You know how a duck looks graceful on top, but under the water you know they are paddling their legs to stay afloat? That in a lot of ways describes our amazing Talent Brand Alliance Marketing team.

Before and after any virtual conference, learning session, or many of the great things that TBA does, there is a group of incredibly talented and passionate employer brand folks in the background making it successful. Meet our marketing team .

Alex Her - Board Member

Alex currently resides in Austin, TX, and runs the employer branding, recruitment marketing, and candidate experience at Acoustic.  Along with his full-time gig, he's also a board member on the TBA board, and leads the Marketing committee and oversees messaging, PR, and internal/external communications to better inform, coordinate, and promote member activity and TBA initiatives. 

Claire de Souza - Committee Lead

With a background in comms & marketing, Claire has spent the last few years being a solo talent brander and loving every single moment. With a love for storytelling, she is passionate about creating meaningful content that engages candidates and gets to the heart of why they should join an organisation. She is currently at Atlanta Group, one of the fastest-growing insurance brokers in the UK where she leads on their employer brand and recruitment marketing activities - and is currently creating their employer brand from scratch.

If she isn't doing something around employer brand, she can usually be found reading a good book, putting pen to paper for her blog, cooking up a new recipe or drawing something new in her other life as an artist. Claire supports Alex and the team as Committee Lead, working with everyone to drive all our marketing activities at TBA.

Haley Sasser

Haley is currently Sr. Employer Brand Specialist on the Talent Acquisition team at Docebo where she focuses on employer branding, recruitment marketing, and TA operations. Haley began her career after graduating from the University of Florida in 2014 with degrees in advertising and entrepreneurship. In her free time, Haley enjoys playing with her dog, Obi, and using any excuse to sing or dance.

Haley is our social guru at TBA, managing all our content across our channels!

Ernst Schipper

Ernst is an employer branding and company culture consultant and helps organizations add meaning to their unique company culture & employer brand. He is a firestarter: either setting up/scale the employer branding function or bring culture/employer brand to the next level. During his 10+ years as an independent consultant he worked with renowned international companies like Booking.com, Philips, FrieslandCampina, Fugro and a number of scale ups. Prior to this he worked some 10 years in a variety of organizations as a recruiter/team lead, hiring manager, employer branding manager and finally as client director at an employer branding agency.

Ernst is Amsterdam based, has two amazing daughters, loves exploring other countries and learn from other people and cultures. He is fascinated by tech stuff, art and sometimes the combination of these two. He is famous among his friends for his home-made limoncello.

Jackie Fogas

Jackie works at UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) as a Customer Communications Specialist; she assists other companies with employer brand projects on the side. Her career journey started at a lifestyle magazine, meandered through the nonprofit world, and veered into recruiting where her passion for people and stories connected her with employer branding. Outside of work, she’s currently reviving her high school interest in tennis.

Jillian Terrill

Jillian is currently a Talent Brand Specialist responsible for overseeing human resource branding initiatives to promote Ellucian as an employer of choice. During her four-year tenure at Ellucian, she managed the global internship program which earned a #2 ranking for Tech and Engineering Internships in the 2019 Vault report. Jillian also serves as co-lead for the Prism (LGBTQIA+), Salute (veterans and supporters), and Harmony (Asian & Island Pacific) employee resource groups and leads the Ellucian partnership with Year Up.

Prior to joining Ellucian, Jillian earned her master’s in social work concentrating in gerontology at the University of Alabama and a bachelor’s in social work from Christopher Network University.

We are always looking for fresh folks and new ideas! 
Our group is always looking for more professionals to join us. If you are interested in joining the marketing committee for TBA, reach out to Alex or Claire for more details!