Mario Linares

Mario Linares is a Partner on the Executive Talent team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he works directly with seed-stage founders across Enterprise, Fintech, Consumer, and American Dynamism portfolio companies to recruit and place senior leadership. A former professional chef turned Silicon Valley recruiter, Linares spent years inside the talent organizations of Cisco, Nicira, VMware, and Google/YouTube before joining a16z - where he now brings the same precision he once applied to perfecting a dish to the art of matching world-class executives with breakout companies.