executive-business-partner
(9)
Ro Lujan and the Work That Happens Before Anyone Notices
For more than 25 years, Ro Lujan has made executive life look calmer than it is. At Quantum Metric, her real craft is not the calendar. It is judgment, trust and seeing trouble while it is still small.
Monica Eads Makes the Big Room Move
Her job lives in the gap between a leader's ambition and a team's Monday morning. After two decades of making plans hold, Monica Eads is taking that operating instinct on a 100-kilometer walk across Spain.
The Most Valuable Person in the Room May Be the One Who Made the Room Work
Cara Boniecki built a career in the machinery behind executive decisions - then began teaching that machinery to everyone else.
Rachel Chavez Makes the CEO's Calendar Tell the Truth
At Redpanda Data, Rachel Chavez works where time, trust and company priorities collide. Her operating philosophy is simple enough to remember and difficult enough to master: get the details, protect the humans and handle the ripples.
Renee Hall Is Building the Operating System Behind the People Building Better Heat Pumps
At Quilt, three executives share one unusually broad business partner. Her real brief is larger: helping a young climate company grow without letting the human details fall through the floorboards.
Samantha Andonian
Samantha Andonian is a San Francisco-based executive business partner who has spent more than a decade as the operational right hand to founders and C-suite leaders. She started as a stage manager and theater producer before turning that backstage discipline into a career supporting CEOs and chief product officers at Google, Slack, Bumble, Render and Splice. Beyond her own desk, she is an active voice in the executive-assistant community through eaMAFIA/eaRISE, mentoring EAs and pushing the field to be treated as a strategic profession rather than clerical support.
Stephanie Majors
Stephanie Majors is a startup operator and self-described multi-time Chief of Staff who turns organizational chaos into working systems. She has served as Executive Business Partner to the CEO at Coactive AI, an AI-driven visual content platform in San Jose, and as Chief of Staff at companies including TIDAL and The Sales Collective. With more than two decades in operations across entertainment, finance, and technology, she is known on LinkedIn for a candid, no-filter take on what the Chief of Staff role actually demands and for championing quiet, results-focused leadership over the loud kind.
Anne Murray
Anne Murray is the Executive Business Partner in the Office of the CEO at Karat, the Seattle company that runs technical interviews as a service for companies hiring software engineers. She is the person who keeps a fast-moving executive suite running: calendars, communications, relationships, and the thousand small logistics behind a Series C startup. Before Karat she spent years as a senior executive assistant to C-suite leaders at Outreach and Zillow Group, ran her own consulting shop, and worked inside the studio that built Second Life. She is also connected to Karat's Brilliant Black Minds initiative, the company's mission to open access to engineering careers.
Sarah Wood
Sarah Wood is a Senior Executive Business Partner at GoFundMe and the founder of Easy Living Collective, a household management company supporting working women and caregivers. A 15-year veteran of Google across roles in learning & development, program management, people operations, and Google.org, she brings operational depth and a people-first philosophy to everything she touches. Based in Los Angeles, she has been instrumental in GoFundMe's partnerships supporting women-owned businesses recovering from the 2025 LA wildfires.