As Senior Vice President of Human Resources, Ellen Petrocci is responsible for the company’s global human resources talent management strategy and functions, which include diversity and inclusion, talent acquisition, leadership and organizational development, compensation, benefits, and employee communications.
Ellen joined Verisign in 2013, as Vice President of Compensation and Benefits, then was promoted to Vice President of Human Resources later that year. Prior to that, she was a Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she was responsible for people strategy, human capital analytics, change management, and global reward systems. Ellen also served in various senior management roles in other companies such as Nextel - later becoming Sprint Nextel - and Inova Health System, among others.
Ellen holds a Master of Business Administration from American University, Kogod School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Syracuse University.
Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month reminds us how the wide range of perspectives and experiences among our employees makes us stronger both as a company and as a steward of the internet. In honor of this month, we are proud to recognize the stories of three of our Hispanic employees, and the positive impact they make at Verisign.
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For Murray Green, working for a company that is a steward of critical internet infrastructure is a mission that he can get behind. Green, a senior engineering manager at Verisign, is a U.S. Army veteran who served during Operation Desert Storm and sees stewardship as a lifelong mission. In both roles, he has stayed focused on the success of the mission and cultivating great teamwork.
Teamwork is something that Laura Street, a software engineer and U.S. Air Force veteran, came to appreciate through her military service. It was then that she learned to appreciate how people from different backgrounds can work together on missions by finding their commonalities.
Today, as the world celebrates International Women in Engineering Day, we recognize and honor women engineers at Verisign, whose own stories have helped shape dreams and encouraged young women and girls to take up engineering careers.
Here are three of their stories:
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