October 6, 2022 – Executive recruiters are hotly pursuing chief human resource officers and other senior-level HR leaders across the country. Why such pent-up demand for top HR experts? Corporate leaders want HR leaders who are sophisticated, proactive, and strategically thinking, with strong business acumen to drive their people skills as they would a P&L, according to executive recruiter. CEOs, in particular, want their HR leaders to proactively recommend multiple thinking initiatives that will provide a competitive advantage. Recently, Blue Rock Search assisted in the recruitment of Akeem Joseph as the new vice president of global talent acquisition for LiveRamp in Sarasota, FL. Director Brian Cox led the assignment.
“Blue Rock is pleased to assist LiveRamp in this search to identify their next vice president of global talent acquisition,” said Mr. Cox. “Building an effective team and a people-first approach is critical to the growth of any organization, and requires transformational leadership to achieve remarkable results. Akeem Joseph brings decades of experience at the intersection of technology and recruiting, and we’re excited to see him make a difference at LiveRamp.”
Mr. Joseph joins LiveRamp after spending the past few years at ServiceNow, where he was director of talent acquisition, leading the company’s first technical recruiting for engineering, product, and design. Prior to that, he served as director of talent acquisition at Johnson & Johnson, building and leading the company’s first technical recruiting function for Supply Chain Digital. He has spent two decades in talent acquisition and HR for technical-focused teams.
LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform, empowering companies to use data to transform customer experiences that lead to better results. In recent years, LiveRamp has strengthened its leadership and culture with successful new hires, the creation of employee resource groups, a diversity, inclusion, and ownership council, and other initiatives. which earned the company spots on industry best lists, including those of Inc. and Fortune.
100 Percent Minority/Women Ownership
Blue Rock Search is undergoing a period of growth, with many new initiatives underway, including the expansion of the company’s headquarters office in Sarasota and the launch of new training locations in response to market demand.
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Blue Rock Search is a 100 percent minority/women owned executive search firm. As a member of the SRA Network, the company is also a Hunt Scanlon HR/Diversity Recruiting Power 65 recruiter. The firm’s consultants specialize in the targeted identification, assessment, and placement of executives in four distinct practice areas: human resources, franchising, customer experience and operational excellence. Blue Rock’s search processes, technologies, tools, and methods are designed to fit the needs of its clients.
Recruiting HR Leaders in an Evolving Workplace
From people analytics to employer branding, HR departments are evolving at breakneck speed to meet recruitment and retention challenges. HR is no longer about record keeping and reporting rule enforcement. Today’s human resource leaders play a key role in improving business performance through employer branding, strategic recruitment and retention, and talent optimization.
After a 25-year career in corporate human resources and HR executive search, Ruben Moreno and his two partners founded Blue Rock Search based on a simple but ambitious vision of creating a firm that would “change the lives and organizations of one relationship at a time.” Mr. Moreno leads the Blue Rock HR executive search practice specializing in the identification, assessment, recruitment, and onboarding of chief HR officers and chief diversity officers and their respective teams — including hiring leaders of talent, total rewards, HRBP’s, learning and OD , HR technology, HR operations, and HR analytics. Mr. Moreno has helped place hundreds of HR executives and built deep relationships within the CHRO community in many industry verticals.
As managing director, executive search, Mr. Cox brings knowledge from his previous senior leadership roles at Franklin Covey and CSX Corporation. Having led the talent acquisition and organizational development functions for a $4 billion private equity owned organization, he has a qualified perspective on developing overall human resource strategies including talent acquisition, relationships with employees, OD, and learning and development.
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief; Dale M. Zupsansky, Managing Editor; and Stephen Sawicki, Managing Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media