Cassie joined Google early in its growth and, over 14 years with the company, played a key role in building the People Operations teams in Canada and Europe. Her experience spans HR, leadership and culture, and bridging HR with business operations. Between 2011 and 2019 she worked extensively with leadership, culture and team development at Google's Stockholm office during a period when the number of software engineers grew from a few dozen to 250. Cassie combines her role at Disruptive Ventures with her position as People Lead at Swedish tech startup TERASi.
We're incredibly happy to have Cassie with us. As operational investors we bring long-term specialist expertise to our portfolio companies so they can grow even faster. Cassie is unique in that she has experienced and led HR and leadership work through a period of major technological transformation in organisations with explosive growth.
"AI is already having a major impact on companies, and not least on employees, and we see enormous opportunities in the technology today. In her role as AI People Lead, Cassie will help us unlock the most value for Swedish tech companies that want to scale," Niklas concludes.
It's genuinely exciting to become part of Disruptive Ventures' team of specialists. Working in such a competent, dynamic team, with colleagues across every discipline and exciting tech startups, at a time when change is happening at lightning speed and everything feels possible, is fantastic.