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Lilypad Success Stories

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Joyce Bollard
Joyce Bollard

On nearing the end of her maternity leave Joyce was hungry for a new challenge and signed up to the Lilypad. With her impressive background in building talent teams, Canva were excited to snap Joyce up as a Talent Acquisition Manager.

Joyce Bollard
Canva
Geoffrey Pascoe
Geoffrey Pascoe

With engineering leadership experience at Meta under his belt, See-Mode Technologies jumped at the opportunity to hire Geoffrey as their Head of Engineering when he decided to make the move back to Australia.

Geoffrey Pascoe
See Mode
Prem Oommen
Prem OOmmen

Prem was connected to the Heidi Health team via the Lilypad, leading to him landing an epic role as a Machine Learning Engineer. Prem is now powering the team’s mission to eliminate missed and delayed diagnosis!

Prem Oommen
Heidi Health
Min Coombes HIVERY
Min Coombes

Min was put in touch with HIVERY after an impressive stint at Atlassian. Not long after, Min was hired as HIVERY’s Chief of Staff where she will help deliver AI-powered solutions for retailers.

Min Coombes
HIVERY
Vanessa Iezzi Carted
Vanessa Iezzi

Vanessa landed her dream job at Carted in a Head of People role via the Lilypad! Vanessa looks pretty happy about that.

Vanessa Iezzi
Carted

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