Leadership

Deb is driven by an obsession to do things the right way, particularly in employee relations, where she has spent her career championing excellence and effectively managing workplace investigations.

After serving in executive HR roles at numerous Fortune 500 companies like Honeywell, Citibank, and Marsh & McLennan, Deb launched HR Acuity to create technology with built-in expertise and equip organizations to manage employee relations more strategically.

Deb provides a wealth of real-world experience and guidance to help companies strengthen processes, transform workplace culture, and elevate employee relations as a strategic driver of business success.

As Chief Operating Officer, Charlie Holbech is responsible for all leading all commercial and operations aspects of HR Acuity, including sales and marketing, technology, client success and innovation.

Charlie joined HR Acuity in 2019 after 20 years in startups. Most recently he was Vice President, Client Experience at WorkMarket, an enterprise software platform that enables companies to organize, manage and pay freelancers, acquired by ADP in 2018.

Charlie helped successfully position WorkMarket for the acquisition by leading a complete overhaul of customer operations, resulting in 97% retention rates achieved by a highly trained, strategic client experience team.  Before ADP, Charlie held senior operational, marketing and client experience roles at multi-national technology companies and startups, including Sailthru, Outbrain and Yahoo!. He also co-founded Visual Revenue, the first predictive analytics company for news media, which was acquired by Outbrain in 2013.

Charlie’s special area of expertise is designing and optimizing the customer lifecycle. He came to HR Acuity because he’s excited by our dynamic industry, collaborative team and singular focus on helping our amazing clients manage their toughest employee issues.

Vikas’s superpower is making the complicated simple. Having spent most of his career developing innovative technology to solve complex business problems, HR Acuity’s commitment to standardizing employee relations processes made joining the team a natural choice.

Vikas loves working with the HR Acuity team and customers because of their dedication to always think bigger and better. As the CTO, it’s no surprise that an insatiable fascination with technology drives him to build leading-edge solutions — hoping one day to harness AI and predictive algorithms — to drive organizational effectiveness and success.

As Senior Vice President of Sales, Beth Prunier drives the company’s go-to-market and revenue strategy, focused on acquisition and retention of enterprise customers. She joined HR Acuity in July 2019 after more than 25 years of senior-level SaaS HR tech experience, most recently as SVP of Sales at the career platform company WayUp. Beth has a successful track record building high performance sales teams focused first on the needs of the customer.

A proven senior sales executive, Beth has held executive leadership roles at CareerBuilder, Simply Hired and Intercall.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. A Boston native, she currently lives in New York City.

Change is one of Mimi’s greatest passions. In her work facilitating adoption and implementation for HR Acuity clients, she loves seeing both the product and client’s processes evolve through the change management process to achieve a better workplace environment and better business operations.

Mimi’s deep experience in IT and client engagement and an impressive ability to understand client needs equips her to drive unmatched client satisfaction and results. A champion for structured processes, Mimi is determined to see a day when every people manager is equipped with the power of HR Acuity.

Pat McParland leads all aspects of marketing for HR Acuity, including branding, digital marketing, product marketing and lead generation. She is a B2B marketing veteran who has led product and marketing teams for industry leaders including Dun & Bradstreet, Dow Jones and Honeywell, as well as multiple startups. Most recently, Pat headed marketing for Opus.com, a risk management and compliance startup whose third-party risk management platform was acquired by procurement leader Coupa.com. She holds a B.A. in English from the College of William & Mary. Pat loves working at HR Acuity because of how happy the customers are with the product, the important needs it solves and the positive work environment.

Dushyant Zutshi joined HR Acuity in July 2019 as VP of Product Management. In this new role, he leads the product and platform strategy as well as the company’s strategic focus on data and analytics. He is an accomplished senior executive who has led product teams to success at three startups, most recently at Vistaar Technologies, a provider of technology to manufacturing, retail and healthcare companies, where he spent 14 years.

An artificial intelligence and predictive applications expert, Dushyant is a hands-on innovative product executive who will build out the enterprise product roadmap based on client feedback while differentiating HR Acuity in the market.

Working closely with some of the largest businesses and brands in the world, Dushyant was fascinated with the imbalance in investments that companies readily make in improving their sales and product functions but somehow not cultivating the most
important asset – their employees! Joining HR Acuity was a given as it united his passion for data and AI-driven products with the opportunity to solve an important real-world problem for businesses.

Dushyant lives in Edison, NJ, with his wife and son. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology.