Gynger is the first embedded financing platform built for buyers and sellers of technology. We simplify the end-to-end purchasing process by enabling businesses to pay, finance, and manage all of their technology expenses from one platform. For sellers, we provide an opportunity to extend flexible payment options to their customers while still getting paid upfront.Gynger recently announced its $20 Million Series A funding led by PayPal Ventures and $100 Million debt facility from CIM. Additional world-class investors include Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused venture fund), Velvet Sea Ventures, BAG Ventures, Deciens, Vine Ventures, Upper90, Quiet Capital and m]x[v Capital.Gynger was founded by serial entrepreneur Mark Ghermezian, the co-founder and founding CEO of Braze, a now ($4B+) publicly traded company. Gynger is revolutionizing how companies buy and sell technology, disrupting a $4.7 trillion dollar industry. To date, Gynger has facilitated thousands of payments for its customers across hundreds of vendors, including AWS, Google Cloud, Okta, Cisco, Salesforce, HubSpot, Oracle, GitHub, Snowflake and Amplitude.Gynger is on a mission to help companies scale with the technology they love. We are based in NY and are growing at an exceptional rate. If you’re looking for an opportunity to disrupt an industry and leave your mark, Gynger is the company for you.

AssuranceAmerica is an auto insurance carrier in the minimum-limits space, operating (as of 2022) in 10 states with 300+ employees and $265M+ in annual gross written premium (GWP).◉ Served as a player/coach role responsible for full-cycle recruiting / talent acquisition, recruitment operations, and managing a team of recruiters.◉ Oversaw recruitment efforts which saw company grow from 200 to 300 associates during the tumultuous 2020-2021 calendar years. In 2021 alone my team placed 120 external hires keeping ahead of “The Great Resignation.” Personally placed 32 candidates with over 50% considered directly sourced.◉ Implemented and project managed company’s first-ever ATS system (Zoho) from scratch including setting up the candidate pipeline process, career portal, job boards setup, permissions, and how information is encoded for reporting purposes.◉ Created first-ever recruiting reports for recruitment team and management/C-suite including master list of company hires, open req report, commission reports, and average cost of acquiring external candidates.◉ Drove adoption of first-ever company employer messaging across website, LinkedIn, Facebook, Indeed, Glassdoor, and our career portal leading to 32% uptick in brand recognition among new hires surveyed.◉ Digitized and standardized the job description, job opening, reporting, and onboarding processes leading to higher satisfaction scores in internal surveys.

The Home Depot is the #1 in the Home Improvement category with (as of 2020) 2,200+ retail stores, $110B+ in revenue, and an IR-Top 5 ranked, $10B eCommerce platform.◉ Primarily responsible for full-cycle recruiting / talent acquisition supporting The Home Depot’s eCommerce platform “Interconnected Experiences” (IX) organization.◉ Focused on placing candidates within: Strategy, Product Management, Project Management, Operations, Merchandising and Analytics.◉ Partner with business Directors, hiring managers, and HR to discuss and refine profiles, implement hiring strategy, and move candidates through the process.◉ Championed the “Orange Touch” candidate experience initiative by providing excellent service, enabling the hiring managers with various candidate experience initiatives, and overseeing the implementation.◉ In short amount of time, was asked to help train new recruiters on internal process and systems.◉ Within first 12 months was able to successfully place 34 candidates for almost $4M in compensation.◉ Guided hiring managers on Workday implementation reducing the administrative burden of posting roles.

Three Pillars Recruiting is a boutique agency focused on full-time, permanent placements in the tech space.For the rest of my tenure at Three Pillars Recruiting, I was Recruiting Team Lead which was a player / coach role where I was responsible for both my own business (see information below) and managing a team. In 10/2016 I was given additional responsibilities and promoted to Head of Recruiting Operations.◉ Player / coach responsible for full-cycle recruiting while also responsible for recruiter training, and direct management.◉ Direct management of a recruiting team and mentoring of other recruiter team members. Activities included: initial recruitment process and industry training, ongoing training, daily mentoring, generating, and analyzing activity reports and KPIs, arranging sales incentives, communicating employee progress, and developing action plans etc.◉ Trained and managed 14 recruiters for over $7.4M in lifetime billing, representing over 15% of the company’s lifetime revenue including one recruiter to over $3M in lifetime billing.◉ Successfully recruited or supervised the placements of 350 full-time candidates for over $38M in negotiated salaries.

Over the course of ~3 years, I held various recruiting positions. In September 2012 I was promoted to Recruiting Team Lead where I took on additional management and operational responsibilities (see above).◉ Originally hired as employee #1 primarily responsible for both client side and candidate side recruitment of mid-to-executive level candidates including director, VP-level, and C-level searches across sales, sales support, product, marketing, business development, operations, analytics, and administrative roles.◉ Responsible for both the full-cycle candidate and client recruiting process including prospecting, sourcing, qualifying, pitching, scheduling, negotiating, and closing.◉ At any given time, recruited for 100+ roles over 50 companies, spanning six job functions, covering four primary territories across all US time zones.◉ Consistently ranked a “Top-5” company biller in any given calendar year with a lifetime billing of $2.7M.◉ Broke new $100K+ accounts with tech companies Sizmek, Magnetic, 33Across, and GumGum.

[𝐼 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎.]◉ Built a book of business consisting of over 70 clients from prospecting day care centers, existing clients and expos.◉ Networked with over 10 municipalities, business owners and other associations.◉ Facilitated retirement, college and life insurance planning for individuals and families.◉ Responsible for assisting new representatives develop prospecting methods. ◉ Held applicable licenses including Series 6, Series 63, various state insurance and variable licenses. ◉ Finished 2007 fiscal year as a top 50 insurance producer out of over 700 in the company.◉ Closed enough new sales to receive two promotions in less than one year.◉ Managed roughly $1.5 million of clients’ assets.

◉ Audited, updated and revised all available 2004 and 2005 merchandise planning reports.◉ Facilitated the process of standardizing past reports and creating official books.◉ Designed, coded and implemented an Excel template for merchandise planning report. ◉ Researched, developed and created detailed data reports used for product forecasting.◉ Presented all final projects to senior management.◉ Obtained valuable skills in retail sales and direct marketing during a time when the world was crashing over from offline to eCommerce.