Orchid Holistic Search

🌿 Founder of a boutique, high-impact executive search firm, personally billing $500K–$1M annually while leading a team dedicated to placing purpose-driven leaders in natural products, wellness, and sustainability. Partnering with conscious companies (🌱Startup - $500M) and Private Equity firms to build leadership teams that drive long-term success.

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Blanco y Negro Sostenible

Connecting our community to their food, and to one another. One bite at a time.  Leading growth strategy for a 2.5 acre regenerative woman-owned farm, packaged goods, retail food and experiences business in the Cartago province of Costa Rica.

Vice President of Growth & Culture 

Regenerative Magic Retreats

Taking busy executives out of their comfort zones and into the wild, lush beauty of Costa Rican nature.  Curated groups will explore farming, food as medicine, nature and authenticity as sources of connection and community.  Filling our cup regenerates our own personal magic. ✨

Founder

Venteon Finance

Managed a split-desk (business development & recruitment). Specialized in accounting, finance and HR professionals for direct-hire and contract placement in the Metro Detroit - Ann Arbor areas. Pioneered new market segments of not-for-profit, education and healthcare. Implemented strategic marketing initiatives to grow and retain client base.

Sales & Recruitment Executive

Let’s find YOUR people! 💎🌺🔎

For a decade and a half, I have had the honor of stewarding conscious hiring for Natural CPG brands and manufacturers, Private Equity firms and other adjacent orgs doing good in the world. We build leadership teams that align with mission and fuel growth. At Orchid Holistic Search, we take on just a few searches at a time to go deep and get it right for our Clients. No mass emails. No bots. Just precision matchmaking for purpose-driven brands with an average time to fill of 36 days. ⚡️

🌿 Regenerative Hiring: Living on a farm in Costa Rica has reinforced what I’ve always known: growth thrives with care, diversity, and the right conditions. So do leadership teams.

✨ Beyond hiring, leaders need S P A C E to thrive. I curate wellness & personal growth retreats in Costa Rica for women in industry, giving founders and executives time to pause, realign with purpose, and lead with clarity. In 2023, I was honored with the New Hope Joy Award, nominated by retreat guests who found deep transformation & joy in these experiences.

Angela Marturano

Gray Bear Coaching, LLC

Executive and leadership coaching for career transition, career growth, and finding purpose in work.

Life coaching for personal transition and growth, and for parents of gender expansive kids.

Publishing services, training, and assisted self-publishing through the Gray Bear Publications imprint.

Executive coach, life coach, and publisher

Spring Health

Coaching individuals on work and life issues to help them identify and achieve their highest goals.

Life and Wellness Coach

Cancer Support Community San Francisco Bay Area

• Led all fundraising and marcomm for regional nonprofit with $2 million annual budget
• Managed major grant relationships and individual major donor relationships
• Managed all fundraising events including pivoting the annual gala to virtual during COVID-19
• Acted as part of executive leadership team, including through CEO change in 2020
• Wrote and produced multimedia communications for multi-channel campaigns

Chief Development Officer

Wells Fargo

Ran global employee giving, volunteering, matching gifts, hardship fund, scholarships, volunteer sabbatical, and other CSR programs.
• Managed United Way Worldwide relationship including a $5 million, 5-year Financial Capability
Network partnership, and chaired United Way Worldwide’s Global Corporate Leadership Council
• Chaired the Charities@Work Corporate Advisory Council and annual CSR conference
• Grew global participation in employee volunteer programs from 12% to 35%
• Rebranded the enterprise volunteer programs under a single identity
• Expanded volunteer network by 50% to include more than 130 internal chapters worldwide
• Grew employee giving campaign from $35 million to $70 million annually, including moving more than $40 million of employee funds and more than $20 million of matching funds each year
• Earned #1 ranking for workplace giving campaigns from 2009 through 2018
• Granted more than 140 volunteer sabbaticals through the Volunteer Leave Program
• Partnered with HR Policy, Corporate Marketing, and Corporate Communications to communicate
results and team member stories internally and externally
• Created new measurement and reporting tools to exploit data gathered through surveys, focus
groups, and program results
• Surveyed 95,000 employees annually, achieving 68% or higher “highly” or “extremely” satisfied
• Ran digital campaigns on internal and external social media
• Formalized and expanded the employee hardship fund

