Andres Traslavina

Board Member

Andres currently serves as the Head of Executive Recruiting at Whole Foods Market (WFM). During his tenure, Andres also worked as the Vice President of People Operations at Super Coffee, Director of Recruiting and Institutional Partnerships at Blackboard, a consulting Corporate Recruiter for Microsoft retail, and as a Senior Consultant at Talent Plus, a recruitment and assessment company based in Lincoln, Nebraska. His portfolio of clients included Fortune 500 companies such as Zappos, Cisco, Scotiabank, Komatsu, KPMG, Mercedes Benz, Loews Hotels, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, JW Marriott, and Microsoft.

Andres has been a keynote speaker at local, national, and international conferences in the areas of talent placement, growth and development, and conscious leadership. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a master’s degree in Education/Psychology, both from the University of Nebraska.

One of Andres’s many interests is traveling. He was born in Bogota, Colombia and currently lives in Austin, Texas, home of WFM HQ office. Andres has also worked as a recruiter across Europe, Asia, and Latin America.