Building the
Future of Recruiting

Steve Cox

Chief Executive Officer

Steve Cox is a distinguished executive with an exemplary history in guiding business growth and technological innovation. Cox has more than 25 years of experience transforming companies into robust, customer-centric organizations, and deep expertise in SaaS environments, go-to-market strategies, and M&A transactions. His accomplishments in these areas have been recognized with the highest ratings in operational excellence, commercial orientation, and team building.

Most recently, Cox served as COO of Community Brands, a leading provider of B2B cloud-based software and payment solutions. Prior to that, he served in several executive level roles at Vertafore, Chess and TSG.

Greg Petraetis

Chief Revenue Officer

Greg Petraetis is a seasoned veteran in the tech industry. Greg recently served as the Senior Vice President and Managing Director of SAP North America’s Midmarket business and its supporting partner ecosystem where he was responsible for all facets of the organization’s operations. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of Analytics and Global Vice President of Big Data for SAP. Before SAP, Greg served in executive roles at HelloWallet, ParAccel, Adobe Systems, and BusinessObjects. Underpinning these responsibilities is his unwavering commitment to ensure customers have the strategic support they need to digitally transform, innovate, and profitably grow their businesses. Greg holds an undergraduate degree and a Master’s Degree in International Trade from State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Master’s Degree in International Management from Portland State University.

Lucy Zarlengo

Chief Marketing Officer

Lucy Zarlengo, Chief Marketing Officer at Employ, is a senior marketing executive with both B2B and B2C experience across technology, data and analytics, retail, pharmaceutical and homebuilding industries. Lucy started her career working in client-facing roles at ad agencies, and has worked client-side for the last 10 years. Lucy oversees all areas of marketing to advance Employ’s strategic vision for current and prospective customers who benefit from both our technology and service solutions.

Chris Stewart

Chief Customer Officer

Chris Stewart is an accomplished executive with extensive experience in customer-centric roles and a proven track record of driving customer success. As the Chief Customer Officer at Employ Inc, Chris is responsible for representing the voice of the customer and ensuring their satisfaction throughout their journey with the company.

With a professional foundation in Human Resources, Chris brings a unique perspective to his role as he represents the voice of the customer and ensures their satisfaction throughout their journey with Employ, Inc. His comprehensive understanding of talent management, organizational development, and employee engagement enables him to effectively align the needs of the customer with the internal operations of the company.

Madhav Nair

Chief Technology Officer

Madhav Nair has significant experience helping small and large enterprise businesses scale to achieve engineering and product objectives. As a software engineer leader, he is skilled in bringing disparate teams together to align around common goals while delivering compelling top line revenue growth. In his role as the Chief Technology Officer at Employ Inc, Madhav is responsible for combining Employ’s three legacy business engineering teams together to advance Employ’s common strategic vision. He will lead and oversee all of Employ’s engineering teams across all product brands.

Prior to joining Employ, Madhav was the VP of Engineering for QuickBooks at Intuit, and led platform, quality, and tooling infrastructure teams at Wayfair, and Toast. Most recently, he was the Senior VP of Engineering at ZoomInfo, where he led a team of 500+ engineers distributed across multiple global locations and functions, creating a world-class go-to-market platform.

Joe Furnari

Chief Financial Officer

Joe Furnari is the Chief Financial Officer at Employ, Inc.. He brings over 25 years’ experience in operational excellence by creating effective business processes, eliminating costs, engaging functional teams, influencing business strategy, and driving shareholder value by accelerating growth and enhancing operating margins. Prior to joining Employ, Joe held leadership positions at industry-leading organizations like Nuance Communications, Mimecast, and Dynatrace.

Matthew Miles

Chief of Staff

Matthew Miles serves as Chief of Staff at Employ. He is responsible for executing Employ’s strategic plan and Rally Cry cross-functionally, fostering organizational health and operational efficiency, and driving outcomes for Employ’s stakeholders and shareholders. Matthew is a results-oriented executive with more than 10 years of leadership experience in the software industry. Matthew holds a BA in Economics from the University of Colorado.

Stephanie Manzelli

Senior Vice President of HR & DEI

Stephanie Manzelli is a seasoned and dynamic HR executive who partners with leadership teams to develop on going strategic priorities that influence and guide employees to improve business outcomes. Prior to joining Employ, Stephanie held several leadership roles across retail, insurance, technology, and software. She most recently served as Vice President, People & Culture at SmartBear.

Stephanie has expertise in employee engagement, HR Strategy, learning and development, talent acquisition, employee relations, and total rewards, as well as a track record of coaching in areas of transformation leadership, team building, and managing change with proven success of marrying the needs of business and employees on a global scale.

Terry Terhark

EVP, Partner Relations, Employ Inc.

An accomplished entrepreneur in talent acquisition and technology, Terry continues to build on more than 25 years of experience in the recruiting industry with his latest endeavor, NXTThing. A recognized leader in the talent acquisition field, Terry has founded and grown several highly successful enterprise recruiting brands. He leverages his wealth of industry expertise and strategic vision to build successful businesses that increase opportunity for all.

Before founding NXTThing, Terry was president of ADP Talent Acquisition Solutions. He led 1,000 ADP associates globally to ensure ADP clients benefited from HCM services, including RPO, screening and selection, ADP Recruiting Technology, I-9 verification, and AIRS.

Previously, Terry had founded Selective Staffing Inc., which he sold to Aon in 1998, and in 2003, he founded The RightThing, which he sold to ADP in 2011. Terry received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management from the University of Findlay in 2005.

For Terry, life’s most rewarding when experienced through meaningful relationships. Terry is a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and a recognized industry speaker.

Terry enjoys spending time with his family, golfing, and marlin fishing.

Jamie Minier

President, NXTThingRPO

As a pioneer in the RPO industry for nearly 20 years, Jamie Minier is well-known for her steadfast leadership and unwavering commitment to delighting clients, producing results, and inspiring employees and colleagues around her. Jamie’s current role as President ensures that her talent for operational excellence and service innovation is central to the NXTThing RPO offering. Under her direction, NXTThing RPO has seen unprecedented revenue growth year over year, and expanded its footprint and reach to support organizations in multiple industries and of all sizes. Prior to joining NXTThing RPO, Jamie held senior leadership positions, serving as Chief Operating Officer at TheRightThing starting in 2004, and later as President of the organization through March 2011. Jamie also served as Vice President of Global Human Resources for The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company.