Leadership Announcement: Wade Pierson Joins TalentXi as Executive Advisor

TalentXtended Intelligence (TalentXi) is pleased to announce that Wade W. Pierson has joined the company as Executive Advisor. Wade brings more than 20 years of enterprise sales leadership, strategic business development, and go-to-market expertise from the AI, SaaS, HR Technology, and Talent Intelligence sectors.

In this strategic role, Wade partners directly with Founder and CEO Jason Gorham to scale TalentXi's core mission: turning job postings into job ads, eliminating bots, and optimizing for human outcomes. Wade's proven ability to build enterprise sales organizations and close deals with large talent teams and recruitment platforms will be critical as TalentXi expands its customer base.

Who Is Wade Pierson?

Wade is a revenue and growth executive recognized for building businesses from startup through acquisition, revitalizing underperforming organizations, and creating scalable revenue engines. His career spans founding and scaling ventures, serving as Chief Revenue Officer at Leoforce (an AI-driven talent acquisition platform), VP Sales at Nexxt (recruitment media and marketing), Head of Business Development at Korn Ferry, and Managing Partner at Impact Talent Ventures.

In 2024, Wade was honored with the Titan 100 Award, recognizing him among the most influential business leaders in the U.S. He is passionate about the intersection of people and technology, and specializes in helping organizations harness AI-driven solutions to solve complex business and talent challenges.

Wade's Focus at TalentXi

As Executive Advisor, Wade will focus on:

• Go-to-Market Strategy: Advising on enterprise sales execution, customer segmentation, and market positioning to establish TalentXi as the standard for turning job postings into job ads.
• Enterprise Growth: Building scalable revenue engines with enterprise talent teams, recruitment agencies, and job platforms — customers ready to eliminate bot waste and optimize for human outcomes.
• Strategic Partnerships: Developing partnerships to accelerate market adoption of programmatic hiring and direct, human-driven candidate sourcing.
• Corporate Development: Advising on business model refinement, revenue forecasting, organizational scaling, and strategic planning as the company scales from launch to market leadership.

Why Wade Is the Right Fit

Wade's experience is uniquely aligned with TalentXi's mission: turning job postings into job ads, eliminating bots, and delivering human outcomes. He has spent two decades building enterprise sales organizations that understand performance-driven hiring and the cost of wasted recruitment spend. Wade knows how to articulate why job boards are broken — and how to help enterprise talent teams and agencies move to a model where every dollar goes to reaching actual humans, not bot traffic.

"Wade gets the problem immediately. He's sold to the same CTOs, talent leaders, and agencies we're building for. They're tired of job board waste and bot traffic diluting their hiring ROI. Wade will help us show that there's a better way: turning job postings into real job ads, reaching verified humans, and delivering the human outcomes that matter."

About TalentXtended Intelligence (TalentXi)

TalentXi is the programmatic job advertising platform that optimizes for hires, not clicks. TalentXi brings true programmatic architecture to recruitment for the first time.

TalentXi eliminates bot-driven waste by turning job postings into job ads. Rather than pushing static listings to job boards and waiting for clicks, the platform treats every job as a dynamic ad campaign — executed through real-time bidding across leading demand-side platforms, with AI-generated creative that adapts to each channel and audience. Because TalentXi buys premium, directly sourced inventory instead of relying on job board traffic, bot and click-farm traffic is structurally removed from the equation. Every dollar is optimized toward verified human applicants and quality hires. Learn more at talentxi.ai.