Karen Beaman

Chief Executive Officer / Senior Global Advisor

A widely recognized global HR industry and business leader, Karen Beaman has more than 25 years experience in information systems and human resource management. Before founding Jeitosa, Karen built two highly-regarded consulting businesses: AGConsulting East and ADP Europe (UK, France, and Germany). She is Editor-in-Chief of the IHRIM Journal and is currently working on her fourth industry-focused book. Karen is credited for setting the strategy and developing the design for Workday's new global HCM offering. In 2002, she was honored with IHRIM's Summit Award recognizing her outstanding achievement in the field of HR systems.

Eric Johnson

GM and Vice President of Deployment

Eric Johnson has more than 22 years of HR, payroll, and systems implementation and management experience for large multinational organizations in roles as Functional Business Lead, Project Manager, Director of a Project Management Office, and Director of Professional Services on multiple ERP platforms including SAP, PeopleSoft and ADP.  Before joining Jeitosa, he was the Senior Director of multinational implementation for the Americas on ADP’s GlobalView offering.  Eric has a strong methodological background, having spearheaded the development of both systems deployment and project management methodologies for AGConsulting, as well as managed the organizational and staff transition to the new framework.

Luiz Henrique de Oliveira

Vice President, Business Strategy and Latin America / Senior Global Advisor

Luiz de Oliveira has more than 25 years experience in information systems and human resource management. Before joining Jeitosa, Luiz served as Senior Product Strategist, setting the strategy and developing the design for Workday’s new global HCM offering. Previously he was responsible for Customer Service, Sales and Marketing in Latin America for ADP and served as Vice President for ADP Global Services, developing global payroll solutions, implementing and supporting global accounts.

Chris Orcutt

Vice President, Technology / Principal Integration Consultant

A software architect, developer and technical leader of multi-tier Human Resource applications, Chris Orcutt has over 16 years of experience creating computer software. Most recently, he was co-founder and chief architect at Excient, where he built an HR product that aggregates benefit provider data extracts for a total compensation view of employees' benefits in any language. Previously, Chris developed the Print to PDF functionality used in ADP's Total Rewards software, and was a Senior Consultant with AGConsulting.

Mady Gorrell

Vice President, Marketing

A marketing and business development specialist, Mady has provided marketing and communication strategy leadership to Fortune 1000 and emerging growth organizations for over two decades. Most recently, she founded CoChel Communication Strategies where she and her team lead projects for HCI, PeopleSoft/Oracle, Human Capital Source, EquaTerra, BrassRing, SDG, Wells Fargo, Chevron, Jackson Hole Group, Spencer Stuart, CRI, Talent Technology Corporation, and the US Navy. Prior to founding CoChel, Mady headed the marketing team at Saratoga Institute, and served as Director of Corporate Communications and Director of Partner Marketing at BrassRing. She is the strategist behind many HCM-focused advisory boards, books, and partner programs.

Grant Du Plooy

Vice President, Talent Acquisition

An executive search specialist, Grant started out with Silicon Valley's highly-respected BridgeGate Group, a retained executive search firm, before joining AGConsulting to help lead their talent acquisition requirements in the booming Enterprise Software consulting field. Thereafter, he formed a boutique search firm; Tolfrey Group, to service ERP clients, and has remained at the helm for nearly a decade, until 2007. During the stay at BridgeGate Group and Tolfrey Group, Grant worked with clients as diverse as Oracle Corporation, World Savings Bank, Franklin Templeton, KLA-Tencor, Presto Services, Terrace Consulting, County of Napa and the Judiciary Council of California, and many others.

Christian Adlung

Vice President, Europe / Senior Global Advisor

Christian Adlung brings to Jeitosa's Europe operations more than 20 years of experience in information technology and development and project leadership of payroll and Human Capital Management (HCM) systems. He has over 15 years experience in a global/EMEA business environment with significant experience working with large corporations on HCM service models and business process reengineering. Previously, Christian built and expanded the HCM consultancy division of a major payroll company in Germany, UK, and Latin-America, as well as had operational responsibility for a German payroll outsourcing division. He is currently responsible for business development in EMEA with Convergys Employee Care. Christian holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Bremen.

John Macy

Vice President, Asia-Pacific / Senior Global Advisor

John Macy has over 35 years experience as a senior HR manager with an international airline and consultant in HR technology usage. He is the founder of Competitive Edge Technology, a consulting company formed in 1994 specializing in Human Capital Management software. He is an advocate of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web services, component-based applications and business driven standards to achieve greater flexibility and integration. In 2002 he published the HR component software application standard and set up the first component software brokerage. In 2006 he introduced the first commercial component registry for HR products. He has written several books and published many articles on HR technology. He has worked throughout Asia, the USA and Australia on consulting assignments.

Michael L. Kent

Executive Consultant and CHRO

As Executive Consultant, Mike applies his years of deep and broad HR operational experience to issues faced by our clients.  His experience includes top HR leadership positions with such organizations as ITT, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Zurich Financial Services and salesforce.com.  His areas of special expertise include HR strategy, metrics, employment branding, change managment, outsourcing, M&A and business ethics.

As Jeitosa's first Chief Human Resources Officer, Mike is creating the processes, systems and practices that will help Jeitosa remain an employer of choice and an exemplar to our clients and peers in the domain of human capital management as the firm continues to grow and succeed.

Dave Duffield

Dave Duffield is co-founder and CEO of Workday(tm). Having founded PeopleSoft in 1987 and served as the company's Chief Executive Officer and Board Chairman, he draws on an extensive history of pioneering new ground in business applications. PeopleSoft grew to be the world's second-largest application software company before being acquired.

Bill Campbell

Bill Campbell is President and General Partner with Marbill Management, a property management firm in San Francisco. Previously, he was former senior vice president with ADP Employer Services, and co-founder and President of AGConsulting which was acquired by ADP in 1994.

Ken Gardner

Founder and executive chairman for SOASTA, Ken Gardner is an industry veteran and six-time entrepreneur. He was the founder and CEO of Istante (acquired by Oracle in Dec 2004); Sagent Technology (IPO in Apr 1999); ReportSmith (acquired by Borland in Mar 1994); and ViewPoint Systems (acquired by Knowledgeware in Jun 1992). He sits on the board of directors for Everdream Corporation and Accept Software.

Peter Pervere

Peter Pervere was Chief Financial Officer of Commerce One between 1997 and 2002. Prior to joining Commerce One, Pervere was Vice President and Corporate Controller of Sybase, Inc. He was directly involved in the Initial Public Offerings and subsequent financings at Commerce One and Sybase. For both companies, he managed all aspects of accounting, financial reporting, internal audit, tax, financial planning, treasury, investor relations, real estate and facilities management. Prior to joining Sybase, Pervere was an Audit Manager at Ernst and Young. He currently serves on the boards of Intraware, Inc. and the Berkeley Repertory Theater. Pervere received a B.A. from Stanford University, was certified as a Public Accountant in California, and is a member of the Financial Executives Institute.