Jane Elizabeth Reddin
Partner at AlbionVC
Jane Elizabeth Reddin
Partner at AlbionVC
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
I'm a Partner at AlbionVC and I lead Platform and Talent. The AlbionVC Platform team works closely with our founders to positively impact team performance whilst hyperscaling. We focus on three pillars: hiring, leadership & scaling. We’ll support founders to achieve agreed scaling milestones as a business, as we build the team, and the Board, which can deliver the growth strategy and we help them develop as a leader. Our know-how is built on years of deep functional expertise and investing experience; we couple hands-on, dedicated advisory through our own guides and proprietary tools, with ecosystem connectivity to a world-class network of partners, experts and peers. Our purpose is to ensure our CEOs have the right knowledge and people, to make clear-sighted decisions in a relentlessly challenging, and deeply rewarding, environment.
Talent Director
2020 - 2022
Leading TalentXAlbionVC. Unlocking founder potential and supporting the human factor in our start-ups. Advising with practical candour.
Strategic Advisor
2020
Hiring coach to the founder; strategic advisor for talent and culture
Talent Advisor
2019 - 2020
Strategic partnership; senior advisory role; talent, people leadership, building teams; across the fund and portfolio
Co-Founder
2018 - 2020
A bootstrap talent management consultancy; the Talent Stack helped start ups hire and manage well. Our mission was to help founder teams sustain high performance; high productivity and high engagement as they scale. The toolkits are fast, agile and effective; underpinned by an evidence based approach and data which deciphers growth. Our solution was for businesses who really wanted to be people-first. It’s not just about the tools; it’s the fusion of data, tools, tech, beliefs, behaviours and a strong alliance which creates explosive results.
Talent Advisor
2018 - 2019
This value add proposition helped CEOs and early-stage teams deploy bespoke tools - and connections - to be strategic, creative and pragmatic when it comes to hiring and developing the scarce, rare and undeniably valuable talent that will make a massive difference to their companies. Strategic advisory role and transactor for C-level hiring within selective portfolio companies and the fund.
Talent Director
2013 - 2017
Senior, hands-on role, working with the Balderton Partners and the portfolio companies to support them with best in class talent management solutions. I was directly responsible for Balderton internal hiring; 25 hires in a total team of 35, including 2 new General Partners. We built a service proposition which sits alongside the investment team; a dedicated, on-tap resource for all portfolios companies which aims to help them improve their ability to hire great talent. I would consult, guide and advise the portfolio on a wide range of talent acquisition challenges, both strategically and tactically. In 2014 we helped over 45 portfolio companies make more than 100 new hires; year on year we helped Balderton companies hire at least 1 person every week. The Talent@Balderton service proposition includes: - Supporting the portfolio companies with hiring strategies (including direct approach, external partner recommendations, referrals, introductions and use of business and social networks); - Developing a supplier eco-system Europe/US, including negotiating preferred terms for Balderton portfolio companies; - Being a go-to resource for direct advice or referral to others on a wide range of talent acquisition challenges, including leadership & organisational design, employer branding, culture & retention, virtual communities, compensation, building pipelines and sourcing talent via disruptive channels. - Education and knowledge sharing on all things talent acquisition and HR, across the portfolio group. This includes a private forum for communication, bespoke workshops, tools and intel.
Head of International Recruitment
2012 - 2013
ACHICA is a members-only online luxury lifestyle store, where members can indulge in an array of private sales, each open for just a short while. Your one-stop destination for chic and desirable luxury lifestyle brands, ACHICA offers coveted 100% genuine brands at breathtaking prices. Contract: defined and delivered a bespoke hiring solution to successfully build teams to launch ACHICA in France, Spain and Germany. Recruited new members to the Senior Leadership Team in London.
International Search Director
2011 - 2012
Global media group; operating companies include Warner Bros Studios (Harry Potter etc), Warner Bros Home Entertainment (WBHE), HBO, Turner Broadcast Systems (CNN, Cartoon Network) and IPC Media. Senior member of the internal executive search team. Contract: responsible for end-to-end management and delivery of searches for all Time Warner owned companies across EMEA, Asia and Latin America. Trusted and strategic advisor to senior management on all issues relating to ‘talent’.
Freelance International Headhunter and Head of Talent Acquisition for Tech Start-Ups
2009 - 2012
Talent advisory, market mapping, competitive analysis, pre-acquisition due diligence, team builds and international market launches, executive search, end to end recruitment, talent assessment and team restructuring. Exclusive, bespoke, interim hiring solutions. In-house resource on a 'pay as you go' basis.
Associate
2004 - 2009
One-to-one working partnership with Senior Partner, Head of TMT and Private Equity Practice. Responsibilities include business development; pitch preparation and delivery; management and execution of whole search process including client and candidate communication, negotiation and referencing all the way through to hire; internal representation and collaboration with other Practices and Partners.
Partner
2002 - 2004
Frisch is an international, boutique media, retail and consumer technology executive search firm, whose client base is predominantly based in European markets. Partner to German founder, Carola Frisch.
Education
BA Double Hons
1993 - 1997
4 As at A Level
1988 - 1993