MBO Partners

Gene Zaino, an accomplished and nationally recognized expert in the contract workforce market, launched MBO Partners as a business that would re-invent the way independent contractors and organizations work together. Zaino is a major force in the development of best practices, risk mitigation programs, and independent contractor engagement tools that support workplace independence.

Gene is an avid entrepreneur who graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Economics (BSE). After four years with KPMG Peat Marwick as a CPA and management consultant, he spent 20 years building, merging and selling various consulting companies, some funded by financial luminaries Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Austin Ventures and Goldman Sachs.

He serves on the advisory board for the Human Capital Institute and has led executive seminars at the Project Management Institute, the Institute for Supply Management, and the Military Officers Association of America. He is a frequent speaker and has appeared in publications, radio and television including the Washington Business Journal, CNNfn and USA Today.