Meet the Team
Founders

Charlie Gray
CEO, Founder
Charlie led the people operations of technology and media companies for 15+ years before founding Gray Scalable in 2012. He was instrumental in managing the growth of the Google advertising sales team and helped to develop the company's People Operations framework. He then provided executive HR leadership at a handful of other start-ups, and has now advised dozens of industry-leading companies.

Deb Feldman
Co-Founder
Deb brings over 15 years of HR and Talent Acquisition experience to Gray Scalable, having held leadership roles at Google, Nielsen, Unilever, and Recyclebank. As our cofounder, she gets to do a lot of things she loves, including leading our business recruiting and executive search teams. She enjoys singing, running, and cooking, and is raising her three sons with her husband in New Jersey.
Business Operations

Drew Koloski
Head of Business Development
As the Head of Business Development, Drew focuses on Gray Scalable's market expansion and building lasting partnerships. Before transitioning to Business Development, he was Gray Scalable's first Head of Tech Recruiting. Drew started his career as a top tech recruiter and talent leader for various startups and tech companies. Prior to joining Gray Scalable, he co-founded HR Tech startup Upsider.

Irene Courey
Marketing & Communications Manager

Robert Berger
Head of Finance
As our Director of Finance, Bob oversees all financial activities - working internally with the team and externally with clients to ensure trust and complicity on financial and business operations. Prior to Gray Scalable, he worked as a finance & restructuring advisor, helping organizations across a broad range of industries navigate the strategic, operational, and financial needs of their business.
Los Angeles Team

Darla Horn
Principal Tech Recruiting Consultant; West Coast Lead
Darla is Gray Scalable's Principal Tech Recruiting Consultant and West Coast Team Lead. She brings extensive experience building sourcing pipelines, hiring, developing process and internal tools and shaping employer brand strategy across Engineering, Product and Executive Search. She is a veteran Talent Acquisition professional with 15+ years of experience helping high growth tech companies scale.

Eric Mellis
Recruiting Consultant
Eric is a Recruiting Consultant on the West Coast Team. He joined Gray Scalable in February 2018 and has been an integral part of tech, business, and executive searches - working with vast array of clients ranging from Series A startups to midsize tech companies. Eric now primarily focuses on full-cycle tech recruiting. Eric holds a master’s degree in Higher Education Management from USC and previously worked in education and non-profit spaces.

Mallory Mazer
Senior HR Consultant
As a Gray Scalable HR Consultant based in Los Angeles, CA, Mallory provides embedded support to clients by helping them to build and scale their HR practices, providing training, and recruiting People leadership. Mallory has a history of hands-on experience from her roles at high growth startups, including Rent the Runway, Head of People at 1stdibs, and Head of HR at Hudson BLVD Group and Yext.
Human Resource Services Team

Lucia Smith
Senior HR Consultant & COVID Czar
Lucia has over 15 years of HR experience, and has worked within the nonprofit sector and held leadership roles at Paperless Post and LimeWire. She takes an inclusion-first approach and while at Gray Scalable has helped orgs like DonorsChoose, Glitch, and This American Life build and hone their HR practices. She’s passionate about clear communication, lean HR functions, and creating a more just world.

Tar-Kisha Bryant
Head of HR Services
With over 15 years of experience, Tar-Kisha joins Gray Scalable as a senior member of the HR Services team, specializing in building and expanding HR infrastructure within scaling businesses. Her commitment to inclusive leadership and transformational policies and programs was honed throughout her career spanning companies such as Starbucks, Estée Lauder, Rent the Runway, and Foursquare.

Chris DeCola
Senior HR Consultant
Chris spent his career partnering with startup leaders to design, implement, and scale their People-first practices as they navigate growth. He held HR leadership positions at Stash and Curalate, and is no stranger to being the “first HR hire” at startups. At Gray Scalable, Chris partners with companies like Slice, mParticle, A24, and more to build and scale their people teams and HR practices.

Aja Deodato Kuczma
Advisor
Aja leads Gray Scalable's Human Resource Services team, where she specializes in building HR functions, from strategy and organizational planning to program and policy development, as well as team building. Aja also specializes in HR and Talent searches for our Executive Search practice. Before joining Gray Scalable, she held leadership roles in HR for Razorfish, Patch and Rent the Runway.

