MUSIC BUSINESS HUMAN

AJ is a dynamic leader at the intersection of talent, product, and teams, with a passion for leadership, innovation, and accelerating talent. Her diverse experience spans roles in sales, support engineering, product design, and HR at T-Mobile, Adecco, and HP Enterprise, where she scaled teams from startup to post-IPO. In 2010, she co-founded a non-profit organization called Infuse Program Foundation, created to turn at-risk youth into entrepreneurs in nine weeks focused on first generation immigrant and underrepresented youth in East Side San Jose.

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At X, the Moonshot Factory (formerly Google X), AJ was Global Head of Talent Experience, driving transformative strategies and building moonshot teams to tackle the world's toughest challenges. She also fronted X’s rock band, The Groove Factory, and briefly served as a Resident in the Rapid Evaluation Lab, incubating new projects with X's engineers and scientists.

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AJ founded The Troublemaker Lab in 2016, coaching and advising extraordinary founders and teams, and currently leads the CXO Network at A.Team, helping build high-performing teams to create transformative products. An award-winning children's book author, AJ advises startups in Web 3.0, sustainable battery technologies, and the future of work. She lives in the SF Bay Area with her husband and three children.