Ashley Hart

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Chief

May 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)

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Vice President, People & Talent

Upgrade Inc

Feb 2025 - Current (1 year 8 months)

In my role at Upgrade, Inc., I spearheaded the People Operations and Talent strategy for a rapidly growing organization. I was responsible for overseeing the entire employee lifecycle, from talent acquisition to offboarding, ensuring alignment with our core values. Collaborating closely with executive leadership, I drove initiatives for organizational design and succession planning, while also preparing the company for IPO readiness and compliance.

Director, Talent & Organizational Development

Upgrade Inc

Mar 2023 - Feb 2025 (2 years)

Director, Talent Acquisition

Upgrade Inc

Mar 2022 - Mar 2023 (1 year 1 month)

● Built and scaled the recruiting organization from the ground up to a team of 16, supporting rapid company growth across corporate, technical, and operations teams.
● Led global talent acquisition efforts, including high-volume hiring for service center operations and strategic hiring across business functions.
● Developed the company’s Employee Value Proposition (EVP) and strengthened employer branding across key talent platforms.
● Implemented scalable recruiting operations, including an ATS transition, reporting infrastructure, and data-driven hiring processes.
● Partnered closely with executive leadership on workforce planning, organizational growth, and hiring strategy.
● Built and led high-performing recruiti

Head of Business Recruiting

Fast

Mar 2021 - Mar 2022 (1 year 1 month)

● Built business recruiting team and process from ground up
● Built comp strategy
● Hired and manage a high performing team of 6 recruiters looking after pipelines including; Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Product Design, G&A
● Responsible for designing candidate experience, employer branding, interview & debrief process
● Leverage data to continue to improve recruiting experience for candidates and hiring teams
● Work closely with founders and leadership on headcount planning and compensation
● Scaled business from 80 people to over 300 across US, Canada, UK, Australia, Latam, Germany & Netherlands
● Passionate about recruiting, leading teams and scaling businesses

Talent Acquisition, G&A, COO

Facebook

Jan 2019 - Mar 2021 (2 years 3 months)

- Manage full cycle recruiting for multiple, complex searches within business function
- Develop innovative sourcing and engagement strategies to bring the best talent to each role
- Advise leadership and executive team on talent acquisition strategies
- Focus on diversity hiring and continuing to improve our hiring strategies in the D&I space

Executive Recruiter

E J Gallo Winery

Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year 1 month)

● Manage director and above level search
● Created talent acquisition strategy for new sales organization within Gallo - Gallo Luxury Sales
● Source, recruit and screen mid-level to executive level candidates nationally
● Work closely with executive leadership team to report out on progress and talent market shifts
● Responsible for gaining alignment on talent across the organization
● Responsible for director and above level hires

Lead Corporate Recruiter

E J Gallo Winery

Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 (2 years 1 month)

Build Strategic Business Relationships -
● Collaborate and build a collaborative partnership with your client group leadership teams to identify their talent needs
● Develop sourcing & workforce planning strategies that will shape the future state of their business
● Create and execute creative talent acquisition strategies leveraging digital, social media and live events
Build Talent Relationships
● Develop relationships with industry influencers
● Responsible for creating and managing a high level of candidate experience
● Lead and mentored a team of recruiters and coordinator

Executive Recruiter

Onward Search

Mar 2015 - Oct 2016 (1 year 8 months)

● Executive Search Manager specializing in full cycle recruiting in the communications, marketing, creative, digital and advertising space
● Managed 2 junior recruiters
● Developed and managed recruitment/research process for assigned projects and set expectations to client and internal team appropriately
● Utilized creative sourcing techniques in order to target and cold call passive candidates
● Wrote job descriptions, pre-screened and interviewed potential candidates in order to qualify the best quality candidate to present to clients

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Company Owner

BookaCook

Jan 2013 - Sep 2016 (3 years 9 months)

Book-a-Cook is a unique recruiting model that connects you directly with top Fairfield County personal chefs to create fully-customized dining experiences at home. Built on the philosophy that the best times spent with family and friends are usually around the dinner table, Book-a-Cook chefs take the stress out of entertaining by planning and executing a menu from start to finish.

www.bookacookct.com

Recruiter, Creative and Marketing

Aquent

Jan 2011 - Jan 2014 (3 years 1 month)

● We consult with Fortune 500 Financial Services and Insurance companies to recruit talent and build flexible creative / marketing / digital teams nationwide.
● Identified and pitched new business and engagements with senior leadership
● Developed and implemented work force strategy initiatives
● Managed junior recruiters

Senior Account Executive

Jack Morton Worldwide

Jan 2006 - Jan 2010 (4 years 1 month)

A global brand experience agency best known for event and promotional marketing, digital, social, mobile and more.

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