Executive Team

Jennifer Floren

Jenny founded Experience in 1996, at the very dawn of the Internet era. Following her personal experiences with on-campus recruiting as a student and later as an employer, she knew that the laborious, complex and resource intensive approach to connecting students with employers wasn’t working – especially for the students, who needed far more support in order to make informed career decisions.

While Experience is consistently recognized for its leadership in technology and innovation, the mission of Experience is “to educate, assist and inspire” the next generation of talent – which encompasses far more than online career management systems or making job listings easier to find. Jenny’s groundbreaking vision for how to enlist educational institutions, companies, governments and citizens around the world toward this important mission has been recognized by national press, and by industry leaders throughout academia and enterprise.

The author of the book, The Gen Y Way: How New Thinking Can Reclaim the American Dream, Jenny is a frequent speaker at nationwide universities and major business events to share her unique perspective on the up-and-coming workforce. She earned a BA in psychology from Dartmouth College and was a management consultant with Bain & Company in Boston prior to starting Experience. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Jobs for the Future and the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy.

Edward Wagner

As Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), Ed drives Experience’s enterprise program that enables FORTUNE 500 and other top employers to target and reach Gen Y talent for strategic hiring initiatives, including candidate pooling, employee retention, corporate branding and talent community programs. He also oversees the development of best-in-class technology solutions geared towards colleges, universities and organizations to empower their efforts to engage candidates with career-focused services and offerings.

An established software industry visionary, Ed brings 18 years of extensive operational and corporate development experience to the company. Prior to joining Experience, he most recently served as SVP, Marketing for Alignent Software. Ed has also held executive-level positions at Icebreaker (where he was also a founder), Computervision and Rasna Corporation. He holds a B.S. from the Florida Institute of Technology.

Ady Das

As VP of Software Development, Ady brings 12 years of extensive hands-on experience in managing and developing web applications. At Experience, he prioritizes and oversees the development team and drives the technological direction for the company’s recruiting solutions. Ady is also responsible for integrating emerging technologies that will enable Experience to launch web and mobile applications that helps millions of Gen Y candidates meet their career goals.

Prior to joining Experience, Ady was the lead architect for The Rockband Network at Harmonix Music Systems—an industry first—which enables musicians and labels to create and sell music in the Rockband ecosystem. With a penchant for Open Source, Ady was a Lead Technologist at Optaros and also spent several years working as a web channel architect at Camelot UK (UK National Lottery), where he helped develop one of the world’s most successful interactive lottery systems. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Bangalore University.

Stan Jackson

As Experience’s Chief Business Intelligence Officer, Stan drives efforts to deliver compelling and unique performance analytics and insight around our customers’ Gen Y hiring programs. He is also responsible for our site operations and technology infrastructure.

Prior to joining Experience, Stan was VP of Engineering at NetGenesis, one of the leaders in the web analytics space. Stan has held senior technology management roles at Dow Jones/Telerate, Market Systems Technology, Thomson Financial and Bank of Boston, where he has managed large-scale, mission-critical systems. Stan has a B.S. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Jason Spugnardi

Jason keeps the trains running on time, as each day he pulls together the financial, legal and operations groups, enabling Experience and its staff to deliver services to candidates, schools and employers.

Ensuring corporate alignment throughout all aspects of the business, Jason manages budgeting and analysis responsibilities, all corporate legal functions, as well as internal activities including operations and human resources.

Prior to coming to Experience, Jason, a CPA, spent several years in public accounting and also worked in corporate finance at ARIAD Pharmaceuticals. In addition to his 10+ years of accounting and finance experience, he holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Southern Maine.

Janet Sun

Janet is focused on defining and implementing the company’s go-to-market strategy for enterprise employers and has lead the vision for the development of the Talent Community platform, from product functionality, data analytics to client engagement. She’s charged with leveraging the company’s rich repository of data for competitive advantage, including ad targeting, market segmentation, crowdsourced lead generation and viral marketing initiatives. Janet also tracks the interests, behaviors and preferences of Gen Y through custom surveys and polls, and publishes proprietary research via our Gen Y Insights series.

Before Experience, Janet was VP of Marketing at Genuity and managed product strategy, market research, and operations. Prior to Genuity, she spent 8 years with GTE/BBN where she held executive positions in marketing, business development, strategic planning and investor relations. Janet holds a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.