"I want our clients to know that our domestic and global business experience, provides us knowledge and insight that sets us apart in the Talent recruitment arena and that translates into a better process, candidates and outcomes for you."
• Roy and his wife, Jill have three children and reside in Wexford.
 
• In the regional nonprofit arena he has served as Chairman of the Board of Easter Seals of Western Pennsylvania and volunteers for many nonprofits in the region including Make a Wish, Operation StrongVet and Heros Serving Heros.
 
• At Ohio University, Roy was the Captain of the Men’s Swimming Team, became an 8-time Mid American Conference Champion and was inducted in the University's Athletic Hall of Fame.

Contact Roy
Email:    Roy@talentscoutpgh.com
Phone:  724.933.0365

Meet Roy Cheran
Founding Principal @ TalentScout

Roy is a sales, marketing, management and communications executive with extremely diversified expertise and experience in advancing some of the most innovative and forward-thinking brands.
 
The roots of his professional career began upon graduation from the prestigious Scripps College of Communications at Ohio University in the commercial television business. Roy began producing regional and national commercials for ad agency clients across the country.
 
Next, Roy rose to prominence on the national marketing scene with J. Edward Connelly Associates, led by Fortune 400 marketing mogul John Connelly, were he developed and implemented innovative and record setting retail traffic building promotional programs for the banking, automotive and supermarket industries with divisional annual revenues of $70+ million. 
 
Mind Over Media, a Carnegie Mellon infused digital marketing communications agency launched in 2000, tapped Roy as a Senior Marketing Consultant. There he served the interactive media and digital needs of brands like: Dicks Sporting Goods, Alcoa, Giant Eagle, Lockheed Martin, Xerox and many others. He gained valuable insight into personnel recruiting, developing numerous national multimedia recruiting campaigns for many clients.
 
Concurrently, recognition from the IABC, ITVA, Telly, AIM the American Marketing Association, CASE, Presidential C-Flag and others followed on behalf of his clients.
 
In 2013, Roy was recruited as the VP of Sales and Marketing for DonorPro, an up and coming SaaS nonprofit-centric CRM organization that was interested in more explosive growth. He was charged with quickly boosting the company’s sales and visibility to make it attractive for acquisition, which occurred in Q4 of 2015.
 
Roy recognized it was time to turn his unique experiences loose for companies in the region and founded TalentScout Pittsburgh in March of 2016. The company has rapidly gained traction and currently serves the needs of a very diverse customer based from a small boutique design agency on the South Side to the region’s largest retailer.