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Amber Olsen started Nextaff Gulf Coast in Ocean Springs, MS in 2007 offering recruiting services for businesses in South Mississippi and Alabama.   Amber is certified by the Human Resource Certification Institute as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and by the Society for Human Resource Management as a Senior Certified Professional in Human Resources (SHRM-SCP). 

Prior to 2007, Amber was the Chief Operating Officer of Keystone Capital Management.   She is originally from Missoula, Montana where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Business in 1998 from the University of Montana.  Amber has held various community leadership positions including Past President of the Ocean Springs Rotary Club, Past President of the Gulf Coast Human Resource Association, President of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber Board of Directors, and founder of Women Entrepreneurs Gulf Coast (now a program of the MS Gulf Coast Chamber). 

Amber has been honored to receive the One Coast Top 10 Under 40, Community Leader, American Business Women’s Association SRCC Woman of the Year, and graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10K Small Business Program.

Amber Olsen is the mother to three daughters. In 2016, her youngest daughter Willow was diagnosed with Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency(MSD), an ultra-rare, fatal genetic condition. Since the diagnosis, Amber formed the United MSD Foundation (501c3), creating and leading an organization that has pushed and funded multiple pre-clinical treatment projects, clinical trial readiness support and ultimately paved the way for first-ever clinical trials to treat children with MSD.  Olsen spent the last 6 years as chief fundraising officer for the organization and can’t wait until every child with MSD has an opportunity to live a healthy life without limitations. Amber resides in the beautiful and giving community of Ocean Springs, Mississippi with her three wonderful daughters, Kylee (19), Jenna (16), and Willow (9).