Catherine Candland joined the Nelson Family of Companies in May 2010. Prior to Nelson, Catherine was founder and CEO of Advantage Human Resourcing where she grew the start-up into a $230M global human capital organization. She pioneered benefits for contract employees and performance criteria for optimum placement and high quality results. Catherine serves on the Executive Committee of The Business Council of Fairfield County and is Chair of the Human Capital Council. She is on the New York Federal Reserve’s Small Business Board and The Workplace, Inc’s Executive Committee. By invitation of the Governor, she served on the Connecticut Governor’s Council on Economic Competitiveness and Technology. At the request of the Connecticut Speaker of the House, she co-chaired a Transportation Summit 2000 subcommittee. The recipient of many awards, including Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year,” she is a frequent public speaker and has been cited by the media on workforce, staffing, skills training, and human resource issues.

Catherine Wingate brings more than 35 years of client services, business development and operations management experience to her role as Senior Vice President of Global Services at WorkforceLogic. Cathy joined WorkforceLogic in May of 2000 as Vice President of Sales and moved into the critical role of Vice President of Client Services in 2005. She was promoted in 2008 to her current role as SVP of Global Services. In this capacity, she is responsible for the global development of WorkforceLogic’s managed services programs, vendor management system implementations and ongoing program management at Adobe, Brocade, Google, Clorox, Cox Communications, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Yahoo! and BNP Paribas, among other key clients.

Stuart has more than 20 years in the industry.  He has served on the executive management team for a number of technology companies located in the San Francisco Bay area including Sybase, CrossWorlds Software, Intraware, JasperSoft, and GroundWork Open Source.  Stuart has been responsible for product architecture, technology, development, management, and delivery across a wide range of technologies.  He has established off shore development and QA teams in India, Romania and Italy.  He brings to WorkforceLogic the ability to manage geographically distributed teams across disciplines and is able to develop, maintain, and motivate his teams regardless of environment.

Glen Tolleson has joined WorkforceLogic as VP of Client Services. Prior to joining WorkforceLogic, he led Non-Tech US Operations and Relationship Management for the largest domestic MSP program at Adecco Solutions (1.2B in annual spend). Overall, Glen brings 18 years of senior business experience along with 11 years leading large-scale outsourcing engagements within the BPO (GE), RPO (Spherion), and MSP (Adecco Solutions) space. He comes to the WorkforceLogic team with an MBA from AJINET (GE), and is a GE Six Sigma Black Belt. Glen will work closely with Jim Golden to grow WorkforceLogic’s presence in the eastern half of the US and beyond.

Laurie Hearne joined WorkforceLogic in October of 2005. She is responsible for service delivery to the company’s premier partners, as well as overall client satisfaction. Her key objective is to ensure that each client gets the solutions they need to optimize their workforce. Prior to this position, Laurie worked in the staffing industry for 14+ years, beginning in 1992 as a recruiter for TAC Worldwide Companies. Laurie held a variety of positions with TAC and implemented their first West Coast Contingent Workforce Program. She was also instrumental in designing and building TAC’s Workforce Management and Consulting Services Organization. In 2000, Laurie started a consulting practice focused on the design, development, implementation and management of staffing processes and programs.

Brandon Crowell joined the Nelson Family of Companies in January 2005. As the Lead Developer, Brandon provides the day-to-day management of the software development and maintenance teams. He ensures that the deliverables of each team meet the agreed-upon expectations of its customers, both internal and external. Prior to coming to Nelson, Brandon spent four years as a Senior Software Engineer with Dynatex International and four years as an Assistant Engineering Manager with Masterwork Electronics. With over eight years of experience in electronics and software development, Brandon brings a wealth of experience to the Nelson Family of Companies. Brandon has a BS in Engineering from DeVry Institute of Technology.

Melissa started at Nelson in 1998 with Nelson Staffing before transferring to the WorkforceLogic business unit where she spent almost ten years in client services, compliance, and implementation and training. After leaving WorkforceLogic, Melissa was hired by Kelly Services as their ICS Compliance Manager. She then moved on to SourceRight Solutions, a division of Spherion, where she worked as a Senior Compliance Manager. To date, Melissa has implemented contractor compliance programs, assisted with federal and state agency audits, designed training programs for clients, and assisted in the development of technology used to evaluate independent contractors.

Kristin Clewes came to WorkforceLogic in 2011 with 17 years experience in the field of workforce planning. Most recently, as VP of Sales at Zero Chaos, her duties ranged from appraisal of cost savings analysis for clients to risk assessment and project roadmapping. Prior to Zero Chaos, Kristin spent 10 years with Advantage Human Resourcing, moving through the ranks from Staffing Consultant to VP of Workforce Management Solutions. Throughout her career, she has been responsible for generating new service opportunities, and before leaving Advantage, oversaw a portfolio of millions in annual revenue. Earlier jobs included Director of Business Development for Johnson & Hill Staffing, and Account Representative at Agentry Staffing Services. Kristin graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.