Hiring in a Competitive Market: the Role of Leaders in the Closing Process by Anthony Kline, Megan Zengerle, Shannon Hogue Brown

Anthony Kline is a Partner and member of the founding team at Sweat Equity Ventures, a new model of venture-capital firm backed by Reid Hoffman. He previously started and led the executive recruiting function at Stripe and was the first recruiter and global head of talent at AppDirect. Anthony has over a decade of experience recruiting the core engineering and leadership teams of many successful early to mid-stage, venture-backed startups.

Megan is a Partner at Sweat Equity Partners and experienced C-level People & Business Operations Executive focusing on scaling early-stage tech start-ups with cross-functional leadership in people operations, business operations, finance, talent strategy, organizational economics, and company culture. Megan has extensive start-up experience having joined CreativeLive as a founding member, working as its Chief People Officer & SVP Business Operations for over eight years. Before CreativeLive, Megan led People, Talent, and Business Operations at Scribd. Early in her career, Megan founded and operated a successful human resources and organizational development consulting business focusing on VC-backed startups in San Francisco and Boulder.

Shannon Hogue started writing code 20 years ago and has evolved her career from software engineer to technology leader at organizations like Logitech. She currently serves as Global Head of Solutions Engineering at Karat. In this role, she works with engineering leadership at technology-driven organizations such as Indeed, Compass, and Databricks to develop world-class, highly predictive interviewing and hiring programs. She lives in San Francisco and has two dogs, Samus and Locke.