Meet the eyes and ears of the comptech revolution. Implementation and Customer Success help customers make the most out of our product and stay on the leading edge of comptech.
Meet the sales, marketing and operational teams who scale our systems and build infrastructure to grow. This group expands our customer base to achieve our mission to bring transparent and accurate comp to organizations that need it most.
Meet the ones building out our software and making it a reality. Engineering puts the building blocks of the product into place so companies can benchmark, plan and communicate compensation more fairly and transparently.
Meet the group that rallies our team to turn our vision of making compensation fair into reality. Our product managers are strategic thinkers that are obsessed with making and proving business impact.
Meet the team that is behind every interaction our customers have with Pave! Every day, they are energized and excited about designing the (beautiful) future of the product and solving interesting problems for our customers: People teams who work tirelessly to drive better outcomes for their employees.
Data is truly at the heart of what we do here at Pave - meet the team members that build data infrastructure, define and evaluate metrics of success for product and business operations and derive actionable insights.
Meet the heartbeat of Pave, the people who wear more hats than anybody. This team builds alignment across the organization and keeps everyone organized, safe, relaxed and supported in their work.
Finance is the core team for planning and forecasting the future of Pave’s entire business and company goals. Finance is a trusted group helping to power the daily operations through both short and long-term strategies.
Pave’s legal team is full of trusted individuals who set the entire company up to run in top form. They successfully respond to complex regulatory inquiries, educate and empower our key stakeholders and ensure Pave’s best interests are always top of mind.
Meet the eyes and ears of the comptech revolution. Implementation and Customer Success help customers make the most out of our product and stay on the leading edge of comptech.
Meet the sales, marketing and operational teams who scale our systems and build infrastructure to grow. This group expands our customer base to achieve our mission to bring transparent and accurate comp to organizations that need it most.
Meet the ones building out our software and making it a reality. Engineering puts the building blocks of the product into place so companies can benchmark, plan and communicate compensation more fairly and transparently.
Meet the group that rallies our team to turn our vision of making compensation fair into reality. Our product managers are strategic thinkers that are obsessed with making and proving business impact.
Meet the team that is behind every interaction our customers have with Pave! Every day, they are energized and excited about designing the (beautiful) future of the product and solving interesting problems for our customers: People teams who work tirelessly to drive better outcomes for their employees.
Data is truly at the heart of what we do here at Pave - meet the team members that build data infrastructure, define and evaluate metrics of success for product and business operations and derive actionable insights.
Meet the heartbeat of Pave, the people who wear more hats than anybody. This team builds alignment across the organization and keeps everyone organized, safe, relaxed and supported in their work.
Finance is the core team for planning and forecasting the future of Pave’s entire business and company goals. Finance is a trusted group helping to power the daily operations through both short and long-term strategies.
Pave’s legal team is full of trusted individuals who set the entire company up to run in top form. They successfully respond to complex regulatory inquiries, educate and empower our key stakeholders and ensure Pave’s best interests are always top of mind.
CEO/Founder of Pave
Matt Schulman is CEO and founder of Pave. He has an engineering degree from Penn and a business degree from Wharton. Prior to Pave he was a software engineer at Facebook where he worked on the messenger kids team. He has a deep passion for personal finance. Outside of work he enjoys backcountry skiing and anything outdoors.
product and design
Hareem Mannan leads product and design at Pave, after ~4 years of leading design and product teams at Twilio and Segment. She also advises and consults growing startups, develops management programs at OnDeck, and is actively working to perpetuate the notion that Taco Bell deserves a Michelin Star.
VP of Engineering
William Castillo is the VP of Engineering at Pave. Will has an engineering and computer science degree from Stanford. Previous to Stanford, he worked for the United States Marine Corps. His original engineering background is in machine learning and he has built teams and organizations across the entire software stack. Prior to joining Pave he led the Applied Research Group and Engineering team at Hover, Inc. Will is a Bay Area native and has lived up and down the coast of California. Outside of work, Will enjoys spending time with his three kids and trips to the snow!
