Assessment Technologies Group is proud to have assembled a team rich in talent and experience in the human-resources field. A science-based organization, we benefit from the leadership of doctoral-level industrial/organizational psychologists who have achieved industry-wide distinction in their fields.
Mr. Pollan has eighteen years of executive experience. After progressing through operations-management and human-resources positions with international food-industry corporations, he chose to take advantage of new entrepreneurial opportunities. For the past fifteen years he has led the implementation and development of successful services businesses.
Early in his business ventures, Mr. Pollan infused his companies with cutting-edge technology and state-of-the art personnel selection and development techniques. The clear advantages gained by marrying technology and assessment prompted him to establish Assessment Technologies Group in 1996. Under Mr. Pollan's leadership, ATG has grown rapidly, serving dozens of U.S. and international clients in a wide variety of industries. Mr. Pollan is enthusiastically committed to continuing to offer human-resources decision support that draws on the advances in technology and the best practices in industrial/organizational psychology.
Mr. Deehan is an accomplished executive business leader in the financial services, commercial leasing and software development businesses. He has over forty years of leadership experience in both publicly traded and privately held organizations, including President and COO of MetLife Capital Credit Corporation, NCR Credit Corporation and AT&T Capital, as well as CEO of Advanta Leasing Services. Recognized for his practical yet innovative approach to business issues, Mr. Deehan serves as a Member of several corporate boards, holding and chairing key board committees.
Mr. Deehan has a successful track record building and advancing profitable, fast-paced business operations through team building and workflow management skills resulting in streamlined operations and increased sales. He brings a wealth of expertise in directing, coaching and leading individuals and work teams to exceed business objectives and client expectations.
A visionary with a strategic management focus, he initially began working with ATG as a business consultant. Realizing the potential of the company to raise the value of employee talent for their clients, Mr. Deehan joined the organization full-time to grow the company through acquisitions, developing business opportunities, and raising investment funds. As ATG’s Chairman, Mr. Deehan will evaluate and grow technology as well as enhance the company’s presence in the human capital space.
Dr. Krieger is an industrial/organizational psychologist with over thirty years’ experience in assessment, career development and team building. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Rutgers University in 1966 and is licensed to practice psychology in Florida and Pennsylvania. He has lifetime accreditation as a Senior Professional in Human Resources from the Personnel Accreditation Institute.
Dr. Krieger began consulting in 1969 with Psychological Consultants to Industry of Pittsburgh, and he has been consulting in Jacksonville since 1972. For almost two decades, Dr. Krieger headed his own firm, Humanalysis Systems, pioneering state-of-the-art assessment strategies. In 1990 he created the Human Resource Center and in 1992 launched People Development Technologies. After spending two years with national training responsibilities for Saville and Holdsworth, Ltd, he returned to consulting in Jacksonville, joining Assessment Technologies Group.
Dr. Krieger also has held faculty appointments prior to 1972 at Rutgers University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Duquesne University, Point Park College and The Pennsylvania State University. He was invited to University of North Florida in 1972 as a member of the charter faculty with responsibility for creating the organizational-behavior and industrial-psychology courses for both the M.B.A. program and the undergraduate curriculum. He retired in 1986 as professor and senior member of the Department of Psychology.
Dr. Krieger's publications include papers in the Journal of Social Psychology; the "Industrial Psychology" chapter in Fisher and Brodsky's 1978 book, Client Participation in Human Services; dozens of book reviews in Personnel Psychology; and the "Selecting Franchisees" chapter in the 1996 International Franchise Relations Handbook; and test reviews in the 2001 Fourteenth Mental Measurement Yearbook. Dr. Krieger is a frequent presenter at scholarly forums and also a popular speaker at meetings of professional associations and client organizations.
With over 20 years' experience generating business results through a deep understanding of how people interact in the workplace, Chris brings a uniquely creative approach to business. Designing and delivering talent management and development solutions grounded in precise assessments are the core of Chris' work. Succession planning and leadership assessment and development solutions are his most sought after services. A practical innovator whose HR solutions produce measurable results in constantly changing markets, Chris has assisted businesses of all sizes at virtually every stage of growth, from Fortune 500 organizations to startup entrepreneurial firms. The multi- national consumer marketing clients Chris has assisted include The Coca-Cola Company, Burger King Corporation, and Bacardi, USA. Technology and Manufacturing industries have included MCI Telecommunications, BellSouth Corporation and Mueller Water Products, Inc. He has also worked extensively with healthcare and non-profit organizations. To accommodate his passion for learning, Chris lectures at the University of Miami and speaks frequently at executive roundtables and retreats.
Chris obtained his Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from Georgia Tech, serves on several non- profit boards and is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists.
