Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Powering smarter pay decisions with predictive insights, streamlined review cycles, and clear employee communications.
• Partner with the founder/CEO and go-to-market team
• Collaborate on sales initiatives to expand market reach and gather valuable product feedback

Aug 2024 – Jan 2025 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• -Assist and coach People Team leads

Nov 2022 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Helped Moloco win by building a world-class employee experience!
• Partnered closely with the co-founder and CEO on a myriad of topics in the people space for the co
• Successfully completed numerous executive searches end to end with zero search firms
• Built the People Leadership Team (ops, compensation, L+D, HRBP, Talent Management) largely within months of starting
• Drafted new company values and rolled out globally
• Rolled out employee and new manager training globally
• Worked collaboratively on new performance management philosophy
• Partnered closely with the Board of Directors on key people decisions, new compensaion philosophy

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

• Modern Career Transitions through AI
• Help founders on product strategy and GTM

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Jun 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Partnered with founders of companies like Deel, Pave, Zip, Rappi, Zepto on key executive searches
• Collaborated with founders and their teams on building best practices for Talent and HR areas: recruiting, exec search, sourcing, assessment, closing, compensation, org design, talent development, performance management
• Led sessions on start-up recruiting, building your recruiting org for cohorts founders of series A companies
• Built out and nurtured communities of executive talent
• Learned an immense amount about early stage co building and investing

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos

• Investing in early stage startups including:
• CocoCart https://www.cococart.co/ - Platform for small biz. Manage your orders, payments, marketing & more — in one place
• Gem - https://Gem.com/ - The only AI-first all-in-one recruiting platform
• Dots - https://usedots.com/ - Send money by any method, anywhere, automatically
• Neura Health - https://www.neurahealth.co/ - Finally, expert neurological care without the wait
• Complete - https://www.complete.so/ - Powering smarter pay decisions with predictive insights, streamlined review cycles, and clear employee communications

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs

• Annual guest lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business for Dr. Kathryn Shaw's course on Human Resources. Focus of the sessions was on LinkedIn's vision, mission, business model, people strategy, talent acquisition approach and use of data and insights in LinkedIn's HR practices. LinkedIn was one of the case studies in the MBA program.

Sep 2014 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Koru's four-week, employer-embedded experience puts soon-to-be & recent college graduates into high-growth, innovative companies where these Koru cohorts tackle real world biz problems for partner companies including some of the fastest growing companies in tech. The highly selective Koru program is designed to make the brightest graduates workplace-ready, teach them in-demand skills not learned in a college classroom which enables career launch & then acceleration through on-boarding & immersion in to some of most exciting companies in tech.
• I help the Koru team with topics across talent, customers & product.

Jul 2014 – Jul 2017 · 3 yrs · Mt. View, CA

• Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage company, enables the broad deployment of flash in the data center. When compared to traditional disk-centric arrays, Pure Storage all-flash enterprise arrays are 10x faster and 10x more space and power efficient at a price point that is less than performance disk per gigabyte stored.
• I help the Pure team with talent and recruiting strategy.

Aug 2010 – Mar 2021 · 10 yrs 7 mos · Mt. View, CA

• Started when the co was ~800 and scaled it to 16,000 around the world.
• The best job in recruiting anywhere on the planet. Why?:
• 1. I led recruiting for LinkedIn, an explosive growth company with a member network of over 700 million and growing by 2 members per second
• 2. LinkedIn has and continues to the redefine core constructs of talent, recruiting, and insights
• 3. I worked with scary smart people who are solving very hard problems enabling LinkedIn to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce across every continent
• 4. The recruiting organization at LinkedIn has the truly unique opportunity to influence the product roadmap for the tools and products that are changing the world of human capital and talent...try finding that in the recruiting org at any other company
• 5. I had the good fortune of keeping my recruiting chops sharp by leading every exec level search at LinkedIn for roles reporting to our CEO and several others. (Head of Eng, 2 CHRO searches, GC, CMO, VP of Strategy and Corp Dev, VP of Eng, 2 Sr. Dir of Eng searches, Head of L&D)
• 6. Built a Recruiting Academy with core curriculum being Storytelling, Influencing and Advising, Operational Excellence and Data Driven Recruiting. This was offered internal and to customers.
• 7. Started a program for those who otherwise wouldn’t have a chance to become a recruiter in tech.

Jan 2008 – Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Member of Rearden’s leadership and operating team reporting to the CEO
• Responsible for strategy and plan to attract, grow and retain top talent
• Created Rearden’s first ever core, functional and management competency models
• Revamped performance management architecture, review process, cadence and career model and trainings to support these efforts
• Launched Rearden’s first ever management training curriculum and workshop series
• Responsible for headcount strategy, planning and recruiting delivery
• Spearheaded design and creation of new on-boarding and company culture immersion program for new hires: “Rearden Immersion”
• Rebuilt staffing function in first 3 months of joining company
• Responsible for headcount planning and recruiting delivery
• Recruited and hired a staffing team of 12 recruiters
• Redefined philosophy and streamlined hiring process optimizing for scalability, repeatability and higher offer acceptance rates
• Implemented new reporting, key performance indicators and success metrics
• Successfully launched company’s first formal college recruiting program
• Successfully implemented a new talent assessment and interview training curriculum
• Started as Director of Talent Acquisition and promoted to lead all HR functions and join Executive Team

Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 · 4 yrs

• Led recruiting for Microsoft's R+D and incubation organization within The BillG Groups. This organization reported to Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie and included:
• 1. Microsoft Research: Microsoft’s world renowned research lab
• 2. Chief Software Architect Organization: This group, led by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, drives innovation, incubation and multiple start-up businesses across Microsoft
• 3. The Boston Concept Development Center: A newly created start-up 'think tank” responsible for rapid idea generation and business model validation
• 4. Live Platform Services
• Managed team of 15 recruiting professionals
• Responsible for talent attraction strategy to hire globally recognized academics/researchers in various areas of technology from systems, to search technologies, mobile to economics
• Responsible for talent /workforce planning and human capital strategy
• Oversaw MSR fellowship, internship and alumni program
• Managed recruiting reports, dashboards, and metrics
• Remotely managed recruiting team in China to support Microsoft’s aggressive China R+D growth strategy
• Led interviewing and recruiting training in Microsoft’s China Advanced Tech Center

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr

• -Led recruiting team for the top producing investment and insurance office in all of Northwestern Mutual-Responsible for annual recruiting planning, budgeting and leading a team of four-Responsible for recruiting and closing top investment advisors, corporate finance and operational candidates-Developed sourcing strategies, performance tracking and metrics-Created strategy to improve firm brand position and mind share in the Southern California market-Mentored and grew junior team members-Developed retention strategies for the firm-Reported directly to Managing Partner.

Jan 1997 – Jan 2002 · 5 yrs

• Helped Sapient grow from 300 to over 3,000-Responsible for building, leading and managing teams of recruiters in Cambridge, San Francisco, Los Angeles across the disciplines of technology, business strategy, creative services and business development-Member of Metro Area Leadership Team for Sapient San Francisco. This group was responsible for all P&L of the San Francisco business and was comprised of Sapient's senior executives in the region-Member of team responsible for developing and growing recruiting function in New Delhi, India-Groomed and coached mid-level recruiters to take on management responsibility-Managed budget for the Western Region Hiring Team-Received "Core Value" award for leadership and openness in hiring-Represented Sapient at various speaking engagements on recruiting.