Chuck is the proud father of 2 amazing young daughters and he has been in technology recruiting most of his career.  Most recently Chuck leading talent acquisition efforts at high growth startups.  For the past 10 years he has been working remotely from Florida, for Silicon Valley based technology startups.  He has learned that his passion lies in the constant change, ambiguity and build phase of pre-IPO companies. After a 15 year career on the IT staffing side of the house, Chuck moved to his first startup called “Hortonworks”.  He was the 130th employee and oversaw global hiring through IPO, over 1,500 employees and then into a merger with their closest competitor.  About three years ago, Chuck chose to lead hiring at his current company called Kong, and started as the 120th employee of the company.  Kong is now 380 employees in over 28 countries, growing to over 600 employees this year with the goal of breaking 1,000 next year!