Rudy Karsan - Kenexa, CEO
Rudy Karsan is the Chairman and CEO of Kenexa. Through organic growth and numerous strategic acquisitions, Kenexa (founded in 1987) has grown into a company recognized for four years by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States. The company’s hiring and retention solutions and employment process outsourcing has been growing over 50% annually with clients among the largest and most prestigious companies in the world. Named to Forbes B2B 'Best of the Web' list in fall 2003, 2004 and 2005, Kenexa now also ranks on Software Magazine’s Software 500. Kenexa’s products have also been lauded and have received prestigious awards. Kenexa’s achievements, Rudy says, “include the enhancement of productivity, better metrics, higher retention and lower turnover rates, combined with greater employee engagement.” Kenexa went public in 2005, and is poised at an exciting juncture in human resource history, capitalizing on the belief that a client’s talent requires continual management, enhanced by the power of technological advances integrating software and services for employment process outsourcing, talent acquisition and performance management.
Rudy began his career as an actuary with Mercantile & General Insurance Company in Toronto, after earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo. At the age of 25, he earned the title of Fellow in the Society of Actuaries, making him the youngest to hold such a position at the firm. He moved on from here to co-found Kenexa. Rudy has been recognized for his entrepreneurial achievements by the Kauffman Foundation and the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year program and also by the Aga Khan Economic Planning Board. He has held a number of leadership roles in the community, including Chairman of Junior Achievement’s board of directors in the Delaware Valley, and President of the Aga Khan Northeast Council for USA.
Rudy continues to aim high, striving to make Kenexa a billion dollar organization by 2015. Rudy sees the Kenexa of the future as a global entity that touches the lives of a billion people, and has a material impact on productivity, makes a difference to humans and impacts the way the business world operates. Rudy believes that in this way Kenexa serves humanity. His yardstick for success is “continuing to grow and learn while having fun doing so, and making money”. Rudy has been married for over 25 years and has two children. When asked about his greatest achievement, he unreservedly states, "My family. Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely my family."
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