HR Acuity is led by a team of employee relations and HCM technology experts with a vision for a better employee relations process. Our leadership team is dedicated to doing things the right way — no matter what it takes, no matter how difficult. We go above and beyond to ensure our solutions continue to equip our customers with the technology and expertise they need to protect their people and their organizations.
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.
Bill brings to HR Acuity more than 20 years of senior financial leadership and has experience working for owners of private companies managing all aspects of finance, HR and IT. Bill has in-depth knowledge of all internal financial functions including controllership, budgeting, strategic planning, financial statement reporting, financial/business/operations analysis, systems development and audit. He has worked in the retail, e-commerce, direct response, catalog, franchising, services and manufacturing industries.
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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.
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