WHO We Hire

Sam Senior is the Founder and CEO of Monarch, an enterprise AI platform automating complex workflows against legacy systems for Fortune 500 companies in utilities, logistics, and healthcare. Before founding Monarch, Sam spent over six years at Bain & Company in London and San Francisco, rising to Senior Manager, and he's an Emerald LP at GTMfund with investments in hypergrowth fintech and...

Pawan Bangar is the Founder & CEO of Birbals Inc., a global digital transformation and AI firm he launched in 2003 from India and relaunched in California in 2011. Over 23 years, he has built a distributed team across the US, India, Canada, and Melbourne without a single COVID layoff, no salary reductions, and no formal education requirement for hires. After completing an executive program at...

Jeff Gothelf is the co-author of the award-winning Lean UX (O'Reilly) and Sense & Respond (HBR Press), and co-founder of Sense & Respond Press. He began his career as a designer at early internet firms including America Online (AOL) and iXL, later leading teams at The Ladders and co-founding Neo Innovation, one of the first Lean and Agile agencies. For 20+ years he's coached execut...

Yoni Tserruya is the co-founder and CEO of Lusha, the AI-powered sales intelligence platform used by millions of sales and RevOps professionals, processing over a billion data points daily. He scaled Lusha from a simple Chrome extension in 2016 to a global team of 300+ employees, then intentionally shrunk the team twice in the last year to force AI adoption and get profitable. In this episode, Yon...

Hiten Shah is the CEO of Crazy Egg and a 20+ year SaaS founder who has built Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics, and Nira, which sold to Dropbox where he later worked on product and growth for AI products. He's hired engineers, product people, and executives across companies ranging from early-stage startups to a 2,000-3,000 person org, and he's convinced that most founders are hiring the wrong way. I...

Evan Walden is the Founder in Residence at Findem, where he takes new AI recruiting products from zero to one for venture capital and private equity portfolios. Before this, he spent nine years building Getro, the talent network behind roughly 1,000 job boards for the world's top VC and PE funds, which Findem acquired in November 2025. Earlier, he cofounded ReWork (acquired by Koya Partners) a...

Joe Walsh is the Chairman and CEO of Thryv, where he leads a global company serving hundreds of thousands of small businesses. Before Thryv, Joe spent over 20 years as President and CEO of Yellowbook, scaling U.S. revenue from $38M to $2B, and later served as Executive Chairman of Cambium Learning Group, where he took the stock from $0.70 to $14.50 per share. Across his career he has completed 77...

Alex Torrenegra is the founder and CEO of Torre.ai, a global job network automating recruitment with real-time, super-intelligent AI. Previously, he bootstrapped Voice123 and Bunny Studio to $100M+ in revenue, holds multiple patents in job marketplace dynamics, and served as an investor on Shark Tank Colombia and Shark Tank Mexico. MIT named him an Innovator Under 35, and the World Economic Forum...

Tyler Vinson is the Co-Founder and CEO of REtokens USA Inc. and REtokens Capital LLC, a FINRA-member broker-dealer and SEC-registered Alternative Trading System building the first real estate–exclusive digital asset marketplace in the United States. He's personally closed over $100M in investment real estate transactions and driven roughly a quarter billion in tokenized real estate volume, all...

Douglas Braun is the CEO of eProductivity Software (ePS), a global software company serving thousands of packaging manufacturers across more than 100 countries. A five-time CEO with a 40-year career in enterprise software, Doug has led teams from Stockholm to São Paulo, promoted internal talent into executive seats, and grown the ePS India office from 60 to 170 people in 18 months. In this episode...

Brian Esposito is the founder of Esposito Intellectual Enterprises and CEO of Diamond Lake Minerals, a public company he grew from a $1 million market cap to nearly half a billion dollars in just three years. With over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience across more than 25 industries, Brian has never worked in the corporate world or had a boss. In this episode, he reveals his framework for ide...

Pedro Góes is the CEO of Snapdat & Ziplit and founder of InEvent, a Y Combinator-backed (S19) event technology company that has generated over $20M in enterprise sales and serves Fortune 500 clients including Amazon, Coca-Cola, KPMG, and Santander. A 3x "Most Influential in Events" honoree and BizBash 40 Under 40, Pedro has scaled InEvent to 150 full-time staffers with 200-300 people...

