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After a recent company restructuring that led to a reduction in force at isolved, I find myself at a new chapter — and I want to take a moment to look back with a full heart before I look forward. Years ago, I co-founded ApplicantPro, an applicant tracking system built on a simple belief: that the right hire changes everything. What I didn't fully anticipate was how much that work would change me. To the thousands of companies who trusted me with something as important as your hiring — thank you. You didn't just use our software. You paid for my wife to pursue her dreams of becoming a nurse. You put food on my table, covered color guard competitions, gymnastics meets, and volleyball tournaments all over the country. You helped me send three daughters to college, including one who is currently serving a mission for my church in New Hampshire. That is not lost on me. It means more to me than you will ever know. I could tag thousands of you. And to my ApplicantPro work family — you are the chapter I'll read again and again. I watched you grow from stay-at-home moms into eager professionals and extraordinary people. You taught me, challenged me, celebrated with me, and carried me through hard seasons. Your wisdom, care, and strength shaped my career in ways I'll spend years unpacking. I am endlessly grateful. Now, I'm looking ahead. I'm open to new opportunities in the HCM space — whether that's selling HR software, helping shape the future of HCM platforms, building strategic partnerships, or helping a forward-thinking company navigate a world where AI is rapidly reshaping how people find, hire, grow, train, and retain the best talent. I don't just want to be part of that conversation. I want to help lead it. If you know of a team that values relationships, strategic thinking, and someone who genuinely believes that elevating work elevates people, let's talk. #OpenToWork #HCM #HRTech #StrategicPartnerships #AIinHR #JobSearch #PeopleofSiliconSlopes

This has been in the making for literally years——the Cashmere Fund is now listed of SoFi! Here are some insights into the process of making a listing like this happen. Quick definitions: The Cashmere Fund is an unlisted closed-end interval fund. It’s like a cousin to a mutual fund and can be traded through similar channels. SoFi is a consumer brokerage (in part) and is able to sell shares in registered fund products like mutual funds, ETFs, and interval funds (like Cashmere). Listing a fund to trade on SoFi requires much more than simply throwing up some marketing material and slapping on an “invest” button. There is a lot of infrastructure behind the scenes to execute a trade. Here’s some insight into the process workflows: 1- An investor executed a trade/purchase in the Cashmere Fund from within their SoFi account 2- SoFi batches all of the trades for Cashmere at the end of each day and passes them to an intermediary partner who batches trades across many consumer brokerage platforms. 3- All of those aggregated trades then get presented to a quasi-government intermediary for the trade to clear called the DTCC. 4- Once the trade/transaction has cleared, the DTCC pushes a summary file and the associated aggregated dollar amount to the fund’s transfer agent. 5- The transfer agent records all of the individual trades and verifies that the aggregate dollar transfer matches the records of the individual trades. 6- The money is then passed to the fund’s custodian (bank) to hold the funds to be managed by the advisor of the fund. That’s a ROUGH summary. That whole thing happens in reverse when there are distributions from exit events, or when redemptions happen periodically throughout the year. Each of the players listed above has their own technologies that have to integrate with the other groups in the daisy chain, they have their own people and departments involved, they have their own record keeping, and they have their own regulatory oversight that keeps everyone in line. It takes time for these systems to be set up and tested. And almost no one is in a hurry. 😅🙃 Very grateful to our team and the many partners involved to have successfully managed the process for the launch of The Cashmere Fund on the SoFi platform. Big things ahead.

Entrata Secures $200 Million Investment from Blackstone, Valuation Reaches $4.3B https://lnkd.in/gTP-Ghkt

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