Leadership

Our Mission

Everyone who works at Censia holds true to the same dream: to make the talent search as fair, efficient and productive as possible. Every year there are immense amounts of money and productivity that are wasted as a result of inefficient and biased hiring practices. At Censia, we believe that by unlocking the recruiting process we are able to unlock humanity’s full potential.

Jo Riley

Co-Founder and CEO

Joanna Riley is an entrepreneur, advocate, a mentor for diversity in technology, and the CEO and Co-Founder of Censia. Prior to founding Censia, Joanna was the co-founder and CEO of 1-Page, a SaaS solutions provider in the Talent Acquisition sector. In 2014 she led 1-Page to a successful IPO, and onto the S&P/ASX 300 by 2016.

Joanna was named one of the 100 highest-ranking women in tech in 2017, and was awarded the Most Powerful and Influential Women Award by the California Diversity Council, and the Power ’30 Under 30’ for Professional and Community Excellence in 2016.

She currently sits on the Board of Directors for Young Presidents Organization (SF Bay Chapter) and is an active angel investor in early stage companies. She sits on the Advisory Boards of: CerraCap Ventures, Veterati, Perksy, DroneShield Ltd, and is a mentor at Singularity University and Founder

Bruce Cooper

Co-Founder and CTO
Bruce has been involved with Technical Program Management for over 20 years across software vendors, large institutions and start-ups. Bruce has spent the majority of his time focused on constructing and optimizing technical systems oriented to generate new revenue streams. Bruce has a passion for building, whether it be teams, software, policy or infrastructure. Bruce has served in numerous executive roles including CTO, COO, Director of Trading Technology, and Director of Product Management.
Bruce joined Censia to empower society with a better workforce paradigm where talent is matched appropriately to roles.

Tim Johnson

Co-Founder and VP of Sales
Tim is a highly experienced and tenured sales professional with a track record of success selling SaaS solutions into some of the most challenging and influential companies around the globe. Tim was one of the initial enterprise hires at Marketo, a SaaS marketing automation company that during Tim’s tenure, scaled from 50 employees to over 1,200, saw revenue growth in the enterprise division from 1M ARR to over 120M ARR, and was a prominent member of the go to market team that saw the company through a successful $1B+ IPO. After Marketo, Tim joined a SaaS startup (EverString) as one of the initial founding business members in the predictive analytics and AI space for sales and marketing. Tim was a key member of the team that helped the company raise a $12M Series A and 15 months later a $65M Series B round, both the largest in the sector at the time, led by Lightspeed Ventures.
Tim joined Censia as one of the initial executive team members because the mission of the company and its leadership is 100% aligned with the passion in his own life, helping professionals, customers, and employees be the best versions of themselves.

Rebecca Poole

SVP of Product and Design
Rebecca is an accomplished, creative, and highly adaptable Product Management professional with over 20 years of success at IBM owning, leading, and working with global cross-discipline teams to innovate, transform, deliver, and evangelize both on premise and cloud-based enterprise software solutions generating $100M-$1B annually. These solutions span a wide variety of market domains including data management, application development and management, big data, analytics, core banking and AI. During her tenure she also acted as Recruiting Manager for Stanford University. Her most recent role as Product Management Lead for IBM’s Watson Customer Experience Analytics solution allowed her to work with worldwide clients, business partners, analysts, and across IBM to understand and deliver key solution features that provide high fidelity visualizations, analytics, and cognitive insights to help optimize the omnichannel customer journey, improve the customer experience and maximize business results.
Rebecca’s passion is to improve businesses and consumer lives by synthesizing and advancing a diverse range of emerging & established technologies, hiring & cultivating talent, and establishing a customer-first, innovative and team-oriented culture. She is an intuitive, analytical, results-oriented self-starter with high energy, business and technical experience, and attention to detail who thrives on owning the success of multiple concurrent complex projects.

Rebecca Poole

SVP of Product and Design
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Rebecca’s passion is to improve businesses and consumer lives by synthesizing and advancing a diverse range of emerging & established technologies, hiring & cultivating talent, and establishing a customer-first, innovative and team-oriented culture. She is an intuitive, analytical, results-oriented self-starter with high energy, business and technical experience, and attention to detail who thrives on owning the success of multiple concurrent complex projects.

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Joanna (Jo) Riley

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Sanjay Pal

Global VP Cloud and Cognitive Solutions
IBM

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Shakti Jauhar

Senior Vice President
PepsiCo

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Nancy Altobello

Board Member
MarketAxess

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Burges Karkaria

Founder and CEO
Robocuisine

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Monica L. Bua

Managing Director
Morgan Samuels

Board of Advisors

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Sanjay Pal

Global VP Cloud and Cognitive Solutions
IBM

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Shakti Jauhar

Former SVP, Digital HR Transformation, Operations and Shared Services
PepsiCo

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Nancy Altobello

Board Member
MarketAxess

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Monica L. Bua

Managing Director
Morgan Samuels

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Burges Karkaria

Founder and CEO
Robocuisine

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Deborah Leff

Global Leader and Industry CTO for Data Science and AI
IBM

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