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Jeffrey Ehrenberg

Current Position:

VP of Human Resources at Palo Alto Networks

Tejas Maniar

Current Position:

Vice President, Mayfield Fund

Past Companies:

Korn Ferry, Google, Heidrick & Struggles, Gallup, Accenture

Jennifer Cristobal

Current Position:

Head of People Operations and Recruiting at HackerOne

Past Companies:

Stitch Fix, TRUSTe, Google, TriNet

Zaina Orbai

Current Position:

Chief People Officer at The RealReal

Jo Dennis

Current Position:

CHRO at Pinterest

Past Companies:

Hewlett Packard

Q Hamirani

Current Position:

Head of People Ops at Airbnb

Guissu Raafat

Current Position:

Venture Advisor at Broadhaven Ventures

Kelly Kinnard

Current Position:

VP of Global Talent at Battery Ventures

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Mikaela Kiner

Current Position:

Founder, Reverb

Emily Chardac

Current Position:

Head of Global HR Operations at Financial Services

Tasha Liniger

Current Position:

Chief Human Resources Officer at Dialpad

Ann Watson

Current Position:

Chief People Officer Varo Money

Past Positions:

OnLive, TangoMe, 8×8

Key Interest Areas:

Coaching, training, performance mgmt, compensation

John Foster

Current Position:

Chief People Officer at Minted

Ragini Holloway

Current Position:

Vice President of Talent at Affirm

Melissa Daimler

Current Position:

Principal at Daimler Partners

Kelly Costello

Current Position:

Global Talent Acquisition at Edwards Lifesciences

Kate Kastenbaum

Current Position:

VP of People Ops at Remind

Karin Kuo

Current Position:

VP of Talent at Onica

James Pratt

Current Position:

VP of People Development at Gravity Payments

Anne Jacoby

Current Position:

VP, Learning, Development + Culture at RGP

Anna Avalos

Current Position:

Head of People at Sofi

Erik Kriessmann

Current Position:

Vice President of Human Capital at Index Ventures

Marian Pond

Current Position:

Vice President, Executive Search at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Peter Clarke

Current Position:

Talent Partner at Accel Partners

Dana Ray

Current Position:

Senior Vice President, Global Head of People at Marin Software

Stacey La Torre

Current Position:

Leadership Coach & HR Consultant, Stacey Manes Consulting

Past Positions:

AdRoll Inc., Hearsay Social, OpenTable

Key Interest Areas:

Talent management, leadership development, employee engagement, strategic planning, performance management, organizational development and coaching.

Bianca McCann

Current Position:

Vice President, Global Head of People at Trifacta

Meg Marsh

Current Position:

Head of People at argodesign

Anna Binder

Current Position:

Head of People Operations at Asana

Bryce Murray

Current Position:

Head of Staffing at Waymo

Karina Sobieski

Current Position:

Human Capital at SoftBank Investment Advisers

Past Positions:

Nuru International, Citi, McKinsey

Katie Hughes

Current Position:

Partner at General Catalyst

Past Positions:

Betts Recruiting

Key Interest Areas:

Sourcing, recruiting, calibration, diversity, competitive intelligence, compensation

Jessica Yuen

Current Position:

People strategy for scaling startups

Karen Lieu

Current Position:

People Operations at Facebook

Michelle Wagner

Current Position:

SVP, People & Places at Caffeine

Adam Ward

Current Position:

Talent Leader, Pinterest

Greg Russell

Current Position:

Head of Talent at Snapdocs

Gillian Wilson

Current Position:

Senior Director of Human Resources at Chive Media Group

Michelle Gonzalez

Current Position:

People Operations, Algolia

Malalay Arghestani

Current Position:

Director of HR, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Chris Tobin

Current Position:

Senior Vice Pres, Human Resources, Affirm, Inc.

Andrew Bartlow

Current Position:

Managing Partner and Founder, Series B Consulting

Jason Lohrentz

Current Position:

Head of Talent Acquisition at Aurora

Merritt Anderson

Current Position:

Global VP, Employee Experience & Engagement at GitHub

Michael Case

Current Position:

Vice President of Recruiting at Instacart

Adrienn Hopkins

Current Position:

People Partner at Prezi

Josh Bersin

Current Position:

Founder and Principal at Bersin, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Marie Szuts

Current Position:

People and Culture at Figma

Richie Valadez

Current Position:

Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Rackspace

Brian Christman

Current Position:

Vice President, People at Transfix

Tamara Tillary

Current Position:

Operations Associate – People Tech Partners

Natalie Ledbetter

Current Position:

VP of People Operations at Stash Invest

Mike Joyner

Current Position:

People Operations at Pinterest

Evan Wittenberg

Current Position:

