Leah Sutton

Chief Portfolio Talent Officer

2023 - Current

Balderton Capital is a multistage venture firm with more than two decades of experience supporting Europe’s best founders from Seed to IPO.

Limited Partner

2022

Operator Collective is a venture fund and dream team community of operator LPs. OpCo brings together 200+ of tech’s most exceptional executives from diverse backgrounds to invest in and supercharge the next generation of enterprise tech.

Advisor

2020

Board Member

2022 - 2023

Senior Vice President, Global HR

2020 - 2023

Elastic is a search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co

Vice President, Global HR

2016 - 2020

Trustee

2008 - 2017

Hidden Villa's Mission Statement: Inspiring a just and sustainable future through our programs, land and legacy Hidden Villa is a nonprofit educational organization that uses its organic farm, wilderness, and community to teach and provide opportunities to learn about the environment and social justice. Founded by the Duveneck family over 60 years ago, Hidden Villa has been a private nonprofit organization since 1960

Senior Director - People and Culture

2014 - 2016

Director of Human Resources

2012 - 2014

Plum Organics is the leading organic baby food and toddler snack brand in the nation. Building on the core values of “healthy eating for life” Plum Organics has created a line of culinary inspired baby foods in three stages that are gently cooked for optimal nutrition. From ingredient sourcing to packaging choices, Plum Organics is continually striving to reduce our carbon footprint and to ensure that our product line is pure and clean from the inside out. Plum Organics baby & tots snacks further build on these core values, by providing continued support with nutritious and simple solutions for on the go.

HR Business Partner, India and Asia Pacific

2011 - 2012

Responsible for culture-building, recruiting and staffing, benefits oversight, compliance, capacity development and overall organizational well-being of Bloom Energy's teams in India, China and Taiwan

HR Business Partner

2010 - 2011

Senior Manager, Staffing & Recruiting

2008 - 2010

Bloom Energy is a solid oxide fuel cell company in Silicon Valley. Its technology, first developed for NASA's Mars Program, will dramatically change the way that the world's energy is produced, distributed and consumed. Bloom's unique on-site power generation systems are among the most efficient on the planet, providing significantly reduced operating costs and producing dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions. Bloom is growing quickly and my job is to continue to build our world class team.

Senior Consultant - Human Capital (Organziation and Change)

2005 - 2007

Worked on a diverse set of projects in Talent Management including - talent strategy, workforce planning, recruiting strategy and process design, employee development, change readiness assessment, and large-scale communication efforts

Summer Associate - Strategy & Operations

2004 - 2004