Colleen (Wheeler) McCreary

Ribbit Capital

2023 - Current

Chief People, Places & Publicity Officer, Consumer Financial Advocate

2018 - 2023

Reporting to the Founder/CEO, executive people & operations leader through hypergrowth and acquisition ($8.1B INTU), managing global people operations (recruiting, business partnerships, HR operations, compensation, benefits, learning/development, onboarding, HRIS, employee experience, executive coaching/exec team leadership), real estate & workplace services, physical security. Chief of Staff responsibilities for the executive team. Additional ownership of Corporate & Product PR, Internal Communications, and Social Media teams, managing a team of 120 FTEs. Serve as Credit Karma’s Consumer Finance Advocate & Company Spokesperson w/media. Retooled systems & processes to provide clarity and create rapid scaling across multiple geographies with 1700+ employees. Developed & rolled out new compensation philosophy, revised equity plans, recreated performance management & perspectives culture, increased hiring output for engineering by 30%, adding over 1200 new employees during my tenure. Executed on pre-public employee RSU stock tender offer and stock option program for vested employees. Negotiated $20M partnership w/State of NC. Reduced annualized attrition by 48% and voluntary attrition to below 10%. Increase in overall employee engagement score in CultureAmp annual survey by 10 points, with a 91% NPS by employees every year. Voted Top 5 Places to Work in the Bay Area 2019 - 2023 (entire tenure), SF Business Times including #1 in 2020 and #2 in 2019. Speaker, Fortune's Most Powerful Women's Conferences 2018 - 2023.

Independent Board Member

2021 - 2022

Independent Board Member for Reinvent Technology Partners Y through IPO (RTPY) and merger w/Aurora NASDAQ: AUR, was RTPY until merger.

Technical Advisor, HBO’s “Silicon Valley”

2019 - 2019

Provided stories and advice on scaling companies and HR practices for the writers and producers for season six of HBO’s television show “Silicon Valley” and am represented as the character "Tracy"

Chief People Officer

2016 - 2018

Reporting to the CEO, worked across a geographically distributed management team (SF, NYC, London) to lead global people operations, including recruiting, business partnerships, HR operations, compensation, benefits, and employee experience. Built first global infrastructure for the people organization & rapid scaling across multiple geographies. Built compensation philosophy, performance feedback tools & culture, revised leave programs, built first companywide leadership program. Substantially improved benefits offerings at a reduced price & saving the company over $1M. Reduced global attrition by over 15%. Raised acceptance rate in recruiting to 97%. Advised on consumer mobile & platform strategies. Vevo is the world's leading all-premium music video and entertainment platform, with over 21.4B views per month. During my tenure, revenues grew from $500M annually to $680M with reduced headcount and additional product launches.

Interim CPO

2016 - 2017

Interim CPO from IPO through first two quarters as a public company, reporting to CEO and partnering with Exec Team while managing HR functions and Board responsibilities.

Interim CPO

2015 - 2016

Reporting to the CEO, partnered with executive team as they scaled organization. Eventual acquisition by JP Morgan Chase.

Chief People Officer

2014 - 2015

Lead People strategy for Climate Corporation through acquisition by the Monsanto Corporation ($1B MON now BAYER) to including the integration of five companies into one culture, going from 150 to 800 employees in multiple locations. Reporting to the CEO, built and managed People Operations/Recruiting function of 29 employees. Responsible for all areas of People - recruiting, compensation philosophy, benefits, learning & development, rewards and recognition, talent & succession planning, performance management, M&A (acquisition & divestiture), executive hiring and onboarding, executive coaching and development, immigration, university partnerships, employment branding, and internal communications. Partner with parent owner company to understand dynamics of their HR strategy & infrastructure and education on how to be successful in high tech market. Organically hired over 200 employees in one year, more than 50% were software engineers, product managers, and data scientists in highly competitive talent markets. Managed full integration of systems and programs into Monsanto, the parent-owner company.

Executive Vice-President, Chief People Officer (from early days through post-IPO)

2009 - 2013

Working in partnership & reporting to a dynamic founder entrepreneur CEO, responsible for building a high growth culture - managing growth as a company from 130 to 4000 employees in three years; recruiting, retaining and developing a technical and creative workforce including over 1000 software engineers; established the company values and mission; provide executive coaching and training; company through S-1 and listing day process as we went from a private start-up to public company listed on NASDAQ and the subsequent transition period; managed through an excessive external media spotlight. Manage all HR & Recruiting operations and functions across multiple locations globally (started with two, grew to 24 locations in multiple international geographies) including overall people strategy, talent acquisition, organization development, management development, compensation, benefits, learning and development, rewards and recognition, M&A diligence & integration (40+ acquisitions globally), immigration, and internal communications. Established mission and values, incentives for performance, and new models of employee development for the fastest growing engineering workforce in Silicon Valley. Managed equity program and executive compensation process within SEC guidelines and public filings. Experience includes rapid staffing growth as well as reduction in force and facility closures across multiple geographies. Experience with post-IPO attrition, replacement, and executive succession. Manage the People Operations function of 100+ employees and contingent staff globally to execute on the company's people strategy Selected as one of the Bay Area's Most Influential Women by the San Francisco Business Times, 2011 & 2012; Top 10 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 by the SF Business Times; Selected to attend Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit 2012 and 2013; Presented at Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2012

Director, Corporate HR & Diversity

2007 - 2009

Lead HR Business Partner for Global Finance, IT, HR, Legal, & Business Affairs Executives and their business units (1300 employees worldwide). Managed direct HR Team of 7, indirect team of 18. Build and execute first company-wide Diversity initiative. Head of EA Community Affairs, responsible for employee engagement programs, migrating to online giving, increased employee donations by 20% annually. Temporary assignment as Head of HR, EA India (relocation to Hyderabad) from September 2008 - February 2009 while covering US duties as well

Director, Global University Relations

2004 - 2007

Define and execute first ever Global University Relations Strategy. Manage team of 10 University Relations Managers across North America and Europe. Work with eleven studio locations globally (North America, Europe, Asia) to influence hiring of talent/potential candidates and the assessment process, reestablishing a competitive strategy for finding and hiring the best. Responsible for budget upwards of 5M annually. Developed interactive entertainment curriculum recommendations while building faculty and senior administration support for interactive entertainment career paths. Frequent speaker for industry conferences and publications on adding videogames to traditional computer science curriculums. Developed mentoring and management program for new college graduates within the studio structure. Manage academic research budget.