Scott Golas

Current

Vice President at Centro

Past

Organization & Strategy - Human Capital Design at Booz Allen Hamilton
Managing Consultant at PA Consulting
Vice President, Global Director of HR Outsourcing at NelsonHall

SVP & Chief Strategy Officer at Aon Consulting & Outsourcing
Managing Director at Talent divine
Practice Lead/Principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Education

Loyola University of Chicago
Purdue University

Recommended

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Connections

484 connections

Industry

Outsourcing/Offshoring

Websites

Scott Golas’s Summary

Scott Golas leads the workforce development, administration, real estate and several business development efforts at Centro. Scott joined Centro after Booz Allen Hamilton, where he focused on strategy and organizational design with technology clients. While at Booz Allen, Scott worked closely with clients who wanted to transform their organizations and their industries by applying strategic technology and operations changes.

Prior to joining Booz Allen, Scott was a Managing Consultant for PA Consulting. Before joining PA Consulting, he was V.P. & Global Outsourcing Director with NelsonHall, a business process research firm. he provided consulting to both the service provider and buy-side communities.

Prior to joining NelsonHall, Scott was the Chief Strategy Officer and Portfolio Executive with Aon Consulting, based in Chicago. In this role, he developed operations, sales and marketing strategies; and developed teams comprising Aon’s practice areas and select technology and solutions providers. He had built a similar, strategic team during his four years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was the HRM (Human Resources Management) consulting practice leader for PWC’s West Region.

Scott was selected as one of the HRO Today Magazine “Superstars of HR Outsourcing,” and Human Resource Executive Magazine “Rising Stars of HR,” and was a PricewaterhouseCoopers HR Innovation Award finalist. His BS is in Manufacturing Engineering & Technology from Purdue University, and his MS is in Organization Development from the Loyola University, Chicago.

Scott Golas’s Specialties:

Human capital, human resources, HR operations, management consulting, workforce analytics, workforce planning, digital, advertising, local, outsourcing

Scott Golas’s Experience

Vice President

Centro

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Centro was created to make the buying and selling of online media easy. Now Centro services hundreds of national, regional and local agencies offering thousands of local online publishers an opportunity to showcase their sites to our agency partners.

Our proprietary technology streamlines the process of planning, negotiating, trafficking and billing so agencies can devote more resources to strategic thinking for their clients. With more than 8,500 digital media companies indexed in Transis, its automated media buying and execution software, agencies can place their campaigns in the most contextually relevant and respected sites in front of highly engaged consumers.

We are a partner to agencies as well as to media companies. We will continue to create technology and provide services that make this complex and growing world of online media easier to navigate as well as more efficient and profitable for everyone.
Organization & Strategy - Human Capital Design

Booz Allen Hamilton

(Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

August 2007 — May 2008 (10 months)

Booz Allen Hamilton, is the premier management consulting firm, combining strategy with technology and insight with action, working with clients to deliver results today that endure tomorrow. We work hand-in-hand with our clients to transform their organizations and their industries with our combination of strategy, technology, and operations capabilities.

In my role I provide thought leadership and creative insights to clients on complex strategic human capital management. I organize and lead executive and senior teams through organizational change recommendations and discussions to influence HR transformation based strategies and projects that include serving as project management and hands on design and delivery of strategic human capital management initiatives.
Managing Consultant

PA Consulting

(Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

May 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 4 months)

A PA Managing Consultant is someone recruited from a senior level in industry (with prior consulting experience). They are actively involved in account management with client organizations. A MC works as an assignment manager on complex/large projects; responsible for initiating and leading sales and other business development activities.

PA Managing Consultants have line management responsibilities. They sell and operate across national and practice boundaries, bringing in PA competencies outside own field of expertise to solve client problems.
Vice President, Global Director of HR Outsourcing

NelsonHall

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

May 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 1 month)

Senior industry analyst for NelsonHall’s global Human Resources Outsourcing research programs across North America and Europe, in addition to global strategic marketing and business development activities. Golas combines this working knowledge with an extensive business background and operations dynamics to help organizations make educated sourcing decisions, based on research and benchmarking information. His research focus has enabled executives to make crucial decisions surrounding the management of their employees, customers and partners, and how they can leverage best practices in HR and outsourcing services to optimize their business processes.
SVP & Chief Strategy Officer

Aon Consulting & Outsourcing

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; aon; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

February 2002 — April 2005 (3 years 3 months)

Scott Golas was most recently the Chief Strategy Officer and Portfolio Executive with Aon Human Resources Consulting and Outsourcing, based in Chicago. In this role, he worked to develop and implement human capital solutions that support and accelerate companies’ business strategies, and aligns the resources required to drive implementation. Specifically, Scott builds teams comprising Aon’s specialty practice areas, along with select technology and solution providers, to build fully-integrated outsourcing solutions.

In his more than 16 years of technology and human resources experience, Scott has applied his experience to a broad range of business issues. He was selected as one of the 2004 HRO Today Magazine “Superstars of HR Outsourcing” and ”Human Resource Executive Magazine “Rising Stars of HR,” and was a 2000 PricewaterhouseCoopers HR Innovation Award finalist.
Managing Director

Talent divine

(Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

February 2000 — February 2002 (2 years 1 month)

Talent divine was created specifically to bring human capital solutions to e-commerce & technology start-ups. Talent’s offerings include fully outsourced or supplemental HR services (HRIS, benefits, compensation, training, staffing, etc…) for all levels within the organization, including strategy, design, implementation and support. In nearly two years of profitable operation, Talent divine grew to more than 50 employees and secured several rounds of funding.
Practice Lead/Principal

PricewaterhouseCoopers

(Partnership; Accounting industry)

October 1996 — February 2000 (3 years 5 months)

Responsible for building the HR process, systems and organizational consulting practice. Skilled in the sale and implementation of large scale ERP (PeopleSoft & SAP) reengineering projects. Proficient in the analysis, design and development of human resource, organization development, workforce and succession planning business processes and have worked with numerous companies in this capacity. Called upon to present to major PwC clients and have broad consulting experience in business plan development, competitive analysis, organizational assessment, project financial feasibility analysis, strategic planning and financial modeling.