Corporate Partnerships: Invisors

Throughout its decade of existence, Invisors has grown its involvement on the UF Warrington campus and become a recognizable employer to Business Gators.

Led by UF Warrington alumnus Keith Diego, Invisors is a global consulting firm that has prioritized recruiting college students from Warrington. The company has hired 55 Warrington students and actively hosts recruiting events on campus and in its offices around the country.

As new hires from Warrington stand out at Invisors, the company is focusing recruiting efforts on UF.

“Our Warrington hires are open to opportunity and thoughts,” Diego said. “They bring great ideas, strong ethical skills, communication skills and analytical skills, which is ultimately what we need. They’re ready. It’s impressive how prepared they are right out of UF to make an impact on our business.”

One of those impacts has come through a focus on AI. UF Warrington students are learning about AI throughout the business school curriculum, and it’s translating to their early careers at Invisors.

“They’re on cutting edge of AI, more than our more experienced employees sometimes,” Diego said. “The graduates we hire out of college are dealing with AI all the time. That benefits us.”

Invisors’ “Recruit, develop and empower” motto pushes them to prioritize recruiting from college campuses and then trusting that talent to grow with the business.

Now existing for 10 years, Invisors now has more than 450 employees and works with companies like Dick’s Sporting Goods, DraftKings, J.Crew, NASCAR and many others.

Read more about the impactful Warrington alumni who are making a difference at Invisors.

Keith Diego (BBA ’90) | Co-Founder and Partner

Wall Street was always the dream for Diego. He decided to major in finance at Warrington with eyes on the fast-paced, competitive world of working for a financial company on Wall Street.

The closer he got to graduation, the more he started to question it. A fraternity brother at Pi Kappa Phi was recruiting him to Andersen Consulting – now known as Accenture – and selling Diego on the consulting industry. Despite multiple full-time offers in the finance, Diego took his first job with Andersen.

“I didn’t know what I would do other than information technology consulting,” Diego said. “They didn’t care about your major. They just wanted smart people who can learn. It was a big move for me.”

It was the launching point for Diego’s professional journey, one that includes co-founding three companies – Cima Consulting Group, OmniPoint and mostly recent Invisors.

As Diego was experiencing the consulting grind at Andersen, he left for a manager position with Systems Consulting Group in Miami that was a better fit for his young family. The company was sold to Cambridge Technology Partners a year later, and Diego worked with them for three years.

In 1998, Diego was eight years out of college with a wide array of skills after working in programming, functional consulting, project management and sales. With his skills and two other co-founders, Cima Consulting Group was created.

They knew a strong network of professionals at PeopleSoft, who was mostly serving large companies. PeopleSoft wanted more boutique firms to deploy their software in the southeastern United States and Latin America, and Cima Consulting Group could help.

“It was a big move for us,” Diego said. “After I had worked at big and small companies, I felt I had all the skills to do it. I had two other great partners with me, and that gave me the confidence to go for it.”

Diego spent almost eight years growing Cima Consulting Group before it was sold to Adjoined Consulting. He worked there for three years before joining Capgemini as vice president.

After PeopleSoft leadership lost majority stake in the company, the same leadership pivoted to build a new company around the cloud. They created Workday in 2005, and Diego watched closely as the company grew. 

“I told them we wanted to build a business around Workday because we believe in the cloud,” Diego said. “We weren’t smart enough to build the product, but we were smart enough to build something around it.”

That’s when his second company –  OmniPoint – was born. The company grew into Workday’s largest boutique partner in four years and was acquired by Aon Hewitt, where Diego served as senior vice president. He retired from the company on great terms in 2016 without any idea what his future looked like.

He was only 47 years old and knew he would go crazy if he didn’t find his next venture.

One of the other OmniPoint co-founders retired at the same time as Diego, and the two of them began to create the shell for what is today known as Invisors. At the time, Workday was working with mostly large companies and no boutique firms.

“They asked us to start another company but make this one bigger and even better,” Diego said. “We weren’t sure because we’d already been there and done that, but we also knew we had the knowledge and a great network of people that we worked with for more than 20 years.”

Growing up the son of a Publix manager, Diego always remembers watching his father’s passion for hiring people and giving them jobs. His father made sure that they had a great experience as a Publix employee and always set a high bar for their future employment – something that Diego has taken seriously at Invisors.

Its more than 450 employees is more than any of the previous companies Diego founded.