Chief People Officer, Ancestry

Jeff Diana

Current Position:

High Growth Consultant, Management Consulting

Cara Brennan Allamano

Current Position:

Senior Vice President, HR at Udemy

Past Positions:

Pinterest, Adobe, Efficient Frontier, Context Optional, Young & Rubicam

Key Interest Areas:

Onboarding, recruiting, performance management

Jevan Soo

Current Position:

Vice President of talent at Stitch Fix

Jonathan Basker

Current Position:

Founder and CEO of Basker & Co

Samantha Rist

Current Position:

Head of Human Resources at Katerra Inc

Jason Pierantozzi

Current Position:

Global People Operations Lead at Palantir Technologies

Desiree Therianos

Current Position:

Vice President of People & Talent at Ellation

Natasha Kehimkar

Current Position:

Chief People Officer at App Annie

Michael DeAngelo

Current Position:

Chief People Officer at Mozilla

Christy Lake

Current Position:

Chief People Officer, Box Inc.

Bob Daw

Current Position:

Strategic Sales Director, Medallia

Brielle Rajkovich

Current Position:

HR Consultant, IBBR

Past Companies:

Square, Plastic Jungle

David Huebner

Current Position:

Principal at Lalo Consulting, Crossroads labs

Kristin Godfrey

Current Position:

Partner, True Search

Shestin Swartley

Current Position:

Head of HR & Corporate Counsel,Connery Consulting

Past Positions:

Former Clients: Uber, Reddit, Thumbtack, Udacity, MuleSoft, AltSchool, Invoice2go, Neon Labs, Meteor, NextStep, Omada Health

Claudia Fulga

Current Postion:

Vice President, People Operations at FiveStars

Past Companies:

HR 2.0 Imgur, OutCast, Ticketfly

Megan Healy

Current Position:

Head of Talent, Upfront Ventures

Pratiksha Patel

Current Position:

Organization Development, McKinsey & Company

Past Companies:

Centric Digital, Gilt.com, L’Oreal, McKinsey

Lem Diaz

Current Position:

Recruiting Partner, Google Ventures

Past Companies:

Brightedge, Pandora, Facebook

Elle Meza

Current Position:

Benefits, Electronic Arts

Past Companies:

Twitter, Riverbed, Maxim, Informatica

Florence Thinh Chialtas

Current Position:

Vice President, People Operations at Nerdwallet

Past Companies:

Google, Zynga, Khosla Ventures

Sue Choe

Current Position:

Head of People, Petal

Past Positions:

Venmo, McKinsey

Key Intrest Areas:

recruiting (including getting referrals); performance management (mainly reviews, employee recognition); learning & development (scaling up programs; peer teaching); HRIS (including data reporting)

DAVID HANRAHAN

Current Position:

Head of Talent and Organization/Chief Wellness Officer, Thrive Market

Lissa Minkin

Current Position:

VP of People at Tile

Past Positions:

Facebook, eBay, TimeWarner, CNet, Williams-Sonoma Inc.

Heather Robertt

Current Position:

Head of People at Upstart

Erik Juhl

Current Position:

VP People at Drive.ai

Past Companies:

LinkedIn, Google

Nathalie McGrath

Current Position:

Director of People at Coinbase

Kevin Kinkor

Current Position:

Co-Founder, Start Up Talent & People Advisor at Kinkor Consulting

Past Companies:

Brightedge, Pandora, Facebook

Amy Knapp

Current Position:

Head of Talent, Redpoint Ventures

Nathalie McGrath

Current Position:

Director of People at Coinbase

Jose Martin

Current Position:

SVP, Global Human Resources at Yelp

Itamar Goldminz

Current Position:

Director of People at Grammarly

Jenilee Deal

Current Position:

HR Director, Netflix

Past Positions:

Delphix, Bailard

Key Interest Areas:

Engagement. Scaling. Recruiting. Performance Management.

Erin Faverty

Current Position:

VP, Customer Success at LeaveLogic

Ron Storn

Current Position:

Chief People Officer, Zume Pizza

Joel Constable

Current Position:

Director of Talent Development, Intuit

Steve McElfresh

Current Position:

SVP, People at Duo Security

Past Positions:

Saratoga Institute, IG Partners, HR Futures

Key Interest Areas:

Organizational design (including organizational evolution), performance management, analytics and technology

Scott Day

Current Position:

CHRO at OpenTable

Lauren Rosenthal

Current Position:

Head of HR at Docker, Inc

Adele Rom

Current Position:

VP, Global Talent at TechStyle

Jen Holmstrom

Current Position:

Head of Talent at GGV Capital

Mark Lipscomb

Current Position:

Vice President of People at 23andMe

Elle Meza

Current Position:

Benefits, Electronic Arts

Randy Knaflic

Current Position:

Senior Advisor to CEO, Jawbone
Past Positions:

Google, SpaceX

Seksom Suriyapa

Current Position:

Enterprise Executive Network Advisor

Ciara Lakhani

Current Position:

VP People, Dashlane

Debbie Murray

Current Position:

GVP, People at Blue Jeans

Past Positions:

OnLive, TangoMe, 8×8

Key Interest Areas:

Coaching, training, performance mgmt, compensation

Brooke Greco

Current Position:

Head of People Operations, ProsperWorks Inc.

