Lisa Hovagimyan has over 20 years of experience as a retained search consultant spanning across diverse industries which include Technology, Financial Services, Healthcare/LifeSciences, Consumer/Retail, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Oil & Gas, and Environmental Consulting.
A partial list of Lisa’s clients includes Google, SimpliSafe, Dashlane, Toyota Research Institute, Cisco, Netflix, Universal Music Group, Sonos, GoDaddy, MZ.com, KKR, Hellman & Friedman, SilverLake, Beckman Lifesciences, Epicor and Cylance to name a few.
She provides search services in every discipline which include sales, marketing, operations, corporate G&A, engineering, and strategic functions such as board seats, advisor, venture fund and strategy roles.
Her key differentiator is the high touch, quick turn around and authentic approach she takes to providing both her clients and candidates a sincerely professional and personal service. Her commitment to her clients is to continue her success in diversity and inclusion hiring as well as not entertaining two similar companies in the same industry and/or two similar roles in parallel. This ensures no competing priorities and to engage in each search with 100% dedication to that client, their needs while providing the best passive candidates for every search.
Lisa is a California native born in Newport Beach and graduated from UC, Irvine with her Bachelors of Arts in English Literature.
email : lisa@rcirecruiting.com
Lisa Hovagimyan
Tom Callahan
Tom Callahan is a people person that values developing genuine relationships with those that he meets. Tom is drawn to people that are driven and guided by personal values, are hardworking, and committed to helping others and giving back. These are the kinds of personalities that grew into the core of Tom’s network in the bay area tech community.
Tom’s career started when he was living in Yellow Springs Ohio while attending Antioch College, where his knack for people landed him a role in their career placement office. He then moved to San Francisco after graduation to work in recruitment during the dawn of the internet. Since then, his career progressed to placing executive talent with major companies like Oracle, Vantage Partners Retained Executive Search, and Sonos.
Tom left Sonos in 2018 after strengthening its Executive bench prior to its IPO, to pursue his personal interests in entrepreneurship, establishing a formal affiliation with RCI. Now, Tom is able to galvanize his own personal network that he’s curated and sculpted through decades of experience to place top-level talent throughout the tech industry.
email : tom@turnpiketalent.com
Our History
Turnpike and RCI’s affiliation began in 2018 when Tom and Lisa partnered on a significant executive hiring effort for Google Cloud ultimately recruiting 5% of the executive sales force for the booming new division. Having realized that their respective domain expertise across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, and Product Managment was not just complimentary but combined together placed them among the world's most experienced and accomplished executive search firms: Turpike RCI was born.
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