Kari Van Curen, Talent Acquisition and Workforce Planning VP at BAE Systems

Kari Van Curen is the vice president of talent acquisition and workplace planning at BAE Systems. She has been holding her current leadership role since 2019.

Van Curen oversees talent acquisition and workforce strategy across the company. She is also responsible for acquiring strategic workforce planning technologies and developing processes and policies to support current and future business success.

She was the senior director of talent acquisition and human resource operations before taking on her current leadership role. In this position, she supported the talent acquisition and HR operations team for BAE’s Intelligence & Security sector.

Van Curen started working at BAE in 2015 as sector director of talent acquisition, according to her LinkedIn profile.

The industry veteran worked at Northrop Grumman Information Systems prior to joining BAE. She was sector director of talent acquisition, a role where she led talent acquisition and provided leadership and guidance to a team of recruiting professionals.

She started working at Northrop in 2003 as division director of human resources. In this position, she provided strategic leadership to over 5,000 employees within and outside the U.S. and collaborated with other company leaders to implement HR initiatives.

BAE Systems offers technology products and services that support military missions in all domains, from sea to space and cyber. It is headquartered in Farnborough, U.K., and has multiple offices in the U.S. and other parts of the world.