Tammy Han

Tammy Han, Head of Talent at Emergence Capital

Tammy Han is the Head of Talent at Emergence Capital, a top enterprise cloud venture capital firm. She brings nearly a decade of recruiting, team-building, and growth advisory experience to early-stage startups through IPO.12

At Emergence, Tammy leads all talent-related efforts for the firm and its portfolio companies. She recognizes the importance of building winning teams from the very beginning and works closely with founders to identify, connect, and hire game-changing people.1

Prior to Emergence, Tammy spent time at Riviera Partners, a boutique technology search firm, where she specialized in technical recruiting and helped build core engineering teams for companies like Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter.12 She then worked as the first in-house recruiter at MemSQL, an enterprise database company, where she built their recruiting function.23

Tammy then joined First Round Capital for over 5 years, leading their Talent function and partnering with their community of 300+ seed-stage companies on their early recruiting efforts, including Blue Apron, Uber, and Warby Parker.123 She also worked at Sequoia Capital on their Human Capital team on special projects designed to support their seed-stage companies.23

Tammy graduated from UC San Diego with a BA in Political Science and BS in Cognitive Science. She also studied International Law at Whittier Law School.123