Jill M. Vales, President of JMV Management Services, has more than 25 years of senior management experience in human resources, finance, accounting, and corporate operations and administration. She has earned the national Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification. She is also a licensed Florida CPA.

Prior to beginning JMV Management, Vales was Vice President of Human Resources with ScanSource, Inc., a leading South Carolina employer with approximately 1,000 employees.  In three years under her leadership, the HR team transformed virtually every HR-related program and process.   Vales has made many presentations and facilitated training programs on a variety of human resources topics for small businesses and nonprofit organizations.

She also has been a senior finance, human resources and operations executive with national travel distribution companies, including being Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Human Resources of a start-up company that completed an IPO and acquired 20 entrepreneurial companies in less than two years. Vales began her CPA career as an auditor with a “Big-Four” accounting firm, where she advanced to senior management. She served clients in services, manufacturing, hospitality, real estate, auto-rental and government industries. 

Active in the community, Vales serves on the Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce’s  Board of Governors and Small Business Council and is chair of its Sales Roundtable Steering Committee.   She also serves on the boards of the Greenville County Workforce Investment Board, Downtown Greenville Rotary Club and Centre Stage Theatre-SC and on the Advisory Board of Dining for Women.  She has served in the past on the Greenville Chamber HR Leadership Forum Board, the Greenville Professional Women’s Forum Board, the Greenville American Red Cross Finance Committee and the upstate Girl Scouts Councils’ HR Realignment Committee. 

Vales is also a member of the Greenville and national chapters of the Society for Human Resource Management.

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