Executive Staff
Robert J. McGovern - Chairman and CEO
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Rob McGovern is a 20-year technology and media industry veteran with a passion for helping people with their careers.
Prior to his role as founder and CEO of Jobfox, he was the founder and CEO of CareerBuilder.com, one of the world's
largest online career sites. While at CareerBuilder he grew it to be a profitable $150 Million company with over 400
employees. Rob is the author of a best selling career book: Bring Your 'A' Game: the 10 Career Secrets of the
High Achiever, and has delivered his career advice to national television audiences on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, Bloomberg,
CNBC, and Lifetime. Earlier in his career Rob was often the youngest executive where he worked. Before setting out
to start CareerBuilder he was Vice President and General Manager at Legent Corporation, the world's 7th largest
software company. He spent the first 10 years of his career at Hewlett Packard Company, where he rose through the
sales and marketing ranks in both the US and Europe.
Rich Ellinger - Chief Technology Officer
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Rich Ellinger is a 15 year Silicon Valley tech veteran with a strong track record of advancing new product offerings to leadership
positions in their category. Prior to joining Jobfox, Rich was the co-founder and Vice President of Engineering for Saba, the
leader in Human Capital Management solutions. Rich was one of the two original architects of Saba's suite of product offerings and
holds a patent for the Saba technology. Between 1997 and 2006 Rich was instrumental in growing the company to over 500 employees
and nearly $100 million in annual revenue, helping secure customer contracts with Global 500 companies, such as Bank of
Tokyo-Mitsubishi, BMW, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, Dell, Deloitte Touché, FedEx Kinko's, Lockheed Martin, National Australia
Bank, Procter & Gamble, and Wyndham International. Rich started his career in development at Oracle Corporation working on a
next generation "Universal Inbox" and has also worked as a consultant and advisor at leading companies such as Hewlett Packard.
Rich completed his formal education at Stanford University, where he earned a B.S. in Computer Science, a B.A. in Political
Science and a M.S. in computer science.
Scott Hughes - Vice President of Business Development
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Scott Hughes is a 20 year technology sales veteran. He has been in sales and sales management at various software companies and has
a strong track record in start-ups and building new sales organizations. Prior to joining Jobfox Scott spent four years as a co-owner
and VP of Sales in the successful start-up Vision Chain, an enterprise software company enabling CPG companies better insight in to their
own POS data. Scott has been a sales executive at several other start-up software companies including being the North American GM and VP
of Sales at Metastorm Corporation and the VP of Channels at MicroStrategy. Scott was at MicroStrategy, a leading provider of Business
Intelligence software from 1996 through 2001. Hired as one of the original sales leaders at MicroStrategy, Scott built their non-existent
partner channel to over 350 partners involved in over 60% of MicroStrategy's 240M dollar business. Microstrategy was on of the most
successful public offerings in 1999. Early in his career Scott held sales and sales management positions at the Hewlett-Packard Company,
Cognos Corporation and Legent Software.
Peggy Padalino - Vice President of Sales and Client Services
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Peggy Padalino has over 20 years of experience in sales, sales operations, and customer support for a variety of companies, in
both the high-tech commercial and government sectors. Before joining Jobfox, Peggy was Vice President of Sales for INPUT, the
leader in government market intelligence. Prior to joining INPUT, Peggy held Vice President level positions at Vocus, Inc. and
CareerBuilder, Inc. While at Vocus she had direct responsibility for managing a team of account sales executives selling Public
Relations automation software in Fortune 2000 accounts. At CareerBuilder, Peggy was one of the founding sales executives with
direct responsibility for building a 150 person sales force, deployed in 26 markets in the USA. The company emerged as a $140M
company, with $20M operating profits, and 200 sales people. Prior to joining CareerBuilder, Peggy held management-level sales
positions at Sybase, SCO and Data General.
Van Pham - Vice President of Finance
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Van Pham is a 17-year corporate finance veteran with a passion for creative and innovative approaches to strategy development,
problem solving and the achievement of business and financial goals for innovative technology companies such as Jobfox. Van has
been in charge of Jobfox's accounting and finance operations since 2005. Prior to joining Jobfox, she was Director of Revenue at
webMethods Inc., where she was responsible for the entire revenue cycle in North America, including compliance with Sarbanes Oxley
as well as SOP 97-2 and SAB104. As one of founding members of CareerBuilder.com, Van served a number of roles including revenue
management, accounting operations, financial reporting and planning. At CareerBuilder.com, she helped to oversee merger activities
and revenue growth to $100 million over a six-year period. Van's initial career accomplishments include various accounting positions
at Intercon Systems Corp., PSINet Inc., The Union Labor Life Insurance Company and United Services Life Insurance Company. She is
a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.A. in Accounting and Finance from The Catholic University of America.
Steven Toole - Vice President of Employer Marketing
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Steven Toole brings 16 years of strategic business-to-business integrated marketing communications expertise to the company.
Steven comes to Jobfox from immixGroup, a leading consulting firm serving hundreds of technology companies of all sizes where
he served as Vice President of Marketing. While at immixGroup, Steven developed the firm's marketing services capability
which rapidly became one of the most highly valued offerings in the firm's ten-year history. Prior to this, Steven was
Vice President of Marketing for INPUT, an online service, matching technology contractors with government procurement
opportunities. Previous engagements include executive marketing roles with venture-backed and publicly traded software
companies as well as positions with several marketing firms including Earle Palmer Brown, Foote Cone Belding, and White &
Partners. Steven earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public
Communications, and both a Master of International Management degree in Marketing and an MBA with highest honors from the
University of Maryland.