Dale F. Campbell is a Senior Organizational Consultant and head of FuturesLeaders Division of the Company. Dr. Campbell has over 30 years experience in community college leadership and workforce development. Dr. Campbell is past Chair of the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges and the National Council for Workforce Education. His national honors include 2007 Distinguished Service and 2003 Senior Scholar Awards by the Council for the Study of Community Colleges, 2002 Outstanding Service to Community Colleges Award by the National Council of Instructional Administration and the 2000 National Leadership Award by the Board of the American Association of Community Colleges.
Dr. Dale Campbell is founder of the Community College Futures Assembly and Bellwether Awards. The Assembly serves annually as an independent national policy forum to identify critical issues facing community colleges and since 1995 has recognized over 400 colleges for their model trend-setting programs. Dr. Campbell also serves as professor and director of the Community College Leadership Consortium at the University of Florida. He was previously Assistant Commissioner for Community and Technical Colleges at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Community College Education Program at North Carolina State University; Dean of Instruction, Wichita Falls for Vernon College(VRJC) in Texas; Head of Public and Support Services Department, Community College of the Air Force.
Selected publications include "The New Leadership Gap: Shortages in Administration Positions" and "Developing and Selecting Leaders for the 21st Century" in Community College Journal.
His latest book The Leadership Gap: Model Strategies for Executive Leadership Development reports his research on the 21st Century Educational Leader Profile and earned him the 2003 Senior Scholar Award from the Council for the Study of Community Colleges.
Dr. Dale Campbell holds a Ph.D in Educational Administration from the University of Texas at Austin and has been honored as a Distinguished Graduate of the College of Education and the Community College Leadership Program.
Darryl Draper is a training professional with more than 15 years in the design, development, and delivery of classroom and online training programs. She has an extensive background in instructional design, the development of online communities of practice learning environments, organizational change, leadership and development and systems management. She is a catalyst for organizational change through strategic planning and implementation of e-learning strategies.
Darryl holds a bachelor of arts degree from Temple University and a master's of education degree in Instructional Systems specializing in training, design, and development from Pennsylvania State University. She earned her doctorate in Instructional Systems from Pennsylvania State University and focused her research on the development of corporate online communities of practice learning environments. Darryl has written numerous papers of online communities of practice learning environments in organizations.
Mr. Ilan Wolffberg is an American industrial psychologist and Gestalt therapist, residing in Kgs. Lyngby, near Copenhagen, Denmark.
After receiving his Masters Degree, Mr. Wolffberg taught psychology at Stevens Institute of Technology for 3 years. In 1971 he moved to Europe and established a freelance consultancy with activities in the Scandinavian countries, Great Britain, and Germany. From 1985 to 1990 Mr. Wolffberg worked as a consultant at the Industrial Psychology Department of the Danish Technological Institute. In 1990 He started his own company, Scandinavian Team Training (now WOLFFBERG Personnel Development, www.wolffberg.dk ), with teaching and training activities throughout Europe. Close ties to the USA are maintained through joint activities with ATG Assessment Technologies Group, Jacksonville Florida.
Mr. Wolffberg is a Gestalt therapist, trained and certified at the Nordisk Gestaltinstitut at Tik¿b, Denmark.
A large part of Mr. Wolffberg's work involves teaching and training managers and industrial project teams. Mr. Wolffberg has trained international teams in Denmark, Sweden, England, France, Germany, Spain, Greece, Belgium and Hungary. One of his particular specialties is the training of product development teams.
Melanie Matarese, an Organizational Consultant, is a results-oriented business leader and experienced human resources executive. Matarese has extensive experience in HR strategy, building HR business partnerships, organizational development, employee engagement, and performance management. She brings diverse knowledge in human capital management and has held positions responsible for ensuring high-value talent management processes are implemented successfully and in alignment to the overall corporate strategy.
Prior to joining ATG, Matarese served as Director of HR for Talagy, where she was able to transform HR into a highly valued strategic business partner. Her work to ensure that business and people plans were integrated across the organization and that HR programs were delivered successfully to support this helped to differentiate Talagy as an employer of choice in its industry.
Before her role at Talagy, Matarese worked as a Human Resources Business Partner for Taleo, the industry leader in Talent Management Software, providing HR leadership for their local Jacksonville office and their R&D organization. She joined Taleo through the acquisition of Vurv Technology, where her role as Product Strategy Analyst enabled her to utilize her expertise to design their award-winning performance management, succession planning, and competency modeling system.
Matarese has also held positions in organizational development and recruiting for Family Dollar Stores, a $7 billion, Fortune 500, multi-unit discount retailer with 40,000+ employees. Matarese graduated from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC with a B.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. She also holds her PHR Certification from the Human Resources Certification Institute.
