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PE-Backed IRI Retains Hanold Associates for SVP, Global Talent Search

Evanston, IL, September 24, 2019 – PE-backed IRI has retained Hanold Associates for their Senior Vice President, Global Talent search, based in Chicago. Neela Seenandan, Mayank Parikh and Sonia Nagra are leading the search.

Information Resources Inc (IRI) got its start as a big data company decades before the term existed. Founded in 1979 by John Malec and Gerald Eskin, the organization started out gathering point-of-sale data from bar code scanners and used insight to drive marketing and business decisions.

Today, backed by New Mountain Capital and Vestar Capital Partners and under leadership of CEO Andrew Appel, IRI is a leading technology and services provider in the big data and marketing industry. IRI integrates the world’s largest set of otherwise disconnected purchase, media, social, causal and loyalty data to help CPG, retail, over-the-counter health care and media companies grow their businesses. IRI is enabling the era of personalization by providing the largest, richest dataset, predictive analytics and predictive models to figure out which consumers want which products.

Reporting to the Chief Human Resources Officer of IRI, Evan Swidler, the Senior Vice President, Global Talent will work to define, develop and implement unified, clear strategies and processes for the talent function throughout the organization globally. The role will be comprised of two main focuses: Candidate Experience (via recruiting) and Employee Experience. The Candidate Experience at IRI includes digital branding, recruiting execution, workforce profile shaping and helping shape a portion of the D&I agenda with a diverse slate of both internal and external talent. The Employee Experience at IRI includes talent and succession planning, learning and leadership development, team and organization development, performance development and management and culture and employee experience/engagement.

About Hanold Associates

Hanold Associates is a retained executive search firm focused on HR and Diversity & Inclusion Officers. Our client list is diverse across industries, geographies and business scenarios, and culture is at the core of everything we do. Our clients include the National Football League, Domino’s Pizza, Under Armour, Patagonia, Gucci, Kohler, REI, Live Nation Entertainment, Kellogg, Apollo, Blackstone, TPG, L Catterton, Northwestern University, Electronic Arts, Fiat-Chrysler, Kohler, SC Johnson, eBay, Great Place To Work, Fossil, Vail Resorts, Edward Jones, AbbVie, Carnival Corp., Google, Biogen, Allstate, Bridgestone, Wikimedia, CNA Insurance, Cummins, Tyson, ClubCorp, CDW, Nike, and Ford Motor Company, among others.