PowerToFly

PowerToFly is a recruiting platform that connects companies to women in tech, sales, marketing and digital.[1] Its founders, Milena Berry and Katharine Zaleski, were among Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2015.[2] PowerToFly sources and vets female engineers and places them in jobs that work for their careers and lives.[3] More than 1,000 companies have posted job listings on PowerToFly including Hearst, BuzzFeed and The Washington Post.[4]

PowerToFly is at the epicenter of two global shifts: the move toward remote hiring[5] and the one billion women entering the workforce[6] who want alternatives to traditional office cultures.[7] PowerToFly is focused on building distributed teams as a way to open an untapped tech talent pool.[8]

Leadership

Katharine Zaleski was the sixth employee at The Huffington Post[9] and Senior News Editor, former Executive Director of Digital at The Washington Post,[10] and founding Managing Editor at NowThis News.[11] Milena Berry is the former chief technology officer of Avaaz.org.[12] They launched PowerToFly in August 2014.[13] Katharine Zaleski’s essay, “I’m sorry to all the mothers I worked with” was Fortune’s most popular story of 2015[14] and sparked a massive debate about how women are treated at work. The story was shared widely around the world across social[15] as well as more traditional media outlets.[16]

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 Head of Operations; Kristin Penney, former Director of Product Marketing TeleSign, as Head of Marketing; and Cathy Sharick, former managing editor at Time.com, as Executive Editor.[17]

Board members include: Darcy Bentley Frisch of Hearst Ventures[18] and Eric Chin of Crosslink Capital.[19]

The company has about 50 employees based around the world.[20]

References
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  8. De Leon, Pamela. "PowerToFly Wants To Give Women Tech Jobs Wherever They Go". Entrepreneur. Entrepreneur Media Inc. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
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  12. Gupta, Shalene. "Could these 2 women help solve Silicon Valley's diversity problem?". Fortune. Fortune. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  13. Prinster, Rebecca. "Fixing Tech's Gender Problem Requires Rethinking Business as Usual". INSIGHT Into Diversity. INSIGHT Into Diversity.
  14. Addaddy, Michal. "These Were Fortune's Most Popular Stories of 2015". Fortune. Fortune. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  15. Marinova, Polina. "How Twitter reacted to the female exec's apology to working mothers". Fortune. Fortune. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  16. Hall, Tamron. "Tamron discusses female exec's essay: We should feel for working moms". Today. NBC. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
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  19. Gage, Deborah. "PowerToFly Raises $6.5 Million to Match Women With Jobs". Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
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