Past Companies:

Sidecar, Fisher Investments

Scott Faverty

Current Position:

Head of Customer Success, Small Improvements

Emily Couey

Current Position:

Vice President, People at Illumio

Naureen Manekia Seyal

Current Position:

Sr. Talent Lead, IDEO

Past Positions:

Fuse Box, IBM, Delta Dental

Melissa Yeh

Current Positions:

Head of People, Samsara

Past Positions:

Meraki, Altman Vilandrie & Company

Key Interest Areas:

employee survey & engagement, HRIS & analytics, onboarding

Luke Beseda

Current Position:

Talent Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Scott Buxton

Current Position:

VP, Finance Datadog

Justin Angsuwat

Current Position:

VP of People, Thumbtack

Stephanie Mardell

Current Position:

VP, People Button, Inc

Missy Ballew

Current Position:
CHRO, Lookout

Anna Clepper

Current Position:

Current Positions: Consultant,hrQ

Shelby Wolpa

Current Position:

Vice President, People Operations, InVision

Past Companies:

Hr Director, Instacart Palantir, OneMedical, Mercer, TowersWatson

Dina Mavridis

Current Position:

Global Director of Human Resources, Velocity Electronics

Sharon Slonaker

Current Position:

Director of People at OutboundEngine

John Anderson

Current Position:

Managing Director, Allegis Partners

Past Companies:

One Kings Lane, Diapers.com, Fox Interactive, Oracle

Kathy Weir

Current Position:

Senior Director People & Culture, Adlucent

Past Companies:

Mathew Caldwell

Current Position:

Founder, Rocket Power

Past Companies:

Instacart, Mozilla, Deem, Google, Agilent

Dawn Sharifan

Current Position:

Head of People, Slack

Past Companies:

Lookout, BrightEdge, CBS Interactive

Roslyn Fogarty

Current Position:

Talent Director, IDEO

Past Companies:

ModCloth, DraftFCB

Katie Murphy

Current Position:

HR/ Recruiting Consultant

Past Companies:

Ralph Lauren, Williams-Sonoma Inc.. Bechtel

Lily Kohls

Current Position:

VP, People and Places at POPSUGAR

Past Companies:

iCrossing, Real Branding, Ogilvy, Digitas

Leslie Chung

Current Position:

Director of People Operations, Intercom

Past Companies:

VerticalResponse, Real Page

Andy Chen

Current Position:

Partner – Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

Past Positions:

Riviera Partners, Central Intelligence Agency

Key Interest Areas:

recruiting, performance management

Aisha Stevenson

Current Position:

VP, People Operations, Quizlet

Past Positions:

Okta, Clickability, PlanetRx

Key Interest Areas:

Onboarding, performance management and employee engagement

Katelin Holloway

Current Position:

VP, People & Culture Reddit

Past Positions:

Whil, Klout, Pixar

Erica Johnson

Current Position:

Director of Employee Experience, Nitro, Inc.

Past Positions:

Pearl Law, Tracker

Laurie Deneschuk

Current Position:

Director of People & Places, Anki, Inc.

Past Positions:

TinyCo, Nektar, Zelerate

Richard Fye

Current Position:

Head of People Operations, Datadog

Past Positions:

Fino, Percolate, Return Path, Heidrick & Struggles

Cat Hernandez

Current Position:

Talent Partner, Primary Ventures

Past Positions:

Chartbeat, Maxymiser, Infusion, Victoria’s Secret

Robby Peters

Current Postion:
Benefits Consultant, Sequoia Benefits

Past Positions:
MitchelLake, Co-Founder HR 2.0

Key Interest Areas:
Benefits, Recruiting

Matt Hoffman

Current Position:

VP, People – Digital Ocean

Past Positions:

Return Path, Avon, JPMorgan, Alliance Bernstein

Key Interest Areas:

Talent Mgmt & Development , Culture & Operations

Adian Jobe Sea

Current Postion:
CEO at Funders Capital

Past Postions:
VC ~ Private Equity Roundtable, Boston Entrepreneurship

Key Interest Areas:
Venture funding, private equity

Megan Healy
Lauren Rosenthal