# Ro Lujan

> Ro Nieveras Lujan is the executive business partner to Quantum Metric founder and CEO Mario Ciabarra. Based in Monument, Colorado, she entered administrative work from the dental field in 1998, built a career supporting executives at Silicon Valley organizations including PG&E, Levi's, Bain & Company and Apple, and joined Quantum Metric as employee 32 in 2019. Her public writing offers a candid account of executive support as a discipline of judgment, trust, triage and service rather than calendar management alone.

- **Role:** Executive Business Partner to Founder and CEO Mario Ciabarra at Quantum Metric
- **Organizations:** Quantum Metric, Informatica, Apple, Bain & Company, Levi Strauss & Co., PG&E
- **Education:** BioHealth College
- **Known for:** Built more than 25 years of experience supporting C-suite executives., Joined Quantum Metric as employee 32 and helped build executive-support capacity as the company grew., Helped organize Quantum Metric's company kickoff, work publicly acknowledged by colleagues.

## Career timeline

- **1998** — Moved from the dental field into administrative work at a Redwood City startup, supporting operations, engineering and marketing leaders while also managing facilities and customer visits.
- **1998-2018** — Built an executive-support career across Silicon Valley organizations that she publicly names as PG&E, Levi's, Bain & Company and Apple; a colleague also documents her support of the CMO at Informatica.
- **2019** — Moved to Colorado and joined Quantum Metric on Halloween night as employee 32 and executive business partner to founder and CEO Mario Ciabarra.
- **2020** — Published a candid essay about workload, a missed routine task and the importance of focus and limits in executive partnership.
- **2021** — Earned Continuous Product Design Foundations certification and published essays about her daughters and the breadth of administrative work.
- **2026** — Marked nearly eight years working alongside Ciabarra and publicly recognized Quantum Metric's executive administrators as problem solvers and culture carriers.

## Achievements

- Built more than 25 years of experience supporting C-suite executives.
- Joined Quantum Metric as employee 32 and helped build executive-support capacity as the company grew.
- Helped organize Quantum Metric's company kickoff, work publicly acknowledged by colleagues.
- Holds a Continuous Product Design Foundations certification issued in 2021.
- Has received at least 16 LinkedIn recommendations for her professional work.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Reflected on nearly eight years working with Quantum Metric founder Mario Ciabarra, describing the relationship as both a close friendship and a trusted executive partnership.
- **2026-04** — Publicly recognized Quantum Metric executive administrators Megan DePalma and Teresa S. as problem solvers, culture carriers and steady forces behind company wins.

## Links

- Website: https://www.quantummetric.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rolujan

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Last updated: 2026-09-28