Janine O'Neill

Janine is a Talent Director at Sequoia, where she leads executive recruiting across GTM functions for portfolio companies and supports founders in their journey to scale their organizations. Her work includes identifying and introducing independent board members to late stage pre-IPO companies. Prior to Sequoia, Janine was Head of People at Mellon Capital and also spent eight years at Blackrock in multiple roles, leading global investment recruiting and HR for iShares. Early in her career she learned executive search at Spencer Stuart recruiting executives for a variety of functions and industries. She has an undergraduate degree from Vassar College and a MBA from University of California Berkeley Haas. Janine is a certified integral coach from NVW, focused on helping leaders develop. She enjoys spending quality time with her husband, two children, and labrador, as well as traveling, skiing and grounding herself in nature and friendship.