Joy Ekuta is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy & Operations Officer at Retrospect. A serial founder and former People and Operations Leader in the tech industry, she is passionate about working in spaces that sit at the intersection of people, technology, and culture.

An MIT alumna, she has an interdisciplinary background with roles that span research, program management, and recruiting at Pinterest, Two Sigma, Humu, and Exos Financial. She has operated in building fully integrated recruiting processes end-to-end; and has scaled teams from seed, Series A, and Series B Startups to medium and enterprise level companies. She also previously founded Hostowambe, an end-to-end marketplace to hire affordable party planners; as well as a Co-Founder at ImpactLabs, a non-profit organization based in Nigeria that teaches hands-on engineering skills to high school and early college students. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, dancing, and traveling.

Learn more about Joy https://capd.mit.edu/people/joy-ekuta/

This event will be held in hybrid mode as Joy will be dialing in via zoom and food will be served for the first 30 attendees at E17-290x. Register in Handshake.

This CAPD event is open to MIT undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and alumni.