Clair Olson Joins Crunchr Team

San Francisco, June 22, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Clair Olson joins the global Crunchr team as partner (www.crunc​hrapps.com) focusing on developing the Crunchr offering in North America.

From 2001 to 2015 Clair held Senior HR M&A consulting and leadership positions at Mercer and Towers Watson establishing the Client Management and M&A practices in Asia Pacific and Europe and working on projects in diverse locations including Asia Pacific, North America, Europe and the Middle East.  His cross-cultural insight will accelerate the successful implementation of Crunchr with clients in North America and across borders.  

"Crunchr has developed an amazing suite of predictive analytic smart apps that enable organizations to quickly enhance their people analytics and develop more fact-based HR decisions for a myriad of situations. Crunchr has a great interface, which makes it easy for HR teams to provide real-time reports and insights. I like the simplicity and the scalability for future needs of organizations."

Clair Olson, Partner

Clair will cooperate closely with Camiel Selker and Dirk Jonker, who have developed Crunchr over the past few years. On joining the team, Clair says: “Crunchr has developed an amazing suite of predictive analytic smart apps that enable organizations to quickly enhance their people analytics and develop more fact-based HR decisions for a myriad of situations. Crunchr has a great interface, which makes it easy for HR teams to provide real-time reports and insights.  I like the simplicity and the scalability for future needs of organizations.“

Crunchr collects, validates and uploads workforce information from any company data source and offers applications for organization analytics, workforce planning, succession planning, talent management and employee preferences. It uses next generation computing technology and machine learning techniques to enable realistic simulations and scenario planning in human capital management. Dirk Jonker, data science and technology leader of Crunchr, explains: “Crunchr can be deployed as an HR tool for organizations that start with people analytics, but also as the next generation model for HR analytics professionals. With Clair joining our team, we can help client organizations determine their analytics needs and ensure Crunchr insights become immediately actionable.”

Crunchr was launched by Focus Orange at the HR Tech Europe 2014 and attracted attention from many CHROs and workforce analytics professionals. Gartner, the world’s leading IT research and advisory company, has listed HR analytics tool Crunchr as one of five ‘cool vendors’ worldwide in its 2015 Cool Vendor Note.

For more information

Camiel Selker: +31 (0)6 21 17 92 36, [email protected]

Clair Olson: +1 650 863 3106, [email protected]

Crunchr: +31 (0)20 240 25 10