Matt Lafata
Vice-President, Sales & Marketing
Matt has over 16 years in the HR industry and has been with
HRchitect since 2004. He is responsible for worldwide sales of HRchitect
services, marketing, customer success, and partnerships. As one of the industry’s leading thought leaders and analysts on
Talent Management Systems and Vendors, Matt extensively studies the Talent
Management market place and talks to leading vendors on a regular basis to stay
on top of trends in this industry. Matt has moderated numerous Talent
Management shootouts and panel discussions for software vendors and HR
organizations such as IHRIM. He has also been a featured speaker on Talent
Management solutions at various industry and vendor conferences. Matt is additionally tasked with ensuring that HRchitect maintains
the strongest of commitments to the HR technology vendor community. This
includes attending vendor user conferences and analyst days, blogging and
tweeting about vendor related news, strategizing on joint business opportunities,
speaking to sales groups, conducting joint webinars and seminars, and more. Matt is also the host of the industry’s most popular live weekly
Internet show, the HRchitect HR Technology Happy Hour WebMingle™ as well as the
wildly popular HRchitect Beauty Pageant webinar series. Matt is a long-time business consultant and entrepreneur and has
helped build several highly successful businesses for over 20 years. Prior to
joining HRchitect, Matt was an Executive VP with Sage Software where he was
responsible for corporate development, marketing, sales, product development
and more. Matt is also the founder of The Frisco Community Newsletter,
which was established in 2001 and is the most popular and largest grass-roots
publication in Frisco, TX. Matt is also a former two-term City Council member in Frisco,
Texas, the second fastest growing city in the U.S., a 2005 recipient of the
"21 Leaders of the 21st Century" by Inside Collin County Business, a
former chairman of the Frisco Chamber of Commerce business networking events,
as well as being involved in many other community organizations. In April 2009,
Matt was appointed to the IHRIM.link
Editorial Committee and spent a year on the committee. Matt studied finance and business management at Salem State College
in Salem, Massachusetts. Connect with Matt: 
mlafata@HRchitect.com
