As Chief Talent Officer, Doug leads Ajilon’s talent acquisition, retention and succession planning strategies and initiatives. He is a 12-year veteran of the staffing industry and has extensive experience building internal recruiting strategies and recruitment teams. He first joined Ajilon in 1996 and during his seven-year tenure with the firm he started and developed the company’s internal recruiting group with a focus on building the management team. In his current role, Arms leads Ajilon’s strategies for recruiting top talent and identifying high-potential employees and future leaders of the company. He is also instrumental in developing career plans and creating professional development programs for these employees to ensure they achieve their career goals and progress into greater levels of leadership. He is a five-time SuperStars contest qualifier for the company and garnered an employee of the year award. Prior to Ajilon, Doug was director of talent acquisition at a national staffing firm, where he helped build an extremely successful internal recruiting strategy and recruitment team. He also worked in New York in the television industry for the Joan Rivers Show, MTV, MTV Sports and The Jon Stewart Show. He earned a B.A. in communications and business from Montclair State University.