Hiring Secrets of the Fastest Growing Austin Companies
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Come join us for TeXchange on October 18th at the AT&T Conference Center for a lively discussion on the current state of the technology talent market in Austin. We've got some great panelists whose companies are rapidly hiring and trying to compete for the top talent in our area, including:
Mutual Mobile CEO John Arrow and his co-founders started their company right out of college (University of Texas), and have grown their company from 0 to over 150 people in just a few short years, and they're trying to hire a hundred more before the end of the year. Larry Warnock has been on a few tech rocket ships in his career including Zilliant, Vignette, and Phurnace. Now he's back at the early stage again with cloud infrastructure company Gazzang. And, founder and former VP Marketing of Waveset (acquired by Sun) and an executive at Tivoli and UniSQL, Kevin Cunningham co-founded SailPoint and is serving as its President where he leads product development, marketing, sales, operations and client services on a global basis. Last but certainly not least, Angie McDermott brings her 20 years of human resources experience helping companies in all stages of growth attract, develop, and retain key talent at places like Dell, Proctor & Gamble and most recently as VP Human Resources at Convio.
The panel will be moderated by long time Austin startup advocate, Bryan Mennell of Dachis Group. Our panel will address questions such as:
Is the hiring challenge in Austin just a zero-sum, musical chairs game?
How do you maintain your company culture while hiring so rapidly?
What words of wisdom can you share when it comes to finding, attracting, hiring, and retaining top talent?
Are you worried that Austin doesn’t have enough talent depth to compete as a top-tier technology city?
Additionally, discussions at the dinner tables will be moderated by a great group of leaders, including:
Jenny Fuller, HR Director, Dachis Group
Paula Taylor, HR Director, Emergent Technologies
Ron Jennings, Former CFO, Quickarrow
Cindy Patterson Thompson, Owner, Cahoot Communications
Kay Stroman, Strategic HR Advisor, Stroman Group
Mark McClain, CEO, Sailpoint
Julie Kirk, VP HR, Multimedia Games
Kristen Peikert, HR Director, BreakingPoint Systems
Mitch Jacobson, Co-Director, Clean Energy Incubator, ATI
Cindy WalkerPeach, Director, Biosciences Incubator, ATI
Isaac Barchas, Director, Austin Technology Incubator
Bryan Menell, Mentor, Capital Factory
Michael Gibson, COO, HeatWave Interactive
