Our Team

The CareerAve team has decades of focused experience in talent acquisition, as well as an established network of global contacts – all adding up to attracting top-tier talent for you.

PAT FITZGERALD

Co-Founder, Managing Partner

For more than 30 years, Pat has built his talent acquisition leadership and executive search career around his passion for the technology industry and executive search consulting. His extensive search experience and business building background has served several of today’s most innovative and high-growth technology companies, including SAP and Siebel Systems.

Pat is committed to client satisfaction and providing superlative executive-talent attraction and retention, as well as supporting processes relevant per client and specific acquisition needs.

MARK HATFIELD

Co-Founder, Managing Partner

Mark brings hands-on experience and industry acumen to his current position, having served as Sr. VP of Global Talent Acquisition, Sr. Manager of Global Recruiting Operations and Director of Global Talent Acquisition at several top-tier technology corporations, including VCE (DELL), Fujitsu Consulting, and Siebel Systems (Oracle).

Mark earned a bachelor’s degree in human resource administration from the University of St. Leo and his MBA from Baker College with an emphasis in Human Resources.

JOE MAIONE

Director of Contingency Search

With more than 20 years of contingency and retained search experience working for a national search firm, Joe’s unwavering career commitment to recruiting includes helming his own firm for a decade, as well as his role for SAP.

In addition to Joe’s extensive recruiting experience, he is uniquely comprehensive with several disciplines including software industry sales, finance and accounting leadership, talent acquisition, and facilities management.

SCOTT DOMONT

Technical Recruiter

Scott has more than 20 years of experience in leadership training, coaching, sales, team building, recruiting, employee development and business operations.

With a sales and entrepreneurial background, Scott brings a unique perspective to the acquisition of good talent. He finds great satisfaction in introducing hard-to-find talent to our clients, and fostering growth opportunities for both.

Outside the office, Scott is a public speaker, coach, and committed mentor and teacher. As a black belt in Taekwondo, he leads one of the largest martial arts classes in the state, volunteering his time to help kids be confident and safe while challenging them to serve in their communities and have integrity in their world.

Why Choose Us?

TESTIMONIALS

My relationship with Mark the CareerAve team spans more than eight years with two different, high-growth technology companies, VCE and McAfee. VCE was a joint venture between VMware, Cisco and EMC. In 2010 we were challenged with the aggressive goal of growing from 30 employees to 1,000 within 12 months.  Mark and his team were engaged for a number of initiatives including global sales recruiting all recruiting operations and the selection and implementation of our first MSP.

Immediately upon leaving VCE, now Dell, and joining McAfee in February 2017, I once again retaining Mark and his organization to aid us in the reconstruction of the global talent acquisition organization. This would prepare McAfee for a spin-out from Intel so McAfee could be taken private. In addition to re-organizing our TA model, we had to simultaneously scale our global recruiting team and resources and had to quickly create highly scalable, fluid processes.  Mark and the CareerAve team continue to be instrumental in the helping McAfee grow our TA team, develop and launch multiple global talent acquisition programs and generate operational intelligence.

The CareerAve teams global relationships, instinctive ability to quickly assess short and long term TA challenges, combined with the ability to provide actionable solutions is nearly priceless to any growing organization that recognizes the high impact Talent Acquisition has on the success of attracting and hiring top talent.

- Kevin Benton, Head of Americas Recruiting & Global Executive Recruiting, McAfee

It is my pleasure to recommend the team at CareerAve as an outstanding RPO firm and strategic partner. My relationship with Founders Mark and Pat go back to 2000 where we worked as peers in recruiting at Siebel Systems and grew to trust and rely on one another as Siebel Systems went through several years of hyper growth and major changes.

Later, as Director for Workday I was responsible for a number of critical staffing initiatives with-in sales and professional services.  On one such occasion we were looking at extremely aggressive hiring targets that needed to be met in a given quarter and I had limited time to build a team.  CareerAve was able to pull a team of 8 together within budget and time to implemented our plan.  Their efforts successfully delivered the professional services talent we needed and we met our committed numbers.  As a result of this success Workday extended the contract with CareerAve for another 3 quarters to supply recruiting and retained search support in a variety of areas with a variety of resources.

Mark and his team came through for me and continue to be a true partner weather they are engaged in a project or not.  This is why as I move on to my new role as VP of Talent Acquisition for DocuSign I have let them know they are top of mind for any outside recruiting support I may have and can confidently recommend you do as well.

- Nicole Jagoe, VP Talent Acquisition, DocuSign

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