Sr. Director of Talent Acquisition & People Operations
Ms. Gupta, as the Sr. Director of Talent Acquisition & People Operations at ARServices, leads all Human Resources (HR), recruiting, onboarding, retention, and personnel coordination activities across the company. With a passion for helping people, Marie has developed an extensive career in recruitment and talent management. Her journey includes key roles at mid to large organizations such as GTSI, L3 Communications, IBM, TASC/Engility, and Northrop Grumman.
In the last 8 years, Ms. Gupta advanced into a leadership role within a 1300-person business unit at ManTech, where she supported a General Manager/Senior Vice President and three Vice Presidents while leading a team of fifteen recruiters. Utilizing networking capabilities alongside traditional sourcing methods, Marie successfully recruited specialized talent in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high-yield Explosives (CBRNE), Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), and medical countermeasures. She focused on filling roles in engineering and technical fields, analysis, scientific research, and program management. She then served as the Director of Recruiting at Quadrint, Inc., where she empowered teams by connecting talent with the right opportunities. Under her leadership, Quadrint experienced a 43% growth, followed by a successful acquisition by CACI.
Ms. Gupta brings invaluable skills such as strategic thinking, business process improvement, optimizing technology for productivity, and a customer-centric mindset. She emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, proactive communications, and being data-driven. Combining a collaborative spirit, emotional intelligence, and intellectual intelligence, she embodies and manages ARServices’ human capital management initiatives as a dedicated brand ambassador. Ms. Gupta holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Frostburg State University.