Tia Silas is Shopify’s Chief Human Resources Officer, joining in 2022 to oversee: Talent, Employee Experience & Real Estate teams.Prior to joining Shopify, Tia was EVP of Human Resources at Wells Fargo, where she was responsible for leading people strategies across a number of areas such as Global Technology, Strategy, Digital and Innovation, as well as the Corporate and Investment Bank. Tia also worked at IBM as the Global Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer where she was responsible for driving diversity and inclusion strategies across the globe with hundreds of thousands of employees.Tia graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in industrial and labor relations, and attained her MBA from New York University, Stern School of Business.Tia has considerable recognition for her work in, being the only corporate leader asked to testify before US congress in support of the Equality Act, and also having been invited to the Vatican for a closed-door meeting with senior officials including Cardinal Pietro ParolinShe has been named one of Black Enterprise’s “Most Powerful Women in Corporate Diversity”, an SAP “Forward Thinker”, has received Crane publication’s “Game Changer” Award and endowed by New York Moves Magazine.