 Two Silicon Valley Thought Leaders Join the UpMo Leadership NetworkUpMo is excited to welcome influential thought leaders Debra Engel and Chris Groves as new advisors to the UpMo Board of Directors.
By: UpMo, Inc. 
UpMo - Two New Advisors The addition of these influential, strategic executives adds momentum to the powerful and expanding leadership network of UpMo. With the addition of these two executives, UpMo is effectively growing a diverse and powerful strategic leadership system at a pivotal time for the growing company, which is scheduled to release the next version of its flagship product, UpMo Career Mobilizer™ in early June. Debra Engel has been an influential thought leader in corporate strategy and human resources for over 23 years. Debra served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Services for 3Com for 15 years. Prior to joining 3Com, Debra served as Corporate Staffing Manager for Hewlett Packard and as HR manager for the HP Avondale division. For over 8 years, Debra has been an active and highly networked board member and advisor at an array of successful corporations and non-profit organizations in Silicon Valley, including: Aspect Communications, the Entrepreneurs Foundation, Institute for the Future and the National Academy of Human Resources Foundation. She is keenly aware of how to attain alignment between HR and customer needs, maximize organizational capabilities, and develop strong leaders. Debra is a valuable asset to UpMo as an advisor to the Board of Directors. Debra shared her strategic views about UpMo by saying, “UpMo brings a powerful, employee-centric solution to internal career management. I believe that UpMo solutions not only provide HR with best practices for retaining their talent and hiring internally, but will help shift organizational cultures to become healthier, more productive and more responsive to changing workforce dynamics.” Chris Groves is a highly accomplished, international business executive with over 20 years experience building and managing successful global technology companies. Chris has led global business strategy as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors at Centric Software, a successful, venture-backed enterprise software company, for almost 14 years. Prior to joining Centric Software, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Computervision Workgroup Products business unit where he innovated and drove rapid growth. Chris has a profound understanding of the B2B software space and brings extensive global leadership experience to the UpMo Board of Directors. Chris described his vision for UpMo by saying, “I believe that UpMo has all the makings of a wildly successful company as well as a visionary focus on truly bettering the work-lives of people. This is unique in a B2B company that leverages the power of the social network for business and personal advantage. I look forward to working with the UpMo executive team to advise and hone strategic direction to make UpMo the highly influential company it has the foundation and potential to become.” "I am honored to have two such talented and well-connected leaders join the UpMo leadership network. Their passion and experience driving change will help make UpMo’s employee-centric career management suite the industry standard,” said Promise Phelon, UpMo Founder and CEO. Please visit the corresponding UpMo blog entry to share your thoughts with us. # # # About UpMo: Employees Rule. UpMo provides the industry’s first employee-centric enterprise career management solution to emerging and large organizations. By helping people plan, pursue and manage their careers in a way that benefits both them and their companies, UpMo SaaS solutions help companies embrace employee mobility to dramatically increase productivity, reduce employee churn, and improve employee engagement. Photo: https://www.prlog.org/ End
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