Alexis Bovalino is the HR Director for Surefire Management Group, LP, a restaurant group known for creating and operating award-winning brands: Burgatory, Shorty’s Pins X Pints and Shorty’s Tap X Taco. As an HR Department of One, she wears many hats! Her focus is on the recruiting and hiring infrastructure, culture stewardship, rewards and recognition, legal and material compliance, unemployment, career mobility and development. She, and her colleagues, believe in designing opportunities to recognize performance through pathways for growth and development. Over 75% of their managers started as downline crew — like dishwashers, hosts and milkshake makers — growing into leadership positions. Alexis grew up in the restaurants and believes the key to operating a successful organization is by taking care of people.