Chris is a technology investor & entrepreneur with a decade of experience building executive and engineering teams for startups. He is also the Co-Founder & CEO of ThroughYOU, a non-profit focused on building schools & clean water systems across Asia, Africa & South America.

Chris has backpacked more than 40 countries, broken more than 30 bones & is clearly better at business than sports. He is also the former host of a Top 50 Podcast, a singer/songwriter and a half decent salsa dancer.

Linnea is a former Big 4 Auditor, turned Recruiter, turned Operations Director, (i.e. she loves spreadsheets, people and process) which makes her the perfect implementer of the Quantum Vision. She was the 2nd employee at Quantum and loves building companies from the ground up. Linnea is also a Co-Founder of ThroughYOU, Inc., a Nonprofit focused on building schools & clean water systems in developing countries.

Linnea loves adventure. During the summer of 2023 she traveled all over Europe while building and evolving both Quantum and herself.

Heart-centered leader, builder, and startup enthusiast. Saneh is a proud University of Florida Alumna, where she earned 2 degrees in Organizational Leadership and was inducted into the University of Florida Hall of Fame—a recognition granted to only .04% of students, Tim Tebow among them! Over the last two years, she has led and closed over 100 VC-backed startup searches and helped 5x her last company as their Head of Product Practice.

True-blue Coloradan. Snowboarder. Camper. Pickleballer. She survived cage diving with great white sharks, ran her first full marathon at 16, and lived in South Africa by herself for a summer. While she was cast on season 25 of The Bachelor, her true reality TV dream is to win Survivor.

Matt is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and operator with a deep understanding of the startup and corporate landscape. He has founded and scaled multiple software startups, served as a key member of the investment team at an S&P 500 private equity firm, and advised on cross-border M&A for three Fortune 100 companies. Matt was a member of the varsity soccer team at Cornell University where he graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Applied Economics and Management.

Matt has been involved in several successful initiatives to deploy renewable energy in emerging economies inhibited by deprecated energy grids, including Puerto Rico and Ghana. In 2011, his special investment vehicle, Perimeter Energy Ventures, successfully financed the final stages of development for what became one of the largest solar energy parks in the Caribbean, located in Guayama, Puerto Rico.

Dan has a decade of recruiting experience and was the #1 producer for two of the world’s largest agencies. Since joining Quantum, he's placed 80+ engineers and built the founding teams for the most sought-after VC-backed startups. His innate ability for identifying elite talent is matched only by his dedication to being a genuine partner to the founders he champions. This combination sets Dan apart as a talent leader in the dynamic startup ecosystem.

Dan's traversed 40+ countries and represented the USA in a youth World Cup. His compass now points to a good book, fine whiskey, and the art of a flawlessly cooked steak. He's anchored by and cherishes his role as a dedicated husband and father to three kids under three.

Bryson is an entrepreneur and recruiting leader, having experience in both agency and corporate recruiting landscapes, where he has personally hired over 900 people in a 7-year span. Prior to Quantum, he led the growth for a SaaS company from 50 to over 550 employees that went through a $multi-billion acquisition in under 3 years. Founding team member of Quantum Talent.

USMC Veteran. Avid snowboarder. Beautiful family of four and two dogs. Somatic Breathwork and Trauma-Informed Facilitator. Rode a Buckin'-Bull in a rodeo. Jumped off a 500ft cliff rope swing in Moab, UT. Paraglided across Rio de Janeiro. Extreme passion for art and quantum mechanics.

Mike is a Bay Area Native currently residing in Santa Monica, CA. Mike has over a decade of experience building engineering and executive teams for hyper growth technology startups. With over 1,000 placements under his belt, Mike has also started investing in early stage companies. He loves skiing, golf and basketball and has traveled to over 20 different countries. Favorite trip would be backpacking through India for a month!

In 2009, Mike spent 3 grueling months climbing Mount Everest, wearing rollerblades…blindfolded.

Paige is a Pittsburgh native turned Chicagoan. She joined the team at Quantum to help lead the charge on Executive Recruiting and is absolutely loving it! Previously, Paige spent over seven years at Daversa Partners as the business scaled from 40-200+ people. She led GTM and Business Operations searches and helped build out their international practice. She played volleyball at Point Park University and graduated with majors in both Business and Sports Management.

Paige is an avid Steelers fan, dog mom, sneakerhead, and could be a professional organizer in another career. She loves a good workout, being outdoors, and even though she is semi-retired, still enjoys to lace up her shoes on the volleyball and basketball courts. She's also one of the most competitive people you'll ever meet!

