Val Upfold is a seasoned hospitality industry executive recruiter who brings her 'on the floor' experience and her HR credentials to transform the role of recruitment. Val spent 15 years with Oliver & Bonacini working her way up from Manager and Sommelier to starting and leading the company's HR department, helping to bring the company from 100 employees to the now over 1500. Her understanding of the hospitality industry and the people in it is unparalleled and she lends her knowledge to both Centennial College and George Brown College, sitting on the hospitality school advisory committees.