Rebecca Callahan President, SourceRight Solutions

Rebecca Callahan is the president of SourceRight Solutions, a division of Spherion Corporation (NYSE: SFN). She has responsibility for strategic development and execution of business growth and operational excellence to continue to drive the company’s capabilities and leadership in integrated workforce strategies that include recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), managed service programs and contractor compliance solutions.

Callahan was appointed to her present role in September 2009, having previously served as senior vice president of RPO for SourceRight Solutions.

Since early 2008, Callahan has led the company’s RPO business, successfully implementing a strategy that included international expansion and an enhanced value proposition, as well as a more flexible and scalable operating model. Under her leadership, SourceRight Solutions has received some of the highest accolades in the industry, including the top score for client satisfaction and service quality in HRO Today’s 2009 ‘Baker’s Dozen’ ranking.

Callahan joined Spherion in 2003 as vice president of the assessment group, followed by a role as senior vice president of sales where she was instrumental in the development of the company’s client acquisition strategy. She has more than 20 years of extensive sales and business operations experience in the services industry and has held senior sales positions at both private and publicly traded companies including Blue Pumpkin Software and PageNet.

Callahan is a compelling and articulate speaker and has shared her knowledge of sourcing and talent acquisition strategies at numerous conferences and symposia. She is a board member of the RPO Alliance, a special interest group of the HROA, formed to address the need for unbiased, vendor-neutral information about the growing RPO industry.