ABOUT US

Leadership Bios

• Kurt Wilkin – Managing Partner

  Before becoming Managing Partner of HireBetter, Kurt founded The Controller Group (TCG), a professional services firm focused on Accounting and Finance consulting and Recruiting. TCG was acquired by Tatum in July 2006 after growing to $18 million in revenues and over 100 professionals in 5 years.

  Kurt began his career with Ernst & Young, where he focused on start-up and high-growth clients and later served middle market clients at management consulting firms Peterson Consulting and Montgomery Baggett and Drews. Kurt is an alumnus of University of Arkansas, a Certified Public Accountant and is an active member and officer of the Austin chapter of Young Presidents Organization (YPO).

  Kurt is an active runner, avid outdoorsman and happily married; and can be found most days attempting to coach one or more of his three young sons, in sports … and life.

• Melinda Owens – Managing Partner
  

  
  

   

  Melinda has a Big 4 public accounting background with both Deloitte and KPMG. Before coming to HireBetter, she worked with Kurt at Tatum, LLC. She loves working with clients, and she uses her analytic mindset to deliver outstanding service.

   

  Melinda is a CPA licensed in the states of Texas and Mississippi. She holds a Masters Degree in Accountancy and a Bachelors of Business Administration from Millsaps College with a minor in Art History.

  Melinda has completed an Ironman Triathlon and 13 marathons, with a goal of running one in every state. She enjoys, reading, traveling and spending time with her husband and daughter.

• Jonathan Davis – Founder

  His mother will tell you, beginning with an idea for automating a 12 pound book called the Dictionary of Occupational Titles before the Internet was widely accepted and continuing through 3 e-commerce companies in both New York City and Texas during the dot.com “craze”, Jonathan’s obsession for questioning the norm and building efficient systems has grown from being an interesting quirk to a full-fledged career. After five years as a Principal in a Staff Leasing and HR-Outsourcing firm he started working on the one area where he saw the biggest lack of viable, repeatable solutions for CEOs and their Companies: Hiring. A self-professed “Operational Dork”, Jonathan is responsible for the strategic leadership of the HireBetter Team as they continue to revolutionize the identification and evaluation of talent through their focus on process, metrics and technology. Put more simply, he lives to help companies HIREBETTER ®.

  He graduated from the University at Albany in upstate New York and shortly thereafter was lured away by the environment and lifestyle of Austin where he met his wife Kelly on a blind date. An active member of the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), he sits on the Global Committee for Emerging Programs and recently completed his term as the Champion for EO’s Accelerator Program. A 2010 graduate of MIT’s “Birthing of Giants” Entrepreneurial Master’s Program, he has yet to outgrow his insatiable thirst for learning or obsession with breaking things. This has led him to become a technology junkie in the last few years and he spends most evenings working well past midnight with our Development Team to improve our proprietary web-based software that we call The Talent Vault ®. When he’s not at the office you’ll find him goofing off with his kids Gigi and Cash, officiating a college baseball game or educating perfect strangers on the merits of Capitalism.

  He’d encourage you to check out his HireBetterBlog or follow him on Twitter where he comments on everything from leading at a higher level to the perils of having two young children.

  Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn

• Amy Packard, MLS – Director of Talent Identification

   

  Amy is a tenured librarian with more than a decade of experience working in the executive recruiting industry in a variety of roles. Prior to joining HireBetter, she was the Research Manager for The Washington Firm, a human resources and recruiting consulting firm in Seattle, WA. Her career also includes having been a Strategic Information Intern and later Records and Archives Manager for SEMATECH. A true expert in Internet-based recruiting research, she earned her Master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin in its Library Science Program and enjoys the challenge of research and fitting together the pieces of the research “puzzle.” Amy is the mother of three beautiful children and, after several years living in Seattle, is happy to be back home in the Austin sunshine.

• Jennifer Globig, PHR –Director of Accountability

   
   

  Jennifer has been in the human resource and recruiting field for more than 10 years. After graduating from Bowling Green State University, she got her first taste of Human Resources at Chelsea Milling Company (Jiffy Mixes) supporting hiring decisions, conducting new hire orientation and performing general administrative HR tasks. Her career path also allowed her to gain recruitment experience while working for Terumo Cardiovascular Systems in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The longest-tenured member of the HireBetter Team, she's been crucial to the organization's process development and LEAN implementation and she's as good as anyone at dealing with the fast-paced nature of this industry. As our Director of Accountability, she keeps a close eye on the Promises that we make to our Clients and tracks there KPIs (Kept Promise Indicators) to ensure that Hiring Managers and our Internal Team are all on the same page at every step of the process. Jennifer makes her home in Central Ohio with her two young children and a husband who often emulates a child with his addiction to Video Games and the Cartoon Network.

• Benita Trevino – Client Services Manager

   

  Benita is a native Austinite and a graduate from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Business Administration. As a certified PMI® Project Management Professional (PMP), she has spent more than 20 years developing her experience in project management in a variety of fields ranging from aircraft modification to customer service. Benita was most recently employed as a consultant with Seeds for Change Consulting, a full-service non-profit consulting firm.

  Benita is an active volunteer and has served on several committees including the Junior League of Austin’s A Christmas Affair, American Heart Association Heart Ball, and Safeplace Anniversary Party, and as a board member for the Junior League of Austin, Theatre Action Project, and Partnerships for Children.

  Benita is married and has one tween son.