Terakeet appoints Fraas as chief people officer

SYRACUSE — Terakeet, a Syracuse–based enterprise search-engine optimization (SEO) company, announced it has hired Lynn Fraas as its chief people officer, responsible for leading the firm’s human resource department. 

Fraas comes to Terakeet most recently from PeopleStrategy, where she served as chief operating officer. She previously was group VP of talent strategy at SapientRazorfish and chief talent officer at Crown Partners.

In her role at Terakeet, Fraas will provide strategic leadership and operational management of all employee relations and talent-management initiatives, including recruiting and retention, training and professional development, and change management, the firm said in a news release.

“Terakeet is a company with boundless potential and they are positioned perfectly for significant growth over the next few years,” Fraas said in the release. “I’m thrilled to be joining them and excited to impact the development of the current team as well as new employees in the future.”

Fraas holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Terakeet is based in the Armory Square area of downtown Syracuse and currently has a workforce of more than 150 people, according to its website.