Beau Higgins

Beau is a retired Marine that served for 25 years as an intelligence officer with the Marine Corps. This included deployments to Somalia, Bosnia, 3 tours to Iraq, and 3 tours to Afghanistan. He had the privilege to command 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Marine Division. Following his retirement in 2014, Beau served as a senior manager on Amazon’s Military Affairs team, Beau was the leader of an organization tasked with elevating the cross-company strategic impact, both internally and externally, stewarding the considerable investment Amazon has made in the...

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Beau is a retired Marine that served for 25 years as an intelligence officer with the Marine Corps. This included deployments to Somalia, Bosnia, 3 tours to Iraq, and 3 tours to Afghanistan. He had the privilege to command 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Marine Division. Following his retirement in 2014, Beau served as a senior manager on Amazon’s Military Affairs team, Beau was the leader of an organization tasked with elevating the cross-company strategic impact, both internally and externally, stewarding the considerable investment Amazon has made in the US Military community. During his 7 years at Amazon, Beau was responsible for creating scalable veteran programs, developing policies and strategic planning for military recruiting and outreach efforts. He and his team focused on effective strategies for hiring, developing and retaining the best and the brightest military talent available for positions within Amazon. Beau left Amazon in April of 2023 and specializes is helping companies find Veteran talent. He serves as a VP for OPlign which uses AI/ML to match Veterans to open jobs and as a Senior Client Partner for The Military Veteran specializing in placing Veteran talent into executive roles in Private Equity backed companies. He is dedicated to supporting leaders, businesses and organizations in developing and executing comprehensive talent acquisition strategies, executives searches and services using an integrative, relationship-centered and strategic lens.

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