Speaker Bio As co-founder and CEO, Anne Berkowitch leads the SelectMinds Board of Directors and management team. Since the company's inception in 2000, Anne has played a key role in the development of SelectMinds' client relationships and the evolution of the company into a leading provider of Corporate Social Networking solutions and services. Previously, Anne was a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton, working primarily with service businesses out of both the New York and London offices. While at the firm, she was also very active in the recruitment and development of senior staff and went on to start her own boutique executive search firm specializing in placement of senior consultants, before co-founding SelectMinds. Anne has an MBA in finance from MIT's Sloan School of Management and a BSC in Applied Math and Biology from Brown University. Alumni Networks: Your Most Powerful & Cost Effective Recruiting Channel Did you know that rehires come up to speed nearly 50 percent faster than all experienced hires? When employees leave an organization, often managers wish them well, relationships end, and businesses end up ignoring a highly valuable resource for future hires, referrals, and more: Corporate Alumni. Forward-thinking employers recognize that investing in life-long relationships through comprehensive alumni programs carries measurable value. Alumni networks, powered by corporate social networking technology, can unlock this value by providing you with re-recruitment opportunities and referrals to top-tier candidates, not to mention broader benefits including new business opportunities and continued access to domain expertise. In this session, you’ll gain insight into how corporate alumni social networks can serve as a powerful and extremely cost effective recruiting and sourcing tool, how other organizations have successfully built and leveraged alumni networks for measurable business gain, and how you can get started building the business case for your own powerful corporate alumni social network. .