Founder of Shilling & Rott - a leading retained Executive Search firm focused on hiring senior-level leadership and high-level individual contributors for fast-growth and start-up enterprise software and SaaS companies. Focused mainly on sales, customer success, marketing, and tech Ops. We focus on being a trusted business partner rather than “fee for hires” having successfully built teams at over 170 (AI) / SaaS / Emerging growth tech companies.How do we achieve amazing results? We are experts in hunting and developing technology talent: it's all we do. We've successfully hired over 10,000 global tech employees throughout or careers and conducted well over 150,000 interviews. We track talent at over 500 (AI) / SaaS / Blockchain / and emerging growth Tech companies. It's our business to know your competitors.Our track record of success includes the following:-100% completion of all executive searches over the last twenty-one consecutive quarters. -96% annual retention of all candidates placed over the last three years-Want references, we have over 30 CEO emerging growth clients that will take your call. Over 100 VC, PE, and C Level references available We are fully transparent and love competing for business!

ChurnZeroA real-time SaaS platform helping subscription businesses fight customer churn. Our platform is uniquely designed to integrate with CRM systems, web apps, or services. ChurnZero (1) helps businesses understand how their customers use their product, (2) assesses health and likelihood to renew, and (3) gives the business the means to automate and personalize the customer experience through timely and relevant touch-points, including in-app content.

Lead global Human Resources and People operations at a 150 Million tech company with employees in over 70 Countries. Responsible include global HR, talent management, talent acquisition, learning & development, compensation, compliance, benefits and employee relations. InVue; A 150M+ Tech company shaping the future of retail, improving shopper experience, and increasing sales for global merchants. InVue has offices in Charlotte NC, Amsterdam, and Hong Kong.

The Knowland Group(KG) is a proven innovator, developing intuitive marketing products and services that streamline and support event and group sales in the hospitality industry. Headquartered in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, serves more than 3,000 hotel clients and 25,000 users globally. Knowland was ranked as the 27th fastest growing software company (public or private) in North America by Deloitte in 2011.I lead Global HR including talent management, talent acquisition, learning & development, compensation, benefits and employee relations.

Vice President, Human Resources at Vocus(NASDAQ:VOCS), a global leader in the SaaS, Cloud, and On Demand software space. Vocus has won multiple industry awards and has been recognized as a top technology employer on the east coast.Public in 2005 (NASDAQ:VOCS) and currently has over 1,750 employees worldwide including a sales force in excess of 700. I lead Global HR and Talent Acquisition teams responsible for identifying, attracting, and retaining top talent. In addition, I manage all HR acquisition integration.

Recruited in 2000 by the CEO to join this Pre IPO Software Company with 50 employees, I was responsible for the organic growth of talent acquisition for Vocus. The success of our efforts resulted in over 1,200 new hires from 2000-2007. In the process I build a world class recruiting team that has earned a reputation for creativity, and tenacious candidate outreach. Our measurable results include 98% candidate close ratio, industry low CPH, and best in class employee retention.My team approaches every position as a retained search; we target (Identify), chase (Cold call), interview (Qualify) and close top talent. I have created custom apps to track over 250 software/tech companies maintaining a profile of each based on market, vertical, leadership, headcount, sales force, marketing dynamic, utilization of tech, corporate culture, etcOur Cost Per Hire(CPH) is less than one third the industry average while maintaining a quality hiring program that has voluntary turn below 5%.

Cal joined Vocus in 2000 from Jos A Bank, where he served as the talent acquisition manager in the corporate office tasked with Topgrading executive management and middle management teams. In his role he successfully identified and acquired over 30 key Executives/managers that propelled JAB’s stock from $4.00 to over $50.00 in less than 18 months.