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TALENT ALERT:

Anna Russett (@annarussett) has left YouTube after 5.5 years, most recently as Social Marketing Manager for Brand Rapid Response.

She's stepping back to focus on new parenthood, while staying open to freelance and consulting work in product marketing, social strategy, and creator marketing.

@YouTube

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SIGNED:

Mara Blumenstein has joined Prosper Health's Strategy & Operations team.

Previously: Chief of Staff and Strategy & Operations at Skylight Health, and before that Senior Associate Director of Partnerships at The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.

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SIGNED:

John Sorenson is joining Decagon as VP, Legal, building out the company's legal function.

Previously: 5.5 years at Grafana Labs, most recently as Sr. Director and Deputy General Counsel, and before that Corporate Counsel at Proofpoint.

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LEVELED UP:

Avi Upreti has become MD for Investment Banking at Hebbia.

Previously:

He joined Hebbia as Principal AI Strategist, and before that founded Ascend, an advisory practice for early-stage tech firms. Earlier in his career he was a Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners and a Vice President at Moelis & Company, both in FinTech investment banking.

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TALENT ALERT:

Carmen Maierean is leaving Pinterest after nearly 3 years as VP of Technical Program Management, Strategy & Operations.

Previously: Director of Technical Program Management for Android at Google for over 7 years.

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SIGNED:

Karen Jiang has joined Generalist as Applied AI & Partnerships Lead, right after graduating from Stanford GSB.

Previously: Founded an AI eldercare marketplace during business school, and before that Growth Strategy at Charlie Health and an Investment Banking Analyst in Goldman Sachs' Healthcare Group.

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TALENT ALERT:

Kim Peterson is leaving LeanData after 4 years, most recently as Senior Manager of Content Strategy, having created content that drove over $1.25M in pipeline.

@LeanData

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NEW:

Amos Sha has joined Mercor as a Strategic Project Lead, right after graduating from Stanford with an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering.

Previously: Founding team member of a stealth startup through Stanford, and a mentor at Alchemist Accelerator.

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SIGNED:

Jason Liao has co-founded Ellis as Chief Product Officer, emerging from stealth with $10M+ in seed funding led by First Round Capital, building an AI-native operations platform for private credit.

Previously: Led product at WeWork and Wonder, and scouted deals for Bain Capital Ventures.

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SIGNED:

Bianca Pinasco has joined Google DeepMind's Product team to build the future of Gemini.

Previously: Engagement Manager at McKinsey for over 4.5 years, and before that Co-Founder and CEO of alohai, a Stanford social app. She's also a 3x founder and Stanford MBA.

@GoogleDeepMind

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SIGNED:

Scott Rousseau has joined GrowthX AI as Head of Finance, building the finance function from scratch.

Previously: Strategic Finance at Vanta, and before that over 4 years at Axonius, progressing from Financial Analyst to Manager of FP&A.

@GrowthXAI

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SIGNED:

Vaman Kamath has joined Factory to lead GTM Enablement.

Previously: Nearly 6 years at Moveworks in GTM Enablement, and before that Head of Revenue Productivity & Enablement at Checkr and Sr. Manager of Sales Enablement at Medallia.

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SIGNED:

Emmy Thamakaison (@emmyxth) has joined Y Combinator as a Product Engineer.

Previously: Co-Founder and CEO of Foundess, and before that a Founding Deployed Engineer at Zingage, with research work at MIT and Huawei.

@ycombinator

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NEW:

Jaikrit Sanandiya has joined Google as a Software Engineer in Bengaluru, returning full-time after interning there last summer.

@Google

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SIGNED:

Anna Nastasi has joined Clay as a GTM Engineer focused on Fortune 500 accounts.

Previously: Nearly 4 years at CodeSignal, most recently as a Large Enterprise Account Executive, and before that Account Executive at Verkada, growing her territory 196% year-over-year.

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NEW:

Dhruv Mehta has joined Protocole as its founding Product Manager, relocating to New York.

Previously: Product Marketing Manager at Fullscoop Digital in India, and before that Product Category Manager at Decathlon.

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TALENT ALERT:

Aidan Barrow (Quealy) is leaving Rula after 4.5 years, most recently as Head of Operations, having built the company's credentialing function from the ground up back when it was still called Path.

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SIGNED:

Laura Robson has joined Harvey as Lead Business Recruiter.

Previously: Nearly 7 years as Senior Global Recruiter for Marketing at HubSpot, and before that Lead Recruiter at Creative Circle, working with brands like New Balance and Liberty Mutual.

@harvey

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TALENT ALERT:

Allison Morrison (@morrisonallison) is leaving Meta after nearly 7 years, most recently as Public Policy Planning and Strategy Manager, having led integrity war rooms for major global elections and crises including the 2020 US Presidential election.

More on her next move to come.

@Meta

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SIGNED:

Larissa Licha has joined Arya Health as VP of Product.

Previously: Product Director for AI Context & Memory at Miro, following its acquisition of her startup, baselayr (formerly Joyn), which she co-founded and led as CEO.