Irvin Towson, VP of Talent Acquisition at Magellan Health

Irvin Towson joined Magellan Health in June 2014 as vice president of talent acquisition. 

According to his LinkedIn profile, he is responsible for implementing scalable global recruitment initiatives to meet corporate demands, executing recruiting strategies, determining workforce needs and developing talent acquisition solutions.

Before making the jump to Magellan Health, Towson spent nearly two years working for executive search firm Reffett Associates. As the firm’s managing director, he was in charge of new business development and executive search execution in the Washington, D.C., metro market.

Prior to that, Towson was the senior director of global recruiting at ICF International. During his four-year stint with the company, he executed recruiting strategies in support of commercial, federal, state and local government contracts.

He is also the former director of global talent acquisition for SRA International, which now operates as part of General Dynamics Information Technology. In that role, he worked closely with sector presidents and executives in determining workforce needs and developing global recruiting strategies. Providing monthly recruiting reports to c-level executives was also one of his key responsibilities.

Additionally, Towson spent a year-and-a-half as the VP of recruiting for PRA International, where he implemented a dashboard for reporting recruitment successes and measuring efficiencies.

He started his career with Hewlett Packard, taking on roles such as senior corporate recruiter, sales director and recruiting director.