Funded.club is a fully decentralized team of consultants and recruiters from diverse backgrounds around the world. We encourage our team members to plan their own work schedules around family time and their life passions - not the other way around - and to seek meaning in all that they do.
Sustainability Goal:
In a fast-changing world of compounding crises, Funded.club is actively working towards to supporting a customer base comprising at least 50% social businesses, sustainability solutions and good causes by June 2021. We aim to bring the best possible talent to these organizations to help them grow efficiently and increase their positive impact on our collective future.
Team Culture:
We are gradually evolving into self-organizing teams in 2021 with a modern, "Teal" work culture as described in "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux. If this sounds exciting, join us!
(And no, the images below do not represent a hierarchy! :)
Sustainability Goal:
In a fast-changing world of compounding crises, Funded.club is actively working towards to supporting a customer base comprising at least 50% social businesses, sustainability solutions and good causes by June 2021. We aim to bring the best possible talent to these organizations to help them grow efficiently and increase their positive impact on our collective future.
Team Culture:
We are gradually evolving into self-organizing teams in 2021 with a modern, "Teal" work culture as described in "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux. If this sounds exciting, join us!
(And no, the images below do not represent a hierarchy! :)
Ray Gibson
Founder & CEO ray [at] funded.club 20 years senior management in HR/recruiting, retail, hospitality, technology. 7 years building startups. Ray leads strategy, tooling and partnerships for Funded.club and guides startups on their fundraising options. |
Jared Fisher
VP of Growth, North America jared@funded.club Jared brings a fresh perspective to the Funded.club sales team, coming from the real estate market. Jared is a deal maker, hustler and plugged into startup communities across North America. He "gets" founders and what they are living through when growing a business. |
Sasha Marley
Regional Director, EMEA sasha@funded.club Sasha is an Angel investor, entrepreneur and startup recruiting expert. She has been effective in recruiting and sales for 20+ years and has a true passion for building teams across Europe. |
CJ Mhatre
Business Partner, APAC cj@funded.club CJ is a New Zealander living in Singapore with his family for over 15 years. He is an entrepreneur, mentor and sales leader who has invested decades building and growing fintech businesses across APAC. |
Americas team
Jyl McLaughlin
Director of Recruiting, Americas Jyl has a vast amount of experience as a Career Specialist and Talent Partner. She has been preparing candidates for their job search and marketing them to employers for more than 20 years. As a talent partner, Jyl has worked for several years sourcing and recruiting candidates with recruiting firms. She brings a fresh perspective to Funded.club on candidate sourcing, screening and matching and coaches our team to success. |
Kristy Stafford
Senior Recruiter, Americas Based in Chicago, Kristy has vast experience scaling teams in startup environments - focused on growth to leverage results and retain the best talent. Kristy prides herself on her personal connections and a unique recruiting style. Years of successful branding and marketing experience have provided her with this versatile skillset. |
Mary Jane Silverio
Senior Recruiter, Global Highly effective and inspiring HR/talent expert with diverse, multi-industry experience gained from partnering with Fortune companies and fast-growing startups in North America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. |
Jaclyn Hogan
Senior Recruiter, Americas Jaclyn is an innovative and effective leader in Talent Acquisition with extensive experience in leveraging employer branding, full-cycle recruiting, developing training programs, and special projects. With more than 8 years of experience, she’s supported global brands such as McDonald's, Publicis Media, Jones Lang Lasalle, Amazon, and General Growth Properties. |
Wasay Yazdani
Senior Recruiter, Americas Wasay works on some of our toughest technology searches and has a knack for turning over the right stones at the right time to find talent quickly for our customers. |
John Lundell
Senior Recruiter, Americas John brings a business background in operations, supply chain management, sales, and marketing, to his recruiting. He also has workforce development experience which provides a valuable 360 view of the hiring process. Based in Las Vegas, John focuses most on sales and tech recruitment. |
Deepa Unny
Senior Recruiter, Americas Deepa brings great expertise in technology recruiting for multiple domains and was Talent Manager for NYU before joining Funded.club in 2021. |
Nathan Kalas
Senior Recruiter, Americas Nathan brings a massive personal network to Funded.club that he has built over decades of running effective headhunting campaigns. When we need unicorns for a specific location, we ask Nate :) |
