Valentina Gissin

Chief People Officer

Curana Health

May 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)

Curana Health is a VC-backed, value-based and personalized care company on a mission to improve the health, happiness, and dignity of seniors nationwide.

Founding Member, CHRO Circle

The Circle by Founders Circle Capital

Sep 2023 - Current (3 years 1 month)

CPO Council

Lattice

Mar 2023 - Current (3 years 7 months)

“A collective of visionary people leaders who are redefining excellence in HR. In a time of workplace transformation, Lattice aims to foster opportunities for HR leaders to hone their craft and grow strategically in their function by elevating ideas and perspectives from Council experts who are demonstrating every day how people practices can drive business excellence.

This initial cohort of the CPO Council was chosen for their boundary-pushing approach to HR and the positive impacts they are driving within their organizations.”

Advisor

PeopleTech Partners

Dec 2022 - Current (3 years 10 months)

PeopleTech Partners is an early stage advisory and investment group that leverages the insights of current People leaders operating in top tier businesses to support the companies in our portfolio.

Chief Member

Chief

Jul 2022 - Current (4 years 3 months)

Chief is the only private membership network focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders.

CEO & Cofounder

Excellence Now Consulting

Jul 2008 - Current (18 years 3 months)

Starting with the legal industry and expanding from there, coach and advise CEOs and CPOs across varied industries on how to crack the code on systemic people, culture and organizational development issues.

Advisor

Garner Health

Apr 2025 - Dec 2025 (9 months)

Chief People Officer

Garner Health

Mar 2023 - Apr 2025 (2 years 2 months)

Garner's mission is to transform the healthcare economy, delivering high quality and affordable care for all.

Our goal is to change how our healthcare system works at its core. Using a new approach to data science and novel financial incentives, we help patients identify the highest-quality doctors and help doctors improve how they practice medicine. We seek to change the economics of healthcare so that providers thrive by practicing the best medicine, not by performing more harmful procedures.

Chief People Officer

Citizen

Jul 2022 - Mar 2023 (9 months)

Citizen is the No. 1 public safety app in the U.S., with a mission to make the world safer.

Citizen is backed by Sequoia Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Goodwater Capital, and Greycroft and has raised $150M+ in VC funding.

Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Talent Management, Talent Development, and Employee Experience

Chewy

Oct 2020 - Mar 2022 (1 year 6 months)

Built the global talent management, employee experience, and talent development functions.

Senior Director, Head of HR for Product & Technology

Chewy

Jan 2020 - Mar 2022 (2 years 3 months)

Reporting to CHRO of a $17B, 20k person Fortune 500 company, led HR for product, technology and new verticals, and for the Boston HQ. Scaled the functions by 100% in 18 months (from ~500 to ~1000).

General Management Associate

Bridgewater Associates

Aug 2013 - Feb 2019 (5 years 7 months)

Reporting to CIO/investment leaders, ran several departments and programs from the primary P&L of the world's largest hedge fund, including: Served as Head of Talent for the most critical employee population, building a unique, data-driven talent recruitment and management program; Managed the formulation and launch of the company's first sub-CIO investment committee, creating a succession planning and leadership development model for the next generation of CIOs; Managed all aspects of security for Bridgewater's most critical IP, the investment systems that maintain its market edge.

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