Our Mission
With the aim of providing easily customizable online pre-employment assessment tests, eSkill Corporation has developed into a global leader in employment-related skills testing. eSkill provides organizations with a web-based skill testing service. Specifically, the eSkill application lets hiring and training managers configure tests from our extensive subject library to match their hiring and training needs and reduce the risk of hiring failures and discrimination litigation.
Our end goals are to have employer clients whose team performance is improving and candidates with a good experience of their assessment process.
Our Vision
eSkill launched its online assessment software in 2003, on the logic that job-customizable tests are more accurate, thorough, and compliant predictors of employee success than ‘canned’ tests. eSkill job-customized tests are also more engaging and informative about the role, versus lengthy, irrelevant tests that drive away talented people.
Internally, eSkill strives to foster a culture of kindness, and an open career path where our employees can help determine the path that best matches their intrinsic and learned skills. We like to take our work seriously, but not ourselves.
Today, eSkill has expanded globally, and beyond hard skills assessment into cognitive aptitudes, video interviewing, and personality assessment. We remain committed to serving the most complete and effective employee assessment products in the world.
The eSkill Management Team
Laith Dahiyat
Chairman and CEO
Laith Dahiyat is an accomplished CEO with over 20 years of experience in scaling enterprise SaaS companies. He has a proven track record of leading growing in the HR Tech industry. Most recently, Laith served as CEO of Pingboard, where he significantly advanced its growth before its acquisition. His previous roles at Chargify and Assembla involved driving product vision and strategic initiatives. Laith is passionate about fostering innovation and delivering value in the SaaS landscape.
Chris E. Caldwell
Chief Financial Officer
As an accomplished Chief Financial Officer, Chris E. Caldwell brings a dynamic blend of financial acumen and hands-on operational expertise to eSkill. With a distinguished career spanning over 20+years, he has consistently driven business transformation, facilitated revenue growth for industry-leading global organizations, and improved operational efficiencies.
Leveraging expertise in financial operations management, shared services, forecasting, and financial planning, Chris E. Caldwell has successfully lead large-scale financial integrations and strategic initiatives. As a subject matter expert in financial operations, he is adept at optimizing processes, managing relationships, and building high-performing teams.
Chris Block
Chief Revenue Officer
Chris is an accomplished revenue executive with a diverse background in SaaS technology companies ranging from Sports Management, MarTech, DaaS and now HR Tech with eSkill. He has more than 15 years of experience in building and leading high performing revenue teams that have high-growth and GTM efficiency which has resulted in multiple successful exits. Prior to eSkill, Chris was the VP of Revenue at import.io and the Head of Sales at Mailgun where he started as employee #18 and helped build the GTM Org to a $1.9B acquisition by Sinch in September 2021. He attributes his success to being a lifelong learner and always eager to learn from the resources around him.
Michelle Rabenaldt
Head of Customer Success
Michelle Rabenaldt has demonstrated success in driving customer success for high-growth B2B SaaS and cloud companies. At eSkill, she is a passionate advocate of customer-centric business practices, ensuring HR organizations are equipped with the tools and resources they need to hire, train, and manage their teams more effectively. With her extensive experience, Michelle will strategically facilitate exceptional service experiences, helping HR leaders leverage eSkill’s solutions to enhance recruitment processes, optimize workforce assessments, and improve overall employee performance. Her commitment to aligning customer outcomes with business goals makes her an indispensable partner to eSkill’s clients.
Caralyn Brown
Chief Technical Officer
Caralyn has led critical product development teams and products across a variety of industries including data communications, public safety and tech services. She headed operations teams dedicated to meeting support and uptime requirements for the most demanding mission critical clients. She is passionate about creating products and platforms that meet the highest standards of quality, scalability, and flexibility to meet the needs of clients.
I/O Psychology Team
Scott Hamilton
Ph.D.
Dr. Scott Hamilton has over 40 years’ experience in predictive assessments. His expertise is in both technical and operational areas including data analysis, the proper utilization of assessments, and custom built assessments for special applications.
Dr. Hamilton has been instrumental in the creation, development, and implementation of business assessments used in more than130 countries in 40 languages.
He has been an invited speaker and also conducted training and development workshops in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He has served on several boards of directors for various professional organizations and commercial corporations.
Dr, Hamilton holds both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Counseling and Clinical Psychology with minors in research from North Texas State University.
Charles Handler
Ph.D.
Dr. Charles Handler is a thought leader, analyst, and practitioner in the talent assessment and human capital space. Throughout his career Dr. Handler has specialized in developing effective, legally defensible employee selection systems.
Dr. Handler has helped companies such as Nike, Delta Airlines, Intuit, Wells Fargo, and Hilton Worldwide to design, implement, and measure impactful employee selection processes.
Through his prolific writing for media outlets such as ERE.net, his work as a pre-hire assessment analyst for Bersin by Deloitte, and worldwide public speaking, Dr. Handler is a highly visible futurist and evangelist for the talent assessment space. Throughout his career, Dr. Handler has been on the forefront of innovation in the talent assessment space, applying his sound foundation in psychometrics to helping drive innovation in assessments through the use of gaming, social media, big data, and other advanced technologies.
Dr. Handler holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Louisiana State University.
Hannah Filley
Founder, HK Organizational Solutions
Hannah Filley (previously Komorny) founded HK Organizational Solutions in 2020 to provide professional expertise to public sector hiring departments in transitioning to modern, defensible hiring practices.
She holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Psychology from Alliant International University, is a member of the Personnel Testing Council of Southern California, and holds CSPCA’s Merit Academy and IPMA-CP certifications.
She has over seven years of psychometric expertise and test development/validation experience within the academic, private, and public sectors. Hannah has worked with over 100 companies and clients for test administration, results analysis, test creation, revision, and validation.
Chris Kunze
Data Analyst
Chris Kunze is a multi-lingual data scientist with over 15 years of experience predicting employee performance, retention and safety. Assisting hundreds of companies all over the globe implement screening Assessments and leadership surveys, Kunze uses machine learning algorithms to build and validate predictive models so new candidate and employee data can be scored efficiently and accurately through custom, interactive applications.
Previously at John Wiley & Sons’ Workplace Learning Solutions Division, Chris leveraged governmental workforce and client data to publish a library of 139 job-related performance models for Wiley partners and clients. He is known for estimating ROI before model implementation using the venerable Brogden-Cronbach-Gleser Utility Formula. Finally, Chris is a certified consultant with Frontline Systems, Inc., the premier creator and distributor of optimization, simulation and data mining software.
Chris is a Phi Bet Kappa graduate of of Marquette University with a Liberal Arts degree, and has a degree in Philosophy from the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy.
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