Kerry Van Vorris serves as an Advisor to Oak HC/FT.
Kerry has served as the Chief People Officer at Checkout.com and Oscar. Before that, Kerry was the Director of Talent for Madrona Venture Group, a venture capital firm that invests in seed and early stage technology start-ups and is best known for its original seed funding of Amazon.com. Before Madrona, Kerry was a senior leader at Amazon.com, where she led executive recruiting for the booming cloud business, Amazon Web Services. Earlier, Kerry built a network in the financial services space and led senior and general management hiring at Bridgewater Associates, before moving into a broader role as Head of Talent Management for the firm’s largest department.
Kerry’s experience in recruiting and talent spans back to her years at Microsoft, originally as a senior technical recruiter for the Server & Tools business and then as an HR M&A manager, leading people due-diligence on multiple deals and playing a key role in acquiring and integrating talent through acquisitions.