Jennifer Floren
Jenny founded Experience in 1996, at the very dawn of the Internet era. Following her personal experiences with on-campus recruiting as a student and later as an employer, she knew that the laborious, complex and resource intensive approach to connecting students with employers wasn't working - especially for the students, who needed far more support in order to make informed career decisions.
While Experience is consistently recognized for its leadership in technology and innovation, the mission of Experience is "to educate, assist and inspire" the next generation of talent - which encompasses far more than online career management systems or making job listings easier to find. Jenny's groundbreaking vision for how to enlist educational institutions, companies, governments and citizens around the world toward this important mission has been recognized by national press, and by industry leaders throughout academia and enterprise.
The author of the upcoming book, The Gen Y Way: How New Thinking Can Reclaim the American Dream, Jenny is a frequent speaker at nationwide universities and major business events to share her unique perspective on the up-and-coming workforce. She earned a BA in psychology from Dartmouth College and was a management consultant with Bain & Company in Boston prior to starting Experience. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Jobs for the Future and the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy.
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Edward Wagner
As Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), Ed drives Experience's enterprise program that enables FORTUNE 500 and other top employers to target and reach Gen Y talent for strategic hiring initiatives, including candidate pooling, employee retention, corporate branding and talent community programs. He also oversees the development of best-in-class technology solutions geared towards colleges, universities and organizations to empower their efforts to engage candidates with career-focused services and offerings.
An established software industry visionary, Ed brings 18 years of extensive operational and corporate development experience to the company. Prior to joining Experience, he most recently served as SVP, Marketing for Alignent Software. Ed has also held executive-level positions at Icebreaker (where he was also a founder), Computervision and Rasna Corporation. He holds a B.S. from the Florida Institute of Technology.
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Nancy Buzby
As VP, Marketing for Experience, Nancy leads the outreach, engagement and content strategies keeping our student, alumni and employer audiences on top of the products and trends that bridge the emerging workforce with the professional world. She also oversees the marketing and PR teams, driving promotions and awareness both inside and outside the extensive Experience network.
As a lifelong entrepreneur, Nancy brings a mix of marketing, media and product development to the Experience team. Prior to joining Experience, Nancy was Director of Digital Marketing for Boston.com and The Boston Globe, where she also launched their eCommerce, book publishing and licensing divisions and initiated new content platforms around social apps and eReaders. Nancy's background in media production includes TV, radio and multimedia. She helped launch New England Cable News in 1992 and was their Director of Operations until 2001. She holds a B.S. in Telecommunications from Syracuse University and an M.B.A. from Simmons College.
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Ady Das
As VP of Software Development, Ady brings 12 years of extensive hands-on experience in managing and developing web applications. At Experience, he prioritizes and oversees the development team and drives the technological direction for the company's recruiting solutions. Ady is also responsible for integrating emerging technologies that will enable Experience to launch web and mobile applications that helps millions of Gen Y candidates meet their career goals.
Prior to joining Experience, Ady was the lead architect for The Rockband Network at Harmonix Music Systems—an industry first—which enables musicians and labels to create and sell music in the Rockband ecosystem. With a penchant for Open Source, Ady was a Lead Technologist at Optaros and also spent several years working as a web channel architect at Camelot UK (UK National Lottery), where he helped develop one of the world's most successful interactive lottery systems. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Bangalore University.
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Stan Jackson
As Experience's Chief Business Intelligence Officer, Stan drives efforts to deliver compelling and unique performance analytics and insight around our customers' Gen Y hiring programs. He is also responsible for our site operations and technology infrastructure.
Prior to joining Experience, Stan was VP of Engineering at NetGenesis, one of the leaders in the web analytics space. Stan has held senior technology management roles at Dow Jones/Telerate, Market Systems Technology, Thomson Financial and Bank of Boston, where he has managed large-scale, mission-critical systems. Stan has a B.S. from MIT's Sloan School of Management.
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Jason Spugnardi
Jason keeps the trains running on time, as each day he pulls together the financial, legal and operations groups, enabling Experience and its staff to deliver services to candidates, schools and employers.
Ensuring corporate alignment throughout all aspects of the business, Jason manages budgeting and analysis responsibilities, all corporate legal functions, as well as internal activities including operations and human resources.
Prior to coming to Experience, Jason, a CPA, spent several years in public accounting and also worked in corporate finance at ARIAD Pharmaceuticals. In addition to his 10+ years of accounting and finance experience, he holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Southern Maine.
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Janet Sun
Vice President, Strategic Marketing and Data Initiatives
Janet Sun
Janet is focused on defining and implementing the company's go-to-market strategy for enterprise employers and has lead the vision for the development of the Talent Community platform, from product functionality, data analytics to client engagement. She's charged with leveraging the company's rich repository of data for competitive advantage, including ad targeting, market segmentation, crowdsourced lead generation and viral marketing initiatives. Janet also tracks the interests, behaviors and preferences of Gen Y through custom surveys and polls, and publishes proprietary research via our Gen Y Insights series.
Before Experience, Janet was VP of Marketing at Genuity and managed product strategy, market research, and operations. Prior to Genuity, she spent 8 years with GTE/BBN where she held executive positions in marketing, business development, strategic planning and investor relations. Janet holds a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.
