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 including 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.
Deb holds a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and an MA in Instructional Systems Development from the University of Maryland.

Now an empty nester, Deb enjoys spending time with her husband and pups, waiting for November to buy candy corn on sale and searching for the last elusive cans of TaB soda.

Gretchen leads company-wide transformation initiatives, driving cross-functional efficiencies, optimizing value and ensuring HR Acuity has the right processes, metrics and technology in place to enable rapid growth. She joined HR Acuity in September 2021 after over 20 years as a business strategy and organizational development leader.

In her most recent role at AppRiver, Gretchen led strategic programs, where she launched their M&A practice and built out a strategic alliance and partner enablement program. She’s also held leadership roles at the University of West Florida Center for Cybersecurity and simpleview.

Gretchen is passionate about building a strong corporate culture and believes all employees want to have purpose and understand “why it matters” when doing their day-to-day work. She feels it’s important for every team member to have a voice and way to contribute. It’s not rocket-science, it’s people-science.

Gretchen has a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Development from Spring Hill College and Master of Science in Management from Troy University. She’s also a Certified Executive Coach.

Outside the office, Gretchen is an all-around sports enthusiast and was a fastpitch softball All-American NCAA college athlete. She’s also an aspiring coder and a staunch advocate for women and girls in STEM. Married to her husband of 16 years and a mother of 2 girls, she’s a Florida girl who loves the beach.

Amy leads HR Acuity’s global marketing efforts including go-to-market strategy, brand building, lead generation and customer marketing. She joined the team in July 2021 after more than two decades of B2B and tech marketing leadership experience.

Most recently, Amy was Vice President of Marketing at Code42 where she built and led Small Business and Enterprise marketing teams. She has also held marketing and sales leadership roles at Dex One and at Sensis in Australia.

Amy is passionate about building great marketing teams and partnering with sales to help companies create and lead new market categories as well as grow share of mind across all aspects of the marketing and communications portfolio.

Amy holds a BA from the University of North Dakota and a Master of Business Communication from the University of St. Thomas.

Outside of the office, Amy lives in Minneapolis enjoys hanging out with her husband, her two enormous Newfoundland dogs and spending time at one of Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes. She’s also a die-hard Minnesota Vikings fan and has promised her nephews she will take them to the Super Bowl if and when the Vikings finally make it to the big game.

As Chief Financial Officer, Kevin manages financial operations to support the company’s rapid growth as well as leading the facilities and procurement teams. He does his best work in fast growing organizations, collaborating with colleagues and developing high-performing teams that elevate organizations to the next level. He enjoys building relationships, strong cultures and has a track record of doing this for the companies he’s been a part of.  

Most recently Kevin started Choice Finance, an outsourced Fractional CFO business, working with several clients in building their financial organizations for growth. Prior to that, Kevin served as Chief Financial Officer of Fathom Digital Marketing where he was a 2-time finalist for Cleveland Crain’s CFO of the Year.  

Kevin earned a BS with a major in Accounting from Kent State University and his CPA while working for  KPMG.        

Kevin loves traveling with his family, especially to Hawaii where he was married and lived for 4 years (and was featured on an episode of “Hawaii Life.” He is also a die-hard sports fan of The Ohio State University and all Cleveland professional teams. Kevin resides in Aurora, Ohio.  

As Senior Vice President of Sales, Beth drives the company’s go-to-market and revenue strategy, focused on acquisition of enterprise customers. She has a successful track record building high performance sales teams focused first on the needs of the customer. 

Beth 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. A proven 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. 

In her free time, Beth enjoys traveling with friends and family. A Boston native, she is an ardent fan of the New England Patriots (and now the Tampa Bay Bucaneers with Tom Brady!) and the Boston Red Sox. 

Michael currently oversees customer success, professional services and technical support teams for HR Acuity.  

There are two things that define his leadership philosophy: 1) creating world class customer experience and 2) assembling amazing teams that are enabled to provide that world class customer service. Michael has lead customer facing teams and has learned that customers – both internal and external – are the most important part of any business. 

Prior to joining HR Acuity in March 2021, Michael led customer success and account management teams at iCIMS. He has also held leadership roles for Apple and Best Buy. 

If Michael is not in the office, you can probably find him in a gym or on a comic convention floor. Michael is also passionate about mentoring others to develop into future leaders. 

Rebecca is responsible for HR Acuity’s talent acquisition and retention strategy as well as driving employee relations capability and effectiveness across customers, prospective customers and employees with the goal of elevating the impact of employee relations. 

Her most recent roles with Ingersoll Rand and Krispy Kreme gave her the opportunity to do a deep dive into the world of talent. In addition, Rebecca was lucky enough to live in Paris, France for 3 years and lead the HR function in EMEA during her time with KONE. 

Rebecca holds a Master of Human Resources degree from the University of South Carolina and a BA from Northwestern University. 

Since returning to the States, she’s embraced the hobby of making sourdough bread, which her two boys appreciate, and she balances that with walking her dog and yoga. She lives in beautiful Charlotte, but as a native Floridian, is constantly dreaming of being on a warm sunny beach.  

Paul heads up the technology team at HR Acuity.

 As a lifelong technologist and developer, he has a hands on approach and prefers to lead by example.  Paul is passionate about implementing processes and systems to allow HR Acuity to be agile and responsive to our customers needs, so that we continue to deliver products that delight our customers.  He understands the rapidly evolving nature of technology and the importance of adapting our usage in order to provide a competitive edge for our platform and business.

 As a native Brit, Paul very much enjoys watching soccer.  He also an avid audiophile.