Kristen Shannon

Kristen Shannon is the CEO and Founder of Highliner Technology. Kristen is a results-driven executive with over 10 years of experience in strategy development, operational execution, and organisational scaling. Her career focus has been working in high-pressure companies going through periods of significant and fast-paced growth. Kristen has worked for ambitious organisations that have more than doubled in size year on year, leading both recruitment of over 800 FTE a year as well as leading and scaling operations teams. Before consulting for both high growth startups and multinational tech companies (post-acquisition) such as Cisco Meraki, iProov, Sonantic and Oxford Ionics, Kristen was COO of a deep tech company where she led operations and strategy up to and through their series A process. Kristen’s focus is on helping companies design and implement practical, scalable solutions that are the highest leverage to the organizations. Kristen works with companies both on codifying their organizational culture and strategy to support growth as well as auditing and designing the operational systems, processes, and tools needed to accomplish their key business objectives at scale.

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Women in tech: does mentorship matter?

It’s no secret that the tech sector has a problem with gender representation. A joint report by Accenture and Girls Who Code suggests the drop-out rate for women in tech is as high as 50%.

Navigating risk capacity vs risk appetite in a tough market

In the startup ecosystem, we’ve been hearing a lot of speculations about how the economic downturn will bring correction to the tech industry. We’ve seen layoffs happening across the industry, yet at the same time we’ve also seen news from startups that have achieved significant funding rounds.