I am thrilled to lead our HR strategy and initiatives, driving value creation, and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. Defy Security is a remarkable organization known for its unwavering commitment to both its customers and employees. This dual focus has driven significant growth and success.What attracted me to Defy Security is its inward application of the same customer-first mindset. We are dedicated to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and succeed. In my role, I am eager to support this mission by cultivating a winning culture, empowering our talented team, and driving engagement and growth from within.I am honored to join a team of seasoned cybersecurity professionals who share a profound commitment to customer satisfaction. Together, we will continue to deliver exceptional service to our customers while nurturing an outstanding internal culture.

Imperva was acquired by Thales, marking a new chapter of innovation and growth in cybersecurity.In my role as Senior Director, Global HR Business Partner, my focus is on cultivating a value-added HR delivery model tailored to the cybersecurity industry. This encompasses the application security software product function and Imperva go-to-market sales function, covering data security and application security products and services. Through collaborative partnerships and strategic counsel, I strive to enhance organizational performance and agility in the dynamic cybersecurity landscape.I am also actively engaged in facilitating seamless integration efforts, forging global partnerships to integrate the Imperva HR Function smoothly into the fabric of the Thales organization. This involves orchestrating collaboration across diverse teams and aligning HR strategies to ensure a cohesive transition that upholds both organizations' values and objectives.

In my role as Senior Director, Global HR Business Partner, I led a customer-centric HR delivery model collaborating with C-suite executives and senior leaders in customer success and support, infrastructure cloud operations, and various G&A functions, covering data security and application security products and services. I drove strategic HR initiatives and partnered with leaders across multiple functions to enhance organizational effectiveness and drove a winning talent agenda.As a member of the HR Leadership Team, I operated in a strategic manner, working collaboratively to architect the global talent agenda to align with business objectives and add value across the portfolio of HR services. This included aligning talent strategies with business goals, ensuring that HR initiatives drove performance, and created an integrated approach to talent management that supported the organization's long-term success.In my capacity as a people leader overseeing a team of 10 talented individuals, I implemented a servant leadership approach while guiding a high-impact HR team across the Americas and APAC regions. This team comprised HR professionals holding roles such as HR Business Partners, Employee Relations, Talent Acquisition, and HR Operations.In my role as the global leader of Talent Management, I led the development and implementation of impactful leadership and management development programs worldwide, alongside global talent and performance management strategies, systems, and initiatives. Additionally, I led employee engagement programming on a global scale, which garnered top ratings when externally benchmarked.My impact as a senior HR leader was marked by a consistent record of value creation and the alignment of HR strategies with the company's business objectives.

Developed and led the implementation of a global talent acquisition strategy and built a strategic recruiting function to deliver game changing talent in lock step with the business within Americas and Europe regions. Designed & led the execution of effective talent solutions and recruiting practices aligned with the company’s strategy for rapid growth, while creating outstanding candidate & manager experience and making significant improvements in employer brand.Transformed Talent Acquisition as strategic business partner by working directly with senior leaders of key customers and Black Box sales & operations leaders to create staffing solutions for customer requirements and leading recruitment delivery of multiple global staffing projects early or on-time, under-budget and hire of high-quality talent.Led the creation of & hire from new recruiting channels and programs for the company to diversify talent pools and attract talent via military, university & colleges, internships, technical schools and diversity forums.Built a global, high performing Talent Acquisition function, created & implemented a TA Playbook and training to ensure repeatable success, established KPIs and performance scorecard reported to executive leadership and shareholders to demonstrate Talent Acquisition’s effective business impact, achievements and areas of improvement.

Directed and oversaw all aspects of human resources worldwide within the EFI Productivity Software business unit, including working with cross-functional, internationally dispersed teams to align people strategy with business objectives and secure strategic partnerships with business & HR stakeholders to obtain buy-in within a complex, global, matrix organization.Created, planned, implemented and evaluated learning and development strategy and programs to achieve people strategy and business objectives.Developed and led succession planning and talent review sessions with senior leadership team and recommended development assignments to revitalize high-potential talent.Formulated and implemented systems and processes for succession planning and career mapping, increasing employee engagement and reducing attrition.Ideated effective talent acquisition strategies and drove continuous improvement in quality, time to fill and customer (candidate and manager) experience.

Supported company in designing and executing new business operating model, conceptualizing structure of business, aiding organization in becoming more functional across regions. Delivered centralized model to enable the provision of improved service levels.Conceived, developed, led and implemented organizational assessment, organization design and change management strategy to transform a $1B publicly traded, technology solutions company.Devised organizational effectiveness and transformation offerings including frameworks, methodologies, tools and templates, aiding firm in crafting new solutions for market.Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the development of digital technologies related to organizational network analysis and organizational strategy alignment.Negotiated, closed and directed business strategy engagement, surpassing client and board expectations and adding new revenue.

Played lead role in the Talent Advisory Services practice, specializing in outsourced full life cycle Talent Acquisition services.Catapulted revenue growth by revitalizing troubled client accounts and drove end-to-end talent acquisition services and performance improvements; key accounts included >$1B publicly traded ANSYS and Black Box Corporation.Increased efficiency by building and leading strategic sourcing team and creating new offerings to expand service portfolio.Developed and implemented sourcing toolkit to streamline sourcing process, drive a consistent client experience and achieve sustainable outcomes for new hires.Overachieved SLAs and surpassed client expectations while serving as Lead Project Manager for high volume, fast turnaround sourcing and talent acquisition project with H. J. Heinz Company.