A GroWiT event in conjunction with:
Date: Tuesday, 05th November 2019
Location: Stash Financial, 512 7th Ave NY, NY 10018 – 17th floor
Timings: 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
The agenda:
| 06:30 - 07:00 PM | Registration & Networking |
| 07:00 - 07:45 PM | Panel Session |
| 07:45 - 08:00 PM | Questions & Discussion |
| 08:00 - 08:30 PM | Networking |
Meet the panel:
Baylee Feore (Director of Back-end Engineering—Hinge)
Baylee leads the back-end engineering team at the dating app Hinge. Before Hinge, she worked for Yeti, a San Francisco-based app development agency. She got her start in tech after attending a programming bootcamp and realizing it's what she should have been doing with her whole life.
Charlyn Gee (Director of Engineering—Stash)
Charlyn is a Director of Engineering at Stash; the Stash app unites investing, banking, saving, and learning into one seamless experience. In her role, Charlyn works to build successful engineering teams that are collaborative, happy, and sustainably productive.
Before Stash, Charlyn was an Engineering Manager at The New York Times, where she led the team that built payment services underlying NYT's digital subscriptions business.
Charlyn's hobbies include tarot card reading and jewelry-making.
Clare Hawthorne (Director of Product—Namely)
Clare Hawthorne is a Director of Product at Namely, a cloud-based HR Information System. In her role, Clare applies her subject matter expertise as an HR practitioner to develop Human Capital Management software features and enhancements. Before Namely, Clare spent 2 years at Bloomberg L.P., leading the Americas team of Global People Services, which supported all employee life-cycle transactions for ~10,000 employees. Previously, Clare spent 4 years at Citi, most recently managing Citi Women, a company-wide effort designed to attract, develop, advance and retain female talent. Clare began her career at Ernst & Young as a Senior Auditor in their Real Estate group and continues to maintain her CPA in Massachusetts.
Clare holds a Bachelors of Science in Engineering from Duke University, a Masters of Accounting from the University of Southern California and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Clare serves on the Junior Board of Harlem Academy, as well as an alumni volunteer for both The Winsor School and Harvard Business School. Clare lives in New York with her husband, and most weekends can be found riding her horse in New Jersey.
Christina Wick (VP Engineering—Harry’s)
Christina is the VP of Engineering at Harry’s, a successful men’s grooming brand that launched in 2013 focused on quality craftsmanship, simple design and modern convenience. At Harry’s — which includes Flamingo, the women’s brand launched in 2018 — Christina is building teams, processes, and technology that continue to disrupt markets in the US and UK. While the Harry’s product and customer experience has been the envy of other companies in the direct-to-consumer space since its inception, the technology required to deliver it has changed dramatically over the years, and is more sophisticated than first meets the eye.
Before Harry’s, Christina’s roles have ranged from running Product, Design and Engineering at Venmo, to defining strategies and building services in the mobile and devices space at Amazon, to AOL where she started as a software engineer and rose to the level of Sr. Technical Director responsible for over 50 consumer-facing mobile apps and websites and where she received an Apple Design Award for the Best iPhone Entertainment Application, AOL Radio, in June 2008.
Christina has a Bachelors in Computer Science, with minors in Mathematics and Psychology, and a Masters in Computer Science and Applications from VA Tech, with her area of concentration being Human-Computer Interaction.