Speaker: Kris Penn

Speaker Bio

Kris has worked with Shaker Recruitment Advertising & Communications since 2003, and brings 15 years of creative/marketing/branding experience to the team. Prior to joining Shaker, Kris provided in-house marketing expertise for companies spanning from entertainment (television and music recording industries) to engineering services. In her role at the Shaker, she oversees the Creative Services function, including the departments of Copywriting, Graphic Design, Interactive, Production/Proofreading and Marketing. She ensures the best training and development of our creative professionals, and secures the most efficient and effective processes for delivering appropriate and compelling creative for our clients.

At Shaker, Kris originally served as Director of Marketing Services, managing the creative campaign/brand development for Shaker clients. In her current role, she continues to interface, not only with client contacts in Human Resources, but also with clients’ marketing and corporate communications representatives to ensure that the creative platforms we develop for the employment space are seamless extensions of our clients’ consumer/corporate brands. Kris has overseen employment brand development, career site development and other innovative creative strategies for clients such as CB Richard Ellis, Google, Kohl’s, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, sanofi-aventis, Hospira, Smith & Nephew, J.B. Hunt, Ameriprise Financial, Unisys, Sara Lee, and Vonage, among others. Kris has a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Notre Dame.

Session: TBA

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