John Touey is a Principal of Salveson Stetson Group Inc., and member of the management committee of the firm. He has over 20 years of experience providing executive search, human resources and management consulting services to a broad range of organizations and industries. At SSG, John manages the firm’s financial officer practice and has successfully placed senior level financial executives with several Fortune 500 companies, both in the Philadelphia region and beyond. Additionally, his functional search expertise extends into senior sales and marketing, operations, human resources, technology and general management roles. John is the co-author of A Powerful Team – How CEOs and their HR Leaders are Transforming Organizations, a book that illustrates how CEOs and their HR leaders work together to make a transformational impact on company results. He is a frequent contributor to several business publications and currently serves as a Guest Columnist regarding career issues for CFO.com. John has also authored articles for TLNT.com and Brazen Careerist. In addition, his work has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Fortune Magazine, Bloomberg News and MSNBC. Previously, John spent seven years with Right Management Consultants. As Vice President in Right’s Philadelphia Regional Practice, he was a major contributor in the development of new human resource and management consulting services for the company. He has worked with a broad range of Philadelphia’s leading companies in this capacity. John holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Temple University. He currently serves on the Board of the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia. He is a Past-President for the Society for Human Resource Management’s Philadelphia Chapter and most recently served as the Chair of the Chapter’s Senior Human Resources Forum. He is also a past Board Member of the Philadelphia Human Resources Planning Society, the Entrepreneurs Forum of Greater Philadelphia, the Human Capital Working Group of Select Greater Philadelphia and DPT Business School.