Teresa Thomas

Teresa Thomas

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VP of People
San Francisco, California, United States

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  • InMarket
    VP of People
    InMarket
    Jun 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)
  • Mantra Health
    Head of People & Business Partner Consultant
    Mantra Health
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 (1 year 1 month)
    Partnered with senior leadership team to to define and execute HR strategy to achieve transformation goals
    • Provided effective solutions to CEO and leadership team regarding leadership transitions, organizational change, performance management, leadership development, employee relations investigations, culture building and workforce planning.
    Result: Positioned to achieve H2 2024 business goals
    • Led multi stage restructuring effort, including end state org design, talent mapping, employee exit negotiations, communications, and stakeholder alignment.
    Result: Achieved change financial goals and positioned organization for success.
    • Partnered with CEO on navigating CRO departure - provided change management lead
  • Two Chairs
    Interim VP of People
    Two Chairs
    Jan 2021 - Jan 2023 (2 years 1 month)
    Partnered with CEO and senior leadership team to successfully scale Two Chairs from 150 to 400 employees and achieved 5x revenue growth during tenure.
    - Cultivated a best place to work culture during period of fierce competition for talent resulting in
    >90% engagement scores and
  • Collibra
    HR Business Partner Leadership Consultant
    Collibra
    Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year 1 month)
    • Advised Chief People Officer on functional transformation as People team scaled from 25 to 43 employees and company grew from 700 to 1000 employees; role consisted of advising CPO/COE leaders on revamping talent programs, performance review methodology, management training, people policies, and HR systems.
    • Created org framework for upgrading people partner team/capabilities to accelerate business outcomes – coached people partner team on shift towards new consultative and data driven model.
    • New Senior Business Partner aligned to Sales/Customer/G&A leaders on workforce planning, talent review, key management hires/exits/org change support – resulted in 30% higher engagement scores/retention.
  • WorkFusion
    Global HR Leader and Talent Consultant
    WorkFusion
    Jan 2018 - Jul 2019 (1 year 7 months)
    • Led organizational scale effort from 200 to 400 global employees; aligned people agenda to achievement of 25% revenue growth (i.e., culture, rewards, OKR goal setting, change efforts, hiring of key leaders and talent programs)
    • Transformed the HR function, including adding business partner team to drive talent agenda and change efforts to achieve business goals.
    • Revamped global talent acquisition function to achieve 200 hires in 9 months.
  • Self Employed
    Fractional VP of People and Business Partner Leader
    Self Employed
    Jan 2017 - Dec 2025 (9 years)
    Global HR leader with deep experience driving talent strategy for technology pre-IPO organizations to support scale, enable growth, and foster high-performing, inclusive cultures. As a trusted advisor to CEOs and senior executives, I leverage data-driven insights to improve leadership and team effectiveness. I’ve built and led multidisciplinary teams focused on optimizing operational efficiency, promoting employee engagement, and accelerating business results.
    • Strategic People Leadership & Change Enablement – As a member of the senior leadership team, partnered with key executives to align talent and culture strategies with business outcomes. Led high-growth scaling, change initiatives, and transformation efforts to position organiza
  • H
    Executive HR Business Partner & Organizational Transformation Consulting
    High Growth Companies
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 (2 years 1 month)
    Matillion (SaaS):
    • Supported UK tech start up with global expansion to US. Developed all people infrastructure, people
    programs, hiring methodology, onboarding, benefit framework, payroll, etc.
    • Provided broad US workplace coaching on legal, operational, compensation philosophy, policy
    development, and US/EU cultural differences resulting in greater investment in US expansion.
    • Rolled out first engagement survey to provide upward feedback to management; advised on action
    planning to address gaps resulting in improved organizational performance and increased
    engagement scores in subsequent surveys.


  • Offerpop
    VP of People
    Offerpop
    Jan 2013 - Jan 2015 (2 years 1 month)
    Established and executed against 12 month People roadmap to attract/retain talent, improve engagement, and create a high performance culture. Led team of 8 people to successfully achieve organizational goals.
    • . Conducted employee survey to inform roadmap – presented survey findings and roadmap milestones to employees; positioned company as a best place to work.
    • Acted as change agent and thought leader – coached leadership team on day to day human capital aspects of scaling Offerpop’s business including organizational design, employee relations, talent management, evolving communication practices, compensation philosophy, culture building initiatives, succession planning and leadership development.
    • Revamped talent
  • Glam Media
    VP of Human Resources
    Glam Media
    Feb 2012 - Dec 2013 (1 year 11 months)
    • Partnered with senior executive team to translate business needs into a strategic HR roadmap designed to attract, retain and engage top talent and upleveled HR function leading a team of 6.
    • Responsible for selecting a performance management system and designing supporting process to facilitate goal setting, performance feedback, and employee development.
    • Prepared an analysis of Glam’s compensation positioning relative to market which resulted in designing and implementing a new compensation structure and incentive plan.
    • Provided HR leadership to facilitate the integration of Ning and Glam and partnered with CTO to create retention strategy to address high turnover of Ning engineers.
    • Hired new HR talent to align
  • Current TV
    SVP of Human Resources
    Current TV
    Jan 2010 - Jan 2012 (2 years 1 month)
    • Led organization through two major shifts in programming strategy which included hiring key talent with new capabilities, facilitating exit of other exec members, and all internal communication efforts surrounding the organization changes.
    • Responsible for leading Current’s first annual goal setting initiative and performance feedback process in order to increase employee engagement and support career development goals.
    • Implemented new benefits plan in response to employee feedback that aligned to changing demographic of company and saved the company over $100,000.
    • Hired, led and upleveled Global HR team of 6 to support strategic focus - established a dedicated Talent Acquisition leader/infrastructure and HR business
  • Current TV
    VP of Human Resources
    Current TV
    Jan 2008 - Jan 2010 (2 years 1 month)
    (see SVP of Human Resources description)
  • Yahoo
    Director, HR Business Partner - Yahoo Media Group
    Yahoo
    Jan 2006 - Jan 2007 (1 year 1 month)
    • Established HR strategic direction and operational focus areas that resulted in achievement of aggressive hiring goal of 400 employees/year and retention of key talent.
    • Acted as a credible business partner with senior leaders which included executive coaching, org alignment facilitation, sensitive departures, and creating/deploying HR programs and practices to promote a high performance organization.
    • Re-organized HR team of 10 people and upgraded talent in order to increase the effectiveness of the HR organization.
  • Yahoo
    Global Expat Assignment based in EU: Senior HR Business Partner
    Yahoo
    Jan 2004 - Jan 2006 (2 years 1 month)
    • Project lead for all Pan-European re-engineering efforts to streamline operations across Europe and centralize core functions resulting in improved efficiency and reduced costs.
    • Project lead for integration of Kelkoo (European on-line shopping portal) with 350 employees in 10 countries. Led HR task force with EU and corporate representation - all integration targets were achieved per deal terms.
    • Business partner to VP of international engineering and management team with presence in Asia, Europe and Latin America.
  • Yahoo
    HR Business Partner - Product Teams
    Yahoo
    Jan 2002 - Jan 2004 (2 years 1 month)
    ●Provided executive coaching and HR leadership to chief product officer and SVP of broadband/mobile and their organizations.
    ● Implemented “best practice” organizational development initiative to increase employee engagement that focused on four core areas: creating vision/mission, goal setting, recognition program, and communication.
    ● Led the annual focal review process, including management feedback training
Education verified_user 0% verified
  • Portland State University
    Bachelor of Science, Business Administration: Human Resources
    Portland State University
  • University of Oregon
    Human Resources
    University of Oregon
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