Dick Finnegan has over 20 years experience as an employee retention expert, both as a Fortune 500 executive and as an entrepreneur. Prior to Finnegan Mackenzie Resources, Dick was a co-founder of TalentKeepers, the global employee retention firm.

Dick also served as senior executive for SunTrust Banks, the nation’s seventh largest banking company. Dick has worked with clients on 6 continents including GE, Johnson & Johnson, Merrill Lynch, Accenture, KPMG Peat Marwick, Coca-Cola, Hilton, and the CIA. Dick is a frequent contributor to Kennedy Information’s online Recruiting Trends, and his articles have appeared in publications including Human Resource Planning, The ABA Banking Journal, and The Economic Development Review.

Dick holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Pennsylvania State University.

Barbara Bruno, CPC, CTS is one of the leading recruiting, sales, management, motivational and internationally renowned training professionals today with thirty years of speaking experience. She has addressed thousands of audiences and is known for the wealth of information she shares in her sessions.

In addition to her speaking engagements, Barb writes an “Ask Barb” column in the Fordyce Letter and is the author of the “NO BS” Newsletter widely known as one of the most educational recruiting publications on line today. She has been quoted in the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, USA Today and numerous national magazines.

She served as the Chairman of the Board of National Association of Personnel Services in 1997. In addition, Barb authors monthly columns for many other international recruiting publications. In addition to speaking, Barbara has developed web-based training software, which has implementation and accountability built into the training program. Barb’s Top Producer Tutor is the only web-based training for the recruiting profession and is being utilized by firms in the US, Canada, UK, New Zealand, South Africa, and Australia. Barbara launched her Sales Tutor earlier this year and corporations are utilizing Barb’s Tutor software to deliver their in-house training programs. Barb is also launching her Owner Wealth Building Tutor in April, 2007 and her manager tutor in June, 2007.

Heidi E. Zimmer is Associate Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Group, Whirlpool Corporation

Heidi joined Whirlpool in August 2007 as an internal recruiter focusing on Supply Chain recruiting initiatives. She helped to re-launch the company’s Employee Referral Program, “Got Friends?” As a specialist, Heidi is also involved in internal recruiting projects such as Whirlpool’s internal interviewing and assessment training program, candidate experience and on-boarding as well as sourcing. Prior toWhirlpool, Heidi was with recruiting firm Brooksource & Technical Youth, an IT Staffing firm which specializes in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire or permanent placement staffing needs.

Heidi holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from Michigan State University with a specialization in Spanish. She is working towards her MBA at Western Michigan University.

George Seiters is Sr. Director of Marketing at LinkedIn. George joined LinkedIn from Advent Software, where he was the Director of Market Intelligence. In his 15 years at Advent, George developed extensive experience in business strategy and voice-of-customer based product development.

Since joining LinkedIn, George has been working with corporate staffing groups to help define the next generation of LinkedIn tools for recruiting.