Results-driven talent and operations executive with strong leadership competencies in the telecommunications, health insurance, and technology industries.  

He has expertise in designing and growing talent acquisition, operations, vendor management, and Veterans Affairs functions. Prior to becoming the Managing Partner/Founder of Executive Search Professionals he worked at Frontier Communications, a U.S. based Fortune 50 company, for twelve years.

During his time there, he built a talent acquisition organization from scratch and brought strategic talent technology solutions to Frontier, such as SkillSurvey 360 references and HireVue digital video interviewing.  He also deployed an "Interview-First" hiring methodology, which received recognition from the White House as a best practice in 2014.
Before working at Frontier, Jim Oddo worked at UnitedHealthcare (Oxford Health Plans) for six years, where he served in a variety of staffing roles.

Jim Oddo holds a strong commitment to Veterans hiring, and has developed several programs in this area, including recruiting, retention, on-boarding, mentorship programs, and business channel development.  He also helped start a non-profit collaboration with five other companies where Frontier was able to showcase best practices in hiring Ready to Work Americans (RTWBC), including long-term unemployed, Veterans, opportunity youth, and individuals with disabilities (IWD).