Chris Tobin Email & Phone Number

Redwood City, California, Us

Leading the People function at Zum. Responsible for setting and overseeing the execution of the people strategy, which includes company HQ and local teams along with the teams of Zum bus drivers, totaling more than 3000+ employees nationwide. Zum has modernized student transportation, the nation’s largest mass transit system, and developed sustainable ways to charge the grid. Zum’s robust operations and integrated end-to-end cloud-based platform provides a modern student transportation service for school districts purpose-built around the needs of kids and the expectations of modern families. Zum provides one seamless, real-time interface for parents, drivers, schools, districts, administrators, and operators to transport children safely and with increased visibility and personalized care. Always investing in the wellbeing of communities, Zum is also the only carbon neutral student transportation provider in the nation with plans to go Net Zero with its transition to EV electric buses. Zum is available nationwide, serving more than 4,000 schools across the U.S. Learn more at www.ridezum.com.

Menlo Park, California, Us

Advisor for Menlo Inflection III Fund - Focus areas: People/HR, Company Scaling and People Technology

San Mateo, California, Us

SemperVirens is an early stage venture capital fund with over $150 million under management investing in technology transforming healthcare, work, and financial wellness. The fund has a portfolio of more than 50 industry-defining technology companies and an invite-only Venture Advisor group of 70 senior HR leaders of public companies. SemperVirens is committed to making meaningful connections amongst all stakeholders on a mission to build a better future of work.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Continuum connects exceptional people operations executives with venture-backed companies for advisory roles. https://joincontinuum.com/how-it-works

San Francisco, California, Us

Advisory Focus: Product feedback, positioning and "go to market" for early to mid stage start ups in the HR and Talent spaces.PeopleTech Partners is a network of business leaders investing time in People Tech. It’s critical for founders to have key partners that work in the companies their products serve. All People Leaders know of H.R. or Recruiting tools that don’t seem to “get” the real needs of organizations. We believe that giving founding teams access to the right information early in their development drives success.

Check out past and present Advisor engagements here: www.christobinadvisory.comWith over two decades of experience in HR and Org Development roles, 15 of which in the top People/HR job at high growth startups (Zum, Intercom, Affirm, & Flipboard), I advise entrepreneurs and People/HR leaders on how to grow and scale, as well as entrepreneurs in the HR/People space on product and go-to-market strategy.Feel free to reach out via linked-in if you'd like to chat!

San Francisco, California, Us

Global responsibility for the HR, Talent Acquisition and the Workplace functions at Intercom. Direct report to CEO and member of Exec team. Helped to grow company from 500 to 1000+ employees worldwide with offices in San Francisco, Dublin, London, Sydney, and Chicago

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for the HR, Talent Acquisition and Facilities functions at Affirm. Direct report to CEO and member of Exec team. Helped grow company from 150 to 500+ employees worldwide.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Global responsibility for all aspects of the Human Resources (including talent acquisition), Facilities and Information Technology (IT) teams. Direct report to the CEO and member of Exec team.Helped grow company from 80 to 250 employees with offices in Palo Alto, NYC, and Beijing

Responsible for HR, Information Technology and Workplace teams (facilities, office management and executive support). Direct report to the CEO and member of Exec team. Helped grow company from 65 to 400 employees with offices in SF, NYC, London and Sydney

San Jose, Ca, Us

Director of Human Resources for the Global Finance, Analytics and Corporate strategy organizations (700 + employees worldwide) and Senior HR partner to the CFO of EBay Inc.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Sr. HR Business Partner at Sun Microsystems in the engineering organization. Partnered with engineering executives and their respective leadership teams to design and implement their Human Resources and Organization Effectiveness strategy.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Key member of the internal Organization Consulting Group. Worked with many senior executive leaders and their respective organizations (Engineering, Finance, IT, Sales) on complex issues such as: Aligning processes, structure and people to a changing strategy; Identifying tangible ways in which Executive Teams can improve their communication, decision making and management of the organization; Translating corporate values into meaningful, explicit and actionable terms; Integrating the culture of acquired software company to enable business continuity and synergies; And, helping leaders to identify and mitigate major people related barriers to proposed organizational changes. In addition to this, Responsible for meeting with senior executives at Sun to develop new, high-impact consulting projects for the OD consulting team.

Oakland, California, Us

Sr. Organization Development Consultant for PG&E's internal OD consulting team. Worked on a diverse set of projects and initiatives that ranged from executive coaching and team building to change management and culture change.

Closedloop Solutions was a financial software startup. I worked with the VP of HR to help develop, implement and administer the HR function for the company.

Consultant for a HR consulting start-up firm based in San Francisco. Worked with tech start-ups in the greater bay area to solve a variety of human resources and organizational development related issues.

B.A., Psychology

Ph.D., Organizational Psychology