EMEA team
Lucy Mackenzie
Senior Recruiter, EMEA Lucy brings 20+ years of experience in recruiting to our team and is highly focused on getting great results, quickly. Lucy holds the record for fastest placement for a full-time permanent hire from Funded.club at just 6 days from kick-off call to accepted offer. |
Lucy Milanova
Senior Recruiter, EMEA Results-driven recruitment specialist with proven success hiring across Central, Eastern and Western Europe. Lucy is also a certified careers and transformation coach. |
Rupert Kinder
Senior Recruiter, EMEA Rupert led his own recruiting firm prior to joining Funded.club and covers a wide range of roles and skillsets from IT to finance, HR and operations. |
Andrew Morss
Senior Recruiter, EMEA Andy works across roles in engineering, energy and technology with a highly consultative approach. Andy particularly enjoys senior management and niche requirements that require a pro-active approach and deep understanding of candidate markets. |
Dominic Zwicky-Ross
Senior Recruiter, EMEA Dom enjoys providing a recruiting service to people and companies that share his values of ethical and financial integrity. "Recruitment, when done correctly, should grow your business in line with your core values" |
Raffaele Magri
Senior Recruiter, EMEA Raffaele is an international recruiter fluent in 4 languages and based in London. Familiar with Forex and financial markets, he is also a part-time trader. |
Chris O'Grady
Senior Recruiter, EMEA-APAC Chris has a wealth of experience helping startups and scale-ups across EMEA and APAC grow and enter new markets. He is adept at sourcing top talent for both commercial and technical roles and brings a tenacious, success-oriented approach. He has a consistent record of delivery against demanding deadlines. |
Gillian Rowe
Senior Recruiter, EMEA Gillian is an experienced recruiters and also a Certified Agile Scrum Master; MSP Programme Manager; Certified Microsoft MCSE and software engineer with 10 years experience running large global software development teams from start ups to large corporations. |
APAC team
Teo Gek Khim
Senior Sales Manager, APAC Based in Malaysia, Khim brings investment banking and business experience to her conversations with founding teams and startups across the region. She holds the record for biggest sales lead in the first month of joining the Funded.club team! |
Jun Zhe Lee
Senior Recruiter, APAC Highly self-motivated and result-oriented recruitment specialist with proven experience across APAC. JZ provides advice and recruits for all talent levels to help them reach their career goals and supporting the companies by attracting the talents that bring value and grow with them. |
Anupam Pande
Senior Recruiter, APAC Based in India, Anupam has great success in resourcing across the region, and especially into Sing, HK, PH, Australia. He's one of our confident deal closers who manages to find talent quickly, even when candidates have multiple offers from competing employers. |
Jason Sicaa
Senior Recruiter, APAC Jason is a Melbourne-based recruiter covering the APAC region for tech and commercial roles for our startup customers. Jason's talent acquisition experience goes all the way back to 2006 with SAP! |
Emma Reavell
Senior Recruiter, APAC Based in Melbourne, Australia, Emma is a HR partner and recruiter with heart. Emma is a resourceful headhunter who also has the experience (National Australia Bank, Ericsson, NetApp...) to guide leaders of fast-growing businesses on their journey. |
Global advisory and support team
Nenad Dojcinovski
Business Development Experienced in B2B sales, sales development, partnerships, and specialized in implementing innovative sales strategies to create and build relationships with key decision makers. |
Szabolcs Farkas
Investor readiness coach Lean business consultant, product development trainer and agile coach with full-stack programming background. |
Melina Papadopoulos
Investor readiness coach Marketing and branding expert with a talent for aligning customer segments and messaging with business strategy. Founder of "Spark Your Brand", a marketing consultancy and agency, and "Lead Mindfully" that helps founders realize greater wellbeing, flow and fulfilment in their lives and careers. |
Hans Spaan
Investor readiness coach Financial strategist who gets to the nitty gritty of startup finances and fundraising. Holding supervisory and advisory board functions and formerly acting as CEO and CCO of multiple organizations. Gained profound experience in business transformation, business restructuring and strategy formulation. |
Andrea Cocchi
Investor readiness coach Value proposition and lean validation expert who coaches startups from raw fundamentals through to successful funding. |
Michael Koenka
Pitch coach Awesome pitch consultant who helps professionals find what matters to them, shape and articulate it into a clear business offer, and empower them to credibly and reliably influence anyone, anytime, anywhere. |
Michael Diederich
Pitch coach Experienced theatre and improv actor / director with a unique talent for coaching entrepreneurs in pitching and presentations. |
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