After 6.5 years at N47, I am taking time to recharge, renew, and build deeper foundations in AI to unlock new ways it can transform HR and Talent.

Vice President, People

• N47 is Siemens' global VC fund with operations across the US, UK, EU, and Israel. As the firm's first People leader, I built the entire people operating system from the ground up while managing compliance obligations to a $190B corporate limited partner. Led in a highly complex environment influencing Siemens relationships, internal fund expectations, and jurisdictional nuances.
• Stood up independent legal entities across the US, UK, and Israel, including moving all employees from Siemens, while building HR infrastructure, contracts, and processes for the existing German entity. Implemented a full HR tech stack with automation and AI-assisted analysis.
• Negotiated firm autonomy from Siemens governance. Owned annual HR compliance reporting; right-sized LP requirements for a VC fund structure. Became the first People leader across all Siemens majority held US businesses to win removal of pre-employment drug testing and approval to purchase an independent benefits plan, securing both through a regulatory pathway others had missed.
• Built career ladders and compensation—cash, equity, carried interest, and a sales comp plan—across a multi-country, multi-currency workforce. Carry comp at a VC fund requires legal, financial, and structural judgment well beyond standard HR; there was no precedent to follow.
• Built the cultural and talent infrastructure for a high-performance global team: leveling framework, performance management, Cultural Beliefs formation, and onboarding. New hire eNPS: 95+. Owned all recruiting including direct search, vendor management, and candidate negotiations.
• Designed culture focused initiatives to improve global workforce engagement and collaboration, resulting in 15% increase in overall employee engagement score during a time of restructuring, and at 80-90+ across multiple themes, including Collaboration and Communication; Enablement; Teamwork; and Alignment.
• Ad hoc advisory to portfolio companies on people and talent strategy, and contributed to the firm's investment lens by identifying HR tech opportunities, participating in product reviews for potential investments, and facilitating introductions between founders and investors.
• Led many change management exercises: EOR, restructures, new team formations, office closures, office openings, etc.

Enjoyed time recharging the batteries, volunteering at my daughter's school, blogging about my baking exploits, and traveling.

Professional projects:

• Draup/Zinnov: Advisory Board Member
• First Round Capital: Mentor

Ten-X is a leading online real estate marketplace. I joined shortly after CaptialG's $50mm funding round to rebuild a broken talent function and stayed to build the entire people operation infrastructure for scale through a $1.6B acquisition by TH Lee and the subsequent restructuring exercises.

• Rebuilt Talent Acquisition from the ground up, driving 400+ annual hires (FTE and contractor) and solving an engineering hiring problem through implementation of Karat for technical assessment. The talent ramp contributed directly to a $1.6B majority stake acquisition by THL in September 2017.
• Delivered multi-million dollar cost reduction through vendor renegotiations, benefits plan restructuring, 401(k) redesign, and migration to tech-enabled and outsourced immigration and employment authorization services—all without meaningful negative impact to the employee experience.
• Modernized the HR tech stack to automate key business processes—expanding HRIS capabilities to include quarterly bonus administration, nine-box talent reviews, benefits enrollment, and payroll. Implemented a support desk system to capture case data, identify patterns, and build self-service solutions for high-volume, low-complexity needs.
• Led change management and restructuring post-acquisition—decentralizing resources into a business line model and owning all people operations, HRBP, talent acquisition, and L&D for the Ten-X CRE business line prior to its eventual sale to CoStar in 2020.

Q315 Corporate Shining Star Award for rapidly turning around the company's technology talent acquisition efforts.

Nearly nine years, six promotions, multiple achievement awards, and five roles spanning talent acquisition, regional people strategy, and leading an executive-level global competitive intelligence program. Each role was a step up in scope and visibility—from building specialized talent pipelines to shaping talent strategy at the CEO level.

• Built the executive competency framework defining what leadership needed to look like for Satya Nadella's mobile-first, cloud-first transformation—identifying new talent profiles and critical skills required to execute the strategy.
• Selected by the CHRO to lead a global talent intelligence function whose outputs informed workforce strategy at the CEO level. Connected competitive signals, executive movement data, and org-level intelligence into predictive insights— including identifying the dissolution of key competitor's team before it became public knowledge and deploying a sourcing task force that recruited directly from that talent pool. Built a real-time competitive compensation tool subsequently adopted by Microsoft's global comp team.
• Led Silicon Valley regional people strategy—workforce planning, localized EVP, diversity hiring, M&A TA integrations (Yahoo Search, Slack, and Yammer), divestitures (TellMe), and university recruiting programs. Served as interim Silicon Valley HR site leader.
•Designed and led three technology build projects—regional website, regional recruiting platform, global competitive intelligence platform.
• Built specialized talent pipelines for Legal and Corporate Affairs—including government affairs, antitrust, and patent law teams—and was called in to rebuild trust with Corporate Finance and Treasury after the recruiting relationship had broken down. Developed a 14-module hiring manager training curriculum in partnership with L&D.
• Recognized with multiple awards: Microsoft HR Excellence in Execution (×2), Excellence in Collaboration, and two Gold Star Awards—one awarded directly by a CVP client in Corporate Finance.

Roles Held:

• Director, Executive Talent Acquisition (Global Executive Recruiting) November 2014-July 2015
• Director, Talent Acquisition (Silicon Valley Development Center) April 2013-November 2014
• Group Manager, Talent Market Insights (Office of the EVP, HR) January 2012-April 2013
• Sr. Manager, Staffing Programs (Silicon Valley Development Center) June 2010-January 2012
• Talent Acquisition Consultant (Legal & Corporate Affairs; Corporate Finance) November 2006-June 2010

Senior, Talent Acquisition

• Recruited senior and management staff for Ernst & Young's AABS, BRS, TAS service lines.
• Top nationally in sourced hires.
• Built and launched a nationwide internal marketing campaign to promote the firm's employee referral program.
• Partnered with West Coast recruiting leader to operationalize an international recruiting pilot that evolved into a larger program for the firm.
• Served on project team responsible for the customization and rollout of Taleo applicant tracking system and new internal recruitment processes.
• Developed junior staff.