# 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐲

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EP 218: Don't Hire

Adam Spector’s path has never been conventional, from leaving DC for boarding school to pivoting from law school into tech and startups. Now Founder & CEO of Chore, he shares how building companies, learning from early startup failures, and obsessing over AI shaped his belief that founders should r…

EP 219: Building Talent Programs at Hulu, Activision, and Take-Two

Jessica Wheeler went from growing up in Vancouver, Washington to building talent programs at some of the biggest names in entertainment and gaming, including Hulu, Activision, and Take-Two Interactive. Now VP, Global Head of TA Strategy at Take-Two, she shares how scaling Hulu from 500 to 3,000 emp…

EP 220: Elephants, Lions & the Psychology of Talent Leadership

Growing up between Canada and East Africa, Michael Kieran’s childhood was shaped by international communities, close encounters with elephants and lions, and experiences that challenged the way he saw the world. He brings that same perspective to building high-performing recruiting teams grounded i…

EP 221: Why Generalists Win in a Fast-Changing Talent Market

What does it actually take to grow as a talent leader when the playbook keeps changing? Chelsea Kovak, Head of Global Talent Acquisition at TaskRabbit, shares how she thinks about AI, data, tooling, and the skills recruiters need to build in a market that’s moving faster than ever. Along the way, s…

EP 222: Inside Qonto's AI-Native Recruiting Stack

Aurelien Drieu is Qonto's Head of Talent Acquisition. Over the past six years, he's helped scale the company from 200 to 1,700+ employees. In this conversation, he shares how his team uses AI to move faster without trading off on quality - from automating dashboards and building in-house agents tha…

EP 223: The Recruiter Who Learned to Look Past the Resume

Vincenzo Fasulo grew up in Benevento, Italy, a city older than Rome. After moving to the U.S. during one of the most uncertain chapters of his life, he built an unconventional path from receptionist to Head of Talent at SafeBreach. In this conversation, he shares how that journey shaped the way he …

EP 225: From Animal Behavior to Talent Teams: Leading with Positive Reinforcement

Host James Mackey sits down with Jennifer Anker, a talent acquisition executive who has built and led recruiting organizations at Illumio, Twilio, Wiz, and Okta. Long before recruiting, Jennifer studied animal behavior and worked with marine mammals - an experience that shaped the calm, positive-re…

EP 226: Navigating Modern TA Operations in 2026

In this episode, host James Mackey talks with Jeremy Lyons, Co-Founder of RecOps Collective, about what recruiting operations really includes, why AI rollouts often fail without clear context, and how hiring culture shows up in the data. They discuss scheduling automation, the hidden cost of automa…

Flock Won’t Answer This One Town’s Simple Question

Flock Safety’s license plate cameras are in about 6,000 towns across the U.S. But lately, towns have been pulling out of their contracts after all sorts of creepy stories about cops using the cameras to spy on people in their personal lives.  But in Tewksbury, Mass., residents have a different con…

Daily Pulse: October 1, 2026 (Flock's Future in Tewksbury)

𝐉𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐲 joins Tewksbury Selectman 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐈𝐈𝐈 to breakdown his two Town Meeting Articles addressing Automated License Plate Readers, what those articles would do and what they wouldn't; #insidelowell