Omer Cohen

Chief People Officer

2021 - Current

Leading the People function and focusing on organizational and culture development for a company revolutionizing small business banking. Over 50% of the loans funded by our banks have gone to women-owned, minority or veteran businesses, and we're providing unprecedented access to and quality of capital to small-business entrepreneurs across the country. We are growing rapidly, and seeking people across all functions who want to build a great business with measurable social impact to the entrepreneurs we serve.

Founder & Managing Consultant (2007-2012; 2019 - 2021)

2007

Founded a boutique organizational consulting practice that supports companies to manage through major strategic changes, build strong leadership teams and create high trust workplaces and cultures. Clients include Google, Facebook, c3.ai, T-Mobile, Autodesk, Clorox, and many others. Apply practices from "Best Companies to Work For" and as a former operating executive, take a very business oriented approach to culture and leadership development and change management.

Advisor and Investor

2019

Chief People Officer

2017 - 2019

Lead Recruiting, HR, L&D, Facilities, IT, Program Management, Social Innovation, and Site Management of Non-Commercial Geo's at Eventbrite, and partner with the rest of the Executive Team to build a great workplace and a profitable, growing company.

Chief Operating Officer

2015 - 2017

Oversaw HR, Recruiting, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Accounting, Customer Operations, IT, Facilities and Administration for Lytro, Inc.

Chief People Officer

2012 - 2015

Managed HR, organizational and leadership development, culture @ Lytro (www.lytro.com), an amazing Mountainview-based company that is transforming the camera into a powerful computational photography platform and making conventional cameras a thing of the past. The key innovation is “light field” technology, which captures all of the light rays in a scene to create interactive, living pictures and enable unprecedented capabilities, including the ability to focus after a picture is taken, remarkable low-light sensitivity, and 3D viewing.

President/Chief Executive

2004 - 2007

Served as the chief executive for a global workplace and HR consulting and research organization with locations in 30 countries, best known for selecting Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list. Responsible for overall company performance, P&L, strategic plan, managed company executive team. managed global HR function and championed internal efforts to create a Best Company internally, and studied and advised top companies in their journeys to create great workplaces.

Vice President, America's Leadership Team

2001 - 2004

Oversaw leadership and organizational development service delivery in the West Coast and served on the America's Leadership team for a global HR and organizational effectiveness consulting firm owned by Manpower. Managed projects in areas of leadership assessment, culture transformation, executive coaching, HR strategy development, performance management, and team development.

Director

1997 - 2001

Directed services, alliances and market development functions in a publically held Saas, e-learning company. Served as industry expert on workforce development and HR learning solutions. Helped company through IPO.

Manager, Leadership and Transformation Practice

1994 - 1997

Original member of the firm's leadership and transformation practice. Led projects in areas such as culture and executive assessment, culture transformation and team development and change management of strategic initiatives.