Founder & CEO
EMP HR Consulting
Mai has been a People Leader at ten different technology startup companies in San Francisco and New York City. She formerly led the People team at Fabric, Kickstarter, White Ops, HelloSign, OneLogin, RichRelevance and Trulia. She's created her own company, and founded EMP HR Consulting to help more companies cross the chasm. She is the author of a book called Come into My Office: Stories from an HR Leader in Silicon Valley. Mai was AABDC’s Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business honoree in 2022.
Over the course of her career, Mai built what is called the operating system for all 9 companies by hiring the team, creating the recruiting flow and architecting the HR roadmap, and processes for these ten global companies. She has handled 1 IPO, 9 M&A transactions, 1 divestiture and 5 CEO replacements. Mai has won 14 awards for her companies, and was named to the list of the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business, Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology, Top 50 Tech Leaders, and Top 20 Tech Trailblazers.
Mai is a global expert on HR operating systems, and her writing has appeared in the Economist, The New York Times, and Time magazine.