Digital Disrupters Creates Chief People Officer Position to Accelerate Business Creation Process.Business Editors DOWNERS GROVE Downers Grove, village (1990 pop. 46,858), Du Page co., NE Ill.; settled 1832, inc. 1873. Downers Grove has undergone population growth and commercial development that include the construction of new office complexes. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2000 Former KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen Recruiting Director Joins Digital Disrupters With the job market at its hottest in years, recruiting top talent isn't easy, especially when recruiting not only for one company, but also for the 10 to 12 new e-businesses that it creates annually. Such is the case for Digital Disrupters, who today announced it has addressed this challenge with the appointment of Thomas Welsh to the newly created chief people officer position. In this role, Welsh will lead the recruiting and human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. activities for Digital Disrupters by building an aggressive recruiting organization to serve the needs of both Digital Disrupters and its portfolio companies, as well as establishing human resources policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental for the operations. Welsh comes to Digital Disrupters after leading recruitment for Entex Information Services See Information Systems. , Inc. Previous to Entex, he served as the national director of recruiting, tax services for KPMG, where he successfully led a team of 50 recruiters and was responsible for all national tax recruiting efforts. Welsh started his career in recruiting as a consultant with the retained executive search firm Witt/Kieffer, Ford, Hadelman and Lloyd. In that role, he completed searches for CEOs, COOs, CFOs and vice presidents in managed care, healthcare and various other industries. "Given the very strong employment market and the inherent need we have to recruit a stream of highly talented individuals, Digital Disrupters recognized the importance of integrating recruiting into our daily operations," said Mohnish Pabrai Mohnish Pabrai is an Indian-American businessman, investor and philanthropist. In June 2007 he made headlines by bidding US$650,100 for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett. , Digital Disrupters' founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Launching 10 to 12 e-businesses annually, we need someone who can move quickly and build a highly efficient recruiting operation that will plug into our EquityManufacturing(TM) process, and Tom fit the bill. He's a welcomed addition to our growing team." About Digital Disrupters Based in Downers Grove, Ill., Digital Disrupters(TM) is in the business of creating and developing Internet-centric companies. Digital Disrupters researches and develops business models that leverage disruptive technologies A new technology that has a serious impact on the status quo and changes the way people have been dealing with something, perhaps for decades. Music CDs all but wiped out the phonograph industry within a few years, and digital cameras are destined to eliminate the film industry. like the Internet, then partners with established companies to create new organizations which can thrive in these fast-growing new markets. Digital Disrupters has developed a business creation methodology, Equity Manufacturing(TM), that begins with new business concept generation and flows through screening and validation See validate. validation - The stage in the software life-cycle at the end of the development process where software is evaluated to ensure that it complies with the requirements. , and concludes with implementation -- the creation of a new e-business. The BizLab(TM), the first step in the Equity Manufacturing process, is Digital Disrupters' research and development laboratory where new business models are generated. Only three percent of the concept models actually make it through the "manufacturing" process. For additional information about Digital Disrupters, please visit the company's Web site at www.disrupters.com. |
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