About

The people behind HireGains.ai

Experts in healthcare, retail, hospitality, financial services, workforce strategy, psychology, and applied AI - building conversational AI that captures what a resume never could: capabilities, workstyle, energy, and alignment, in a single conversation for high-volume, customer-facing, people-facing, and frontline roles.

Leadership

Built by operators who've done the work.

Tessa James

Tessa James

CEO & Co-Founder

Tess fuses deep life sciences expertise with psychology and HR technology to reshape how organizations understand and deploy talent. Her work focuses on complex, regulated environments where human judgment, precision, and sustainability directly impact outcomes.

Randy Gulian

Randy Gulian

Chairman & Co-Founder

Randy brings deep operating and leadership experience across financial services to building technology-enabled human capital platforms. He has led global recruiting operations at scale - from executive search to a 3,500-person RPO spanning 60 countries.

Alison Untiedt

Alison Untiedt

VP, Talent and Domain Solutions

Alison partners with senior leaders to solve complex talent challenges where domain expertise, context, and judgment materially affect risk and outcomes - translating business-critical needs into validated talent solutions.

Advisory Board

Guided by people shaping the future of work.

Bruce Morton

Bruce Morton

Advisory Board

Four decades of experience in workforce strategy and talent design, advising global organizations on complex resourcing models and operating structures.

David Ballew

David Ballew

Advisory Board

Founder and CEO of Nimble Global. Advises on compliance, scalable workforce design, and building resilient, future-ready talent systems.

John Healy

John Healy

Advisory Board

Chief Executive of Whrrr.work. A leading strategist shaping global labour markets, advising Global 2000 companies on workforce transformation and ethical innovation.

Karen Brown

Karen Brown

Advisory Board

A leading DEI strategist who drives business value by amplifying diverse voices and designing systems that unlock equitable performance. Published in Harvard Business Review.

Dr. Mike Steger

Dr. Mike Steger

Advisory Board

A leading expert on meaning, purpose, and psychological strengths at work - 140+ peer-reviewed publications and multiple foundational books in positive psychology.

Shelton Guinn

Shelton Guinn

Advisory Board

A strategic operator known for building high-performance teams and transforming human capital strategy into measurable business results.

Our Mission

Help people-facing, customer-facing, and frontline teams hire the right person for the shift - not just the right resume for the role.

Every unit, branch, and floor has its own rhythm. Every frontline worker has a workstyle that either steadies it or strains it. HireGains listens for that signal - so leaders staff teams that stay calm under pressure, and workers land where they can actually do their best work.