Global Director, Universum

Claudia Tattanelli

As the Global Director, Claudia Tattanelli leads the strategic development for the Universum brand with a strong focus on business development as well as client and partnership expansion.

Previously Claudia was the CEO of Nova Global as well as CEO of Universum’s American and Asia/Pacific operations of Universum Group, which today includes the subsidiary groups of Universum Communications, Springboardr, and WetFeet. With over 15 years experience in employer branding, Claudia has extensive experience from the global recruitment scene working with many of the world’s largest companies and organizations, including a majority of the Fortune 100 firms, on their employer branding and recruitment strategies.

As a thought leader in employer branding, Claudia has been quoted in top publications around the world including Businessweek, The New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Washington Post and The Economist speaking on topics ranging from diversity and women recruitment issues to the war for recruiting and retaining top talent. She has also been featured as a guest on Fox TV, Bloomberg and CNBC’s Morning Call.

Before entering the recruitment and employer branding world Claudia, who is also known as Chloe, was working at Sotheby’s N.Y. She grew up in Florence, Italy where she also attended both the faculties of Law and Philosophy at the "Universita´degli studi di Firenze".