PerkSpot CEO and leadership

Jason Blais ZipRecruiter.com Senior Director of Inside Sales Spanning a twenty-year career, Jason Blais has successfully led Inside and Outside Sales teams across multiple industries. Jason has also written and delivered numerous presentations accredited by the Human Resource Certification Institute at HR and Trade conferences across the country. Jason is currently Senior Director of Inside Sales at Santa Monica, CA based ZipRecruiter.com, where he leads a New Business sales organization of over 100 sales reps.

Accomplished executive and transformational leader whose vision has championed technology innovation centered on the customer for world-class companies. Extensive experience leading strategy and execution across high-performing engineering, product development, and data teams.

Broad success across core functions that bridge the gap between customers, strategy, technology, support, and security. Recognized for revolutionizing technology with innovative simplicity that delights customers, transforms businesses, and drives unprecedented profitable growth.

Areas of Expertise:

IT Strategy | Product & Program Management | Strategic Planning | Scalability

Software Development Life Cycle | Business Intelligence | Agile Methodologies

Startups | Team Building | Mentoring | Team Leadership & Development

Leadership & Recognition:

• Assist in teaching a case study 3-4x each year for an Operations Management course at The University

of Chicago, Booth School of Business featuring SurePayroll and a namesake character, Michael Fineberg.

• Mentor and participate in Northwestern's NU for Life: speak, support student athletes, and facilitate internship opportunities.

• Mentored formally/informally to several startups, including TechStars, SpotHero, and CaptureProof.

• Finalist: 2009, 2010 & 2011 CTO of the Year - Illinois Technology Association (ITA) CityLIGHTS Award.

Pete Ward is a Chief Financial Officer at PerkSpot and is based in Greater Chicago Area. He has worked as Chief Financial Officer at Stratex Partners; Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis at Rewards Network; and Vice President of Finance at Spring Marketplace. Pete attended Eastern Illinois University between 2005 and 2006 and Eastern Illinois University between 2001 and 2005.

I appreciate beautifully designed solutions to complex problems, both from the data model and the user interface side. www.roybaladi.comMy work has been in HR tech where I helped build, scale, and commercialize SmartRecruiters, a recruiting software used by 100 million candidates and 4000 companies, and in FinTech where I led product operations at LearnVest (since acquired by Northwest Mutual) that relieves financial stress for thousands by offering a financial plan and coach. I'm passionate about job creation.