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Jennifer Floren
Jenny founded Experience in 1996, at the very dawn of the Internet era. Following her personal experiences with on-campus recruiting as a student and later as an employer, she knew that the laborious, complex and resource intensive approach to connecting students with employers wasn't working - especially for the students, who needed far more support in order to make informed career decisions.
While Experience is consistently recognized for its leadership in technology and innovation, the mission of Experience is "to educate, assist and inspire" the next generation of talent - which encompasses far more than online career management systems or making job listings easier to find. Jenny's groundbreaking vision for how to enlist educational institutions, companies, governments and citizens around the world toward this important mission has been recognized by national press, and by industry leaders throughout academia and enterprise.
The author of the upcoming book, The Gen Y Way: How New Thinking Can Reclaim the American Dream, Jenny is a frequent speaker at nationwide universities and major business events to share her unique perspective on the up-and-coming workforce. She earned a BA in psychology from Dartmouth College and was a management consultant with Bain & Company in Boston prior to starting Experience. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Jobs for the Future and the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy.
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Jon Flint
Managing Partner
Polaris Venture Partners
Jon Flint
Jon is an investment guru whose specialty is the ability to focus on investments at all stages of information technology, consumer products and digital media. He is Co-founder and Managing General Partner of Polaris Venture Partners. He is based in the Boston office and is responsible for oversight of all Polaris investment activities.
Before founding Polaris, Jon was a partner with Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., which he joined in 1984. Prior to this, he was an associate at the Boston law firm of Testa, Hurwitz and Thibeault, where he represented venture capital firms and high technology companies. Jon also gained substantial investigative experience during his service on the Impeachment Inquiry Staff of the U.S. Judiciary Committee and on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force.
Jon holds a JD from the University of Virginia Law School and a BA with high honors from Hobart College. Read more.
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Paul Sagan
Paul is most notably known as the Founder of Road Runner, the world's first broadband cable modem service, and Pathfinder, one of the Web properties that pioneered Internet advertising. A leading visionary in technology and media business, Paul is President and CEO of Akamai, a company he joined in 1998.
Previously, Paul served as Senior Advisor to the World Economic Forum, consulting to the Geneva-based organization on information technology for the world's 1,000 foremost multinational corporations. Prior to this he held the title of President and Editor of New Media at Time Inc., a division of Time Warner. His background also includes serving as Managing Editor of Time Warner's News on Demand project and as a senior member of the team responsible for the development of the company's online, cable online, electronic publishing, and Internet publishing activities.
Mr. Sagan is a Trustee of Northwestern University and a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. Read more.
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Greg Strakosch
A successful innovator and leader, Greg has a green thumb when it comes to business growth. As the Co-founder and CEO of TechTarget, a company he launched in August 1999, he has grown the company to its leadership position as the fastest-growing IT media company. Greg developed TechTarget from an online media company to a fully diversified IT media and events company with approximately 400+ employees in Needham, MA, San Francisco and New York.
Prior to this venture, Greg was President of the Technology Division of UCG, a leading business-to-business information provider, where he grew the business more than 15-fold in six years. Greg joined UCG in 1992 when the company acquired Reliability Ratings, a successful IT publishing company he founded in 1989. Before this, Greg spent six years in senior sales and marketing positions at EMC Corporation, which he joined as the company's 29th employee.
Strakosch has a BA from Boston College. Read more.
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Our school and employer advisory boards provide ongoing business direction and represent the future of Gen Y hiring and career development. With insightful commentary and a powerful understanding of their professions, these senior leaders are a guiding influence on our company vision and provide windows into the day-to-day challenges of human resources and career services management.
Schools Advisory Board
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Jane Linnenburger
Bradley University
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Amy Feifer
Bryn Mawr and Haverford
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Laura Denbow
Bucknell University
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Gillian Steele
DePaul University
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Bill Wright Swadel
Duke University
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Sue Ream
ITT
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Donna Goldfeder
Lehigh University
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Maria Stein
Northeastern University
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Cindy Henderson
Northern Illinois University
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Joe Long
Plymouth State University
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Dee Thompson
Portland State University
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Beverly Hamilton-Chandler
Princeton University
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Harold Bell
Spelman College
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Denise Dwight Smith
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Tim Harding
University of Tampa
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Scott Crawford
Wabash College
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Mike Sciola
Wesleyan University
Employers Advisory Board
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Kim Allenbach
Verizon Wireless
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George Deveney
City Year
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Kim DiNicola
Fidelity
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Shawna Ferguson
Genzyme
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Glenna Pickett
Bain & Co.
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Cindy Gallerani
EMC
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Kerry Olin
Microsoft
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Howard Rough
Schlumberger
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Shawn Tubman
Liberty Mutual Group
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Dennis Watson
The TJX Companies, Inc.
Gen Y Advisors
Experience's Gen Y advisory boards are comprised of more than 1,000 members representing over 200 schools, alumni associations, organizations and employers. Representing our candidate voice, these active students and young professionals help guide our ongoing business plans, product direction and community goals.
