Printable Biography of Jeremy Eskenazi

Prior to Riviera, Jeremy served as Vice President, Talent Acquisition for idealab!, the world's premier technology business incubator. Jeremy led a global team in the development and delivery of recruiting and staffing, college relations, and executive search services to idea lab's network of more than 30 companies.

Prior to idealab!, Jeremy served as Director, Talent Acquisition for Amazon.com Holdings in Seattle. He led all talent acquisition and recruiting activities for this high-growth global organization. Under his leadership, the organization grew from 3,500 to more than 7,500 employees in a single year. Jeremy also assumed worldwide human resources responsibilities while acting as Vice President, Strategic Growth.

Earlier in his career, Jeremy led the global staffing function for all of Universal Studios and the Universal Music Group businesses as Corporate Director, Workforce Planning & Strategic Staffing. He and his staff provided leadership for worldwide staffing, workforce planning, internal sourcing, college and community organization relations and recruitment, and executive recruitment activities. He also served as Director, Professional Staffing within the Universal Studios Recreation Group, where he developed and led Professional Staffing during a period of exponential growth. This included executive and creative staffing for the Group's Universal Studios Hollywood and Florida theme parks, Universal Creative unit, as well as the Universal Orlando Resort in Florida and Universal Studios Japan expansion project teams.

His early experience in Human Resources and Staffing comes from Heublein, Inc., The Knott's Organization, and Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Jeremy earned a Bachelor of Science from California State Polytechnic University, and holds certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) from the Human Resource Certification Institute.

A noted national speaker on the value of the staffing function, Jeremy is professional member of the prestigious National Speakers Association as well as the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC)  Jeremy currently serves as Co-President, At-Large for the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruitment (IACPR) and as a member of the national advisory board of the Human Capital Institute. He is an active member of the Society for Human Resources Management (and currently is serving on the national Workforce Staffing and Deployment Special Expertise Panel).  A native of Southern California, Jeremy is a member of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association.