Kelsey Berg

Kelsey is a Principal and Partner at Archer Field. She has amassed close to 20 years of executive search, talent acquisition and human resource leadership experience. Working for large enterprise, entrepreneurial and high-technology companies, she has developed extensive talents and is highly regarded as a strategic thinker, talent acquisition leader and human resource practitioner.

Prior to joining Archer field, Kelsey founded and served for five years as a Managing Director of Pacific Consulting, a well-regarded Seattle-based consulting firm focused on providing human capital and talent acquisition services. Kelsey established herself as an expert at developing and implementing, with the limited resources of small companies, successful HR systems and structures and ensuring that new companies have the talent needed to achieve business results and advance their market position. Her intuitive understanding of the impact of talent acquisition and human capital initiatives on overall business goals makes her a highly effective business partner. Kelsey has become a sought after talent acquisition and human resource expert by a growing number of venture capital, technology start-up and private equity leaders.

Kelsey has held talent acquisition and human resource leadership positions in successful technology start-ups such as Intellectual Ventures Management and RootMetrics. Prior to these she was VP of Recruiting at Washington Mutual and held several talent acquisition and human resource leadership roles over a 10-year tenure at Microsoft.

Kelsey’s education includes studies in human resource management at Seattle Pacific University and National Employment Law Institute. Kelsey is advancing her knowledge of executive leadership and is currently pursuing her CPCC coaching certification through CTI International.