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Aryae Coopersmith is founder and CEO of the HR Forums. His passion is to bring together leaders to challenge and support each other to dream bigger, reach higher, act more strategically, and make a bigger difference.
In 1992 he partnered with Tom Peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence, in putting together the first meeting of the HR Forums. A lot has changed since then, but the extraordinary value that HR executives find in learning from each other hasn’t. Today the members of the HR Forums get together with their peers and guest thought leaders, in person and on-line, to share knowledge and creative thinking about advancing the success and well being of all their stakeholders.
Prior to founding the HR Forums, Aryae was a Principal with The Tom Peters Group in Palo Alto, where he was practice leader for learning interventions in computer industry accounts. In the decade prior to that, he worked as a sales manager and account executive in Silicon Valley.
Aryae has an MA in Humanistic Psychology from California State University, Sonoma, and served in the 1970s as an Instructor and Program Coordinator for the Peralta Community College District. He lives near the beach with his wife Wendy, and works out of his home office in the little town of El Granada, a few miles south of San Francisco.
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Deborah Barber
Principal
Jackson Hole Group
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Deborah Barber is a Principal with the Jackson Hole Group, a San Francisco-based consulting practice focused on Human Capital Management. With a 25-year career in senior human resources and corporate services management, she is recognized among her peers as one of the Bay Area's leading business strategists in the HR profession. In 2000 Deborah was awarded the Human Resource Symposium's first annual Excellence Award for leadership in the Human Resources field in the San Francisco Bay Area. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the HR Forums.
Since her retirement as Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services, Aspect Communications, Deborah has built a consulting practice that specializes in working with senior executives to solve their strategic and operational-level human resources and their leadership and organizational development issues.
In her Senior VP of HR role at Aspect, Deborah was responsible for leading Aspect's Human Resources operations, staffing, compensation, management and organizational development, facilities, real estate, environmental health and safety, and corporate services worldwide. She was actively involved in orchestrating the transformation of Aspect Communications from a hardware telecommunication equipment supplier to a provider of software solutions in the customer relationship management (CRM) marketplace, a major organizational and cultural transformation.
Before joining Aspect in 1998, Deborah was Vice President of Human Resources and Worldwide Real Estate and Corporate Services for Quantum Corporation, building a global human resources and facilities and real estate function to support its rapid growth over a six-year period. She was actively engaged in leading key initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions (most importantly, the acquisition of Digital Equipment Corporation's Storage Works business, which expanded the workforce by an additional 10,000 employees); restructuring operations to achieve cost efficiencies with eroding margins in a growing commodities business; launching new business startups; and revitalizing a core value system and culture, thus creating a employment brand around an “Extraordinary Environment with Extraordinary People.” Deborah was previously Vice President of Human Resources at Cray Research, Inc. and also held senior human resources leadership positions at Honeywell Inc.
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Marianne Jackson
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Blue Shield of California
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Marianne Jackson's career spans 25+ years in the Human Resource management field, working primarily for high technology companies. Her areas of expertise include organizational effectiveness, executive coaching, workforce optimization, strategic planning and culture shaping. For the last five years she has held the position of Senior Vice President, Human Resources & Communications for Blue Shield of California; one of the three largest health plans in the state.
Prior to Blue Shield Marianne held the position of Senior Vice President and Vice President of Human Resources for Palm Inc., Cisco Systems, SanDisk Corporation and Logitech. She has also held executive leadership positions with Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems.
Marianne holds bachelor degrees in Psychology and Sociology from the University of California. She also completed graduate course work from the University of Santa Clara in Counseling Psychology. She has held board positions with Catholic Charities, Santa Clara University and San Jose State University advisory board for the Business School/Human Resources.
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Eileen Nelson
Senior Vice President,
Human Resources
Openwave
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As Openwave's senior vice president of human resources, Eileen Nelson is responsible for overseeing the recruitment and retention of highly qualified employees, and for maintaining a unified global culture across the business. Eileen is a recognized human resources expert with over 28 years of experience hiring, developing and retaining the best and brightest employees.
Most recently Eileen returned to 3Com as senior vice president of human resources where she focused on creating a unified culture in a diverse global organization. Prior to 3Com, Eileen was vice president of human resources for Tropos Networks, the market leader in intelligent IP broadband mesh networks. Previously, she was senior vice president of HR for eBay and senior vice president of Corporate Services at 3Com where she led a team of over 200 professionals worldwide.
Eileen attended Queens College, CUNY, and the Advanced Program in Organizational Development and Human Resources at Columbia University. She sits on the Advisory Board of the HR Executive Forums, the Santa Clara University executive education program, and is a trustee of Theatreworks and the Thrive Foundation.
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Jeanne Palmer
Founder & President
The Palmer Advantage
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Jeanne Palmer is Founder & President of The Palmer Advantage, and co-author of The Human Resource Professional's Career Guide: Building a Position of Strength.
Prior to founding The Palmer Advantage in 1999, her background included a combination of HR management experience and business expertise. After spending nearly 20 years of her career in HR management positions in Fortune 500 and start-up high technology companies, Jeanne founded Advantage Human Resources, a Silicon Valley human resources consulting organization, in 1993, which she grew and managed into a $12 million business. After the firm was acquired by Interim Services, a Fortune 500 corporation, Jean continued to manage the west coast business while supporting Interim's efforts to develop the business nationwide. Three years later, there were Interim® HR Solutions offices in San Jose, San Francisco, Research Triangle Park, Dallas, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Fort Lauderdale.
