Our Team

John Vlastelica

Founder & Managing Director

John Vlastelica draws from almost 20 years of recruiting experience, including almost 10 years as a corporate recruiting leader and over 7 years as a recruitment management consultant and trainer. He was the Senior Director, Global Recruiting for Expedia, a Recruiting Director at Amazon.com, and the engineering recruiting leader for two start-up divisions of McCaw/AT&T Wireless. In 2002, he started Recruiting Toolbox to help other companies improve their in-house recruiting capabilities.

John has provided training and recruitment management consulting services to companies of all shapes and sizes, including leading organizations in high-tech, bio-tech, healthcare, financial services, and retail. John has shared his expertise with colleagues as an entertaining and credible repeat presenter at regional and national recruiting conferences (including ERE Expo, Kennedy, AIRS Symposiums, NACE, and SHRM’s national conferences), through online webinars, and as an instructor for various Recruiting Leadership workshops and academies.

He is also an author of several popular recruiting white papers and work published in two books on staffing best practices, and writes for our blog, Recruiting Toolbox. John was a founder and four-term President of the SHRM Staffing Management Association of Seattle, which draws 250-300 people to its conferences. John has also served several terms on the board of Washington State’s largest SHRM chapter, and in 2006 received the Distinguished Member Award from the 7,000-plus member Northwest Human Resource Management Association. He graduated magna cum laude, and first in his class, with a degree in business from Western Washington University.

Jason Warner

Principal

Jason Warner has over 15 years of corporate recruiting, talent management, and executive leadership experience at some of the world’s fastest growing and most innovative companies. He has held senior leadership roles in both Talent Acquisition and Learning, Training and People Development at Google, Starbucks, Computer Sciences Corporation, and Intellectual Ventures. At Google, he led the largest Recruiting and Learning and Development teams at the company, supporting the hyper-growth and people development needs of North America, Latin America and Asia for the Online Sales and Operations group, one of the fastest growing business units at Google. At Starbucks, he was the Director of North America Recruiting, responsible for recruiting for all of North America during the greatest growth years at the company. More recently, he led Global Talent Acquisition at Intellectual Ventures, a fast-growing company that is the global leader in the business of invention.

Now, he focuses his efforts on helping other in-house corporate recruiting and human resources teams, at companies of all sizes, improve their internal recruiting capabilities through consulting, training and other project-based solutions.

Jason has been chronicled in the New York Times and featured in the National Best Selling book Mavericks at Work. He is a frequent keynote speaker at leading Human Resources and Recruiting Industry Conferences such as ER Expo, Kennedy Information, and OnRec Exposition. But what is most important to Jason is that he is known by his colleagues and business peers as a pragmatic and practical leader; “someone who really gets recruiting and really gets results” and as someone who turns innovative ideas into practical, efficient realities. He graduated cum laude from the University of Washington School of Business with a focus on HR and Marketing.

Amy Buck

Principal

Amy began her Human Resources career helping corporations build their employment brand and she’s been delivering talent strategies for start-ups and Fortune 500 companies ever since. She’s held senior leadership positions in functional HR, staffing and talent management – giving her a unique ability to “see around the corner” and deliver results grounded in tangible business value. Prior to joining Recruiting Toolbox, she was the senior director for Cisco’s Staffing Innovation Organization (SIO). Amy and her team created, incubated, and delivered enterprise-wide staffing solutions that enabled Cisco to find, keep and engage talent across the globe. Prior to her role in the SIO, she led staffing for the Cisco Development Organization with more than 26,000 employees worldwide. Before joining Cisco, she held both HR and talent leadership positions at KLA-Tencor, New Focus, Lam Research, and OnTrak Systems…all with international responsibilities. Her success portfolio includes building high performing recruiting organizations from delivery to operations (including capability at international sites with deep expertise in India, Japan, Korea, China), creating and implementing communications and organization adoption plans (complementing organization, program, and process implementation), measuring performance and business value through metrics and dashboards, delivering employee engagement programs, and leading acquisition integrations. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Advertising with a minor in Marketing from San Jose State University.