With a relentless work ethic and dogmatic approach to headhunting, Taylor builds out entire GTM teams for some of the most disruptive enterprise technology start-ups in industry. His scope of expertise includes the GTM functions across the VP and C-level; sales, marketing, customer success, partnerships and general management. With a decade of experience in building out high performance teams in enterprise software, Taylor has a keen ability to identify executives that possess the ability to both scale and sell complex software solutions with underlying entrepreneurial DNA. Throughout his career he has helped place over 200 executives in key roles for businesses at inflection points of growth. Prior to Quantum, Taylor helped build out the GTM practice at Daversa Partners where he saw the firm grow from 40-200 people. Taylor graduated from The Pennsylvania State University, with a degree in Public Relations and Business.

Originally from Pennsylvania, he's a die hard Philadelphia sports fan who still finds time to go to at least one Eagles game every year and grew up with Phillies season tickets. Living in Connecticut now provides the perfect balance of both the shoreline as well as trails to hike with his wife and yellow lab.

Brandon is a dynamic talent leader with an illustrious track record, adept at scaling global product and go-to-market teams across industries such as web3 and SAAS. With a remarkable ability to build high-performing R&D teams and lead successful 0-1 recruiting initiatives across multiple regions, Brandon has consistently distinguished himself as an exceptional business advisor and IC producer. Brandon finds fulfillment in empowering his team to reach their full potential and helping his clients achieve their visions. Let's build together!

Residing in the vibrant city of Denver alongside his wife Jossy, two boys, and goldendoodle, Ernie – Brandon finds balance beyond the professional realm. You can often find him on the golf course or hitting the ski slopes for some leisure time. Beyond his professional achievements, Brandon is an avid traveler and self-proclaimed food enthusiast. Additionally, As a crypto junkie, he closely follows emerging trends in the digital landscape.

Jayme Karr has had a fascination with technology since the days of Windows 98, though coding was not her forte. Instead, she found a knack for tech recruiting, supporting the Apple Siri team in Silicon Valley before moving to New York City to headhunt for tech, product, and ML executives at high-growth consumer and fintech companies at one of the leading executive search firms. Over a 3-year period, Jayme hired roughly 100 executives for companies like Spotify, Blizzard, Wish, Rent the Runway, and FanDuel & numerous Seed and Series A fintech & D2C startups. She was one of the first members of the Games, Entertainment, and Media Practice and served on the DEI committee.Jayme then joined one of her clients, Genies, a NEA-backed Generative Avatar Gaming startup, as employee #24 and scaled the company to over 200 employees, leading all technology recruiting efforts. She is now at Quantum, focused on groundbreaking team build-outs across engineering disciplines, with a particular interest in emerging trends such as autonomous systems, augmented intelligence, cognitive technology, blockchain, and space exploration.

Jayme also has a strong appreciation for the intersection of technology and art, exploring digital art, virtual reality installations, and AI-generated imagery and music. Outside of work, she enjoys learning the piano, savoring sushi, practicing meditation, and indulging her love for kickboxing. A proud parent to a Scottish Fold Marble cat, Jayme is weirdly good at identifying actors by face and correlating what other shows they have been in. She has called several major cities home, but prefers the east coast, and is a certified PADI diver who appreciates the beauty of the underwater world.

Ches is a talent leader with experience across agency and corporate recruiting. He’s a multiple-time founding recruiter and head of talent with experience leading talent functions at companies backed by Sequoia Capital, Addition, and Tiger Global. His experience includes leading recruiting at Dutchie from Series A to D, growing the company from 25 to 550 people, leading a team of 15, and reaching a $3.75B valuation.

Ches resides in Orlando with his wife, Christina, their two kids, and their German Shepherd after recently living in Bend, Oregon. He spends his time outside of work being active: running, cycling, lifting weights, snowboarding, saltwater fishing, golfing, or whatever else gets him outside of the house.

Jack is an entrepreneur, executive recruiter and Quantum’s resident Go-to-Market expert. He specializes in placing GTM executives across Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and HR. His experience spans VC & PE-backed SaaS & Web3 companies from seed stage to pre-IPO.

Jack is a beach bum that is obsessed with all things personal development, crypto, and Web3. In his free time, you can find Jack reading, listening to country music or pacing uncontrollably while the Georgia Bulldogs play. Wannabe cowboy, biscuit aficionado.

