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Talent Partner at Lightspeed since 2020. Prior, I spent 15 years at Kindred Partners recruiting C-level executives into venture funded enterprise technology companies. A few examples of companies that I helped build by placing CEOs or Go-to-Market leaders include Coupa, Anaplan, Proofpoint, HashiCorp, Couchbase, Marketo, Facebook, Sentry, Looker, and MuleSoft among many others. Early in my career, 10+ years operating inside two successful venture funded enterprise technology companies. This included 4+ years at Salesforce.com when the company grew from ~$5M in revenue through an IPO and 4 years at Employease which pioneered the method of delivering software as a service (SaaS).
I lead Lightspeed's Executive Talent Team. Lightspeed is a global, multi-stage, venture capital firm managing over $40B in assets. Since its founding in 2000, Lightspeed has been the first investor and an early backer of some of the most innovative companies in the world including Abridge, Anthropic, Castelion, Glean, Mistral, Navan, Netskope, Rubrik, Snap, Wiz, and more. Learn more at lsvp.com.
Kindred Partners is a boutique executive search firm founded and designed to help entrepreneurs succeed. Kindred was the first team to specialize in recruiting executive talent to the venture-backed technology sector, and they deeply understand the unique challenges of building teams in early and growth stage companies. Kindred helped build industry leading companies like Amazon, Anaplan, Asana, AuditBoard, Auris Surgical, Bill.com, Coupa, Facebook, Gainsight, GitLab, Gusto, HashiCorp, Looker Data, MuleSoft, Postmates, Ripple, Samsara, TeamSnap, TheRealReal, Udemy, and many others.
Among the first 100 employees who set the foundation and pace for a complete disruption of the enterprise software category forcing the industry to embrace the cloud, subscription pricing, and user-friendly customization.
One of the first go-to-market employees hired at this Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) pioneer that provided cloud-based HR and payroll software. ADP eventually acquired Employease in 2006.