New York City Metropolitan Area
Results-driven HR Executive with 25+ years of global experience in HR strategy, workforce planning, and organizational design. Known for tackling obstacles from multiple angles to deliver creative, practical solutions that align with business goals. Passionate about talent development, employee engagement, and succession planning to support start-up, growth, and transformational environments. Proven success in building leadership pipelines, scaling organizations, and driving cultural change that delivers measurable business impact.
• Advise CEO and executive leadership on people strategy, embedding HR into the business model and driving workforce initiatives that directly support revenue growth and market expansion. • Manage an HR Generalist that also leads our payroll process for 52 employees in 22 states. • Direct $1M HR budget, optimizing spending across talent, technology, and engagement programs to maximize organizational ROI. • Built scalable workforce strategies that enabled 26% headcount growth and contributed to a 10% increase in revenue. • Redesigned performance, incentive, and rewards programs, tying pay to accountability and growth. Redesigned the sales commission plan to better align with the business and sales goals. • Elevated engagement and culture through inclusive, remote-ready programs that boosted collaboration and increased engagement survey scores by 18% in year one. • Developed leadership and succession frameworks to build future bench strength, align executive talent with a 3-year strategic plan, and strengthen organizational readiness.
• Partnered with CTO to lead HR strategy for 800+ employees across the US and China, ensuring alignment of engineering and product talent with global business priorities. • Managed an HR Manager in the US and indirectly managed HR team of 3 in China. • Integrated six acquired start-ups into a unified organization, aligning culture and processes while preserving innovation strengths, accelerating operational cohesion and employee engagement. • Stabilized organization during executive transition, supporting the interim CPO and bridging cross-functional leadership gaps to maintain continuity and business momentum. • Launched leadership development program for technical managers, strengthening readiness, improving alignment, and enabling stronger execution within high-growth engineering teams. • Closed global skills gaps through internal mobility, partnering with L&D to move talent seamlessly between China and the US, improving capability deployment and retention.
• Served as global HR partner to the CTO, CFO, and General Counsel, shaping people strategy for worldwide teams and aligning HR priorities to business and financial objectives. • Managed HR Manager and DE&I Program Manager. . • Equipped leaders to manage fully remote teams during COVID, embedding best practices in virtual leadership, accountability, and engagement that preserved productivity and morale in a period of disruption. • Partnered with L&D to launch global capability-building programs for engineering and digital functions, aligning workforce skills with evolving strategic and technical priorities. • Led Talent Development workstream in global Workday implementation, guiding design and testing to ensure scalable systems, data accuracy, and enhanced talent insights across the enterprise.
• Promoted to AVP within two years, reflecting strong performance, business impact, and leadership credibility. • Managed HR Manager and HR Generalist. • Redesigned Talent Acquisition function to rapidly scale hiring for high-volume business needs, reducing time-to-fill and strengthening workforce readiness. • Partnered with Legal and Procurement to streamline low-complexity matters, cutting contract turnaround times, enabling faster vendor onboarding, and creating pathways for role expansion and promotions within both teams. • Established the first formal talent management and succession program for the Legal division, building a sustainable leadership pipeline and successfully backfilling a retiring Associate General Counsel through internal mobility.