Talent Advisor Business Development

George Koren

303-***-**** *******@*****.***

B.S. Engineering, University of Cincinnati

Corporate Recruiter, Talent Advisor, Account Management

Top performing senior recruiter, talent advisor, and multi-faceted engineer; experienced in placements of operations, business development, finance, supply chain, and business launch and start-ups. Founded, launched, and managed a successful executive search firm and consumer automation manufacturing company. Professional demeanor with strong business acumen in high-volume, full-cycle, fast-pasted, highly technical environments.

• Advised clients such as Boeing, Pepsi/Frito-Lay, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly Clark, and International Paper.

• Talent advisor for DoD (TS/SCI), Aerospace, Security, Medical Device, Automation, Consumer Products, CPG.

• Started and scaled business operations and sales.

• Hold 4 international automation patents.

Professional Experience

Nerok, LLC. Consumer Automation Products Technology Co., Parker, Colorado.

CEO, CTO, Venture Start-up, (11/2023 to Present (Part time)

Temporarily returned as CEO to complete knowledge transfer prior to Venture Capital acquisition.

Boeing, Defense, Aerospace, and Security, Seattle WA.

Corporate Talent Acquisition Advisor, (USA/International) (10/2022 to 11/2023)

Business Partner and talent advisor to technical directors in the Boeing missile, aircraft defense and security groups. Confidential, Secret, and (TS/SCI) Top-Secret Clearance for DoD and Aerospace manufacturing. Possesses the ability to obtain clearance.

• Achieved placement goals requiring 30 ongoing requisitions.

• Mentored hiring mangers through the hiring process in heavily regulated DoD.

• Obtained stakeholder collaboration, participation, and buy-in for 5 national $10 million+ projects.

• Created highly technical requisitions resulting in 35 hires for 4 diverse business groups.

• Maintained government projects requiring OFCCP and DEI compliance.

• Expert level in ATS,’s Workday, Taleo, Hired Score, Social Media, Microsoft, and LinkedIn.

Nerok, LLC. Consumer Automation Products Technology Co., Fort Collins, Colorado.

Founder, CEO Venture Start-up, CTO (1/2020 to 3/2024)

Started a consumer product automation company from the ground floor up with sales projections of $50 million.

• Started and Managed a cross-functional teams of engineers, industrial designers, automation experts, controls engineers (ASIC/FPGA), metal fabrication and plastic extrusion engineers, sales/marketing researchers, software/firmware engineers, PCB designers, and Solidworks CAD/CAM designers. Created international sourcing and vendor plans.

• Successfully obtained investment by 2 Venture Capital companies and now being launch nationally.

Fiberkon Executive Search Firm, Execution Search, Evergreen, Colorado

Founder and CEO, (1/2002 to 10/2022)

Founded and managed a full cycle recruiting firm with accounts in DoD, aerospace, medical devices, consumer products, and biotech companies (TS, TS/SCI). Annual personnel revenues $200,000 - $300,000.

Lucas Associates (now Korn-Ferry), Senior Partner, Dallas Texas, 1992-2002

Hired to start up an Engineering recruiting division and develop a ATS system targeting Fortune 500 companies. Attained level of Senior Partner within 18 months (Top 3% of company) before leaving to start Fiberkon

• Managed the Top consumer products engineering division.

• Recruited senior level engineers and equipment designers.

• CAD/CAM/ASIC designers, Plant layout designers.

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