Carmen Hudson

Engagement Manager – Sourcing and Social Media Strategy

Carmen Hudson draws from over 15 years of recruiting experience, with a strong focus on helping organizations attract, source and recruit top talent. Carmen’s expertise is in helping clients build the right sourcing and recruiting strategies, and then implementing them in the real world of limited budgets, competing priorities, and highly competitive recruiting environments. She consults and trains companies to help them leverage high ROI solutions for big sourcing, social media, and technology implementation initiatives.

Carmen is a self-described “recruiting geek” who has spent years learning, creating, and sharing best practices around sourcing. She gets that technology – for all of its hype – is still a means to an end, not an end in itself. Her corporate experience includes Yahoo!, where she was Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition. At Yahoo! she led the strategic sourcing team, revitalizing the employee referral program and Yahoo’s employer brand. The team was awarded a coveted Yahoo! Superstar Award, an ERE Excellence award and various recruiting and advertising industry awards. Prior to joining Yahoo!, she was manager, Global Strategic Sourcing for Starbucks Coffee Corporation, where she developed sourcing strategies and recommended resources and tactics to support U.S. retail management hiring. She has also held senior talent acquisition roles at Microsoft, Amazon.com and Capital One and founded a social recruiting technology company.

Carmen is a regular contributor to recruiting industry publications, including ERE Exchange and Recruiting Trends. She is a frequent speaker at recruiting events, including the Social Recruiting Summit, Kennedy Online Recruiting Conference, SourceCon and the Seattle Staffing Management Association. Carmen earned a degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

Greg Stock

Senior Consultant

Greg Stock draws from almost 15 years of recruiting experience. He consults with companies that need pragmatic solutions to scale up their recruitment functions, build out their recruiting programs, evaluate and select new vendors/partners, and improve their recruitment processes.

As a Corporate Recruiting Practitioner, Greg has successfully built and managed recruiting capability across a number of highly respected Silicon Valley technology companies. His expertise comes as a result of leading large-scale recruitment teams on a global level as well as managing strategic recruitment programs. Most recently at Cisco Systems, Greg was part of the Staffing Innovation Organization that launched a program that won a 2011 ERE Recruiting Excellence Award. Also while at Cisco Systems, Greg drove the company’s global job board strategy, led the staffing integration component of the WebEx company acquisition and played critical roles in the company’s diversity recruitment and vendor management functions. Prior to Cisco Systems, Greg was the Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition at KLA-Tencor – a leader in the semiconductor industry – and was responsible for all global hires during a period of rapid growth and intense competition for top talent. He helped KLA-Tencor improve their recruitment strategies, processes and team capabilities while the company expanded its global footprint and reached record revenues.

Edith Rothenberg

Senior Trainer

Edith Rothenberg joined Recruiting Toolbox with more than 17 years of experience in recruiting, management, and training at a number of Fortune 500 companies. She began her recruiting career at Citicorp in New York, but spent the majority of her corporate recruiting career – more than 9 years – at Microsoft, where she recruited for key roles, built and managed recruiting teams, and developed and deployed interview training and new recruiter training programs across the organization.  Edith also created and organized Microsoft’s annual Recruiting Symposium, which brought together recruiting staff from around the world.

In 2002, Edith started consulting and has since worked with high tech, non-profit, banking, and educational organizations, including Nokia, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, University of Washington, Microsoft, Expedia, and JP Morgan Chase.  Edith holds a B.A from the University of Michigan with a double major in Communications and Spanish.

Molly Luna

Senior Consultant

Molly has spent most of her 15 year career building and implementing HR/Talent Acquisition programs and projects for small to large companies.  Because of her experience and adaptability, Molly has worked in many areas of Talent Acquisition including direct recruiting, campus recruiting program development, interviewer training and coaching, on-boarding programs, vendor requests for proposals (RFPs), applicant tracking system (ATS) implementation and configuration, and branding implementation.  In addition, Molly has an integrated background in HR with experience in employee relations and communications, policy and program development, benefits renewal and management, vendor selection, performance and compensation.

Molly’s work history has included a blend of in-house and consulting roles.  She has worked directly for companies such as Microsoft, AT&T Wireless, Spherion and NetMotion Wireless and has  consulted with companies such as T-Mobile, InfoSpace, Clearwire, Corbis, and Intellectual Ventures as well as a number of other small to medium sized business and non-profit organization clients. Molly has brought value to organizations as an HR leader, project manager and plug and play resource to fill in for critical needs.