Paradox is inspired by a world where AI empowers recruiting teams to spend time with people, not software. Their flagship product is Olivia, the AI recruiting assistant obsessed with automating the BS (we call it the boring stuff) to make the recruiting experience faster, easier, and more respectful for everyone.

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Stephanie King is the Chief Legal Officer and Chief of Staff at Paradox.

King joins Paradox from DLA Piper, one of the largest business law firms in the world. There, she served as a corporate and securities partner, leading more than $1 billion in strategic transactions and the firm’s Phoenix-based emerging growth and venture capital practice. At Paradox, she’ll focus on corporate development, with an emphasis on acquisitions and the company’s continued international expansion; direct the company’s global legal operations; and serve as a strategic partner to the CEO on special projects.



Stephanie King

Paul is an Operating Partner at Stripes focusing on SaaS portfolio companies, specifically assessing and advising on go-to-market strategies. Currently, Mr. Melchiorre is an independent director at R3, an enterprise blockchain technology company, and was previously an independent director at Scout RFP, a sourcing and procurement software company that was acquired by Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY). He also sits on the board of nonprofit Spark.Org.

Previously, Paul also served as Global Customer Officer and Chief Revenue Officer at Anaplan, a leading SaaS platform to facilitate financial planning and management, where he contributed to a successful IPO in 2018 and saw the company grow from $80 million to $300+ million in Annual Recurring Revenue and to over a $7 billion market cap.

Prior to Anaplan, Paul served as Global Vice President at Ariba where he joined as the first outside executive in 1998 and built the field organization for sales, implementation, service, alliances and channels, ultimately leading to a sale to SAP for approximately $5 billion in 2012. Earlier in his career, Paul played a key role in SAP’s rise to a global leader in enterprise software. At SAP he joined as employee 200 in the US and ultimately rose to Executive Vice President of Global Accounts where his group was responsible for over 85 percent of revenue in the Americas Division and a field organization of 1,000+ people.

Paul Melchiorre

David Pluto serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Paradox, primarily focusing on driving growth through strategic partnerships, investments, and acquisitions. He comes to Paradox after seven years at SAP, where he served as VP of Corporate Strategy and led a team focused on driving SAP’s Cloud Applications & Ecosystem strategy — one that helped SAP grow cloud applications revenue from $1B to $9.8B during his tenure. While at SAP, David also defined SAP’s API strategy and served as an advisor to SAP.iO, a strategic investment fund which invests in early-stage start-ups that leverage SAP APIs, data, and technologies to drive significant value for SAP’s customers. David joined SAP in 2013 after 12 years driving M&A and strategy project with [Deloitte](/org/deloitte) and leading sales and professional services teams for a financial software start-up. He received an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and a BS in engineering from [Cornell University](/org/cornell-university).



David Pluto

Prior to Paradox, he led marketing and product at SmashFly, which was acquired by [Symphony Talent](/org/symphony-talent-llc) in November 2019. Under his leadership, the marketing team increased qualified leads by more than 400%, helped the company land on the Deloitte Fast 500, and brought back one of the industry’s premier in-person conferences, Transform. Prior to SmashFly, Zywien helped [OpenView](/org/openview) grow into one of the world’s top venture capital brands.

Josh Zywien

Prior to joining in his newly appointed role at Paradox, Ross spent ten years in public accounting at RSM US LLP, focused on middle market organizations, and in corporate accounting for [Apollo Education Group](/org/apollo-education-group-inc) (University of Phoenix), where he oversaw property accounting, sales and marketing, and internal startups. Most recently, Ross served as the Senior Director of Finance for [WebPT](/org/webpt), where he built the Financial Planning and Analyst (FP&A) function, helped grow the business 4x revenues and 2.5x people, culminating with a successful exit to [Warburg Pincus](/org/warburg-pincus).

Ross Grainger

Aaron founded Paradox because he saw an opportunity to transform the recruiting experience for organizations and talent by freeing up people’s time from mundane tasks through the power of assistive intelligence. He is an experienced entrepreneur and recognized technology leader. Aaron's passion for recruitment has driven him to start several successful companies in the talent acquisition technology market; which have served tens of thousands of clients and millions of job seekers. Under Aaron’s leadership as the former founder/former CEO of Jobing.com and Recruiting.com, his companies achieved industry-leading growth and 3 consecutive Inc. 500 awards. Prior to becoming a tech executive, Aaron spent over 8 years as an HR professional.

Aaron Matos

John Dalzell serves as Chief Revenue Officer at Paradox, leading all market-facing teams to create client-centric solutions that help global employers embrace the rapidly changing world of work. Prior to joining Paradox, Dalzell built a career serving purpose-minded organizations, including a decade leading sales, business development, customer success, and customer experience teams at Blackbaud. As a founding member of the Global Management Team at Blackbaud, Dalzell helped scale the company into the world's leading software company powering social good — growing revenue to $700M and helping thousands of organizations leverage technology to grow their mission impact significantly and gain operational efficiencies to better leverage donor funds. John is a graduate of the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and — in the middle of his career — Dalzell also took a one year sabbatical to attend Princeton Theological Seminary.

John Dalzell

Adam was previously Chief Technology and Product Innovation Officer at [Cielo](/org/cielo), a global recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firm. At [Cielo](/org/cielo), Adam founded the technology team and led [Cielo](/org/cielo) to 10x growth and a place as the world’s leading strategic RPO provider. Under his leadership, [Cielo](/org/cielo) was consistently recognized as a leader in providing innovative, technology-enabled solutions such as High Volume RPO, [Cielo](/org/cielo) Talent Cloud and SkyAnalytics to its clients around the world.

