Rob McIntosh is the SVP of global talent acquisition for Avanade. He is a senior recruiting leader and strategist with 16+ years of global recruitment experience primarily focused on building world-class recruiting organizations. His expertise covers aggressive and creative sourcing strategies; talent relationship management (TRM/CRM) programs and solutions; full 'cradle to grave' sourcing/recruiting metrics and benchmarking; and international sourcing (offshoring, in-sourcing, and outsourcing). He is constantly looked to by leaders both in the U.S. and internationally for new, creative, and groundbreaking ideas to help identify and pipeline talent to meet current and future business demand. He started his recruiting career in Sydney, Australia, as a third-party recruiter before relocating to Canada in 1999 and ultimately ended up running national recruitment for Microsoft Canada. He relocated to Microsoft HQ in Seattle, where he was responsible for designing and architecting the Technical Central Sourcing organization, hiring and leading a team of sourcing luminaries such as Shally Steckerl, Jim Stroud, and Glenn Gutmacher. Prior to finding his passion in recruiting and sourcing, he spent many years in software/hardware sales and originally started his career as a COBOL/PRG Computer Programmer/Operator.