Summary

Work experience

• Director, People Partner, GTM

  Navan

  2023.06-Current

  (3 years)
• HR Business Partner - GTM & Marketing

  Mistral AI

  2026.03-Current

  (7 months)
• Sr. Director, People Partner, Global GTM

  Navan

  2025.04-2026.03

  (a year)
• Director, People Partner, Go-To-Market

  SurveyMonkey

  2020.07-2023.06

  (3 years)
• Head of HR

  Verkada

  2019.03-2020.05

  (a year)

  - Partner and Advisor to C-suite and Executive Team to guide, develop and implement people strategy as Verkada goes through hypergrowth - Develop the internal philosophy and brand for HR - Actively build and manage the HR team - Build up core HR processes and programs from scratch to scale with Verkada. This includes talent reviews, compensation benchmarking and building out comp bands, creation of new hire onboarding process and working with leaders to develop career pathways for their teams. - Onboard and intergrate key people systems. Work collaboratively with Finance, Operations and Marketing to ensure people systems house consistent and reliable data
• HR Business Partner, North America Partnerships

  Facebook

  2018.08-2019.03

  (8 months)

  - Provide strategic business partner support to Partnerships Sales and Engineering functions. - Coach and advisor to the business leaders on all people related matters. - Work with leaders to drive engagement of their employees through effective 1:1s, talent management (performance management, talent assessments, career development conversations), building and facilitating learning opportunities through collaboration with L&D teams and developing action plans based on bi-annual company engagement survey.
• Sr HR Business Partner, Engineering

  Tesla Motors

  2016.01-2018.08

  (3 years)

  Sr. HR Business Partner 2017 - 2018 HR Business Partner 2016 - 2017 -Provided strategic business partner support to Firmware, Controls, Autopilot and Internal Applications engineering organizations - Built strong partnerships with org leaders by developing an understanding of an organization’s charter, key talent, stakeholders and employee roles and responsibilities - Partner with VPs, senior leaders and first line managers to develop management competencies, provide coaching, influence employees and drive key company initiatives across the organization
• Technology Career Development Manager

  Baker Hughes

  2014.11-2015.10

  (a year)
• Team Lead - Global Products & Services - University Recruiting

  Baker Hughes

  2012.08-2014.11

  (2 years)

  Promotions: University Recruiter to Team Lead
• Design Engineer

  Baker Hughes

  2010.05-2012.08

  (2 years)

  Promotions: Design Engineer II Design Engineer I
• Teaching Assistant & Peer Leader

  University of Texas

  2009.01-2009.12

  (a year)

  Served as one of three facilitators for Career Development Seminar Led class discussions and made weekly presentations Defined seminar content and assisted in creation of weekly lesson plans Collaborated with co-facilitators to determine effective delivery method of content to the students Mentored 15-20 students each semester on how to apply seminar material to their daily
• Quality Assurance and Cost Improvement Engineering Intern

  Flowserve Corporation

  2008.06-2008.08

  (3 months)

  Led two packaging design projects which reduced packaging costs by 70% while improving package quality and durability Initiated self run research on chemical sealant decay in different fuel environments Developed a solid knowledge in the manufacturing of fluid control devices Provided high quality reports and presentations on assigned projects

Educational experience

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Mechanical Engineering, Engineering with a Business Emphasis
• University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, Entrepeneurship
• American School of Paris