# Dan Bartfield

> Dan Bartfield is the Chicago-area co-founder and CEO of Yello, an enterprise campus and early-career recruiting software company founded with Jason Weingarten in 2008 as Recsolu. A Miami University marketing graduate, he previously co-founded EASE and spent years leading Yello’s sales and client success strategy before becoming CEO in 2024. His current work emphasizes candidate engagement, recruiting automation and measuring hiring outcomes.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Yello
- **Organizations:** Yello, Recsolu (former name of Yello), EASE / eCampusRecruiter
- **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Miami University
- **Known for:** Co-founded two recruiting and career-services software ventures with Jason Weingarten., Earlier platform EASE served more than 450 U.S. institutions, according to his RecruitingDaily guest biography., Co-founded Yello, whose company history reports use across more than 70 countries.

## Career timeline

- **1995–1999** — Studies at Miami University; graduates with a marketing degree.
- **Before 2008** — Co-founds the college career-services software business EASE with Jason Weingarten.
- **2000** — Meets Subway co-founder Fred DeLuca in Florida after Weingarten’s chance airplane introduction; DeLuca becomes a mentor to the founders.
- **2008** — Sells earlier college-jobs business and co-founds Recsolu with Weingarten.
- **2014** — Recsolu announces a $6 million Series A led by First Analysis.
- **2015** — Recsolu rebrands as Yello.
- **2021** — Yello brings WayUp into the business; Bartfield publishes a personal reflection on the combination.
- **2024** — Appointed CEO of Yello in February.
- **2025** — As CEO, announces Yello’s November acquisition of Symba.
- **2026** — As CEO, announces Campus Recruiting Agent and participates in a NACE26 panel on recruiting automation.

## Achievements

- Co-founded two recruiting and career-services software ventures with Jason Weingarten.
- Earlier platform EASE served more than 450 U.S. institutions, according to his RecruitingDaily guest biography.
- Co-founded Yello, whose company history reports use across more than 70 countries.
- Appointed CEO of Yello in 2024.
- Led Yello as it acquired Symba in November 2025 and launched its Campus Recruiting Agent in May 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Yello’s NACE26 recap describes Bartfield’s Denver panel with Tamara Welch and Matthew Brink about autonomous campus recruiting and freeing recruiters for higher-value work.
- **2026-06** — Yello announces a Symplicity partnership adding access to more than 600,000 early-talent candidates through its recruiting agent.
- **2026-05** — Yello launches Campus Recruiting Agent; Bartfield emphasizes outcomes over counts of schools visited, meetings and collected résumés.
- **2025-11** — Yello acquires Symba, bringing its co-founders Ahva Sadeghi and Nikita Gupta into the organization.

## Links

- Website: https://yello.co/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbartfield/

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Last updated: 2026-10-25