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We help CEO's assess, diagnose, define and deliver people practices that support healthy, high growth technology enterprises. Recruiting, management training, exec coaching, compensation/benefits and building effective teams is our sweet spot.

Joined up with Analisa Goodin and team to help define early stage HR practices needed to support their growth; other matters include but are not limited to organizational planning, change management and leadership team development.

Joined to help direct the development and implementation of early stage startup HR practices and programs. Team is 100% virtual with start up activities outside the U.S.

Joined Clara to help establish a high trust, transparent, people oriented platform to support the research and development of sustainable, affordable, high quality protein recombinants.

Partner with the exec and HR team to define and implement empowering programs to attract, develop and retain the culture and people

Started consulting with CEO Jeff Lawson September, 2011. Fell in love with the mission and team and shifted into a leadership role with primary focus to define and execute the people growth plans in the hottest talent market in decades. We selected and implemented the infrastructure (culture, systems,executive team (CFO,CMO,CRO,GC,VP Engineering, VP Product) that enabled us to become the market leader and "company to copy" offering software platform products the empower developers to change the world of communications. Building a company in an evolving, category yet to be defined, insanely competitive San Francisco talent market required a clear culture, collaborative & innovative leadership team and the willingness to invest and take risks. You start with and answer questions like: *what do we want our culture to "be"; how do we want people to interact, what matters? *what do our people really care about? Is it perks, pay, training,promotion,time off, massage on site, coaching,feedback, food? *how do we know if we are paying to market and what is our comp philosophy? *how do we offer training that makes a difference? *how do we help our manager's be more effective? *does our environment bring out the best in our people?Then you decide, create, communicate,implement.... test and iterate Few things I am proud of : *Building an awesome Executive & HR team *Cultivating leaders - who can more nimbly lead in complex, global environments*Mobilize teams for greater speed and flexibility - producing significantly greater capability to adjust underlying costs and faster ways to allocate talent*Creating, buying and implementing the infrastructure that supports the attraction(Greenhouse) and development (Leadership Accelerator Bootcamp, Coaching Cohorts, Coaching & Training) of our people

Leading provider of semiconductor IP for pc’s, laptops, digital & mobile TV, portable media players, flash storage, digital cameras, network appliances; recognized as providing world class audio and video solutions.Vice President, Human Resources• Reporting to CEO, responsible for all Human Resources operations. Provided operational and human resources leadership for the turnaround of this 10 year old publicly held (LSE listed) company. • Transformational work: strategic option analysis; leadership assessment & development; global talent identification, assessment & development process and improvement of associated HR processes i.e. performance mgt; goal setting and related compensation tools • Post acquisition integration for 4 company’s • Spearheaded the global employee restructuring and development of top talent to align with growth and profit targets resulting in FIRST TIME profitability and 12% YOY growth in the worst economic downturn in decades• Implemented global HRIS and reporting, performance management system improvements, compensation structure (ONE integrated globally consistent, locally appropriate) top talent profiling and development process and executive, employee and sales compensation schemes

Responsible for all HR matters for 1800+ filed organization in 20 countries. Successfully managed and delivered human resource services through three years of hyper growth including 3 acquisitions, outsourcing and eventual sale to Oracle; revenue growth from $500M to $1B over 3 years with 25% reduction in operating costs. Four acquisitions and led APAC region transition when leadership change was required. Built global HR team from 14 to 40. Developed and implemented business plan for Hyperion Coaching Institute.

Managed and delivered human resources for merger of Parthus/Ceva corporations. Responsible for driving innovative HR solutions to teams in Israel, 5 sites in Ireland, Asia, North America and Canada. Spearheaded unification of culturally and geographically diverse leadership and employee teams.

Variety of leadership roles including Worldwide Field Organization (40 person global HR team), Corporate Acquisition Team, H.R. VP for newly acquired Meridian Data (network attached storage) planned IPO and spin off from Quantum. Created repeatable, scalable M&A process for the company