growing company, Turkey (Turkish Aerospace), with a record-breaking and award-winning performance for 5 years. He is now leading the Employer Brand of the most attractive employer in the engineering sector in Turkiye (Aselsan).

Gabriel Schaepman, Vice President | Human Resources
Swiss Re Management Ltd, Zurich, Switzerland
Gabriel is a seasoned Learning & Development Consultant at Swiss Re. With over 30 years' experience, he designs innovative learning solutions, pioneered MOOCs, and applies the 70/20/10 learning model. He holds three Master's degrees and mentors refugees and unemployed individuals. His work is recognized industry-wide for promoting lifelong learning.
 

Mark Spool, PhD, President
Management Development Solutions, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Mark Spool, Ph.D. is a leadership development consultant with 40+ years’ experience. He coaches executives and high-potential employees, and specializes in 360-degree feedback, employee engagement surveys, and competency models. Mark has held management positions at ARCO Chemical Company, Payless ShoeSource, and Marathon Oil Company. His Ph.D. is in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

Koushik Sundar, Vice President
Citibank NA, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Koushik, Vice President at Citibank, boasts 16+ years of IT experience as a Tech Architect and Lead Developer. He drives large-scale projects, generating multi-million dollar revenues. Koushik leads and mentors global teams, specializes in AI, ML, Microservice, and cloud development, is deeply committed to community mentoring, and has received numerous awards.

Sarath Babu Yalavarthi, AVP
AT&T, Dallas, Texas, United States
Sarath Babu is a global IT leader with 20+ years of expertise. He led the end-to-end implementation of large-scale CRM's at GE, JPMC and AT&T. As a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect, he has largely worked on architecting and delivering complex solutions that are highly performant, stable, secure, scalable, and innovative.

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