Sam Mallikarjunan is VP at Pearl, where he's building out an entirely new business unit connecting experts with people who need real help not just AI answers. He previously served as GM at Agent.ai (Dharmesh Shah's AI marketplace that hit 1.5M users), CEO and co-founder of OneScreen.ai, CRO at Flock.com where he helped quintuple revenue, and Head of Growth at HubSpot Labs where he grew mon...

Kris Lawson is the co-founder and CEO of Ruby AI, the world's first always-on autonomous sales agent with full context, memory, and multi-agent intelligence built to give every rep an AI edge across the entire sales cycle. Over 20+ years, Kris scaled go-to-market organizations at Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft, Snowflake, and Vidyard, famously becoming the first Oracle rep ever to lose a deal t...

Michael Grinberg is the founder and CEO of the RevOps Shop, a specialized revenue operations firm helping B2B companies optimize their data and CRM infrastructure. Prior to building his own company, he worked his way up through HubSpot for over six years, gaining deep insights into fast-scaling organizations and global talent density. In this episode, he shares why traditional employee templating...

Mark Schopmeyer is the co-founder and co-CEO of CaptivateIQ, a modern commission-management platform that scales incentives for revenue teams. Prior to building his own company, he led finance and strategy operations at BrightRoll and worked extensively in growth-equity technology investing. Under his executive leadership, the company has scaled to serve nearly 1,000 customers globally, including...

Elio Narciso is the co-founder and CEO of ScaleStack, an AI-powered go-to-market infrastructure layer powering billions of data points for enterprise customers, and the host of the Revenue Engine Masters podcast. Before ScaleStack, he spent four years at AWS running their global startup program with front-row seats to hundreds of companies building revenue engines, became a certified Amazon Bar Ra...

Meg Bear is the former President of SAP SuccessFactors, where she led a global 4,000+ person business past $2.5B in revenue with double-digit YoY growth. Before SAP, she spent two decades building enterprise software at Oracle, and today she serves as a public board director, investor, and advisor to companies reinventing work with AI. In this episode, Meg reveals her frameworks for surviving the...

Pablo Solare is the founder and CEO of Sprightful, a tech-enabled solar company he's been running for 10 years with just 4 humans and what he calls "hundreds" of AI agents. He relocated his family from Miami to Santa Cruz to be closer to the AI revolution and has built a fully remote operation with contractor teams across South Florida and core team members in Portugal and Colombia....

Stephen Banbury is VP of Marketing at ClearlyRated and has spent 20+ years leading marketing teams at enterprise companies including McAfee, Symantec, and Reputation. He's scaled teams from small nimble groups to organizations of 25,000+ people, and currently runs a lean remote marketing operation that leverages agencies and AI to punch above its weight. In this episode, Stephen shares why he...

Ryan Barry is the CEO of Appcues, a user engagement platform serving over 1,400 technology businesses worldwide. Before taking the helm at Appcues in March 2025, Ryan spent nearly 11 years at Zappi, co-authoring the best-selling book The Consumer Insights Revolution and scaling the company as President alongside founder Steve Phillips. In this episode, Ryan reveals the unconventional leadership fr...

Annmarie Neal has spent 20+ years as Chief Talent Officer at Cisco, First Data, and Hellman & Friedman where she achieved an 85% success rate across 20+ CEO transitions. Now as Chief People Officer at Zendesk, she's transforming a $2B company into an AI-first organization while activating over 1,000 leaders. In this episode, she reveals the hiring frameworks, referencing strategies, and leader...

Juan Betancourt spent a decade placing C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies through Korn Ferry and Heidrick & Struggles, then discovered everything he knew about hiring was wrong for startups. In this episode, the Humantelligence CEO reveals how he rebuilt his entire recruitment playbook after striking out on three marketing hires and four salespeople, and why giving "B and C playe...

Mor Assouline quit his first cold calling job within one hour, then avoided sales for three years. Today, as a 3X VP of Sales and founder of FDTC, he trains B2B SaaS reps to hit 50%+ demo close rates month over month. In this episode, Mor reveals how he identifies "born sellers" in interviews, why he scores coachability on a 1-3 scale, and the counterintuitive hiring approach that lets h...

Travis Mariea built Flxpoint into a powerhouse automation platform serving 300+ e-commerce businesses but the real unlock wasn't the tech. In this episode, he reveals how he slashed onboarding time from 90 days to 14 days using AI, why he starts every hire in Latin America first, and the "AI Sentiment Alert" system that catches at-risk customers before they churn. This is a mastercla...