Volt Information Sciences, Inc. (“Volt” or “the Company”)
(NYSE-MKT:VISI), a global staffing and outsource technology
services company, announced it has hired over the last several
months, four pivotal senior executives and promoted another,
strengthening Volt’s top leadership as the company moves forward on
its growth and profitability strategies. Joining the company are
Jorge Perez, President of Volt’s North American Staffing Business –
Volt Workforce Solutions (VWS); Sue Tidswell, Senior Vice President
Sales of VWS; Ann Hollins, Chief Human Resources Officer; and Chuck
Sperazza, Chief Information Officer. In addition, Rhona Driggs has
been promoted to President of Volt Consulting Group (VCG), Volt’s
MSP service business, in addition to maintaining responsibility as
Executive Vice President, Commercial Operations for VWS.
“Perhaps the most important part of our effort to strengthen and
grow Volt is to have the strongest team possible to lead the
company and its businesses. I am pleased to announce that we have
brought in world-class talent to take this company forward and
drive results,” said Michael Dean, Volt’s CEO. “Jorge Perez, Rhona
Driggs, and Sue Tidswell are key executives now tasked with the
critical roles of growing our operating businesses. Jorge, with his
deep experience successfully growing staffing businesses in North
America, will provide the leadership necessary to bring our
staffing business back to growth and profitability. Sue, with a
long, successful career building sales organizations in and out of
the staffing business, will work with Jorge to drive our
reinvestment in, and bring focus and discipline to our sales and
client strategies, which are essential to Volt’s top line growth.
Rhona’s career-long industry knowledge and experience, along with
her ability to productively work across the various Volt businesses
to drive results, makes her uniquely fit to drive growth again in
our MSP business.
“Furthermore, our corporate organization has been significantly
strengthened with the addition of both Ann Hollins and Chuck
Sperazza. Ann, with world-class HR experience, will take a senior
role in leading enterprise-wide cultural change, continue building
strength in our leadership team, developing organizational
effectiveness in critical growth areas, and aligning recognition
and reward practices – all key components of Volt’s turnaround.
Chuck Sperazza, with notable experience successfully implementing
several company-wide ERP projects for other companies, is now
leading the implementation of the rebuild of Volt’s entire
enterprise technology systems and delivery, which will drive needed
efficiency and competitive advantage for years to come.”
Dean concluded, “I am confident that these executives are the
right leaders – both on a personal and professional level – to
deliver on our strategy. They are exceptionally talented and bring
a record of proven leadership achievements in their respective
fields, and together they will bring a fresh perspective to Volt’s
business. When combined with Volt’s already strong in-place team,
these leadership changes will intensify our ability to increase
shareholder value, while providing outstanding service to our
clients and employees. Many of the largest companies in the world
depend on Volt and we want to ensure we are providing them with the
highest quality service in everything we do. The best way to
support our clients’ success is to hire the best. I am extremely
pleased that each of these leaders are part of our executive
team.”
Jorge Perez, President of Volt Workforce Solutions – Mr.
Perez joins Volt following a highly successful tenure of over 20
years in the global staffing industry across the Americas, most
recently with Manpower. He began his career with Manpower in Mexico
and moved up the organization in progressively more responsible
leadership roles, ultimately to the position of Senior Vice
President ManpowerGroup North America and a member of the company’s
Global Leadership team. In his role as Senior Vice President, Mr.
Perez led a successful business transformation which resulted in
growing revenues and expanding profitability by creating redefined
sales and delivery channels, shared services, and a central
sourcing model. While building the business, Mr. Perez also
dedicated his time to create organizations with programs designed
to build work opportunities for people with disabilities, youth,
and women in disadvantage across the Americas.
Mr. Perez holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Mechanical
Engineering from La Salle University in Mexico City, and has
participated in several executive programs in Europe, Mexico, and
the U.S.
Rhona Driggs, President of Volt Consulting Group, Executive
Vice President of Volt Workforce Solutions - Ms. Driggs has
over 25 years of senior executive experience leading sales and
operations in the staffing industry. Throughout her tenure at Volt,
Ms. Driggs has demonstrated her ability to collaborate, influence
and gain support of key stakeholders and senior executives, in
order to drive change and management initiatives throughout the
organization.
Ms. Driggs’ most recent experience includes serving as Senior
Vice President of VWS North America, where she
was responsible for all Commercial and Technical staffing
offices, overseeing sales and recruiting, including MSP/VMS,
strategic account management, and operations solutions. Her success
in leading teams and managing client relationships has allowed Ms.
Driggs to assume oversight of many of Volt’s largest enterprise
accounts. Ms. Driggs began her career at Volt as a Regional Manager
in 1996, opening the company to several new markets, including her
native Minneapolis. Prior to joining Volt, Ms. Driggs was with
Kelly Services, where she led Kelly’s Western Region Partnered
Staffing Sales Team and received the highest level Strategic
Sales Award for her work with large MSP clients.
Ms. Driggs is a current Board Member for the Staffing Innovation
Xchange, and recently presented at the TechServe Conference on
successfully engaging in a MSP/VMS environment.