Megan O'Brien
Senior Director, HR Services
Meg partners with clients to build and scale their people teams and practices; specializing in custom training programs, development frameworks, and manager support, for companies like Meetup, pymetrics, MM.LaFleur, Vimeo, Thinx, Olo, WeWork, The Trevor Project and more! Before joining Gray Scalable, Meg was an HR partner for tech and media companies like XO Group Inc and NBCUniversal.
Compensation & People Analytics Team

Sam Feldman
Head of People Analytics
As the head of compensation and analytics, Sam focuses on helping clients improve HR decisions using data, primarily focusing on compensation design and pay equity. Prior to Gray Scalable, she was on the people analytics team at AOL, and before that spent time as an HR program manager and campus recruiter. Sam holds an MS in Analytics from NYU Stern and a BA in Psychology from Colgate University.

Patty Rutherford
People Operations Analyst

Bri Dionne
Compensation & Analytics Consultant
As a People Operations Analyst, Bri supports our clients with HR data analysis across the fields of compensation, DEI, and recruiting. Before joining Gray Scalable, Bri worked in various HR roles at BNY Mellon where she focused on data analysis, job architecture, DEI, and project management. Prior to that, she spent some time as a Technical Recruiter and Mental Health Case Manager.

Max Warburg
Senior People Operations Analyst
As Sr. Compensation & People Operations Analyst, Max supports our clients with analysis of their compensation, DEI, recruiting and people data. Before joining Gray Scalable, Max worked building the people analytics team, developing the data and reporting infrastructure and running merit cycles at a global tech company. Max holds an MS in Analytics from NC State and a BS in Biochemistry from Seattle University.
Business Recruiting Team

Lori Rose
Recruiting Consultant
Lori began her career working in the entertainment industry as a talent and literary manager, before transitioning into recruiting at Google. Lori quickly became a Recruitment Specialist, recruiting for a range of sales positions. At Gray Scalable, Lori works with clients such as Pinterest, Better and mParticle to help them grow their marketing, human resources, sales and customer success teams.

Rose Alvarez
Senior Recruiting Consultant

Lauren Novak
Senior Recruiting Lead
Lauren has 10+ years of Talent Acquisition experience supporting the Media/Tech industry, most recently leading recruiting teams at BuzzFeed and Aol/HuffPost. She began her career on the agency side supporting clients across Wall Street, Finance, and Healthcare. A true generalist, Lauren has experience hiring everything from Content Creators and Account Directors to scaling and building marketing and sales teams. Outside of work, you can find her at the beach, traveling, or spending time with friends and family.

Stephanie Riordan
Recruiting Consultant
Stephanie is a member of the Gray Scalable Business Recruiting team, hiring talent across a variety of business functions for various clients. She is coming from the book publishing industry and was most recently at Penguin Random House, where she executed high volume recruitment for openings across the entire company. In her spare time, Stephanie enjoys practicing yoga, cooking new recipes, and reading the latest bestseller.

Ally Nolan
Associate Recruiter
As a Recruiting Coordinator on the business team, Ally handles interview logistics. Ally works on roles across HR, Sales, Marketing, and Operations, and focuses on delivering a stellar candidate experience from start to finish. She loves collaborating with her Gray Scalable team members to improve and streamline hiring processes. Outside of work, you can find her exploring NYC, trying new restaurants, and spending time with friends and family.

Jennifer Porti
Associate Recruiter
Jenn is a member of the Gray Scalable Business Recruiting team. Her previous agency and in-house experience spans over a variety of industries, including the legal, start-up, healthcare, architecture and retail spaces. Having worked on a diverse portfolio of both focused searches, and high-volume positions, Jenn provides embedded recruitment support to clients, building high performing, motivated and well-rounded teams. Outside of work you can find Jenn at the gym, playing volleyball and watching sports or true-crime documentaries.
Technical Recruiting Team

Nissa Booker
Head of Tech Recruiting
Nissa has been a Talent Acquisition leader for over ten years working across media and tech, at companies like Aol and Vimeo. She started her career at ABC News as a Desk Assistant and worked her way up to leading Talent Acquisition at Moda Operandi, Inc and BuzzFeed. Nissa is passionate about creating inclusive workplaces and she is driven by helping others find their dream job.

