Management Team
David Reich – CEO & Founder
David Reich is the Founder and CEO of Assured Labor (www.AssuredLabor.com). Assured Labor revolutionizes hiring in emerging markets by leveraging mobile phones to connect employers with the best mid-to-low wage candidates in their area. The company’s disruptive job platform, EmpleoListo, is currently running in Latin America in partnership with the regions largest wireless carriers.
Prior to founding Assured Labor, David worked as an Equity Research Analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein and at CreditSights, specializing in Wireless and Media convergence. While at Bernstein, David contributed to published research for the wireless equipment and media broadcasting teams Ranked #1 and #2 respectively by Institutional Investor Magazine. Before Wall Street, David worked as a strategy and technology consultant at Accenture. He spent his MBA internship at Innosight Ventures, developing and incubating disruptive start-ups while based in India.
David has advised technology start-ups based in the United States, Brazil, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Singapore and the United Kingdom. His work has been featured in publications including: Forbes, FastCompany, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, The Financial Times and El Universal. He is a frequent lecturer at MIT, Harvard, Boston University and McGill on the subject of social entrepreneurship. David received his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Distribution Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Josh Chaitin-Pollak – Technology Lead
Josh leads Assured Labor’s technology team and platfornm acorss 3 continents. Prior to joining Assured Labor Josh was a Software Architecht at Kiva systems where he started as the 15th employee and help the company grow to over 350. After building software for robots for the past seven years Josh is happy to refocus his engergies on technologies that promote employment in the emerging markets.
Prior to Kiva Systems Josh built robotics platforms at Charles River Analytics, and delvoped photorealistic visulaizaiton software at Swatchbox Technologies. Josh earned his M. Engineering and BS in Computer Sciene from Cornell University.
Yadira Contreras – Operations Manager, Mexico
Yadira leads Assured Labor’s Operations in Mexican under the brand – EmpleoListo. Yadira brings broad experience in Sales, Business Development, Operations and Information Technology to the EmpleoListo team. She has excelled in both the private and public sector, corporations and start-ups, honing in her Management and Human resources expertise at Tata Consultancy Services, Telmex , Instituto Federal Electoral, the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social and Grupo Acir.
Yadira received her MBA from the University of Bath in England where she was awarded the prestigious five Santander-Abbey Scholarship for her academic and professional trajectory and her commitment with Mexico’s development. Yadira holds a bachelor degree as Cybernetics and Computer Systems Engineer from the Universidad La Salle in Mexico City.
Angelina Clarke – Operations Director, Brazil
Angelina leads Assured Labors operations in Brazil under the brand name – TrabalhoJá. Prior to Assured Labor she worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. Sâo Paulo, focused in financial services (including payments and credit), operations transformation, and family-owned businesses.
Before McKinsey, Angelina worked with key academics and policy-makers from Harvard and MIT to tackle post-9/11 foreign policy problems. She earned an MBA from MIT Sloan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), where she led the largest North American job fair focused on positions in Europe. For the past three years Angelina has actively advised multiple startup looking to enter the Brazilian market. She is passionate about business model innovation, technology, and Brazil.
Huguette Arana – Marketing Director
Huguette has had experience in Telecommunications, working for more than 7 sears with CLARO, the leading telecommunications company in Nicaragua, being a key part of the team responsible for the Planning, Organizational Design and Implementation of the GSM Standard. Huguette also performed leading roles with CLARO in the implementation of projects throughout the Central American Region in several areas such as Market Analysis, Processes Mapping and Web Content Management.
Huguette led the recruitment and personnel training for many areas of the company such as Merchandising, Customer Service and Operations. As a Value Added Services Coordinator, Huguette administrated the development of new voice and data products domestically and abroad. She coordinated promotions and researched competitors as Promotions and Competitors Coordinator. Huguette holds a Business Administration degree and post-graduate in International Marketing studies.
