Suited adds Angela Vallot, James Cole and Dr Cameron Shelton to its Board of Directors

– USA, CA –  Suited, an A.I. recruiting prediction platform used by professional services firms today announced the appointments to its Board of Directors of Angela Vallot, D&I executive, James Cole Jr., the former US Delegated Deputy Secretary of Education, and Dr Cameron Shelton, Ph.D.

They will support Suited’s commitment to addressing inefficiencies and lack of diversity in recruiting in investment banking, law industries, and other professional and financial services industries.

“We could not be more excited to have James, Angela, and Cameron as Board Members helping to guide our company’s continued growth. Suited was founded to bring a more efficient, effective, and equitable recruiting solution to professional services industries, and having these three incredible voices at the table ensures we will certainly accomplish that mission.” said CEO, Matt Spencer.

Both Ms. Vallot and Mr. Cole Jr. worked as practicing lawyers for over 15 years, and bring an abundance of experience as Suited develops it’s recruiting platform for the legal industry.

In only three years, Suited has brought together a significant number of investment banking clients onto the platform to systematically remove unconscious bias in their early-talent recruiting processes through the use of A.I. and assessment science. These firms include Baird, Centerview Partners, Ducera, Harris Williams, Houlihan Lokey, Lazard Middle Market, Lincoln International, PJ Solomon, PJT Partners, Piper Sandler, and William Blair.

About John Cole

Mr. Cole Jr. is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the Jasco Group, LLC, a hedge fund based in New York City. He also serves on the National Board of Directors of Jumpstart, which provides language, literacy, and socio-emotional programming for preschool children from under-resourced communities and promotes quality early learning for all. From 2016-2017, Mr. Cole Jr. served as the US Delegated Deputy Secretary of Education and General Counsel under President Obama.

“Providing professional opportunities to candidates from all backgrounds, particularly Black candidates, is more important than ever,” said John Cole Jr. “Which is why I am proud to be a member of the Suited board of directors. Suited is quickly becoming the essential recruiting tool for investment banks to enable fairness and efficiency in their hiring processes, and will soon do the same for the legal industry.”

About Angela Vallot

Ms. Vallot is the Co-founder and Partner of VallotKarp Consulting, which helps organizations enhance their competitive advantage through diversity and inclusion. She has served on the board of directors of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund since 2011. Ms. Vallot formerly served as Texaco’s first Chief Diversity Officer, and later became the Global Chief Diversity Officer of Colgate Palmolive in 2001. During her tenure in these roles, she successfully developed and drove diversity and inclusion initiatives throughout these organizations.

About Dr Cameron Shelton

Mr. Shelton, Ph.D. is one of the original Co-founders of Suited and a tenured Associate Professor of Political Economy at Claremont McKenna College’s Robert Day School of Economics and Finance. He has been instrumental in creating Suited’s inaugural sourcing and assessment product for the investment banking space.

About Suited

With offices in Austin, Los Angeles, and New York, Suited is an A.I.-powered, assessment-driven recruiting network designed to help the most promising candidates from all backgrounds access highly sought-after opportunities in the professional services industries.

Suited’s first product offering, launched in early 2019 for the Investment Banking industry, has allowed recruiters and hiring managers in this highly competitive industry to understand candidates holistically and without bias. Using the power of machine learning and proven best practices from industrial-organizational psychology, it has created an assessment-driven ecosystem that enables hiring teams to equitably expand the way they identify and consider talent while providing candidates with an easy way to demonstrate their potential.

For more information: https://www.wellsuited.com

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