Shane Gray
Founder | Investor | Consultant | Non Executive Director - Focused on Recruitment and Staffing
Dublin, County Dublin
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$20,000.00Max Investment:
$100,000.00Target Investment:
$50,000.00
Skills
Education
- TC
- Ud
- TU
Lists including Shane
Investments
TechWolf
Total Funding: $56M
JobPixel
Total Funding: $5M
Olas Staffing Software Limited.
Total Funding: $25K
Monarch Tractor
Total Funding: $190M
Chatloop
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Mechanism Wellness
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Kinfolk
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Shiftfillers
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Work Experience
2023
2023
Automating 70% of a recruitment team's workload
Non Executive Chairman
2024
Transforming your careers website into a dynamic showcase of your employer brand. HappyDance's platform blends cutting-edge technology with expert insights, ensuring every visitor connects with your vision and values.
2024
Board Member
2024
Taladria specialises in building high-performing, distributed teams, ensuring you find experienced, adaptable, and innovative tech professionals ready to contribute to your success.
2021
Partner
2021
Whistler Partners are a fast growing boutique attorney search firm operating at the covergence between technology and law. Clients range from the top Am Law firms to the latest unicorn fintech and crypto start ups. As part of our work with Whistler we are in the process of re-building the classic agency model for a Web 3.0 world
2013
Founder
2013
Okapio Ltd provides product, market, sales and process development services to a range of companies from startups to multi-national organisations. We focus on the recruitment and staffing sector and provide consultancy to a wide range of clients in the sector from some of the fastest growing light industrial staffing operators in the U.S. to boutique executive search providers.
2021 - 2023
Board Advisor
2021 - 2023
Vaia Talent is a boutique research and talent sourcing partner led by a team of accomplished professionals with 20+ years of global recruiting and operations experience. We are pleased to have helped this organization shape it's product offering from inception and continue to provide board level advisory services.
2020 - 2022
Co-Founder, Head of Recruitment
2020 - 2022
Combining decades of experience in staffing and state-of-the-art technology Shiftfillers connects people to hourly jobs faster than ever, paid the same day. Shiftfillers is one of the fastest growing light industrial staffing operators in the U.S. We are pleased to have helped them build and scale a highly automated and cost effective recruitment process that attracts thousands of applicants every month to support their rapid growth.
2017 - 2021
Board Advisor
2017 - 2021
TATech is the trade association for the worldwide community of organizations that provide technology-based tools for recruiting. Collectively, we power or operate over 60,000 sites around the world and offer products and services for every facet of talent acquisition. We are digital media companies and publishers, job boards and social media sites; we are ATS companies and recruitment advertising agencies, and mobile app developers and ad buying networks, to name just a few.
2015 - 2021
SVP Sales & Business Development
2019 - 2021
As part of the post sale transition team: I continued to lead sales and pipeline growth for the Clinch product. Closed multiple new marquee logos and for a growth rate of 60%+ Helped Clinch become the fastest growing product line within the PageUp portfolio in 2020 and 2021.
SVP Global Business Development
2015 - 2019
As a member of the founding team: Collaborated with the Engineering team to ideate and build the first end to end recruitment marketing platform Established Clinch’s international presence setting up market relationships in relevant regions. Delivered the revenue expansion strategy and sales approach for the US and overseas. I was responsible for sales revenue growth, delivering milestone $1M+ARR numbers at low CAC. Negotiated alliances and partnerships with market leaders including Indeed, Google, Glassdoor, Cielo, AMS and Cornerstone. Managed analyst relations to improve analyst relationships and perceptions of Clinch in the marketplace. Collaborated with the product and engineering teams to deliver the product strategy for the US and overseas. Developed a customer success strategy to enable customers to use Clinch to achieve their business goals. Acted as the public face for Clinch in the US and overseas markets, advocating the company vision through speaking, blogging, networking, event attendance and other outward-facing initiatives. Corporate development initiatives leading to the successful acquisition in 2019 by Battery Ventures.
2017 - 2019
Advisor
2017 - 2019
ATC is the largest event for internal talent leaders and professionals in the southern hemisphere. When we're not curating events, we're writing or sharing high quality content to over 18,000 talent practitioners.