“There’s always camaraderie in being part of something at work,” Diego said. “I always thought it would be great to build something and set the culture for the company.”

Jessica Meena (BS ’21, MSM ’22) | Senior Consultant

When she enrolled at the University of Florida, Jessica Meena was convinced her future was planned out, aiming to graduate with an industrial engineering degree and find a full-time job. She found Warrington’s Master of Science in Management program and knew it would strengthen her career with a business background without taking years to complete.

But it also shifted her career entirely. Meena was drawn to the Invisors booth while attending a career fair, and one conversation changed her future.

“I had never heard of them before, but they looked engaging,” Meena said. “We had a conversation and I was surprised by how interesting it sounded to be a consultant. I didn’t want to admit it to myself, but I liked it more than I expected and more than engineering.”

She had a preliminary interview with Keith Diego and another Invisors employee the following day, and it turned into an in-person interview at the company’s Atlanta headquarters. Since starting as an analyst, Meena has been promoted to consultant and later to her current position of senior consultant.

In her role, Meena works with clients on their Workday needs. She starts by hearing their ideal outcome for the platform and codes custom solutions to make it possible. The company culture at Invisors has made the experience everything Meena hoped for when she accepted the job.

“It was beyond what I expected for a job,” Meena said. “My coworkers are my best friends, and we all work hard with no drama. You can reach out to anybody for help.”

A large part of that strong culture, according to Meena, is the number of Business Gators currently employed at Invisors.

“That’s part of why the culture is the way it is,” Meena said. “There’s a trust in other employees when you came from the same place and know what it took to get here.”

Though she was only enrolled in the MSM program at Warrington, Meena views it as an important part of her journey.

“The program was rigorous, the fast pace of it and depth of learning,” Meen said. “The soft skills I learned were valuable. It taught me how to speak in a professional setting, which I was never comfortable with before. Those were things I never got in my engineering classes.”

Shea Poloskey (BSBA ’23, MS-ISOM ’24) | Workday Financials Consultant

When Shea Poloskey was preparing for a Warrington career event, an email from his Pi Kappa Phi fraternity caught his attention. A former fraternity member – Keith Diego –  would be at the same career event and wanted to invite current members to learn about his company – Invisors.

Poloskey stopped by the Invisors booth the next day to shake hands and introduce himself. The quick introduction with a fraternity brother turned into his first job out of college after interviewing with Invisors the following day and traveling to the company’s Atlanta headquarter the following month.

Today, Poloskey works as a consultant to strengthen the Workday platform for Invisors clients.

“I’m working on deployment and support for our clients,” Poloskey said. “Our deployment projects are for clients who purchase Workday and start with a blank slate. I learn their business and customize their experience. With support, I’m working with our existing clients to fix any issues they have.”

An important part of what drew Poloskey to Invisors was its dedication to hiring students out of college. They prioritize young talent, provide them with the necessary skills and help them grow throughout their time in the company.

The role also lets Poloskey work closely with multiple clients. He’s surrounded by likeminded professionals at the company who work together to resolve client needs.

“What I enjoy most is customizing Workday,” Poloskey said. “I get to be client facing and work with customers to solve their problems. It’s a puzzle I get to solve every day.”

After going through a Warrington recruiting event to get his job, Poloskey is now actively involved in recruiting future Business Gators to Invisors. It started by supporting candidates who flew to Atlanta to interview, but in the fall, his role morphed into joining the Invisors team on the UF campus for career week.

“It was surreal and a full circle moment,” Poloskey said. “A couple years before, I was the one passing my resume out and wondering what to say. It’s another way to help this company add more Gators, and I always appreciate that.”

The number of Gators at Invisors is already large. The company’s Slack group chat for UF alumni connects them, and they’re frequently working together on important projects.

“Dean Saby Mitra, one of his quotes at my graduation was ‘Gators help Gators,’” Poloskey said. “That has resonated with me. There’s a lot of Gator pride inside and outside of Invisors.”

Warrington played an integral role in preparing Poloskey for his job. He credits his Professional Speaking in Business and Professional Writing in Business classes for building communications skills in his client-facing role. The MS-ISOM program introduced him to coding languages that connect systems to one another – a concept Invisors uses today to transform and manipulate data.

His business analytics specialization required a practicum course, where his group analyzed data for Bonnie Plants to see what impact weather had on their sales.

“That consulting project gave me a taste to see if I can do it some day in my job,” Poloskey said. “It started an inspiration for my career.”