SVP and Manager of Team Member Philanthropy Programs

Managed and supported enterprise global employee giving and volunteer programs.
• Designed, built, and supported the company's first employee giving campaign platform.
• Oversaw annual campaign management including data integrity, results reporting, and funds disbursement.
• Participated in management of company's annual volunteer awards and volunteer sabbatical programs.
• Participated in management of enterprise matching gifts program.
• Supported internal and external partners in employee engagement strategy and program development.

Employee Programs Manager

Designed, built, maintained, and supported the first global enterprise employee giving platform. Designed data models, created interfaces with external disbursement vendors, and partnered with HRIS to ensure compliance with enterprise standards, flexible and easy to use interface, and reliable on-demand reporting.

Web and Database Developer

PledgePage.org

Co-founded PledgePage.org, a nonprofit software platform to assist individuals in their fundraising events such as walks, runs, and rides. As Marketing Director, got PledgePage named as Red Herring's Catch of the Month.

manageStar

Led a team of six software developers designing and building a front-end LAMP application for an online workflow management product for complex commercial construction projects.

Lead Developer

myTurn.com

Designed, built, and managed programs and tools to engage third party software developers for the GlobalPC products and PC/GEOS operating system. Wrote and published documentation, created and delivered training, provided tech support, and created collaboration tools for a worldwide community of external companies.

Developer Relations Senior Manager

Rapid Logic

Managed recruitment, onboarding, admin function, and facilities for fast growing embedded
networking software startup. Built the marketing department from the ground up. Rapid Logic was named the second-fastest growing private company in the East Bay. Rebranded the company and products including logos, product names, collateral, white papers, etc. Established company positioning and strategic marketing plan. Managed trade shows, and hosted seminars and speaking opportunities. Wrote press releases and by-line articles and coordinated press tours and interviews.

Director of Marketing and Operations

Nokia

Supported third party software developers in the United States for the Nokia 9000 Communicator. Designed and built website, ran promotional campaigns, created and delivered trainings, and provided technical support across the US.

Developer Programs Manager

Geoworks

Managed worldwide developer programs for major OEM accounts including Nokia, Hewlett-Packard, Casio, and Toshiba. Developed programs to recruit and support third party developers including strategic accounts such as Intuit, Compuserve, Novell, and WordPerfect. Created, deployed, and supported tools, training materials, and documentation for third party developers and OEMs.

Senior Manager, Developer Programs

Led cross-functional teams in designing and deploying software development tools, documentation, training, and support programs for third party developers on the GEOS operating system and related products such as the Nokia 9000 Communicator, Hewlett-Packard OmniGo 100, and Casio Z-PDA. Designed and managed the Geoworks Bindery product for creating interactive media.

Product Manager, Developer Products

Managed a team of technical writers in documenting the GEOS operating system. Wrote sample code, designed and built software development tools, and participated in technical support of third party ISVs and OEMs.

Technical Publicaions Manager

I'm a coach and author as well as an expert in marketing, communications, corporate responsibility and employee engagement. I have broad experience in nonprofit leadership, enterprise volunteerism, corporate philanthropy, workplace giving, marketing, communications, and software development. I've worked on the first stealth aircraft (the B-2), the first PDAs (Casio Z-PDA), and the first smart phones (Nokia 9000), and I've published four novels, several stories and poems, and dozens of articles and blog posts. As the father of a transgender child, I am a champion of equality and access to mental health services. I serve on the national board of directors of CHC: Creating Healthier Communities and the board of directors of the San Francisco Writers Conference.

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