Scout Exchange Builds Experienced Management Team To Expand Its Disruptive Electronic Recruitment Marketplace

BOSTON, May 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Newly formed Scout Exchange LLC, announced today, the appointment of an experienced management team of proven leaders and industry veterans to accelerate the growth of Scout, the company's innovative electronic recruitment marketplace.

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The leadership team includes Chief Executive Officer Ken Lazarus, a proven leader and technology executive, and President and Founder Sean Bisceglia, an experienced entrepreneur and staffing technology industry veteran.  In addition, the company announced the addition of Jason Luce as Vice President of Engineering and Martha Fitzpatrick as Director of Product Management, both experienced staffing technology industry executives.

Scout Exchange develops, markets and operates Scout, the world's first and largest electronic recruitment marketplace for the multi-billion dollar talent acquisition industry.  Scout employs sophisticated natural language processing, Big Data analysis and proprietary matching algorithms to connect employers filling open positions with expert recruiters best able to fill them.  In addition, Scout is integrated directly into the industry's leading applicant tracking systems for ease of use and broad market reach.

Prior to joining Scout, Lazarus was CEO of Lilliputian Systems, where he continues to serve as Chairman.  Lazarus has founded and led several successful technology companies, including as Founder and CEO of ACX (#79 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies before being acquired by Cymer), and as a founding Board Member of DataXu and Ekotrope. Lazarus holds BS in Engineering from Duke University and a Masters and Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"I'm thrilled to be involved with such an exciting opportunity and an organization of this caliber, with its talent, energy and innovation," Lazarus said. "By giving employers access to the best recruiters and recruiters access to jobs they are expert at filling, the Scout marketplace offers tremendous value and is poised for explosive growth.  And, with our applicant tracking system partnerships, we expect Scout to quickly becomes an integral part of the electronic recruiting and talent acquisition landscape."

Bisceglia is a proven technology company entrepreneur with over twenty years' experience in the staffing industry.  Prior to Scout, Bisceglia was CEO of TalentDrive, the leading API resume sourcing technology company, which was sold to Aquent.  In addition, Bisceglia was a Founder of TFA, a marketing technology company sold to Leo Burnett, and CEO of CPRi, which he grew into a nationally recognized staffing firm that was also sold to Aquent.

"Scout provides a unique opportunity to create, together with our industry partners, a new electronic recruiting marketplace.  It is extremely exciting to fill such an important market need in the recruitment industry with a best-in-class technology solution," Bisceglia said.  "Our organization has the industry knowledge and technology infrastructure, and now the executive expertise, necessary to successfully deliver Scout to the market and positively impact the world of recruitment technology."

Jason Luce was previously a Senior Director of Engineering for Monster Worldwide and Martha Fitzpatrick was previously a Director of Product Management at Kenexa and Product Owner for Globoforce in the United States and Ireland.  The combination of Luce's world-class expertise in developing recruiting software and working with Big Data plus Fitzpatrick's deep understanding and insight into the needs of corporate recruiters, provides the leadership team with significant additional depth and experience.

About Scout Exchange
Scout Exchange LLC develops, markets and operates Scout, the world's first and largest electronic recruitment marketplace for the multi-billion dollar talent acquisition industry.  Scout employs sophisticated natural language processing, Big Data analysis and proprietary matching algorithms to connect employers filling open positions with expert recruiters best able to fill them.  In addition, Scout is integrated directly into the industry's leading applicant tracking systems for easy of use and broad market reach.   The combination of Scout's leading edge technology platform, sophisticated algorithms and tight integration, provide an electronic recruiting marketplace that delivers unparalleled value to their rapidly expanding customer bases. Scout is located in Boston, MA, Chicago, IL and on the web at www.goscoutgo.com.

• For corporate recruiters who work with recruitment agencies, Scout's smart matching technology raises the bar for efficiency and accuracy in finding the best and most qualified recruiters for your positions.  Working with the best recruiter for each position means more qualified candidates and better and faster fill rates.
  
  
• For agency recruiters who are looking to efficiently find new clients and secure more permanent placement job orders, Scout sets a new standard by hand-delivering the best jobs directly to your applicant tracking system with virtually no business development expense.  And, with Scout's smart matching technology, the jobs delivered are always aligned with your expertise and candidate pool.

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