Two operators.
We built Pedagogue Systems to put people to work.
Chris Loope
Co-Founder & CTO
Chris held CTO, CIO, and Chief Digital Officer roles at EmployBridge, a private equity backed firm that scaled from $300M to $3B, and at BGSF (NYSE: BGSF). He architected the technology foundation that Cassion's approach descends from. His direct implementation experience covers UKG Pro Payroll, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, Dayforce, and Infor. He has worked inside private equity ownership structures including J.W. Childs, MSouth, Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, and Anchorage/BlueMountain. He serves on the ASA Technology Taskforce.
Nycole Rosen
Co-Founder & COO
Nycole has spent more than 25 years in staffing operations, from the floor at EmployBridge through CIO at BGSF. She carried board-level accountability for technology strategy at a publicly traded staffing firm. She led systems consolidations, post-acquisition integrations, and operational transformations at scale. She holds a PMP, is a Prosci Certified Change Management Professional, and is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
Our advisors.
Beth Garvey
Operations and staffing leadership
Beth led BGSF, a staffing company listed on the NYSE, as Chief Executive Officer from 2018 to 2025. She joined as Chief Operating Officer in 2016 and chaired the board for three years. She built the company's first enterprise strategic plan. She acquired and integrated nine brands, grew the company from 23 states to 36, and entered Canada, India, and Latin America. Staffing Industry Analysts named her to the Global Power 150 Women in Staffing eight years running.
Sharon Osher Greenbaum
Compliance and regulatory
Sharon has spent more than thirty years as a staffing industry lawyer. She was General Counsel at EmployBridge for twenty-one years. She then built the legal team at Motion Recruitment Partners and helped guide its sale to Kelly Services. Her work spans employment law, court cases, class actions, merger work, benefits, payroll, and risk. She holds a law degree from the University of Florida and is a registered mediator with the state of Georgia.
Rick Gipson
Technical architecture and platform design
Rick is a Partner at Credera, where he leads the Business and Industrial Markets sector. He is the firm's expert on staffing and on mergers. He has spent twenty-five years leading technology teams, sixteen of them at Credera. He has delivered more than 300 client projects across strategy, systems work, and AI. His staffing work centers on the applicant journey and hiring automation at firms placing hundreds of thousands of people a year.
Shawn W. Poole
Finance and staffing operations
Shawn co-founded EmployBridge in 2000. He was its President and Chief Financial Officer, and stepped back from daily management in 2018. He helped grow it into the largest industrial staffing firm in the country, past three billion dollars in revenue, with 95,000 people at work. Before that he ran finance for Randstad in North America. He began at Arthur Andersen and is a CPA. He now advises and invests with private equity firms in human capital, and sits on staffing and security boards. He is an Executive-in-Residence at Appalachian State, where he works with the Bowden Investment Group.
What we are saying.
We publish in places that take the conversation seriously. That includes the American Staffing Association's Staffing Success magazine, the Day One App podcast, and profiles in ToggleMAG and Salesforce. We speak at industry summits and taskforce calls, and we write our own pieces here when we have something to say.
In conversation.
We stand inside a tradition. Our work is in conversation with Fei-Fei Li and Erik Brynjolfsson on how AI changes labor. It listens to Stuart Russell and Ben Shneiderman on what governance has to look like, and to Kate Crawford on what gets hidden inside these systems. Hilke Schellmann and Ben Eubanks keep us honest about what the receiving end of these tools actually experiences.