About Sinecure.ai

A Sinecure, Inc. Company
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Sinecure, Inc. is a collection of specialty talent firms with a flexible approach to hiring called the Total Talent Solution. It is a unique offering that lets clients customize their service levels to find the optimal balance between human interaction, expert knowledge, and AI efficiency.

By giving our clients the ability to adjust individual elements of their strategy, they have complete control over their talent acquisition processes and can proactively address any hiring challenge regardless of complexity, urgency or scale.

Our Mission

Our mission at Sinecure.ai is to help recruiters maximize their most precious resource—time.

We believe every minute saved is an opportunity to drive better hiring outcomes, which is why we are deeply committed to finding new ways to enhance recruiter efficiency and output.

We use cutting-edge automation and AI solutions to reduce manual effort and optimize workflows so recruiters can focus on what truly matters to them: building meaningful connections and delivering high-value experiences that turn top candidates into new hires.

Meet our leadership

Executive Team

JoelWright

Joel Wright

CEO and Founder

Joel Wright brings over 20 years of experience to a variety of entrepreneurial and executive roles in both public and private companies. He is currently CEO and Founder of Sinecure.ai…

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Joel Wright

CEO and Founder

Joel Wright brings over 20 years of experience to a variety of entrepreneurial and executive roles in both public and private companies. He is currently CEO and Founder of Sinecure.ai, a SaaS software company dedicated to revolutionizing talent discovery through AI and Large Language Model (LLM) innovation. He started the company with a simple premise: to make the process of finding and hiring great talent easy.

Prior to Sinecure Wright was the CEO and co-founder of #HASHOFF, an AI SaaS platform for the creator economy.  He was responsible for the strategic vision and development of the industry leading technology and led the organization from inception to successful exit. Earlier in his career, Wright served as Chief Revenue Officer at Travelocity which was acquired by Expedia. He successfully turned the company’s media business around from double digit revenue declines to over 100% growth in two years. 

Wright’s start-up experience includes venture backed companies like Marc Andreessen’s Ning (acquired by Glam Media) where he served as Vice President of Business Development. Previous to Ning, Wright was Vice President and Head of Interactive Media at leading Hollywood talent agency Paradigm where his work received numerous awards and recognition including being named to the Hollywood Reporter’s Next Generation – 35 Under 35, Ad Age’s Top Digital Agent in 2008 and TV Weeks Agent of Change. Before Paradigm he was an executive at Yahoo! where he developed the first streaming media advertising product called Yahoo! AdVision, which later won Media Post’s Best of the Net and MarcoMedia’s Max Award.

Wright lives in New York City with his wife and four children. He is a passionate Kansas Jayhawks basketball fan and loves to travel.

JohnZeman

John Zeman

Chief Marketing Officer

With years of experience in leadership roles across various industries, John (aka JZ), brings a wealth of experience to his role as COO of Sinecure, Inc….

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John Zeman

Chief Marketing Officer

With years of experience in leadership roles across various industries, John (aka JZ), brings a wealth of experience to his role as CMO of Sinecure, Inc. He is primarily responsible for driving business growth and reputation, and is a passionate advocate for building a sustainable business through innovation and excellence.

JZ was formerly Global Head of Speaking at Twitter where he oversaw the company’s worldwide efforts to engage targeted audiences through the external speaking channel. Along with strategic planning and management of the internal speaking process, he also managed the Speaker & Media Training program that he created to develop the company’s most important spokespeople. In earlier roles at Twitter he ran operations for the B2B Marketing org, and was the first person hired in Sales Marketing tasked with developing the strategies and tactics to launch, scale, market, and monetize Twitter’s first advertising initiatives.

 Prior to joining Twitter, JZ was Senior Director of Marketing at SAY Media (aka VideoEgg), a video and content advertising network, where he led the teams responsible for all aspects of brand and product marketing, as well as content and sales development. Before SAY, he was the Director of Sales Production for Yahoo! Inc.’s horizontal content properties and charged with the monetization of Yahoo! Media, Entertainment, Information and Finance properties. His first three years at Yahoo! JZ ran the Northwest Sales organization for the newly IPO’d Internet icon.

