Discussion Panel Member:
The Challenges Online Recruiters face over the next year

Key themes to this Discussion

1. Gain insight into how the global Online Recruitment Market will develop and evolve going into 2008 / 2009

Tim Giehll

Tim Giehll brings more than 25 years of experience as a technology visionary to his post as CEO of eEmpACT Software, a multimillion-dollar software company focused on providing Human Capital Management applications to the U.S. staffing, recruiting and consulting industries. Under his leadership, eEmpACT has been continually profitable while doubling its revenues and completing multiple acquisitions over the last several years. eEmpACT has been recognized as one of the 50 fastest-growing technology firms in Minnesota and has joined the likes of Microsoft and IBM on Software Magazine’s list of the world’s 500 largest software companies.

Prior to becoming CEO of eEmpACT Software in 1998, Giehll served as Site Operations Officer for Sequent Computer Systems and Chief Financial Officer and founder of the worldwide computer company Chen Systems Corporation (CHEN), and was responsible for the successful consolidation of those two firms in 1996. Prior to this, he was one of the founders of Supercomputer Systems Inc., a $150-million technology venture with IBM. His professional experience also includes high-level positions in finance and management at several mid-western technology and executive recruiting firms throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Married and the father of three daughters, Giehll currently serves as the founding chairman for the American Staffing Association’s Technology Advisory Committee as well as the Minneapolis Chapter of the Human Capital Institute. He was also a founding board member of the University of Wisconsin's National Technological University Advisory Committee, a board member of the Eau Claire Economic Development Loan Committee and President of the Western Wisconsin Technical Recruiters Network. He holds an undergraduate degree in accounting and an MBA in technology management.