Company Profile:
Executive Management Team

Kevin Holt, C.O.O

Stephen Henry, Vice President

Jim Booth, CEO/Vice President of Operations

Ted Lynch, Director of Recruiting

 

Kevin Holt, C.O.O

Mr. Holt is a co-founder and manages the overall growth and direction of InsPara. Mr. Holt has been on the executive team of four highly successful ventures. He has managed the growth and building of national and international sales and delivery teams. He has participated in the due diligence process for several acquisitions and the integration of those teams.

Mr. Holt has also served on a successful IPO organization committee for a $1 Billion plus IPO and secondary offering. In addition, he has participated in several successful fund raising events in the initial, secondary and mezzanine rounds.

Mr. Holt has nearly three decades of performance and experience in creating effective national and international Recruiting and Human Resources programs that result in significant numbers of qualified hires, an increase in the company’s revenue from those hires, and a decrease in the cost-per-hire. In each case he has created solid but scalable teams and the processes, tools and technology to upgrade those teams in the future.

Mr. Holt was the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Global Recruiting and Human Resources (HR) for Greenwich Technology Partners (GTP). Since assuming this position in 2001 Mr. Holt had increased the hire-per-year rate while decreasing the cost-per-hire by 37%. He has also developed and executed programs that have resulted in extraordinary numbers of qualified executive hires, wholesale recruitment of technical teams with a resultant $3.5 million in revenue, and has upgraded both HR and Recruiting staff to improve management and employee satisfaction.

Prior to GTP Mr. Holt was SVP in the same role for Predictive Systems, Inc., where he dramatically strengthened the recruiting effort resulting in over 800 hires and a revenue increase of 30% to $88 million. He established a scalable program that hired the right Regional Business Development Managers and Directors, and built a world-class team that exceeded goals.

As Vice President of HR and Recruiting at Gray Peak Technologies (which was acquired by USWeb for a valuation of $100 million) he managed the explosive growth for recruiting sales and engineering staff to drive this hyper-growth consultancy. After the acquisition by USWeb he became Managing Partner of Global Recruiting for USWeb, Inc. Mr. Holt was responsible for strategy and execution in North America, South America, Europe and Asia, supporting 60 offices in 6 countries.

In two cases where entire HR and Recruiting departments were needed, Mr. Holt created ground-floor startups for Gray Peak Technologies, Inc. and Paranet, Inc. (acquired by Sprint for $428 million).

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Stephen Henry, Vice President

Mr. Henry is a co-founder and manages all Human Capital requirements. He has nearly 20 years of experience creating and successfully executing recruiting strategies, process and policy in several high technology companies. He has built, coached and maintained culturally motivated and scaleable Recruiting Teams on a national and international basis, resulting in large numbers of highly qualified hires at below industry standard cost-per-hire.

Mr. Henry was Director of Global Recruiting at Greenwich Technology Partners (GTP), 2/01-9/02 where he implemented a proactive process resulting in a 240hire/year run rate, while reducing the cost by 60%. He coordinated a National Sales Recruitment program resulting in over 25 Business Development and Regional Sales Director Hires within a 6-month period. He maintained hands-on management of the Recruiting Team and a personal pipeline of high-level candidates nationally.

Mr. Henry was Director of Global Recruiting at Predictive Systems, Inc. (PRDS), 11/99-1/01, where he was responsible for all Recruiting policy, procedure and execution for North America, Europe and Asia. He actively managed the Recruiting Team, which exceeded every quarterly goal for just-in-time hires at a below industry standard cost-per-hire. This strategic link to the regional business units resulted in over 800 hires and drove revenue from $26M to over $88M and a successful IPO.

Mr. Henry had similar responsibilities and success at both UsWeb, Inc. (USWB) and Gray Peak Technologies, Inc. 10/97-11/99, which was acquired by UsWeb in a $100M stock swap.

Previously, Mr. Henry held several positions at Paranet, Inc., 3/95-10/97. As Eastern Division Business Development Manager, he developed the largest single client with over $3M revenue. As VA Branch Manager, he developed the anchor Telecom account and grew staff from 5 to 22. As NY Branch Manager he built revenues to an annualized $2M run rate within 6-months. Paranet was acquired by Sprint for $428M.

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Ted Lynch, Director of Recruiting

"Mr. Lynch brings over fifteen years experience working in both sales and recruiting in the IT Professional Services industry. As SoftNet's Director of Recruiting, Ted is responsible for the daily coordination and management of all Recruiting Operations in all of SoftNet's branch offices.

In addition Ted is responsible for the sales and recruitment related staffing and the launching of new branch offices. Additional responsibilities include building staffing model efficiencies; developing innovations in talent assessments; building world-class "Just-In-Time"
hiring programs; and devising effective metrics to measure results. Since Ted's joining the company SoftNet's total Staffing and Professional services related revenues have increased in excess of 200%.

Prior to joining InsPara Ted worked as a Managing Recruiter and Managing Account Executive for Predictive Systems, Ivory Consulting, Esavio and Lancomp Inc."

Jim Booth, CEO/Vice President of Operations

Jim Booth is a 30+ year veteran of business having held senior level assignments in the technology, telecommunications, service and manufacturing sectors. He has successful experience leading a P&L service business unit and IT/PMO projects. He has experience in due diligence matters as a result of large acquisitions, mergers and property divestitures in both telecommunications and manufacturing. His experience leading recruitment activities is substantial, with impressive results in time to fill and cost per hire metrics. Jim also possess many years of  Human Resources experience in executive assignments. He has gained valuable experience in leading Sarbanes Oxley and Business Continuity Plan initiatives. His employment experience includes senior level positions with Cingular Wireless, BellSouth Wireless Data, Black & Decker, as well as, Merck. Jim posses BS and MA degrees from St. Francis University. Jim is a former Board member of Inspara Networking Technologies, as well as, former President or Executive Board member of a number of civic, professional, and non-profit organizations.


 

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