 JZ has a BA from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas, where he majored in advertising with a minor in business. Follow him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnzeman/

JulieCrane

Julia Crane

Chief Financial Officer

Julie is the CFO of AI-powered talent advisory, Sinecure, Inc. She was previously the Global Chief Operating Officer of the Grace Blue Partnership…

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Julie Crane

Chief Financial Officer

Julie is the CFO of AI-powered talent advisory, Sinecure, Inc. She was previously the Global Chief Operating Officer of the Grace Blue Partnership.

Julie’s career began as a trainee at O&M Direct in 1989, where she spent 10 years before moving to HPT as Finance Director. She played a key role in HPT’s sale to WPP (and its subsequent merger with Wunderman) before becoming Finance Director of the newly-merged business.

In 2007, Julie moved to Craik Jones and in 2007 to Redfin LLP, a specialist finance agency providing SMEs in the marketing sector a part-time FD function including financial, commercial and strategic consultancy.

Julie joined Grace Blue in 2013.

LauraLasiter

Laura Lasiter

EVP, Sinecure Recruitment Services

Laura is the EVP of Sinecure Recruitment Services where she leads strategic development for the newly formed division of Sinecure, Inc., the technology powered talent advisory that…

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Laura Lasiter

Executive Vice President, Sinecure Recruitment Services

Laura is the EVP of Sinecure Recruitment Services where she leads strategic development for the newly formed division of Sinecure, Inc., the technology powered talent advisory that combines the power of AI with the personal touch of experienced advisors in a full suite of wholly owned products and services.

Laura was formerly CEO of Strategy Source, the recruitment services firm acquired by Sinecure, Inc. to create the new division. Since 2005 she has worked tirelessly to build a reputation for Strategy Source known for its custom search solutions and strategic approach to filling talent gaps since 2005.

Laura began her career in startups and high-performing sales teams including CBS, AOL and others kicking off client relationships with agencies and clients like Verizon, Home Depot, Coca-Cola, AT&T, IHG, Zenith/Moxie 360i and more.

Through these experiences, she developed a passion for helping companies with strategy, team and sales operations growth. She also felt the need to help candidates; she sees recruiting as two-sided, not focused only on the client. It’s all about relationships. After all, people have driven Laura’s success from the beginning — and they’re still driving her today.

Board Members

WendaHarrisMillard

Wenda Harris Millard

Chairman of the Board & Investor

Wenda Harris Millard is an influential and accomplished leader with an exceptional track record of value creation and innovation that spans four decades and multiple industries. Her present focus is

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Wenda Harris Millard
Chairman of the Board & Investor

Wenda Harris Millard is an influential and accomplished leader with an exceptional track record of value creation and innovation that spans four decades and multiple industries. Her present focus is WhoKnew, her strategic advisory that counsels and funds fledgling businesses in the spaces she knows well and where she has been successful – technology, media and advertising.

In line with her current responsibilities, Ms. Millard is Chairman of the Board at Sinecure.ai, a software platform revolutionizing talent discovery through AI and LLM innovation. In addition, she is active on the boards of Caleres, a $1.5 billion publicly-held footwear company, and TOMO Networks, a privately held tech real estate disruptor.

Ms. Millard is the former Vice Chairman of MediaLink, a prominent consultancy and business development firm known for its vital counsel to the media, advertising, and entertainment industries. Before MediaLink she made a major impact on the burgeoning internet industry, first as a founding member of the executive team at DoubleClick, and later as the Chief Sales Officer at Yahoo!,

where she masterminded a revenue turnaround from $700 million to over $6 billion in just six years. Earlier in her career Ms. Millard held leadership positions at some of the most notable companies in the marketing world including Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Ziff Davis, Family Circle and Adweek among them.

Ms. Millard’s contributions to the advertising field have earned her numerous industry recognitions, culminating in her induction in 2022 into the Advertising Hall of Fame, the highest honor bestowed by the ad industry. In addition to the company boards, Ms. Millard is a Trustee Emeritus of the James Beard Foundation, the Vice Chair of the Charleston Literary Festival, and a board member of WINGS for Kids, a social emotional learning organization for at-risk children. She has also served two terms as a Trustee of her alma mater, Trinity College, where she holds a Bachelor of Arts. Ms. Millard also holds a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University.

