Hero – RefAssured

Who We Are

We build for staffing agencies.

RefAssured is an uncommon company. With a team comprised of staffing agency leaders, experienced technologists, and relentless innovators, we are singularly motivated to create a true platform for human potential. Purpose-built for staffing agencies by people who have built staffing agencies, we feel our customers' pain points because we've lived them, and we're here to make things better.

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Our Story – RefAssured

Our Story

The RefAssured story is a staffing story.

Everyone at RefAssured knows and loves the staffing industry. With a team hailing from Apex Systems, TEKsystems, Cypress HCM, COMPAS Technology, Bullhorn, Avionte, Sense, LaSalle Network, and Cross Country, our hire quality platform was purpose-built from the ground up to help staffing professionals move quicker, hire better, and grow faster.

It all started with a better reference check. References are an enduring part of the hiring experience, and it is our goal to show staffing and talent agencies how to maximize the potential of a shared collaborative experience. By replacing the clunky, often myopic experience of reviewing resumes and work profiles, we developed something more effective: mining authentic data from objective participants. We have also streamlined the process and removed the cumbersome, manual aspect of sending, reviewing, and managing talent references and profiles.

And now we've grown into so much more. With solutions ranging from automated reference checking to post-hire performance intelligence to staffing-centric identity verification to workflow integrations and warm lead generation, we are a platform for human potential.

At RefAssured, we believe that hiring shouldn't hurt. It shouldn't be painful to use software, and as technologists, we build to make people's lives better. We respect and honor the dignity of job applicants by creating an unbiased, trustworthy way to ensure that opportunity is meted out as equally as talent. We are obsessed with quality, and using it as an arbiter of what could be possible. We think that past performance insight underpins true hiring intelligence in many forms, and that our platform can make hiring frictionless, empathetic, ethical, wise, inclusive, and fun.

Four Pillars – RefAssured

What Drives Us

Our core values

We're only as strong as our culture and team. These five core values guide us internally in everything we build and every interaction we have.

Take Risks

Just because it's always been done a certain way doesn't mean you can't change it.

Protect the Nest

Think strategically and operate maturely when it comes to company, customer, and colleague information.

Be a PAL

Personable, accountable, loyal.

Think in All Directions

Think about the impact now, soon, and later.

Drive to the 5

Everyone is awesome at something — find your superpower.

The Team – RefAssured

The Team

We're all in this together

Leaders, innovators, and proven entrepreneurs who have been in the trenches of staffing and tech and came back to fix what was broken.

Brian Vesce

Chief Executive Officer

Former CEO and Founder of Cypress HCM. Brian brings operator-level empathy to every product decision, having built both staffing service and software businesses.

Tommy Semereaux

Chief Product Officer

Former CPO and Co-founder of COMPAS. Tommy translates real-world staffing pain points into product features that agencies actually use and love.

Nishad Amin

Chief Operating Officer

Former VP of Data at COMPAS. Nishad keeps the engine running: operations, data infrastructure, and the processes that help RefAssured scale without sacrificing quality.

Dan Rothschild

Chief Technology Officer

Former Chief Architect at COMPAS. Dan architects the scalable, secure infrastructure that keeps RefAssured running flawlessly for hundreds of agencies.

Pete Sitov

VP of Sales

Former Director of Sales at COMPAS. Pete is on the front lines with agencies every day, helping them see the ROI of automated reference intelligence quickly and clearly.

Aravinda Souza

Chief Marketing Officer

Former VP of Global Communications at Bullhorn. Aravinda brings deep brand and market expertise to help staffing agencies understand the full value of data-backed hiring.

Valentina Donaghy

Director of Customer Success

Former Compliance Manager, MSP Division at Stability Healthcare. Valentina ensures every agency gets the most out of RefAssured from day one and beyond.

Eamonn Connolly

Lead Software Engineer

Eamonn builds the core technology that powers the RefAssured platform, bringing engineering rigor and a problem-solver's mindset to every feature that staffing agencies rely on.

Bob McHugh

Senior Growth Marketing Manager

Former Senior Manager, Content & Research at Bullhorn. Bob turns complex staffing data and industry trends into compelling stories that resonate with agency leaders.

Keri Fountain

Customer Success Manager

Former Senior Manager at Cross Country Health Care. Keri's agency-side background means she understands exactly what clients need and makes sure they get it.

Mike Talian

Sr. Account Executive

Former Senior Staffing Professional at LaSalle Network, where he spent 11+ years helping organizations find top talent. Mike started his career running reference checks and knows firsthand the time they take and the value they deliver.

Scott Hanna

Sr. Account Executive

Former Director of Account Management at Sense. Scott brings deep HR + Staffing tech expertise and a consultative sales approach to helping staffing agencies get the most out of the RefAssured platform.

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