Dane E. Holmes

Dane E. Holmes is co-founder and CEO of Eskalera. He comes to Eskalera after 19 years at Goldman Sachs where he was the former head of Human Capital Management and head of Pine Street for Goldman Sachs. He served as a member of the firm’s Management Committee and Partnership Committee. He spent the last few years leading Goldman’s HR division, where he prioritized leadership development, diversity and employee and manager experience. Through these efforts, he noticed a massive gap in many HR practices – the lack of employee centric solutions that help organizations scale, sustain and measure their efforts. Now, he’s leading Eskalera’s efforts to help organizations elevate their people, companies and cultures through greater employee empowerment. The reward is greater productivity and growth at all levels, with a more inclusive environment serving as one of its super powers.

In his nearly 19 years at Goldman Sachs, he worked in four different divisions: from CHRO in Human Capital Management to Head of Investor Relations in the Executive Office to leading the Financial Institutions financing group in Investment Banking and as the Head of Financial Institutions Risk Management and Advisory in the Finance Division. Clearly, his career path has been varied and in many cases non-traditional. And his move to Eskalera is a continuation of that story. His one constant has been having a passion for the work and passion for the people!