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Byron Auguste Wants Employers to Stop Hiring the Résumé
The economist behind STARs has spent a decade arguing that talent is abundant, but the signals employers trust are badly designed. His fix begins with a deceptively practical question: can this person do the work?
Carol Fishman Cohen Turned an 11-Year Resume Gap Into a New Career Category
A collapsed investment bank gave Carol Fishman Cohen an unexpected exit. Eleven years later, she returned to finance, studied the path back and helped turn the resume gap from a hiring liability into an entry requirement.
The Résumé Gap Is a Hiring Blind Spot - iRelaunch Built a Business in the White Space
For nearly two decades, iRelaunch has argued that a career break is context, not a defect. Its playbook turned an awkward résumé gap into a talent category - and now an acquisition by Akraya is testing whether that category can scale.
Daniel Chait
Daniel Chait is the co-founder and CEO of Greenhouse Software, the New York-based recruiting platform he started with Jon Stross in 2012 to help companies make hiring a competitive advantage. A University of Michigan computer engineer who spent more than a decade as a software consultant and previously co-founded the investment-banking tech firm Lab49, Chait built Greenhouse around the idea of 'structured hiring.' He is co-author of the book Talent Makers, a frequent conference speaker, and a vocal commentator on how AI is reshaping recruiting - including his warning about an 'AI doom loop' flooding both job seekers and employers.
Radha Basu
Radha Ramaswami Basu is the founder and CEO of iMerit Technology, a leading AI data annotation and services company that employs over 7,400 people worldwide - 52% of whom are women, and 80% from underserved communities. With 40+ years in tech spanning Hewlett-Packard (where she built the India software center into a $1.2B operation), Support.com (which she took public on NASDAQ), and now iMerit, she sits at the intersection of AI infrastructure and social impact. She co-founded the Anudip Foundation in 2005, which trained 120,000+ youth from low-income households - and it was those same graduates who became iMerit's first annotators. Today iMerit powers AI pipelines for autonomous vehicles, healthcare imaging, and generative AI at scale.
Colleen Gallagher
Colleen Gallagher is the CEO of Textio, an AI-powered HR tech company helping organizations attract and develop top talent through bias-aware communication tools. A US Navy veteran turned finance executive, she rose through the ranks at Textio - from CFO to COO to CEO - bringing operational rigor and a conviction that most hiring fails because it mistakes likability for competence. Under her leadership, Textio launched Lavalier, an interview intelligence platform designed to replace gut-feel hiring with structured, evidence-based evaluation.