Nancy Drees is the CEO & Founder of Vacaré Group. She started her career working for a large national staffing firm for over a decade and then moved into the start-up tech industry. While working for a tech start-up company, she fell in love with the growing emerging company culture and decided to start her own firm in 2014 (Vacaré Group).

Nancy’s vision for Vacaré Group was to improve the outsourced recruiting experience for companies by becoming a partner to her clients. Vacaré Group is a relationship driven, consultative, and vision focused firm that offers an innovative pricing model.

With more than 20 years of recruiting experience, Nancy was awarded the Smart CEO award from Brava in 2016 and was also recognized as one of the leading recruitment professionals in the Greater Boston area, consistently topping LinkedIn’s Recruiting List since 2015. She has assisted with the growth of many start-ups resulting in many of her clients winning prestigious technology industry awards (Best Places to Work, NEVY awards, Bostinno Tech Madness, 50 on Fire, and many others).

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Nancy is extremely well networked in the Boston/surrounding areas and is recognized as one of Boston’s top female CEOs.