Chili Piper

Chili Piper is the leading inbound conversion software, used by top B2B revenue teams like Intuit, Twilio, Spotify, and Gong.
We’re on a journey to build the best company to work for and to work with while trying to make the world a better place. Our team is distributed around more than 160 cities and 35 countries around the world. Join the movement!

Co-Founder & co-CEO

KosmoTime 

KosmoTime, the Smart Calendar for Time Blocking & Focused Work

KosmoTime was merged into Chili Piper. Your calendar will never be the same

co-founder & CEO

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Guest speaker and coach at Stanford Ignite, a GSB-certificate program teaching innovators to formulate, develop, and commercialize their ideas

Guest Lecturer

Floating Apps

Floating Apps AutoMagic Sync retrieves in gmail the contacts, emails and meeting that should be in Salesforce and smartly imports them. More than 400 companies signed up. The company reached break-even in summer 2015 and was transitioned to Chili Piper, a new venture focused on Buyer Enablement

founder & CEO

LightSquared

Led design & deployment of all IT systems for this $10Bn greenfield telco operator:
- re-architected Business Support Systems and issued a new RFP, resulting in $85M savings
- pioneered BSS deployment in cloud instead of in-house, resulting in $11M CAPEX reduction and increased business flexibility
- deployed company-wide Oracle ERP on time and on budget at Amazon AWS
- led migration from on-premises Microsoft environment to Google Apps
- reduced operating budget by 40% while improving internal and external user satisfaction

CIO (Chief Information Officer)

Signed up leading internet & new media companies to become MVNOs on LightSquared's wholesale 4G network

Vice President of Sales

Gotham Ventures

Early Stage Venture Capital Firm part of the Draper Fisher Jurvetson Network, New York
Responsibilities:
Worked with VC team to source and evaluate investment opportunities in early stage high tech companies 
Achievements: 
Completed several in-depth due diligences leading to revisit investment decisions
Identified market opportunities leading to new investments

Venture Partner

Sagem Morpho

Led new product development for large scale, security-centric government projects

Post-Acquisition Consultant

Delean Vision - sold to IDNX - Sagem Morpho now Safran SA

2003-2004 	CEO - Delean Vision / Post-Acquisition Consultant - Identix (IDNX)
Biometrics - Face Recognition, New York
Responsibilities:
Identified critical market space where invention would be most valuable; hired engineers, built product, brought it to market, generated revenues
Achievements: 
Built company from new invention to successful sale to space leader Identix (IDNX)

co-Founder & CEO

RedCart Technologies - sold to MSN Shopping

E-Commerce Software-as-a-Service Provider (universal shopping cart, San Francisco
Responsibilities:
Founded and ran this 70-employee company focused on &quot;universal shopping cart&quot; services (enabling portals to provide a single shopping cart when sending their users to merchant sites)
Achievements: 
Signed up a network of 110 partnering online merchants
Built order backlog of more than $4M
Negotiated acquisition by Microsoft MSN Shopping

The LivePix Company - sold to Live Picture, Inc.

Consumer Software, San Francisco
Responsibilities:
Created and ran this spin off the Live Picture Company, re-purposing a break-through imaging technology from professional users to consumers, in collaboration with M John Sculley (ex-CEO of Apple)
Achievements: 
Led product development from idea to shipments of several million units
Achieved $6M in revenues the first year, $10M run rate the following year
Built company to 55 employees and break-even
Successfully sold minority share back to holding company

Started selling newspapers in the streets of Paris in high school, studied Maths at Ecole Polytechnique then Business at Stanford GSB, started and sold 3 tech companies with up to 65 employees and $11M in revenues, ran Sales for a $2Bn telecom company negotiating billion dollar deals with companies like Google, now co-founder & co-CEO of Chili Piper, the first Demand Conversion Platform (chat, form routing, lead routing, SDR-to-AE Handoff & Scheduling)

In my spare time I re-read the 27 chapters of "Neuroeconomics, Decision Science & The Brain" by NYU star professor Paul Glimcher, in the hope of bringing its findings to the science of Sales & Marketing.

Specialties: Sales, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Go-to-market, Digital Marketing, IT, Technology, Innovation, CIO, CEO, venture capital, strategy consulting, enterprise software, internet, web, mobile, Cloud

Nicolas Vandenberghe

Switchboard

Switchboard is a boutique Hiring Agency - We make your company really good at hiring! 

Think of us as your on-demand hiring team removing all of the administrative pieces of the hiring process from your plate so you only speak to qualified finalists. 

No more writing job descriptions, over-paying for Indeed ads, reviewing Google Form responses, sifting through a tsunami of resumes in your inbox, and scheduling dozens of interviews with unqualified candidates. 

