Kickstarter CEO and leadership

Amanda Niu is a CFO at Kickstarter and is based in New, York. She has worked as Controller at Kickstarter, Sales Assistant at Condé Nast, and Operations Manager at Kickstarter. Amanda attended Williams College between 2001 and 2005.

Over the course of my 20 year career, I have been the first Vice President of Human Resources in five companies and I thrive in start-up technology companies. I have built the operating tech stack for all people related systems in my companies and handled IPOs, M&As and Global Expansion. I am now using my HR experience to lead EMP HR Consulting - a Human Resources Consulting firm. Check out www.emphrconsulting.com for more information.

Accomplishments:

• Winner of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech by the National Diversity Council in 2019

• Winner of the Top 50 Tech Leaders by Intercon in 2019

• Winner of the Top 20 Female Tech Trailblazers by Insights Magazine in 2020

• Won 12 different awards from Glassdoor's Best Places to Work, Fortune's 100 Best Small Companies to Work For, and SF Business Times Best Places to Work

• Advisor to newest HR technology players; Reflektive, Starling, Growbot, Character.IO and Twine

• Speaker at over 50 HR conferences

• Developed three HR leaders who were previously on my team, who have gone on to be the People leaders in three different tech start up companies

Passionate about helping mission-driven companies grow with an entrepreneurial approach across strategy, product, partnerships, operations, and internationalization.