James Spoor (B.S. 1958) is founder and chairman of SPECTRUM Human Resource Systems Corporation. Since its founding more than 23 years ago, SPECTRUM has established itself as a leading provider of human resource, benefits administration, talent acquisition, and training and development systems to high expectation mid-market organizations. After completing his Psychology degree in 1958, Spoor had a very successful career that covered more than 25 years in both human resources and line management with well respected Fortune 500 corporations in the energy, high technology, and food processing industries, including executive-level responsibility for global human resources operations. Spoor has earned a reputation as a respected tell-it-like-it-is, non-traditional maverick. He enjoys stimulating people to think outside the box and outside their comfort zone. He is regarded within the human resource and workforce management industry as a visionary pioneer, and innovator who focuses on exploiting technology to address strategic business issues. Spoor's professional involvements include serving for over seven years on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Human Resource Information Management.