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HROA Bright Stars The annual awards honour those transforming the industry. By The Editors With a theme of "BeTransformed," the nominees for the Human Resources Outsourcing Association (HROA) annual awards represent the best of the best in the industry. These awards are the highlight of the year and an aspiration for those in HR operations and outsourcing. It is the HROA's mission to be the leading community for improving the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of outsourcing as part of an overall HR service delivery strategy. The HROA would like to congratulate the following winners, who were announced at the HRO Today Forum in Philadelphia on May 2nd, and at the HRO Today Forum APAC in Singapore on May 22. HROA Trustee Global Thought Leader of the Year: Jill K. Goldstein, Accenture HROA Trustee Global Buyer Executive of the Year: John Scott Boston, Kimberly-Clark Jill Goldstein joined Accenture in 2006 after working in corporate HR and finance roles at Sara Lee, Verizon, Ford, and Spherion. She began as Accenture's product manager for compensation and benefits and has since served in all of the offering roles including leading the talent management suite of services and offering development for HR and learning BPO. John Scott Boston (not pictured) is vice president of global talent management for KimberlyClark Corporation. He leads all recruiting, learning and development, organisational effectiveness, HR strategy and operations, performance management, succession planning, coaching and assessment, and HR capability-building teams. [36] HRO TODAY GLOBAL | SUMMER 2013