Adam Godson

Previously, Rush served as CEO of Recruiting.com, where she also led digital marketing, channel partnerships and client experience. Rush began her career at local job board, Jobing.com, where she held marketing and sales leadership roles.

Jessica Rush

Huggy Rao is the Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Professor Rao has published widely in the fields of management and sociology, and studies the social and cultural causes of organizational change.

His recent work investigates the role of social movements as motors of organizational change in professional and organizational fields. Professor Rao’s research has been published widely in academic journals and his 2014 book “​Scaling Up Excellence​” was named a ​Wall Street Journal​ bestseller. He holds a PhD from Case Western Reserve University andpreviously served on the faculty at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Huggy Rao

Deepak Krishnamurthy is the Managing Partner at Gaia Equity, an investment firm focused on enterprise software, climate tech, and healthcare. Prior to founding Gaia Equity, he led Strategy and Transformation for SAP, where he architected an innovation and M&A strategy that resulted in a nearly 3X increase in top line revenue, a 4x increase in market capitalization, and more than $100 billion in incremental shareholder value. He also led SAP’s Fintech and Healthcare businesses, and successfully launched and scaled SAP.iO, a nearly-stage corporate venture arm that incubated 100+ startups — including Paradox — across eight global accelerators.

Krishnamurthy has also championed diversity and inclusion throughout his career, launching SAP’s “No Boundaries” initiative — a first-of-its-kind corporate venture initiative focused on accelerating and investing in minority and women-led startups. He’s a thought leader in innovation and entrepreneurship, and sits on the board of the World Economic Forum’s Digital Europe Initiative.

Deepak Krishnamurthy

Mike Gregoire is a Partner at Brighton Park Capital and is a member of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining BPC, Mike was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CA Technologies where he started in 2013. At CA, Mike accelerated the company’s software leadership with innovative offerings, a renewed brand, and a strengthened market presence. The result of Mike’s leadership over almost 6 years was the sale to Broadcom in July 2018 taking the stock from $22.38 to $44.50 per share yielding a $10.5 billion market cap appreciation1.

Previously, Mike was Chairman and CEO of Taleo Corporation, a leading cloud-based talent management software company that he oversaw going public before its successful sale to Oracle in 2012. With a career spanning more than 25 years in software and technology, Mike also served as Executive Vice President at People Soft from 1999 to 2004 and Executive Director at Electronic Data Systems EDS from 1988 to 1999.

Mike is widely recognized as a strategic thinker in the information technology industry. He has been the chair of the World Economic Forum’s IT Governors Steering Committee, as well as a member of the Business Roundtable’s Information and Technology Committee. Mike also serves on the Executive Council of TechNet, an organization of CEOs that represents the technology industry in policy issues critical to American innovation and economic competitiveness.

Mike sits on the Board of Directors of Smartsheet (NYSE:SMRT) the largest provider of cloud collaboration workflow software and AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) one of the largest global chip companies that specializes in manufacturing semiconductor devices used in computer processing, memory, and graphics processors.

Mike has also served on the board of ADP from 2014 to 2019 where he was chairman of the governance and nominating committee. ADP is one of the world’s largest providers of human resources, business processing and cloud-based solutions. Mike is a strong champion of diversity and empowerment, and he currently serves as a member of the Board of the Women’s Sports Foundation, an organization dedicated to creating leaders by ensuring all girls access to sports.

Mike earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Computing from Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, and a Master of Business Administration degree from California Coast University.

Mike Gregoire

Chris is a co-founder of Great Hill Partners. He is responsible for transaction origination, investment policy, fundraising, investor relations and the general management of the firm. His investment experience covers a broad group of industries, including business and IT software and services, information services, eCommerce, consumer and online services, financial services and insurance, digital publishing, telecommunications, logistics, education, and cable and broadcasting. Chris serves on the board of directors of EnterpriseDB, G/O Media, Ikon Science, Mission, Evolve IP, Intapp and Varicent. He formerly served on the boards of All Web Leads, BuscaPé, Central Security Group, Credibility Corp., IGN Entertainment, Recruiting.com, SheKnows Media, SmartMail, Vitacost.com, Ziff Davis and ZoomInfo.

Chris has participated in the private equity business since 1986, serving as an associate, principal and general partner for M/C Partners. Chris began his career as a commercial lending officer for the First National Bank of Boston in the specialized media lending unit.

Chris earned a degree in accounting and economics summa cum laude from Boston College.

Chris Gaffney

John is a co-founder of Great Hill Partners and served as a Managing Partner from the firm’s inception through 2017. Over the course of his private equity career, John invested in a variety of companies in the Internet infrastructure, communications, business services and media sectors. John continues to serve on the Board of Directors of Ascenty and Symmetry. He formerly served on the boards of American Broadband, Focal Communications, Global Tower Management, GMT Group, Horizon Telecom International, Latisys, Language for Industry Worldwide, Recruiting.com, Volaris Online and Vivax.

John began his career in private equity in 1989 when he joined M/C Partners as a senior associate upon graduation from business school. Prior to business school, he spent two years at Bank of Boston, completing the bank’s training program and serving as a loan officer in the bank’s media & communications group.

John earned a degree in economics from Williams College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

John Hayes

After serving as the CIO of Amgen for six years, Diana McKenzie joined Workday as its first ever Global Chief Information Officer in 2016. During her tenure, she reframed information technology as business technology, and helped Workday scale to one of the leading ERP and HCM systems in the world. McKenzie is a frequent speaker on digital transformation and inclusive hiring, and she currently sits on the board of MetLife, Inc. In 2015, she was recognized as one of the “Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology” by the National Diversity Council.



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