Patrick Shields
Executive Director & CFO
Norwalk, Connecticut (CT) USAShields at globalrecruitment.net
Donna Gillotte
Contract Recruiter
Norwalk, Connecticut (CT) USA
Praveena Praveen
Contract Recruiter
Norwalk, Connecticut (CT) USA
Jill Solomon
Contract Recruiter
New York City
Helena Brykarz
Contract Recruiter
California
Patrick Shields, Executive DirectorPatrick has been the Executive Director and CEO of GRS for 23 years. He also was the Manager of Recruitment & Staffing with CARE International in New York City for seven years, the Director of Admissions of Saint Joseph's College in Brooklyn New York, a Recruiter with the Peace Corps in New York City, and a water and sanitation Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya in the early 1980s. Patrick has lived in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Patrick is based in Connecticut.
Donna Gilotte, Contract Recruiter
Highly effective senior management professional and entrepreneur with a focus on strategic talent acquisition solutions for GRS
- Praveena Praveen, Contract Recruiter
- Recruitment and applicant sourcing consultant for GRS
Helena Brykarz, Recruiter
Helena has been with GRS since 2005. She has proven herself to be an accomplished and successful GRS recruiter able to assist clients with their recruitment needs across all program sectors and at all staffing levels. As a Program Executive for the Goldman Environmental Foundation, Helena helped develop the world’s largest international prize for grassroots environmentalists and researched hundreds of environmental leaders around the world. She was also responsible for awarding grants of nearly six million dollars through the Goldman Fund to NGOs focusing on international environmental and human rights issues. She served as a volunteer in the Peace Corps in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and worked for Peace Corps Recruitment in New York, both as a recruiter and an administrator. Helena has a Masters in Environmental Studies from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She speaks Polish, French and Russian. Helena is based in California.
Jill Solomon, Senior Recruiter
Jill has been with GRS since 1993. She has successfully managed and recruited for over 500 positions in the fields of health care, conservation, education, business, communications and fundraising.
Prior to her work at GRS, Jill was a Research Coordinator in Infectious Diseases at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, a Recruiter and Latin America Assistant with CARE International in New York City, and a Health Projects Consultant in Quito, Ecuador with CARE. She also served as a Community Development Extension Worker with the Peace Corps in Honduras and was the Assistant to the Director of the New York City office of The Experiment in International Living.
Jill has her MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and her AB in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College. In addition, Jill is fluent in Spanish. Jill is based in Japan and New Jersey.