Jeanne has a B.S. degree in Human Relations and Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco. She is the Management Coordinator for the University of California-Santa Cruz Extension Human Resources Management Certificate Programs and a technical instructor for Compensation Management as well as a number of other courses. She also has served as an officer on the Board of Directors of The Adult & Child Guidance Center, a $3 Million non-profit mental health provider. She is currently an officer of HR, Inc., an organization dedicated to the education and betterment of the human resources profession by funding scholarships for students majoring in the field ProjectHIRED, an organization dedicated to helping people with disabilities, finding meaningful, competitive employment. Ms. Palmer is also an Advisory Board member of Unicru Corporation and San Jose State University Human Resources Degree Program.
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Greg Pappas
Vice President,
Human Resources
CyberSource
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Greg Pappas is responsible for driving organizational capability initiatives and aligning human resource requirements to support CyberSource's business strategies and growth plans.
Prior to joining CyberSource, Greg was vice president of human resources with Packeteer, a WAN optimization company that was acquired by Blue Coat Systems. Prior to Packeteer, he was vice president of human resources with Extended Systems, a mobility software company that streamlines business processes through mobile technology. He has also served as vice president of human resources and administration with Inference/E-Gain Corporation and held leadership positions at Chordiant Software and Apple Computer.
Greg holds a B.S. in human resource administration from Kennedy-Western University.
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Gustavo Rabin
Founder & Executive Managing Partner
Sapience Organizational Consulting
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Gustavo Rabin is Founder and Executive Managing Partner of Sapience Organizational Consulting - a strategy, organizational, and leadership consulting firm - headquartered in Palo Alto, California. His practice area focus is on individual and team leadership development, with an emphasis on coaching executives for effective execution of strategic change initiatives. His work has focused also on identifying and developing organizations' talent pool, culture transformation and renewing employee engagement. He is deeply committed to the improvement of the effectiveness and execution capability of teams and organizations.
Dr. Rabin is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years of experience in partnering with clients to improve leadership, teams, and organizational performance. He actively trains and supervises consultants active in the field of executive development and leadership. Gustavo teaches - or has taught - at the University of Buenos Aires, at Antioch University, and at Stanford University and leads personal and professional development workshops at Esalen Institute.
His clients include major corporations in a range of industries: high-tech, bio-tech, professional services, financial, educational institutions and public work. Current and recent projects have included AMD, Roche Molecular, MacroVision, Spansion, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, PDL BioPharma, Yahoo, UC Berkeley and Stanford University.
As an international corporate attorney, he has worked as a consultant for private and public organizations in different parts of the world, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, the development of international relations, and mediation.
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John Radford
Senior Vice President
Radford Surveys + Consulting
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John Radford co-founded Radford Associates in 1975 and led the firm to a premier market position as the top compensation survey provider for the technology industries. After nearly 20 years at Radford, he accepted the top compensation position at Cisco Systems where, over the next eight years, he implemented some of the most recognized and leading compensation and HR-related programs in the field.
John rejoined Radford Surveys + Consulting in 2002 as a senior vice president. His primary responsibilities include the overall management of the Global Life Sciences Survey and the management of the company's Strategic Steering Committees. He also is a regular speaker on a wide variety of compensation topics.
John earned a bachelor of science degree in economics from University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master of business administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Steven Rice
Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Juniper Networks
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Steven Rice joined Juniper in 2006 and leads the human resources organization that supports the company's operations worldwide. With more than two decades of senior HR leadership experience, Mr. Rice leads Juniper's people strategy, creating an inspired community of people able, committed, and empowered to achieve amazing success.
Previously, he built a 25-year career spanning a range of HR leadership positions with Hewlett-Packard. His most recent position at HP was Vice President of Human Resources, Global Operations, with responsibility for more than 900 HR professionals around the world. At Juniper, Mr. Rice directly oversees all HR functions and programs: leadership and employee development, workforce planning, and total rewards.
He also chairs the Juniper Foundation, the company's primary philanthropic vehicle, which supports children, education, and lifelong learning in the communities where Juniper has a significant employee and customer presence.
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Eileen Schloss
Executive Vice President
Human Resources
Rovi Corporation
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Eileen Schloss has served as executive vice president of human resources at Rovi since May 2007. Prior to joining Rovi, she served as vice president of administration at Caspian Networks. Prior to Caspian, she served as senior vice president of human resources at Exodus Communications and executive vice president of administration at AppGenesys. Prior to these roles, Eileen was vice president of human resources for Apple Computer. She has also held senior-level positions at Charles Schwab, Tandem Computers, NEC Electronics, Shugart Electronics and Hewlett Packard.
Eileen holds a B.S. in Organizational Behavior from University of San Francisco and an M.S. in Technology Management from Pepperdine University.
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Eddie Sweeney
Senior Vice President
Worldwide Human Resources
National Semiconductor
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Since returning to National Semiconductor in May 2002 after a four year absence, Eddie Sweeney has focused National's HR function on driving a culture of performance. He is recognized by his peers in the Bay Area's executive HR community as a leader in his profession, and is a speaker at the 2008 HR Symposium.
Eddie previously served as vice president of worldwide human resources at Vitria Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of integrated e-business software. Prior to that he was vice president of human resources for Candescent Technologies Corporation, a manufacturer of flat-panel displays. From 1983 to 1998 he served as a vice president of human resources for National Semiconductor's Central Manufacturing Technology Group and also for the company's Analog Products Group. He also directly supported National's worldwide sales and marketing organization and the company's manufacturing facility in Greenock, Scotland.
Eddie has a bachelor's degree in organization behavior and an master's degree in human resources and organization development, both from the University of San Francisco.
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