Our Team

Hire Velocity was founded with a vision of helping companies optimize their hiring efforts by reducing costs, saving time and hiring quality talent.  Our vision is centered on our long standing goal to be your trusted hiring partner.  We complement your internal team providing as little or as much support as you need.  Hire Velocity will speed up your hiring process while you pay less and gain quality talent.

Comprised of seasoned entrepreneurs and professional recruiters, Hire Velocity’s leadership team understands the challenges executives face as they align hiring needs with business goals.  Our collective experience of over 70 years forms the basis of our Hiring Solution Suite which is comprised of Hiring Support (people) and Hiring Tools (technology).  Our proprietary methodology and software results in greater and faster hiring success for our clients. 

Byron West, President and Founder
Jennifer Maher, Senior Director, Client Services

Byron West

President
Direct: 678.713.3202
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A seasoned recruiting entrepreneur, Byron West provides the vision and leadership at Hire Velocity.  While an EVP at TMP/Monster Worldwide, Byron guided and oversaw the Talent Acquisition team, consisting of 155 recruiting professionals, each equipped with the latest search engine technology. This business unit supported all professional and permanent placement services.

Byron understands critical personnel needs within organizations and their importance to success.  As an honorably discharged member of the Navy’s Submarine Division, Byron uses his military skills to assemble efficient and effective teams.

Following his military career, Byron’s next pursuit was to build businesses with the right people as part of System One, a leading national technical placement and recruitment firm. There, he served as a Division President.  Always an advocate for efficiency and innovation, Byron demonstrates his intense desire to overcome obstacles and win for his customers.

Byron graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Civil Engineering.

Jennifer Maher

Sr. Director, Client Services
Direct: 678.713.3201
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An experienced recruiting leader, Jennifer Maher has over 12 years of experience in RPO, staffing, and outsourcing organizations across the retail, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and manufacturing verticals. Her experience includes restructuring and building high performing, high volume service delivery organizations, consultative selling, selecting and implementing new technology solutions, and advanced sourcing strategy design.

Jennifer leads the Client Services group and is responsible for the service delivery across all clients. She has led multiple teams to successfully hire 5000+ people per year across the United States and Canada, while reducing time to hire, increasing overall quality of hire, and reducing turnover.

Jennifer is a graduate of the University of Miami with a Bachelors in Business Administration in Accounting. She lives in Atlanta with her husband.

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