Juliet Peniston

Juliet Peniston is an innovative and passionate Global Talent Acquisition Leader with extensive experience in building and leading scalable recruiting teams and developing talent acquisition strategies across diverse environments, from hyper-growth startups to evolving enterprises. Currently serving as Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition at Confluent, Juliet has held similar leadership roles at Exabeam, Roku Inc., and Cloudera. Prior to these positions, Juliet drove global talent acquisition strategies at VMware as Senior Director and led staffing operations at Borland Software and Business Objects. Juliet's career began at Sun Microsystems and has been marked by a consistent focus on pioneering transformative change and managing comprehensive recruitment programs. Juliet holds a degree from SBBCollege Santa Barbara.