Speaker Bio

David Dalka is a business development, product management and marketing strategy leader who has created success in exponential growth organizations that thrive on learning and innovating from customer listening. David presently serves as an organizational development and marketing change management consultant and acting management team member for c-level and boards of directors for companies ranging in size from venture capital backed startups to the Fortune 500.

David develops timely, standardized and regimented client communications and metrics in regards to Internet advertising and financial services. He teamed to create sustainable competitive advantages via B2B account management relationships at BlackRock where he led teams that developed new quantification metrics and redefined real-time client experiences based on client feedback. David has experience in designing and driving change management in marketing and sales forces in both small and Fortune 500 organizations. BlackRock grew from 80 to 800 employees during his time there! After BlackRock, David worked in PPM America’s Chicago office. He has been an employee consultant and/or acting management team member for investment management and investment banks, startup search engines, Internet advertising networks and mobile search marketing / advertising companies across the world.

David holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago GSB) and a BS from DePaul University in Chicago. His blog is located at www.daviddalka.com/createvalue , he maintains a presence on Linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/daviddalka and on Twitter http://twitter.com/dalka.

Session:Closing Thoughts: The Future of Sourcing and Hiring Star Performers

In this session you will be briefly introduced to the following concepts to integrate into your other conference learning:

- How to see and interact differently with the two primary segments of candidates: cookies and diamonds.

- Unique recruiting opportunities in the coming shift to hiring generalist/best athlete candidates in efficient and ever converging organizational structures.