Senior Human Resources executive with extensive experience leading Human Resources teams for global companies experiencing rapid growth, mergers & acquisitions and business restructuring.  Directed the development and delivery of Human Resources programs and services that improved the recruitment, engagement and retention of key employees for multiple site international and domestic businesses.  Implemented organizational assessment and planning programs to ensure the development and availability of key talent.  Effectively managed high volume employment and targeted executive search processes.  Directed the development of competitive compensation programs including the redesign of sales incentive compensation plans and the implementation of skill based pay programs.

Highly-qualified, hands-on Senior Human Resources Manager and business partner with outstanding global experience in all functional areas of human resources gained through a career progression of diverse and challenging assignments.
Proven ability to deliver strategic leadership and expertise to align Human Resources with business strategy. Equally effective working in emerging environments and large multinational companies. Strengths include:

• A leader and implementer of organizational culture change and process to improve organizational effectiveness.

• Effective collaborator and problem solver in high-growth, demanding environments with solid background in employee assimilation / on boarding in global organizations.

• Confirmed aptitude for implementing competitive compensation and benefits programs that reinforce the company’s ability to attract, retain and motivate a quality workforce.

• A persuasive manager with a clear business focus, strong relationship-building skillsand experience achieving first-rate results in performance-driven, customer-driven, and market-driven organizations.

• SHRM Certified: Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).  

Senior Human Resources professional with over 20 years experience as a “hands-on” leader in start up and established companies.  Specific experience in staffing, executive coaching, career counseling, employee relations, HR policy and program development, diversity awareness and working collaboratively within senior teams to optimize their human capital.  Strong communication skills and a style that is effective at all levels of the organization. 

Richard Hunter is a 20-year veteran of the Boston business and HR communities, where he has distinguished himself as a seasoned generalist with a balance of technical expertise, an OE orientation to human capital management and development, and legal acuity.  He has particular strengths in helping companies acquire and retain key talent, shift costs, and develop leaders for the future by measuring and rewarding performance, in conjunction with succession planning and individual development initiatives. Richard has held senior-management, executive, and in-house HR counsel roles in high technology, telecommunications, biotech, healthcare, and professional services companies including Atex Media Solutions, Comcast, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and Harvard Community Health Plan.  He has also consulted to such companies as Genzyme Transgenics, Primedica Pharmaceuticals, The American Red Cross, and McKinsey & Company.

Patrick Kelly

Human Resources senior leader with global experience in biotechnology, manufacturing, and high technology companies.  Collaborative style with strong business acumen, skilled in delivery of results, consultation and partnership, and team building.  Demonstrated expertise in a matrix environment and in an HR environment with a shared services model.  Exposure to all core functions within the HR discipline and a high level of interaction with line operations on a global scale:

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Engaging senior human resources professional with extensive experience in higher education providing translatable skills for the healthcare and biotech industries. Experience in all HR services. Outstanding relationship building skills with all levels of management and staff.  Creative thinker with experience in the change management necessitated by the current fiscal climate.  Extensive experience in translating business goals into organization initiatives.  Well honed labor relations skills as well as the ability to help organizations stay attuned to employee needs and concerns obviating the need for unionization.

Donald Purnell

Senior Human Resources executive with significant and successful experience in developing, integrating, and/or restructuring human resources organizations and general company business processes. A proven leader with refined expertise in organizational development, initiating and managing change, restructuring, and integration, through acquisition, merger, divestiture, IPO, and significant growth. Very solid strength and hands-on acumen in the core human resource functions are including; talent acquisition and retention, performance management and leadership development/succession planning. I excel at managing change and integration, coaching and counseling. I am a revolutionary thinker with intensity for analytical application and implementation.

Bob Rivers

Bob brings hands-on extensive experience and understanding of human resources to companies he supports.  He has worked in a variety of environments in the greater Boston area including professional services, marketing, manufacturing, and technology.   He has ability to operate as a sole contributor or as a manager of HR departments ranging from 3 to 20 people.  Strengths include dealing with all levels of employees and management, strong written and verbal communication skills, and a good sense of humor. 

Proven capabilities in:

• Performance Management

• Talent Acquisition

• Strategic Planning

• Employee Relations

• Organizational Development

• Facility Start-up

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Highly experienced operational Human Resources Executive with proven track record based on the achievement of strategic business goals through practical hands-on execution.  Bi-lingual and with an in depth professional knowledge gained from small to large size union, non-union, domestic and international pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and specialty chemicals operations. Key competencies: