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The serendipitous letter that connected powertofly s co founders with ceo milena berry
PowerToFly is a recruiting platform that connects companies to women in tech. Its founders, Milena Berry and Katharine Zaleski, were among Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2015. PowerToFly sources and vets female engineers and places them in jobs that work for their careers and lives. More than 1,000 companies have posted job listings on PowerToFly including Hearst, BuzzFeed and The Washington Post.
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- The serendipitous letter that connected powertofly s co founders with ceo milena berry
- Distribute hack co hosted by time inc nbbj and powertofly
- Leadership
- References
PowerToFly is at the epicenter of two global shifts: the move toward remote hiring and the one billion women entering the workforce who want alternatives to traditional office cultures. PowerToFly is focused on building distributed teams as a way to open an untapped tech talent pool.
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Leadership
Katharine Zaleski was the sixth employee at The Huffington Post and Senior News Editor, former Executive Director of Digital at The Washington Post, and founding Managing Editor at NowThis News. Milena Berry is the former chief technology officer of Avaaz.org. They launched PowerToFly in August 2014. Katharine Zaleski’s essay, “I’m Sorry To All The Moms I Use To Work With” was Fortune’s most popular story of 2015 and sparked a massive debate about how women are treated at work. The story was shared widely around the world across social as well as more traditional media outlets.
The executive team includes Kylie Maddex, former Account Executive at Salesforce.com, as Head of Sales; Ana Martinez, former SVP of Product at Velocify, as CTO; Rachel Valdez, former Sr. Manager of HR at T-Mobile, as Head of Global Talent Management; Raquel Edora, former Director of Budget & Personnel at The Washington Post, as Director of Operations; Denise Angarola Fernandez, former National Director of Field Marketing at T-Mobile, as Head of Marketing, and Cathy Sharick, former managing editor at Time.com, as Executive Editor.
Board members include: Darcy Bentley Frisch of Hearst Ventures and Eric Chin of Crosslink Capital.
The company has about 50 employees based around the world.