Glen Cathey

Glen Cathey

SVP, Talent Advisory & Digital Strategy, Randstad

With over 25 years of recruitment industry and leadership experience, Glen is a globally recognized sourcing and recruiting leader focused on digital strategy and innovation, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence.

He is currently SVP, Talent Advisory & Digital Strategy, providing strategic insights and consulting to organizations to enable them to create business-driven solutions and outcomes. Prior to this, he was Head of Digital Strategy for Randstad, focused on digital approaches and solutions to support talent acquisition, including ethical AI, chatbots, search, match, recommendation systems, blockchain, virtual reality, and multi-sided platforms.

Glen has held other senior leadership roles such as SVP of Talent Acquisition Strategy and Innovation for Kforce, as well as VP, Sourcing and Recruiting CoE for Randstad Sourceright. In these roles, he led centralized recruiting teams supporting large clients including IT, Federal/government services, as well as other volume non-IT businesses, delivering results globally.

Today, Glen serves as a board member of the Velocity Network Foundation, a non-profit organization deploying the Internet of Careers®, and an advisory board member for the Bellator Recruiting Academy, a non-profit that helps veterans transition into recruiting careers.

A highly requested keynote speaker on the topic of sourcing and recruiting, Glen has presented at many industry events around the world (10X LinkedIn Talent Connect, 10X SourceCon, 5X Talent42, 5X Sourcing Summit, etc.). He is also passionate about the topic of introversion within diversity, inclusion, and belonging and has spoken at companies such as Amazon, Google, American Express, Kroger/84.51 and more. Glen is most recently quoted on the topic of AI in LinkedIn’s The Future of Recruiting 2023 as well as in Talent Blogs.

Glen graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park with a degree in psychology. He is based in Tampa, Florida with his significant other, Melanie, along with his newly expanded family.