Pat Wadors
Former Senior Vice President of Global Talent Organization, LinkedIn
Pat Wadors is Senior Vice President of Global Talent Organization at LinkedIn. She joined LinkedIn in January 2013 to lead its world-class talent (HR) team. In addition to hiring, retaining and inspiring top talent, Pat is also responsible for all employee-related HR programs at LinkedIn, including compensation and benefits and performance management.
She came to LinkedIn from Plantronics, where she was Senior Vice President of Human Resources, responsible for leading the company’s facilities and human resources programs across the all of its worldwide offices. From August 2011 until August 2012, Pat also served as the HR Executive Advisor to Twitter. In that role, she worked with Twitter’s head of HR, CEO and Board of Directors to help guide their workforce talent strategies to scale the business, while also attracting and retaining key talent.
Previously, Pat also spent more than four years at Yahoo!. As the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Yahoo!. Pat led Yahoo!’s HR Business Partner function which supported 14,500 employees in more than 17 locations.
Prior to Yahoo!, Pat served as the Chief Human Resources Officer for Align Technologies and has also held senior human resource management positions at Applied Materials, Merck Pharmaceutical, Viacom International and Calvin Klein Cosmetics.
Pat graduated with a BS in Business Administration from Ramapo College, with a major in Human Resources Management and a minor in Psychology.