Zachary Nelson

Chief Human Resources Officer

Trellix

Feb 2026 - Current (7 months)

Chief Human Resources Officer

CAI Software LLC

Sep 2022 - Oct 2025 (3 years 2 months)

Vice President Human Resources

Idexx

Dec 2019 - Aug 2022 (2 years 9 months)

Responsible for leading HR Business Partners, Global Diversity & Inclusion and Global Corporate Responsibility at IDEXX.

Senior Director of Human Resources

Idexx

Mar 2015 - Dec 2019 (4 years 10 months)

Lead the Business HR and Global Employee Communications teams supporting over 7,000 IDEXX employees worldwide. Acts as a strategic partner and consultant to the senior executives and management teams on all people-related matters; aligns IDEXX people practices to business strategies; and deploys talent resources that enable the business to achieve its objectives. Collaborates with HR centers of excellence functions to design and deliver integrated solutions that address business needs and mitigate risk. As part of IDEXX’s senior HR Leadership team, responsible for development and execution of the company’s talent strategy and delivery model.

Director of Human Resources

Idexx

Jun 2013 - Mar 2015 (1 year 10 months)

Human Resources leader for IDEXX Worldwide Operations, Reference Labs, Rapid Assay, Telemedicine and BioResearch businesses supporting over 2,100 employees.

Head of Organizational Development and Learning

Idexx

Jun 2011 - Jun 2013 (2 years 1 month)

• Drove IDEXX’s global talent management process identifying key talent, ensuring succession pipelines, and creating meaningful development strategies to address talent gaps across the organization; • Established global and local talent development strategies and programs directly aligned to addressing people leadership gaps and emerging business needs; • Oversaw IDEXX’s annual company-wide employee engagement survey and key corporate action planning activities; • Drove the creation and implementation of core, global leadership competencies company-wide to maximize alignment around leadership expectations and embed into key HR processes and programs.

Vice President, Talent Development

Unum

Jan 2008 - Jun 2011 (3 years 6 months)

• Oversight and management of enterprise-wide leadership development and training initiatives; • Executive coaching and executive development for senior leaders (VP and above); • Management of online learning team and learning management system; • Ownership of Unum HR performance management, development planning and 360 feedback processes; and, • Partnership with senior executives to ensure talent development/management strategies (leadership assessments, talent planning, management selection and onboarding, development programs, strategies etc.) are directly aligned to ongoing and emerging business needs.

Vice President, Leadership Development

Bank of America

Oct 2005 - Jan 2008 (2 years 4 months)

Vice President, Leadership Development (March, 2007 – January, 2008) for Bank of America’s Global Wealth businesses Responsibilities: • Executive coaching and development of senior executives; • Organizational design to maximize individual effectiveness and organizational performance; • Creation of job specifications and the alignment of candidates for senior executive positions; • Management of talent planning and performance management processes; • Deployment of learning solutions to the business; • Alignment of learning and training solutions; and, • Development and maintenance of top-talent pools. Vice President, Leadership Development Processes and Tools (October, 2005 - March, 2007). Drove HR and LD program strategy to ensure a stron

Director, Organizational Development

Advocate Health Care

Jan 2000 - Jan 2005 (5 years 1 month)

Director, Organizational Development for a fully integrated health care delivery system supporting eight hospitals and over 25,000 employees. Responsible for the creation and deployment of LD and OD processes including: Associate Satisfaction Survey, Talent Planning, Performance Management, e-learning, HR data, and analytics for the enterprise. Oversaw a highly effective team of 12 associates, including Ph.D.-level Organizational Development Consultants, Instructional Designers and Senior System Analysts. Efforts focused on understanding broad, system-wide organizational needs and objectives and working with senior executives to create, implement, and manage strategic LD and OD solutions and initiatives across the enterprise.

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