DougalCameron

Dougal Cameron

CEO and Managing Director of Golden Section & Board Member

Mr. Cameron is a technology entrepreneur and software venture investor. He is CEO and co-founder of Golden Section, a venture capital firm

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Dougal Cameron

CEO and Managing Director of Golden Section & Board Member

Mr. Cameron is a technology entrepreneur and software venture investor. He is CEO and co-founder of Golden Section, a venture capital firm, engineering organization and early-stage venture partner serving business software companies from ideation to $5M in revenue. Under Mr. Cameron’s management, Golden Section has grown to a team of more than thirty-five professionals, invested in numerous technology ventures, and served more than four hundred software companies with expertise and services since 2011. Golden Section’s investment track record is in the top quartile of peer venture managers. As of March 2024, Golden Section’s portfolio of companies produced more than $225M in annual revenue and are growing more than 50% per year. GSV’s portfolio created more than $8 of annual revenue for every $1 of equity invested (more than 10x the industry average). Mr. Cameron serves on several boards of portfolio software companies and several other operating businesses in his personal portfolio.

Previously, Mr. Cameron served as CEO of Prognosis Innovation Healthcare, a leading inpatient electronic health record system, from its turnaround through the sale of the business to a Kayne Anderson portfolio company, Azalea Health Innovations, Inc, in September 2017. Prior to his roles at GST and Prognosis, Mr. Cameron launched a division of a Houston-based oil and gas manufacturing company to recertify and repair blowout preventers and other pressure control products. Mr. Cameron has also worked in private equity and in that capacity worked with a range of industrial industries including timber, steel manufacturers, drill collar manufacturing, and similar industries. 

Mr. Cameron started his career at the Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas during the great financial crisis. He worked as an analyst for several vice presidents and a senior vice president. His role included attending branch board meetings. 

Mr. Cameron has a degree in history and math from Rhodes College and a M.B.A. from Rice University. In addition, he is a Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder and passed all three levels on the first attempt.

https://www.goldensection.com/team/dougal-cameron-2/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougalcameron/

JayHaines

Jay Haines

Global President

Jay is Global President of Sinecure, Inc., an AI-powered talent acquisition and retention platform designed to improve the recruiting process. Prior to Sinecure…

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Jay Haines

President, Sinecure, Inc. & Board Member.

Jay is President of Sinecure, Inc., an AI-powered talent acquisition and retention platform designed to improve the recruiting process. 

Prior to Sinecure, Jay was one of the three Founders of Grace Blue and CEO of the Partnership’s US operation.

 Following three years of blood, sweat and tears studying Locke and Descartes, Jay put his knowledge of the great philosophers to good use in his first role as a graduate trainee at McCann-Erickson London. During his five years at the agency, he worked in both new business and account management, whilst also running the agency’s graduate recruitment and mentoring programs.

 In 2001, Jay left McCann to set up his own business before moving into the world of communications recruitment with Kendall Tarrant. Responsible for leading and growing the European side of the business, Jay worked alongside Gay Haines and Juliet Timms, with whom he set up Grace Blue in 2006.  Created to work exclusively with the most senior people in business, the Grace Blue Partnership quickly established itself in the British, European and Asian Markets. As the business continued to scale, Jay moved to New York in 2012 to set up the US operation.

 Away from Grace Blue, Jay is kept busy entertaining 3 small people (a girl and two boys), and following Arsenal from afar.

SteveFarella

Steve Farella

Board Member & Investor

Steve is a media agency veteran, entrepreneur and passionate about helping

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Steve Farella
Board Member & Investor

Steve is a media agency veteran, entrepreneur and passionate about helping startups.

He was the founding CEO of Havas’ media agency, MPG. He co-founded the fastest growing independent media agency, TargetCast tcm in 2002, which he sold to MDC Partners. Today Steve currently serves as founding Chairman of MDC Media Partners and Assembly Media, a newly launched media agency providing scaled media solutions powered by unique planning and buying technologies.

Before launching media agencies Steve built and managed media groups at several leading national advertising agencies including Jordan McGrath Case & Partners, Young & Rubicam, Wells Rich Greene/BDDP and Ammirati & Puris. He started his career at Benton & Bowles.

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