Mark Mitford is the Founder of HR Catalyst Consulting, we offer HR Consulting and Business Advisory services to small to mid-sized businesses. Companies that are going through a change or transition of some type need HR leadership but often can't afford a full time HR Leader. The HR Catalyst solution is to offer HR thought leadership and coaching on a fractional basis to your company. You get an average of 25+ years of HR experience in our consultants at pricing you can afford for your business.We believe in Servant Leadership and a pay it forward philosophy. Our goal is to maximize your company's employee potential to ultimately achieve the highest level of top and bottom line performance possible. Specialties: ✔Succession Planning - assess overall leadership strength and leadership gaps✔Talent Management - hire, develop, and retain your employees ✔Leadership Development - training to develop your managers to lead effectively✔M&A - due diligence (pre-transaction) and post acquisition integration ✔Executive team advisor/confidante - business advisor to top leadership✔Change Management - supporting organization change from the people perspective ✔Performance Management - determining who your top and bottom employees are in YOUR company and how to retain your top people and raise performance on your bottom people ✔Builder/creator of HR processes - create and implemented "best in class" HR processes ✔Executive Coaching - raised performance level of leaders in many organizations ✔Compensation Structure Design & implementation✔Business advisor/confidante on all people related issuesMark Mitford: Company background: PepsiCo, Ericsson, Nortel Networks, Safeco Insurance, Telmar NT, VRM, Authentix. Industry background: CPG, Technology, Telecommunications, Insurance, Real Estate Services, Software, Manufacturing, Retail, Energy

Authentix provides brand protection, product authentication, supply chain security, excise tax recovery, banknote authentication and banknote fitness solutions to governments, Fortune 500 companies and Central Banks around the world. Authentix helps safeguard clients in the oil and gas, pharmaceutical, spirits, tobacco, consumer goods, and agrochemical industries from issues including counterfeiting, product theft, product diversion, smuggling and adulteration. In addition, we help protect the currencies for many leading central banks. Role includes all Strategic and Tactical HR responsbility for the company's Global operations.•Transforming HR function into a strategic business partner by building people strategy fully integrated with strategic business objectives of company, resulting in strong tie between HR and business. Reducing turnover rate by 15% within the organization•Creating cultural change program through the implementation of new corporate values. Created a totally innovative and creative process for performance planning working collaboratively with the CEO and leadership team. Program increased employee engagement level by 18%Specialties: ✔Succession Planning - assess overall leadership strength and leadership gaps✔Talent Management - hire, develop, and retain your employees ✔Leadership Development - training to develop your managers to lead effectively✔M&A - due diligence (pre-transaction) and post acquisition integration ✔Executive team advisor/confidante - business advisor to top leadership✔Change Management - supporting organization change from the people perspective ✔Performance Management - determining who your top and bottom employees are in YOUR company and how to keep your top people and raise performance on your bottom people

Since 2005, VRM has listed, managed and sold over 420,000 assets. But VRM Mortgage services is much more than the mortgage industry’s largest REO outsourcer. From borrower outreach and pre-foreclosure retention solutions to property preservation, rental management, evictions and disposition; VRM delivers solutions for the residential and commercial mortgage industry’s toughest challenges.Member of the Executive Management Team with overall Strategic and Administrative HR Leadership for the organization. All functional areas of HR including talent management, ER, succession planning. Heavy involvement in all strategic planning initiatives for the organization.•Designed new talent review/succession planning process for company, including working with leadership team to define company’s vision, mission and corporate values. Program reduced leadership attrition by 15% saving the company in excess of $1,000,000 annually. •Created and implemented new compensation structure for organization, including pay ranges as well as job families to create career paths for employees throughout operation. Program create higher employee satisfaction levels increasing employee engagement by 24% •Redesigned performance management process to include corporate values in rating criteria. Implemented defined process and metrics into merit planning process. Created good turnover within lower performing employees thereby saving the company over $200,000 annually.

Turn to Telmar Network Technology and Jabil for your one convergent telecom network solution that will help optimize your network today, while driving innovation for tomorrow’s network. Our global end-to-end aftermarket services solutions enable guaranteed savings while ensuring network durability and quality of service.Total Strategic HR Responsibility for Telmar, including offices in APAC, EMEA, and CALA. Member of the Executive Leadership Team to support all Human Capital initiatives. Supported the organization during the due diligence process where the business was ultimately sold to Jabil.•Designed new talent review/succession planning process for company, including working with leadership team to define leadership traits for all people managers. Program effectively reduced leadership turnover by 12% annually.•Implemented Global compensation structure for the organization, including pay ranges and job family design to create career paths for employees throughout operation. Program reduced the number of external hires into more Sr. Level position increase employee engagement by 15%.

Work as the Senior HR Business Partner for the Auto Liability Division of Safeco, within the Claims and Customer Care organization. The Auto Liability Division has approximately 800 employees, also act as the Senior HR Business Partner for the Richardson facility, which has approximately 400 employee located in it.Specialties: ✔Succession Planning - assess overall leadership strength and leadership gaps✔Talent Management - hire, develop, and retain your employees ✔Leadership Development - training to develop your managers to lead effectively✔M&A - due diligence (pre-transaction) and post acquisition integration ✔Executive team advisor/confidante - business advisor to top leadership✔Change Management - supporting organization change from the people perspective ✔Performance Management - determining who your top and bottom employees are in YOUR company and how to keep your top people and raise performance on your bottom people ✔Builder/creator of HR processes - create and implemented "best in class" HR processes ✔Executive Coaching - raised performance level of leaders in many organizations ✔Compensation Structure Design & implementation✔Business advisor/confidante on all people related issuesMark Mitford: PepsiCo, Ericsson, Nortel Networks, Safeco Insurance, Telmar NT, VRM, Authentix CPG, Technology, Telecommunications, Insurance, Real Estate Services

Our mission is to be the world's premier consumer products company focused on convenient foods and beverages. We seek to produce financial rewards to investors as we provide opportunities for growth and enrichment to our employees, our business partners and the communities in which we operate. And in everything we do, we strive for honesty, fairness and integrity.HR Leader supporting PepsiCo IT organization to drive total IT transformational. Supported succession planning at Pepsi, and high potential development. Coached leaders throughout the organization, optimized project roll out and pulled in timeline for project saving over 200M in project costs.

At Ericsson we use innovation to empower people, business and society. We envisage a Networked Society that is sustainable, and where everything that can benefit from a connection will have one. Our mobile and fixed networks, multimedia solutions and telecom services make a real difference to people's lives, and the world we live in.Member of Executive Management Team for the Wireless Software and Services business and managed a department of six exempt level employees. Revenue base in excess of $500 million annually. Responsibilities included being the Sr. HR Business Partner for the CEO of the Wireless Software and Services business, consulting and coordinating all HR, OD and Leadership Development & Training strategies. • Executive Coach for 10 members of the Top 100 Executives globally. As a coach worked to partner with and advise executives in the creation of a personal development plan to better meet their personal and professional goals. • Designed and implemented an organizational transformation strategy for the global leadership team of Wireless, process included the creation of our Vision, Mission and Operating Principles. Process also encompassed creating a succession plan and retention strategy.•

Nortel, a Canadian based Global leader in telecommunications products and services.Strategic HR Business for the Wireless Access BU supporting this global organization.