Give us 1 hour to get started and we come back with a shortlist of candidates who make it really hard to choose just one!

Founder | Head of Recruiting

She Lives Intentionally™

Founding Member

Talent Collective

Founding Member- Denver Community

Mile High SHRM

Board Member

Guild Talent

Guild Talent is a boutique executive search & placement firm. We focus on supporting venture funded technology companies as they build best in class leadership teams.

Head of Research & Recruiting Operations

Sylvia Torres Recruiting Consulting

Before starting SPANG Career Collective, I previously worked for 8 years as an independent recruiting consultant assisting companies in growth mode with recruiting, sourcing, strategy, and process implementation. 
Industries include SaaS, Wireless, Aviation, Medical, Manufacturing, Finance, and Tech Start-up.  
Key Contributions:	   
-Executive Recruiting: Served as an internal headhunter, creating strategic sourcing plans to identify and entice passive candidates working for competitors within the Technical, Telecommunications & Entertainment space. 
-Process Improvement: Successfully developed and rolled out a nationwide recruiting practice improving time to fill by over 30% within a six month period for a large Medical company.  
-Recruiting Strategy & Operations: Lead integration of Applicant Tracking System (ATS), created job descriptions, structured interview guides, and hiring process playbooks for multiple tech startups.

Recruiting Consultant &  Executive Recruiter

DFS Galleria

Hired to revamp recruiting for a large luxury retailer under the LVMH umbrella. Responsible for the transformation of an underperforming, obsolete hiring process. 				
-Developed, proposed, and managed a large-scale recruiting strategy which resulted in a 12x increase in employees hired per month.
-Obtained TalentPlus Screener Certification for Executive Leadership Interviews. 
-Created recruiting strategies to dispel the community image and attract new talent on the island.

Talent Acquisition Manager

Pendum, LLC

Within the Financial Services industry, acted as Regional Recruiting of frontline staff for 17 Operation Centers as well as Corporate hiring. Full desk recruiting responsible for 25-35 requisitions as well as completing extensive background screening for applicants, including criminal search, credit checks, pre-employment polygraph testing, and drug screen.  			    
●	Effectively restructured the recruiting department, creating new processes for sourcing, screening, and interviewing. 
●	Hand selected to become the designated DDI Certified trainer responsible for facilitating Leadership training for all Operations Centers nationally.  
●	Collaborated on a pilot program which initiated integration and exit interviews reducing turnover among new hires and identifying key areas of improvement within the hiring process.

Senior Recruiter

PrimeSource Staffing

Responsible for all internal hiring and training of all new recruits in high volume local Staffing Agency. Facilitated monthly new hire orientation and training; which included interview process & interview role play, internal computer systems, standard recruiting procedures, and Federal & State employment regulations. Continually evaluated internal processes; developing and implementing new policies and procedures. 				
●	Hired and trained over 30 entry level recruiters.
●	Developed and facilitated a training course to help recruiters identify counterfeit identification documents.  
●	Completed regular audits of Federal I9’s ensuring company wide compliance.  
●	Created and facilitated regular Candidate Assessment Workshops for high volume hiring clients; engaging candidates in a group interview and assisting clients with candidate selection.
●	Taught weekly Employment Readiness Seminars to active job seekers, educating groups on interview skills and resume writing.

Employee Development Manager

Criterion Resources

Managed a full desk hiring direct-hire employees for various Sales, Administrative, and Accounting positions. Worked directly with hiring managers identifying staffing needs, submitting qualified candidates, handling objections and coordinating interviews. Conducted extensive phone screens and in-person interviews. 
●	Increased client base by 30% within six months.
●	Obtained regular referrals for clients and candidates through networking as an active member of local Chamber of Commerce.

Executive Recruiter

Hi, I'm Sylvia! Recruiter | Entrepreneur | Job Search Coach | Founder of Switchboard Hiring
I built Switchboard because the recruiting industry needed a wake-up call.  
I saw too many business owners struggling to hire on their own - drowning in applications, wasting hours on interviews, and still not finding the right person. 
They didn't need an expensive recruiting firm or a complicated hiring process. 
They needed someone to take the entire hiring headache off their plate.  
So I created something better.  

Switchboard combines what actually works: the precision of search firms, the
speed of staffing agencies, and the structure of corporate recruiting. 

No fluff, no gatekeeping, just results.

On the other side of the desk, I work with job seekers helping them navigate this wild and weird job market. I'm not a traditional career coach - I'm an active recruiter with 20 years of experience. I give my clients an unfair advantage in their career moves because I know exactly what hiring managers want and am in the room when decisions are made. I see what works - and more importantly, what doesn't - in real time, not theory, not outdated beliefs, just practical advice.

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