Lindsay Horgan
Tech Recruiter & Recruiting Operations Lead

Abigail Raykher
Recruiting Coordinator
Abigail is the Recruiting Coordinator for the tech team. She coordinates scheduling for candidates and recruiters and ensures that all the right people are in the right places, at the right times, sometimes scheduling between three different time zones. Abigail is passionate about HR and making sure that each and every meeting goes as smoothly as it can go!

Catherine Kerwin
Associate Recruiter
Cat is a new addition to the Gray Scalable Family, based in NYC, where she works with the Technical Recruitment Team. Cat is currently working on four roles with Chartbeat assisting with sourcing and initial recruitment calls. Outside of work, you can find Cat, playing with her favorite pups Nacho and Wes, or helping her dad bartend at her family tavern, which has been in the family for over 50 years.

Lauren Kane
Technical Recruiter
Lauren comes from a background in advertising and digital marketing and is no stranger to wearing countless hats during the beginning stages of a startup. She currently hires engineering requisitions across individual contributor and leadership levels, building teams for leading companies including Etsy, Reddit, Skillshare, Understood.org, Elias Sports Bureau, Chartbeat, and Crisis Text Line.

Kelly Patullo
Technical Recruiter
At Gray Scalable, Kelly partners with engineering teams supporting their growth plans by hiring across executive and individual contributor requisitions. She works with a variety of clients including Leaflink, Skillshare, Olo, Nautilus Labs, Chartbeat and more. Kelly joined Gray Scalable with a background in tech recruiting with experience building teams for companies from pre-Series A to post-IPO.

Bec Bliss
Advisor
At Gray Scalable, Bec built out the sourcing function and specialized in challenging tech hires. She designed and implemented much of the company’s recruiting process, tracking tools and platforms, and mentored a generation of recruiting talent. While she is no longer a Gray Scalable employee, she continues to consult, provide trainings, and attend all of the company’s client cocktail events.

Amy Patterson
Recruiting Team Lead
As a Recruiting Team Lead, Amy helps scale organizations through embedded consulting and the implementation of long-lasting recruiting programs and platforms. Prior to joining Gray Scalable, Amy worked at Google, launching new offices across for engineering, research, new grad and sales teams. Amy also previously led international recruiting teams at Merck, Groupon and Blue Apron.

Nekala Alexander
Technical Recruiting Associate
Nekala is a Recruiting Associate with a passion for creativity, innovation, and diversity. After spending time working in entertainment, she combined her HR experience and tech background to pursue a recruiting career. Nekala enjoys spending time working on DEI efforts to advocate for underrepresented communities in tech, and she relaxes by writing screenplays, skating, and obsessing over home decor.

Molly Thompson
Technical Recruiting Associate
Molly has helped build teams for companies across multiple industries including health tech, gaming, publishing and financial services. In the last few years she has specialized in DevOps, SRE and Cloud Infrastructure recruitment, all while navigating the ever changing tech landscape. When Molly isn't talking tech, you can find her wandering Brooklyn with Smiley, her rescue dachshund mix.

Blessing Emeghara
Technical Recruiting Associate
Blessing is a proven leader with a background as an educator and education management recruiter. She's built effective teams that led to development in both campus culture and student achievement. As a recruiter for Teach For America, she improved the recruitment and retention of diverse educators by 275%. At Gray Scalable, Blessing helps to build and manage candidate pipelines and experiences.

Natalie Davidzon
Senior Recruiting Consultant
Natalie spent several years honing her talent acquisition skills in tech-focused recruitment agencies before taking on a role as eBay's first Technical Recruiter in NYC. She went on to tackle the startup world, leading company-wide recruitment strategy, program design and execution at Offerpop, LiveIntent and Haven Life. In her spare time, Natalie sings opera, rock climbs and spoils her dog.
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