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VP, People & Operations · #15 on the 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50

• Drove people and organization readiness for the $3.1B Schneider Electric acquisition (announced June 2026) — leadership-bench depth, succession, equity refresh, and governance aligned to a public-company parent
• Embedded generative AI into core People workflows — manager coaching, performance synthesis, engagement sentiment, policy guidance — absorbing expanded scope with zero added HR headcount, with a human retaining decision ownership on every employee-affecting outcome
• Led a full VP-layer executive refresh across Global Value Delivery in under nine months, through a period of steep Services growth
• Redesigned senior hiring end-to-end: behavioral competency pillars, anchored rubrics, structured question banks, and 90-day ramp data feeding back into interview quality
• Serve on the company-wide AI steering committee — agent ownership, people-data ethics, and bias review as autonomous agents enter daily operations

Senior Partner, Talent & Performance · Internal Head of People through 2025

• Joined founder William Abecassis (former Head of Venture Capital at BlackRock) as the firm’s second person — for the first nine months, Braven was the two of us — helping craft the manifesto and operating model behind “value creators, not just capital allocators”
• Part of the founding team that made cobuilding the firm’s model, with team formation a named discipline alongside sales development and capital formation — hands-on with portfolio founders on org design, first hires, and culture, including building the founding team at Inprobable, an AI-powered commercial insurance platform
• Built the talent engine as an individual contributor: 4,000+ candidates assessed with cognitive and video automation, a proprietary 15,000+ candidate database, and the Braven Fellowship for non-traditional MBA/PhD talent

Chief People Officer

• Scaled from 350 employees in 6 countries to 775 in 21; built and led a 45-person People & Experiences organization spanning HR, Talent, People Analytics, Sales Enablement, IT, Facilities, and Business Process Optimization
• Led company-wide org redesign through hypergrowth, contributing to a 3x valuation increase ($400M → $1.3B) — presenting people strategy to the Board and Compensation Committee throughout
• Raised eNPS from +22 to +66 in one year across a fully distributed workforce

Vice President, People

• Strategic partner to a refreshed executive team (CRO, CCO, CMO) through a year of rapid ARR growth — realigning leadership, talent, and go-to-market structure
• Established the global Talent Management function; delivered the Career Path Project: skills bank, competency framework, structured pay bands, quarterly OKRs
• Steered the People function through COVID-19 — pivoting to well-being and resilience while leading a restructuring that supported a return to sustainable growth

Chief People Officer · 125-person global People organization

• Cut early-stage attrition from 14% to 4% with predictive talent assessment across a global recruiting engine (U.S., India, Philippines, Uruguay, Luxembourg — 3,000+ hires annually)
• Drove high-performer retention from 48% to 98% — Hay-method job architecture, incentive scorecards streamlined from 23 goals to 6, and an RSU program for 725 previously ineligible employees
• Replaced annual forced-curve reviews with quarterly Impact Reviews; built succession plans covering 75% of Director+ roles, up from under 10%
• Consolidated 15 business units into one, integrated four acquisitions, divested six entities, and replaced spreadsheet HR with Oracle HCM as the global HRIS
• Raised Glassdoor from 1.4 to 3.3 by rebuilding the employer brand from the inside out

Adcap Network Systems — VP, Talent Management (2013–2015). Scaled the People function through a period of rapid revenue growth and margin expansion; built apprenticeship and sales-talent programs that opened entirely new revenue lines; two-time #1 Best Place to Work in Atlanta; company acquired.

University of Maryland, Smith School of Business — Advisory Council Member & Guest Lecturer (2013–Present) on preparing emerging leaders for management in the age of AI.