Business Talent Group Leadership Team

Founders

Jody Greenstone Miller, Founder and CEO
Los Angeles
Ms. Miller leads client development for Business Talent Group with particular focus on clients in the media, consumer, financial services, nonprofit, and private equity sectors. Ms. Miller’s career spans the worlds of venture capital, media, financial services, government, and non-profit. Venture partner at Maveron; interim President of the Disney telco joint venture, Americast; and Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton. (see Miller’s full bio)

Amelia Warren Tyagi, Co-founder and COO
Los Angeles
Ms. Tyagi leads Business Talent Group’s talent development team and works primarily with clients in healthcare, media, Internet, nonprofit, and private equity. A former McKinsey consultant, co-founder of the successful venture-backed startup HealthAllies, and a bestselling author, Ms. Tyagi holds an MBA from Wharton. (see Tyagi’s full bio)

Client Development

Sandra Pinnavaia, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Client Development
New York
Ms. Pinnavaia leads Business Talent Group’s client development team in New York and works primarily with healthcare, pharmaceutical, private equity, and non-profit clients. Ms. Pinnavaia consulted for 8 years with McKinsey & Company, and spent 10 years building a successful independent consulting practice. A Marshall Scholar, she holds an advanced degree in biochemistry from Cambridge. (see Pinnavaia’s full bio)

Scott Powell, Vice President, Client Development
San Francisco
Mr. Powell co-leads client development efforts for the San Francisco Bay Area. He focuses on clients in the corporate sector, particularly in technology, media, professional services and manufacturing. Mr. Powell's career includes Bain & Company, Siebel Systems, Nucleus Research, and Clareo Partners, as well as the US Army where he served as a helicopter pilot flying combat missions. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MA from the Fletcher School, and a BA from Colorado College. (see Powell’s full bio)

Mike Spignese, Vice President Client Development, Sales Operations
Chicago
Mr. Spignese leads the client development efforts for BTG’s regional offices in Chicago and brings to the team particular depth in the manufacturing and BtoB sectors. Mr. Spignese’s passion is driving business growth and has over 23 years experience in sales, sales management, international business development and operations in both global firms and entrepreneurial ventures. Mr. Spignese has held senior sales and sales management positions with companies such as Gerson Lehrman Group, LRN, Forrester Research, Esselte Meto and IBM. (see Spignese’s full bio)

Ryan Leventhal, Senior Manager, Client Development
New York
Mr. Leventhal focuses on developing new client relationships with major corporations, high-growth midcaps and private equity firms. An experienced sales professional, Mr. Leventhal has spent the bulk of his career at the Corporate Executive Board, where he worked with heads of sales at Fortune 1000 firms and helped lead the expansion into the mid-market. He holds a BA from University of Michigan. (see Leventhal’s full bio)

Client Service and Talent Development

Paul Chung, Vice President, Client Service
Los Angeles
Mr. Chung serves as BTG’s Client Services leader in Southern California. He has over 15 years experience in executive search, consulting and business development roles and holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from Wharton. (see Chung’s full bio)

Amy Schlupp Nassisi, Vice President, Client Service
Seattle
Ms. Nassisi leads West Coast talent development for Business Talent Group, specializing in working with clients in the technology and Internet sectors. The first business development professional in the products organization at Siebel, Ms. Nassisi went on to build and run Siebel’s OEM business development organization. (see Nassisi’s full bio)

Jill Miller Perrin, Vice President, Client Service
New York
Ms. Perrin leads talent development for Business Talent Group in New York and focuses on working with clients in the financial services, consumer goods and retail sectors. She was President of the $100MM Direct Marketing Service Contract business for General Electric Appliances. With an MBA from Harvard Business School, Ms. Perrin’s career spans Quaker Oats, General Foods, and American Express. (see Perrin’s full bio)

Kala Loughrey, Senior Director of Talent Development and Client Services
Houston
Ms. Loughrey leads Business Talent Group’s talent development programs and services. An experienced recruiter and leadership coach, Ms. Loughrey’s clients have included Roche Pharmaceuticals, ExxonMobil, Nestle, and the London Business School. She brings 10 years experience in retail management from the Gap and Dayton Hudson, and she holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Rice University. (see Loughrey’s full bio)

Elaine Babayan Leff, Director, Client Service
San Francisco
Ms. Leff focuses on talent development in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she focuses on working with clients in media, technology, Internet, and professional services. Ms. Leff's career includes various consulting and corporate strategy roles at L.E.K. Consulting, The Walt Disney Company, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Mercer Consulting, and KPMG Consulting. She holds an MBA from Wharton School of Business. (see Leff’s full bio)

Special Advisors

Michelle Landry Cline
San Francisco
Ms. Cline’s career includes Boston Consulting Group, Disney, Mobius Venture Capital (Softbank), and the Stanford University Office of Development. She holds a BA and MBA from Stanford. (see Cline’s full bio)

Anne Raimondi
San Francisco
Ms. Raimondi’s career includes Bain & Company and Gymboree Corporation. She was later a member of the founding team at Blue Nile, and she held various management roles at eBay. She holds an MBA from Stanford. (see Raimondi’s full bio)

 
"I was basically blown away by the caliber of people they presented." --Pauline Brown, Managing Director at The Carlyle Group.
"BTG is at the forefront of creating a spot market for executive talent." --Michelle Conlin, Business Week.
"Business Talent Group was able to put several extremely qualified candidates in front of us within five days, and we hired one of them as a creative director within a couple of weeks. That hire really accelerated our business." --Lucy Hood, president of Fox Mobile Entertainment.
"It's time to accept that a portfolio of multiple assignments is what growing legions of companies and executives want. This new relationship … [is] the latest sign of our economy's endless capacity for renewal and innovation." --Jody Miller, The Wall Street Journal.
"This new piece of human capital infrastructure enables talent to have a different kind of professional life and companies to have the ultimate flexibility." --Lynda Resnick, Co-Chairman, Roll Corporation, parent corporation of Fiji Water, Pom Wonderful, Paramount Citrus, Paramount Farms, and Teleflora.
"I would recommend BTG to anyone. They are first-rate professionals who do a great job of decoding business problems and quickly bringing the right human capital solutions. A further strength is the flexibility of their model - their project-based approach enables clients to bring customize talent solutions to business needs." -James Benedict, Principal, Kidd & Co.
"Call the Business Talent Group . . . and they will be able to offer you anything from a chief executive to a forensic accountant. . ." --The Economist.
"We're blown away by how quickly you hit it SPOT ON." --President, Internet Division of $3 billion Media Company
"I can't tell you how fortunate we have been to have [BTG Talent] on the team. She combines consummate professionalism with a terrific sense of humor. Thank you for everything." --Head of Planning, Internationally Renowned Foundation.
"[The talent's] focus has to be on winning business and I am pleased that he is taking up this task with the urgency it needs. . . My feedback for BTG is simple, if all our [efforts] were to hit bull's-eye with the first candidate, life would be a lot easier for us all!" –-Managing Director of Global Market Development for a Global Pharmaceutical Company.
"As companies seek greater flexibility to launch new projects quickly, Business Talent Group has emerged as a match maker in the growing niche of temporary executive placement." --Los Angeles Business Journal
"I'm impressed with the caliber of talent you have access to. To be honest, I have never seen anything like this from a single source." --CEO of a private equity-backed technology company.