Emily started her career in executive search at one of the top executive firms in the US before joining Quantum. She is passionate about technology and helping founders place world class leaders at disruptive startups. She is motivated by partnering with early stage founders to make their vision a reality with key executive hires during pivotal points of growth. She specializes in placing VP and C-level talent across product, data, and engineering at seed stage through pre-IPO startups.

Emily is an avid traveler who has visited ~20 countries, she has read over 100 books in personal development, and is an aspiring executive coach and entrepreneur. She is from Boston, MA, but is living in Miami, FL.

Miles has 5 years of experience scaling product and engineering organizations for VC-Backed Startups including multiple Unicorn Companies. Prior to joining Quantum, Miles was hired as the 1st Technical Recruiter at Candidate Labs and Top Producer at IPS.

Born in the Midwest and currently residing in Denver. Strong passion for sports, outdoors, craft beers, and helping people reach their goals!

Dan is an experienced startup recruiter, avid snowboarder, and golfer. Enjoys sci-fi literature and exploring conspiracy theories. A child of mother nature, melomaniac, and fan of a nice bourbon.

Columbus native and proud Buckeye alumni. As the eldest of two brothers, our die-hard Arsenal F.C. fandom spans 15+ years. Proud 4th-generation Croatian, Živjeli!

Dillon has over a decade of experience building engineering teams. He started his career in NYC and spent 5 years in the Bay Area leading teams and offices before returning to NY to start a family. He loves learning new things about people and has been a top performer at every company he has worked for as both an individual contributor and leader/manager. As someone who favored math and science in school his passion has always been very simple...solving problems.

Dillon is the father of 3 and lives with his wife and family in Larchmont, NY. He loves a good cold plunge and to be active in general. He is usually training for either a triathlon or open water swimming event, typically to raise money for charities. Summers are spent with family and (if he can sneak away) playing golf or tennis. In the winter, he loves to play paddle and ski in Vermont. He can juggle and for some unknown reason, he doesn't chew pasta.

Ryan brings over 13 years of engineering search experience to Quantum Talent. Ryan previously led the Engineering Search practice for Robert Walters in San Francisco, focused on Head of Engineering positions, as well as helped launch the SF practice of the technical recruitment boutique Talener. Ryan has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Seattle Pacific University.

Ryan grew up on Whidbey Island in northwest Washington State, and spent 4 months in central China during the 2008 Summer Olympics. Ryan currently lives in the Presidio of San Francisco, a former US Army base and National Park.

• 3 years with True Search in Product, Data, Technology practice filling VPX and CXO roles for VC- & PE-backed startups
• Early Technical Talent leader @ Aurora Innovation, growing company from 600 to 1800+ and through public offering
• Resides in resplendent Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, husband and father to a beautiful daughter, two cats (Bart & Tolly), and a golden retriever (Beau).

• Co-Founded and edited a successful (now-defunct) Pittsburgh Penguins hockey blog, which is completely unrelated to the fact that he's touched the Stanley Cup
• Valedictorian of La Salle School of Business MBA Program (Class of 2017)
• Marathon Runner and Aspiring Triathlete (who cannot swim)
• Mostly fluent in English, conversational in Spanish

11 years of experience recruiting for Tech Startups in the Bay Area, Big Tech such as Uber, Meta, Coinbase and Web3 for Protocol Labs.

Love Lord of the Rings and I named my dog, Frodo! Also loves to travel, learn new cultures and a different way of living.

Megan fell in love with recruiting as her craft after first spending time as a Product Manager and later at an angel investment firm in Chicago. Megan is a real estate investment nerd and founded a management firm with $100M AUM. After graduation, to put her Spanish skills to the test, she moved to Puerto Rico sight unseen for her first job. She has an ever-growing list of countries to visit (in order to keep up with her Quantum teammates!) She finds fulfillment when others are empowered to serve at their highest and greatest good.

When she’s not recruiting you can find her cooking her way through Half Baked Harvest’s recipes, being harassed by the Duolingo owl to do her daily Portuguese lesson, or kickboxing while playing a dangerous game of Spotify roulette.

Nelly is a strategic marketer with a passion for creativity, culture, and driving business results. Her expertise includes creative content strategy, driving sales, and optimizing creative for maximum impact. She challenges the status quo and pushes boundaries to create breakthrough ideas.

Nelly is a true adventurer at heart. She loves hiking, traveling, and meeting new people. Beyond her love for exploration, she's also dedicated to personal development and lending a helping hand to others along the way.