Sue Tidswell, Senior Vice President Sales of Volt Workforce
Solutions – As an experienced staffing professional, and an
expert in global sales leadership with more than 25 years of
experience, Ms. Tidswell has established herself as a leader in
successfully building exceptional sales organizations from the
ground up, while transforming average sales organizations into high
performing sales teams.
Ms. Tidswell joins Volt from CRO Holdings, an executive search
and consulting company that she founded in 2014. Her prior
experience includes seven years as Vice President, General Manager
Global Sales for ManpowerGroup, where she led Manpower’s U.S. sales
practice, and was responsible for sales strategy and client revenue
growth. Her prior experience also includes senior leadership roles
with RR Donnelley, including Executive Vice President Sales, and
Executive Vice President Sales Financial Services.
Ms. Tidswell holds a degree in Print and Business Management
from the London College of Printing. She also attended Ashridge
Business School in Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.
Ann Hollins, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources
Officer - With 25 years of world-class HR experience, Ms.
Hollins has built a distinguished reputation for enabling
large-scale change through her seasoned business capabilities,
extensive expertise in the field of human resources and her passion
to build the organizational effectiveness needed to deliver
long-term and sustainable business growth.
Most recently, Ms. Hollins served as Chief Human Resources
Officer for Weight Watchers International where she guided the
company’s successful organizational transformation across the
firm’s global footprint. She led the executive team to drive
significant and meaningful cultural change by crafting a new
vision, defining their leadership competency strategy, and managing
the company's talent to critical growth areas. Prior to her role at
Weight Watchers, Ms. Hollins spent seven years in progressively
senior roles at Hess Corporation, a global independent energy
company, including Global Chief Learning and Development Officer,
and Vice President, Human Resources, Marketing and Refining. Before
joining Hess, she held senior leadership roles at Tyco
International, Dun & Bradstreet, and PepsiCo.
Ms. Hollins holds a Master of Business Administration degree in
Finance and Marketing from the Stern School of Business at New
York University and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in
Human Resources from the University of Iowa.
Chuck Sperazza, Chief Information Officer – Mr. Sperazza
joins Volt with over 25 years of experience in IT, including 12
years as CIO of multi-billion dollar companies. His experience
spans multiple industries in global companies with diverse
cultural, business and technical environments, driving the
development and delivery of world-class, large scale systems and
services, as well as technology architecture that enables business
strategy.
Most recently, Mr. Sperazza served as Vice President and Chief
Information Officer at Nature’s Sunshine, where he led a team of
technology professionals for a premier nutritional supplement
manufacturing company with business operations in 44 countries
throughout EMEA, APAC, North America and Latin America. His prior
experience includes Senior Vice President Information Technology
with Apria Healthcare; Senior Vice President and Chief Information
Officer with Herbalife International; and Vice President, Chief
Information Officer for Agere Systems, where he led 250+ technology
professionals of a $2 billion leading semi-conductor manufacturer
in all aspects of IT strategy.
Mr. Sperazza holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration
from Syracuse University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political
Sciences from the University of Connecticut.
About Volt Information Sciences, Inc.
Volt Information Sciences, Inc. is a global provider of staffing
services (traditional time and materials-based as well as
project-based), managed service programs, technology outsourcing
services and information technology infrastructure services. Our
staffing services consists of workforce solutions that include
providing contingent workers, personnel recruitment services, and
managed services programs supporting primarily professional
administration, technical, information technology, light-industrial
and engineering positions. Our managed service programs consist of
managing the procurement and on-boarding of contingent workers from
multiple providers. Our technology outsourcing services provide pre
and post production development, testing and customer support to
companies in the mobile, gaming, and technology devices industries.
In addition, we provide information technology infrastructure
services which provide server, storage, network and desktop IT
hardware maintenance, data center and network monitoring and
operations. Our complementary businesses offer customized talent,
technology and consulting solutions to a diverse client base. Volt
services global industries including aerospace, automotive, banking
and finance, consumer electronics, information technology,
insurance, life sciences, manufacturing, media and entertainment,
pharmaceutical, software, telecommunications, transportation, and
utilities. For more information visit www.volt.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are
subject to a number of known and unknown risks, including, among
others, general economic, competitive and other business
conditions, the degree and timing of customer utilization and rate
of renewals of contracts with the company, and the degree of
success of business improvement initiatives that could cause actual
results, performance and achievements to differ materially from
those described or implied in the forward-looking statements.
Information concerning these and other factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those in the
forward-looking statements are contained in company reports filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of the
company’s latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, are available without charge upon request to
Volt Information Sciences, Inc., 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New
York, New York 10036, Attention: Shareholder Relations,
212-704-7921. These and other SEC filings by the company are also
available to the public over the Internet at the SEC’s website
at http://www.sec.gov and at the company’s website at
http://www.volt.com in the Investor & Governance section.
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Investor Contacts:Volt Information Sciences, Inc.Paul
Tomkins, 212-704-7921voltinvest@volt.comorAddo CommunicationsLasse
Glassen, 310-829-5400lasseg@addocommunications.com
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