- Playing sports and team camaraderie
- Enjoy camping and outdoor exploration
Whitney Tuthill
Summary
Experienced with strategic planning, executive support, and operational management. Utilizes strong organizational skills to ensure efficiency and alignment with business objectives. Track record of fostering collaborative environments and achieving high-impact results. Highly dependable professional able to serve as a sounding board for confidential organizational matters.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Chief of Staff
Evolv Technology (NASDAQ: EVLV)
07.2021 - Current
- Provided comprehensive support to CEO, Co-Founders, and CEO Director Reports ensuring team was aligned to critical business strategy resulting in 100% ARR growth y/o/y from 2021-2023 of flagship product.
- Served as strategic advisor driving execution of strategic initiatives during time period bringing start-up company public through a SPAC.
- Prepared CEO presentations, ghost-wrote board and employee communications, Town Hall All Hands presentations, and created CEO dashboards.
- Established business continuity during disruptive changes and served a key role collaborating with the Board of Directors to ensure stakeholder stability resulting in 100% of Board decisions and UWCs executed on time.
- Coordinated quarterly Board calendar and meeting preparation resulting in materials being delivered early and on time 95%+.
- Facilitated crisis-management efforts during unexpected challenges ensuring company met all required public company disclosures while crafting employee communications to reduce negative impacts on business operations.
- Served as Incident Response Manager establishing crisis management protocol and playbook mitigating brand reputation damage and customer loyalty.
- Project managed CEO and executive-level initiatives resulting in on-time delivery and completion of projects (eg. RIF, 3+ Re-orgs as company grew, agency investigations, cost-reduction projects, business model changes, executive onboarding)
- Coordinated annual $150k company-wide event resulting in high employee engagement from 2021-2024.
- Spearheaded charitable giving program, resulting in giving over $300k worth of technology to schools and communities in need.
- Managed and mentored team of 2 administrative assistants to support executive leaders resulting in CEO direct reports maintaining focus on highest priority items.
Executive Assistant, Project Manager
Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL)
02.2020 - 07.2021
- Served as project manager to Head of Talent Acquisition, ensuring organization of various confidential work streams resulting in playing 10+ executive level candidates across multiple portfolio companies.
- Implemented Applicant Tracking System and built reporting dashboards for various C-level searches across a wide-variety of portfolio companies resulting in alignment.
- Handled confidential and sensitive information and created tracking mechanism to ensure team was informed of most recent updates.
- Seamlessly onboarded two new team members allowing team manager to stay focused on higher priority items.
- Served as point of contact for various 3rd party search contractors.
- Managed Talent Acquisition team calendars, scheduled meetings and appointments, while also coordinating travel arrangements to optimize time and ensure team is focused on highest priorities.
Executive Assistant to SVP, Client Solutions
Acadian Asset Management
08.2015 - 11.2019
- Extensive administrative support for Executive and 9 direct reports, calendar management, travel and expense processing, as well as running cross-team meetings, onboarding team members and recording meeting actions.
- Facilitated day to day support preparing meeting materials to ensure team leaders stayed focused on highest priority items.
- Spearheaded internal SharePoint collaboration spaces to track key team metrics and ensure team stayed aligned on progress against goals.
- Served as sounding board during times of transition to ensure seamless change management initiatives.
- Member of Diversity and Inclusion Forum leading the tracking and development of key business metrics to ensure organization stayed accountable to goals.
- Handled all team reporting procedures and formatted data analytics using CRM system.
- Promoted to Executive Assistant and handled confidential and sensitive information with discretion and tact.
Varsity Head Softball Coach
Metropolitan Learning Center
02.2015 - 06.2015
- Created winning culture amongst team that advanced to state championships for the first time in school history.
- Rewarded 'Head Coach of Spring Season' award for demonstrating leadership in driving a positive team culture.
Education
Master of Science - Corporate And Organizational Communications
Northeastern University
07-2017
Bachelor of Science - Journalism
Boston University
05-2013
Skills
- Problem Solver
- Strategic Thinking
- Connector and Relationship Building
- Confidentiality and Discretion
- Planning and Prioritization
- Critical Thinking
- Influencing Skills
- Meeting Facilitation
- Internal Communications
Accomplishments
Nominated by leadership to participate in 6-month Leadership Forum program.
Interests
Timeline
Chief of Staff
Evolv Technology (NASDAQ: EVLV)
07.2021 - Current
Executive Assistant, Project Manager
Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL)
02.2020 - 07.2021
Executive Assistant to SVP, Client Solutions
Acadian Asset Management
08.2015 - 11.2019
Varsity Head Softball Coach
Metropolitan Learning Center
02.2015 - 06.2015
Bachelor of Science - Journalism
Boston University
Master of Science - Corporate And Organizational Communications
Northeastern University
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