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ABTECH PARTNERSHIP - Leading the way in HR Strategy
Founding
Partner Alan Whitford has over 20 years experience in the start-up and expansion of high technology businesses in Europe,
including companies in the Human Resources, Financial Services, Systems Software and Decision Support arenas. He has provided
strategic and practical insights to the automation and web-enablement of Human Resource and Recruitment Process activities
throughout Europe. Clients include Times 500 companies and software and services vendors in the Human Resources and e-commerce
arenas.
Whitford is a founding member of HR-XML Consortium European Chapter, serves on its 2004/2005 Board of Directors
and heads up the marketing workgroup. He has recently completed a two year term as the first European based Advisory Board
member of a leading company in the Talent Management Solutions space. He is a founding member of the UK Online Recruitment
Marketing Council (ORMC).
A frequent participant and chair of European conference programmes, Alan chaired and was
one of the originators of the totaljobs.com Internet Recruitment series, which educated more than 9,500 participants in 4
years.
Alan has been published in a number of on-line and off-line media covering technical and strategic HR and
Recruitment issues. Whitford has written the first ever UK Guide to Online Recruitment for the leading HR publication, Personnel
Today and penned the totaljobs.com Handbook For E-Recruitment, which will be published during 2005.
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