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 also a member of the Pinnacle Society, the premier consortium of industry-leading recruiters in North America. Kris has counseled tens of thousands of candidates in setting goals and leveraging their strengths. Before shifting to recruiting, Kris worked for a decade in consumer marketing with major corporations like Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, and Ralston Purina. She's a graduate of Tufts University and has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. Kris and her husband Jim are the proud parents of three wonderful kids and two happy yellow labs.