Kris Holmes

Kris Holmes is an executive recruiter and partner at O'Connell Group, a leading executive search firm in consumer marketing and market research, with more than twenty-five years of experience. She is a member of the Pinnacle Society, a consortium of industry-leading recruiters in North America. Before moving into recruiting, she spent a decade in consumer marketing with companies including Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, and Ralston Purina. Over her career she has placed more than 1,000 candidates and counseled over 20,000 people on their careers. A graduate of Tufts University with an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, she is the author of Ignite Your Career! Strategies and Tactics to Unleash Your Potential.