Presenters

Doug Berg is Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Minneapolis‐based Jobs2Web Inc. and is an expert in interactive recruiting strategies. Doug has worked with hundreds of companies to leverage the Internet for recruiting on the web, and is a pioneer in the interactive recruiting industry.

Prior to Jobs2Web, Doug founded techies.com which was a leading technology career site which had nearly 1 million IT professional members nationally, and won PC Weeks #1 career website in 1999. Doug was also founder and CEO of Quantum Consulting & Placement a Minneapolis based IT consulting and placement services company. Doug is frequently quoted in the press on workforce and career related trends including major publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Business 2.0 and is a featured speaker/presenter at HR and technology conferences.

Dr. Ken Lahti has over 10 years experience in the field of personnel selection and assessment, and has been actively working with F500 companies in the technology-enabled talent management space for the past 5 years. In his current role at PreVisor, Ken works with clients and internal teams at the intersection of business and science, designing market-driven technology-enabled assessment tools to meet strategic talent management goals.

Ken has worked in a variety of consulting, applied research, sales, and management roles that provide a unique perspective, both deep and wide, regarding talent management tools, trends, and best practices. He has built assessment tools, such as personality measures, aptitude tests, surveys, performance measures, and simulations. In addition, he has taught numerous university courses including psychometrics, graduate-level statistics, and the philosophy of science. His professional interests include talent strategy, program evaluation and ROI, strategic selection system design, executive vision and leadership processes, and employee citizenship and job performance. Ken received his Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from Colorado State University.