Brian De Groodt    

Brian De Groodt is the president of Brightridge Group. The company assists its clients in better optimizing their returns on technology investments by unlocking the promise of properly defined business requirements coupled with the right application of technology. Brightridge Group offers clients full talent management system administration support remotely and allows human resource departments to fully engage in their core competency of applying human capital to their business's critical mandates.

For over 15 years Brian De Groodt has worked in the field of human capital management systems. With specific expertise in applicant tracking systems, recruitment branding technology, metrics and analytics, and talent management systems, He has advised some of the largest organizations on the subject of human capital management systems. In addition to having worked for many leading developers of recruitment automation systems, he successfully built and sold his own web based applicant tracking system in 1999.

As a Senior Consultant with the Corporate Executive Board's Recruiting Roundtable, Brian De Groodt directed the Roundtable's HR technology research program. In this capacity, he provided in-depth, bias-free analysis of HR technologies to over 200 Roundtable members. As a previous search-recruiter and hiring management system veteran, Brian provided Roundtable members deep insight into accurately measuring internal business requirements against HCM market offerings. In addition, he assisted many global organizations in optimizing their return on existing HCM technology investments and saved companies millions by avoiding the 'rip and replace treadmill' and helping to achieve the original promise of efficiency and competitive advantage made by vendors.