We’re passionate about people - and about helping startups grow up gracefully. At Lenhardt Partners, we partner with founders, entrepreneurs, and emerging growth companies to build HR foundations that actually work. From scaling teams to preparing for a splashy public debut, we make the transition to “what’s next” seamless, strategic, and, yes, even enjoyable.
Aspire PR is a boutique communications agency delivering multi-dimensional public relations that connect brands with consumers in meaningful ways. Aspire helps founders and brands - from startups to major real estate developments - build visibility, momentum, and lasting recognition through strategic media, partnerships, and meaningful storytelling.
Alison is the founder and driving force behindAspire PR. With more than 20 years of experience, she represents luxury hospitalitybrands, niche tech start-ups and applications, acclaimed restaurants, boutiquehotels, and lifestyle companies, crafting strategic communications that elevatevisibility and drive growth.
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Alex brings more than ten years of recruiting experience helping startups and high growth companies build exceptional teams. She has partnered closely with founders and executive leaders across cybersecurity, SAAS, healthcare technology, and AI, leading searches from executive leadership to early career talent across engineering, product, go-to-market, customer success, and corporate functions. Alex believes great recruiting is about more than filling open roles, it's about understanding a company's goals, building lasting relationships, and helping leaders make hiring decisions that support long term growth. Known for her collaborative style and practical approach, she enjoys solving complex hiring challenges and building recruiting strategies that scale with the business. She takes a thoughtful approach to incorporating AI and modern recruiting technology, using it to create a more efficient hiring process while keeping the candidate and client experience personal.
The (A)Lyst Group is a boutique talent acquisition firm specializing in helping founders of early-stage venture-backed companies and hyper-growth companies retain talent and manage existing talent resources. After a combined 45 years in human capital and operations functions within early-stage hyper-growth companies and public companies, we launched our business with the belief that there is a better way for companies to attract and retain talent. We are primarily a referral-based business, working with company leaders and founders to partner in talent acquisition, sourcing, and recruiting management services.
Tim is passionate about people; he simply loves helping people connect with each other. A savant; he has an innate instinct for mutual connection. A passion and skillset he discovered as one of the first recruiters at PayPal over 20 years ago. This same passion allowed for a successful career helping companies like eBay, Tesla, Tokbox and Chegg maximize their human capital growth potential. Tim holds a Master of Business Administration as well as a Bachelor of Science in Finance from San Jose State University. He also holds an unofficial degree in rainmaking.
Rena loves to organize, plan and process. However, she learned early on in her career that in a startup environment your plans and process must be agile and iterative- the start of a career in controlled chaos operations that would allow opportunities to work alongside an extremely talented group of people that have founded companies like PayPal, eBay, Clairum Capital, The Founder’s Fund, Linkedin, Yelp, Kiva.org, Ironport, Matterport, Youtube, Affirm, Slide, SpaceX, Yammer and Palantir Technologies. Rena holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics with a concentration in Accounting from Saint Mary’s College of California.
Katiehas been a part of the Alyst team (joining forces with Tim & Rena) for the past 10 years, gaining experience across both recruiting, human resources and operations. She brings a thoughtful, people focused approach to talent and HR and enjoys building processes that support strong teams and positive hiring experiences. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management with an HR Certificate from the University of Phoenix and is passionate about helping organizations grow through great people.
