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Kelly Kinnard
Operating Partner & Head of Talent @ Khosla Ventures
Kelly Kinnard is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, where she leads the talent team and plays a crucial role in advising and recruiting senior executives for their portfolio companies.12
Professional Background:
Her career in talent acquisition and executive recruiting spans several notable organizations:
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Oracle: She served as an Executive Leadership Recruiter for Thomas Kurian, the President of Product Development. In this role, she personally recruited 50 executives at VP level and above to lead the company's cloud efforts.2
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Previous Recruiting Roles:
- Talent Partner at Battery Ventures, managing talent across 125+ venture/growth companies
- Principal at Riviera Partners, where she led VP-level searches for top-tier venture capital firms like Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and Kleiner Perkins
- Executive Recruiter at SPMB, focusing on senior management teams in technology startups12
Current Position:
At Khosla Ventures, she manages the fund's global executive talent network, advising portfolio companies on creating high-performance teams and helping them recruit top-tier talent.2
Personal Interesting Facts:
- Graduated from Whittier College
- Studied in Denmark and Italy
- Has run 7 marathons and 15 half marathons
- Notably, she has never had a cup of coffee
- Climbed a 114,000-foot mountain1