VP of People
Alexis is the VP of People at Pave. Prior to Pave, Alexis helped grow the People function at Slack for 4+ years as the company grew from 450 to 4000+ employees. Her time there included Slack’s DPO (Direct Public Offering) and partnering through Salesforce’s $28B acquisition of Slack, the second largest ever for a SaaS company. Alexis is a proudly ICF certified leadership and performance coach, with a background in scaling the People function in a variety of high growth startups, including Uber. Alexis continues to believe that people are a company’s single greatest asset. She could not be more thrilled that she has the opportunity to help plant the seeds to nurture our people’s growth and development, at all levels.
Benchmarking and Growth
Nitin runs the Benchmarking and Growth teams at Pave. He’s spent the majority of his career in and around the early-stage startup space, first as a VC at Bessemer Venture Partners then as a Business Operations leader at Newfront. No matter what job, he was exposed to how broken compensation conversations were. Candidate negotiations, compensation planning, and employee communications were consistently fraught with ambiguity and poor tooling. His work at Pave is his effort at solving this universal problem and making compensation fair.
interim-Head of Sales
James stepped into his role as interim-Head of Sales in January. Before then, he built the infrastructure for Pave’s Sales Enablement function. Previous to Pave, James spent 10 years leading a variety of Sales functions at venture capital-backed business – most recently, as Director of Global Sales Development at H1. As a recent transplant from the East Coast, James enjoys traveling around the Bay Area with his wife, dog, and two daughters.
Head of Customer
Philip knows that a truly amazing company wins by making its customers successful. As Head of Customer Success at Pave and a former CS leader at GoodData, Philip has demonstrated exceptional leadership and vision in building strong CS organizations and customer champions from the ground up. With a background in consulting at Deloitte and a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, he always brings a unique blend of technical expertise and strategic vision to his role. He is passionate about developing strong, collaborative relationships with customers and motivating teams to achieve what they thought was unattainable. Philip unwinds by making homemade yogurt, strolling through a museum, binge-watching TV, and dabbling in real estate.
Head of Implementation
Anya is the Head of Implementation at Pave. Anya has more than 10 years of experience in HR tech - including core HR, benefits, payroll, and now compensation! She loves taking complex HR problems and transforming them into easy to use solutions for HR leaders and the employees they serve. Prior to Pave, Anya led a hyper growth team at Rippling on their journey from $0 to $150M in ARR. Running a large team showed her firsthand just how important compensation transparency and equality can be!
Global Head of Partnerships
Nicklaus is the Global Head of Partnerships at Pave. He has worked with companies ranging from startups to $2B+ market cap enterprises, driving strategic partnerships for revenue growth and market expansion. Nicklaus previously led OneSignal's global partner ecosystem and holds a BS in Quantitative Economics from Duke University. A Bay Area native, he enjoys sports, traveling, and culinary exploration. Nicklaus is committed to building lasting partnerships that enable companies to unlock their full potential and achieve positive impact.
Head of Data
Stefanie is the Head of Data at Pave. She holds a Ph.D in Personality Psychology from Northeastern University, where she researched how machine learning and statistics can be leveraged to understand and predict human behavior. (You can call her Doctor!) Previous to Pave, Stefanie grew and led the data organization at Humu. She has deep expertise in HR data products, and is skilled in technical leadership, product development, team design and data storytelling. Stefanie’s ultimate dream is to one day bring her flea market finds to PBS’s Antiques Roadshow.
Head of Finance
Samuel Ford is the Head of Finance at Pave. Prior to joining Pave, Samuel was the Head of Go-To-Market Strategic Finance at Airtable. He was previously a private equity investor at Berkshire Partners and Goldman Sachs. Samuel received a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Outside of work, Samuel enjoys surfing and rooting for Pittsburgh and UVA sports teams.