Tech Culture Club

Brightly Software Chief People Officer Erikka Buracchio joins our host Melissa Phillippi in the season one finale of Tech Culture Club. Don’t recognize that name? Cary’s Dude Solutions—after more than two decades—changed its name to Brightly in March 2022. Erikka talks about the reasoning behind the rebrand and subconscious bias with regard to Ageism. She also breaks down Brightly’s quarterly management process. Brightly is a leading SaaS provider of operations management solutions, which enables organizations to transform the performance of their assets. They have over 700 employees around the world, with offices in Canada, UK, Australia, and India.

Vaco Chief People Officer Tracey Power joins our host Melissa Phillippi on this episode of Tech Culture Club. Tracey talks about practical tips for implementing performance management in an early stage company, how to conduct performance reviews, how companies can bolster their recruitment and retention rates, and much more.  Vaco is a global talent and solutions firm, specializing in consulting, recruiting, and staffing. They have over 4000 employees, with 45 offices across the country, 6 in Canada, and 2 in India. 

Bandwidth Chief People Officer Rebecca Bottorff joins our host Melissa Phillippi on this episode of Tech Culture Club. Rebecca talks about the impact of remote work on subconscious bias, why you have to create a work culture around your company mission, and how Bandwidth stood by its decision to return to the office. Based out of Raleigh, Bandwidth is a global cloud platform that provides cloud-voice, messaging, and emergency service connectivity for enterprise companies.

Former Red Hat Exec DeLisa Alexander joins our host Melissa Phillippi on this episode of Tech Culture Club. DeLisa began her career not in HR but as an attorney, eventually landing her a position on software development company Red Hat's general counsel. Based out of Raleigh, Red Hat is one of the world’s leading providers of enterprise open source solutions. DeLisa shined and was asked by the CEO to lead the people operations. She served as executive vice president and chief people officer during the later part of her two-decade journey. DeLisa, now a board director and executive advisor to fast growing businesses, chats with Melissa about the transition from Red Hat's legal team to the human resources team, their meritocracy model, and how they structured their recognition and rewards program.

Viably's Chief People Officer Karen Clark joins our host Melissa Phillippi on this episode of Tech Culture. This is by far one of the most applicable episodes. Karen talks about the importance of peer recognition, compensation strategy, and creating dual-career tracks for employees. Based out of Raleigh, Viably is an all-in-one free financial tool for SMBs to run and grow early-stage businesses. The app helps consolidate a business' banking, financial, and revenue data into one dashboard while providing insights and analytics.

Get Spiffy's VP of Human Resources Nicole Haight joins our host Melissa Phillippi on this episode of Tech Culture Club. Nicole talks about the importance of training employees for a management role, bridging the gap between operations and corporate positions, Spiffy's Power1200 goal for employees, and much more. Get Spiffy is an on-demand car care service based out of Durham. With the Spiffy app, you can schedule, track, and pay for mobile oil changes, car washes, detail, and other maintenance services at a time and date that fits your schedule. Their professionally trained technicians come to you with all the equipment needed.

ServiceTrade's Human Resources Manager Joanna Cox joins our host Melissa Phillippi on this episode of Tech Culture Club. Joanna chats about her unique career path before landing her human resources role at ServiceTrade. She highlights the role that core values play at the company and talks about their compensation strategy. Durham-based ServiceTrade makes SaaS applications for commercial service contractors. Over 800 contractors use the company’s mobile and web applications to streamline service operations, sell more services, and engage customers online.

Pendo's Chief People Officer Kelli Dragovich joins our host Melissa Phillippi on this episode of Tech Culture Club, After joining the company in 2020, Kelli has been a vital asset in growing Pendo's people team and the company itself. She breaks down the roles of their 60 person HR team and the implications of team expansion. Kelli also discusses how they are tackling diversity, equity and inclusion. Raleigh-based Pendo is a product analytics platform that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.

ProcessMaker's Human Resources Director Natalie Kesler joins our host Melissa Phillippi on this episode of Tech Culture Club. Natalie talks about building ProcessMaker’s HR program, including implementing basic processes, policies, and infrastructure. She also highlights how to ensure a high-performing work culture amid world events, such as the COVID pandemic. Durham-based ProcessMaker is an easy-to-use business process automation and workflow software solution.

On the first ever episode of Tech Culture Club, Teamworks' Senior VP of People & Culture Hilary Lerner joins our host Melissa Phillippi. Hilary tells us about the importance of being authentic about your company’s culture during the hiring process, the antiquated yearly performance review and much more. Teamworks is a software company that powers more than 5,000 elite sports teams worldwide, including those in the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL. Their product offerings are streamlined scheduling, academic success, nutrition and brand-building management platforms.