Staff & Scientist Bios

Camille Hannans is an accomplished HR Leader with corporate, legal, non-profit and start-up experience. Over the course of her almost 20 year professional career she has developed an acumen in Human Resources and has in turn received multiple promotions and increasing levels of responsibility to develop, recruit and lead high performing teams that meet organizational objectives and revenue. She has demonstrated her ability to attract qualified employees based on the organization’s seasonality, acquisitions and business expansions, while maintaining budgetary guidelines and guest satisfaction scores.

Hannans has directed the creation and implementation of new recruiting processes, leveraged human capital technology investment and organization learning/development over the course of her 12 years with Georgia Aquarium. Prior to working at the Aquarium, she was the retirement and disability assistant for Wilmer, Cutler, Hale & Dorr, LLP, and an information technology recruiter for Intech, Inc.

She has been the leader in garnering greater employee/manager satisfaction positively impacting retention, trust and intra/interdepartmental team effectiveness. She oversaw the planning, development and implementation of a highly visible and impactful compensation plan which is tethered to our strategic plan and reinforces Georgia Aquarium Inc.’s position from a talent acquisition and retention perspective as a key business entity within the Atlanta and Association of Zoo and Aquarium community.

Hannans is a graduate of James Madison University with a B.B.A. in Marketing.