Jaymie Smith

Jaymie, Head of Special projects, and double black belt in Microsoft Excel, speaks four languages (and reads and writes a fifth), has lived in Europe and West Africa, and used to run a seven million dollar international AIDS research program at UCLA. Before that she ran the West African arm of an NGO doing humanitarian service work for street children in Mauritania.

Jaymie likes to run things. She’s good at it. Formerly their Head of Operations, she spearheaded hiring their first staff beyond their founder, got Mighty Ant’s first advertising out the door, herded the Mighty Ants through two main office moves, and did the initial work of putting together benefits and other legal structures for the company.

In 2014, with the arrival of her twin girls Rachel and Rebecca, she moved to part time — sort of an unstoppable part time — as a few months later her experience as a twin mom had uncovered a hole in the market for a new product for twin moms. So she launched into product development with her own small team of consultants and designers — because, like, what else does she have to do, right? Jaymie spends a lot of time tired, but also happy, productive, and surrounded with love.