About
Deva Santiago is VP of Talent at Crusoe, where she focuses on recruiting and organizational scaling for early-stage companies. Her prior experience includes building teams at Tailscale, Rippling, Dropbox, Weebly, and Hipmunk. She advises music industry clients on technology investment and partnership strategy, and serves as an advisor with SV Angel and Fuel Capital.
Experience
- CrusoeVP of Talentcurrent2024 β presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Ritual CapitalPeople & Talent Advisorcurrent2023 β present
- TailscaleVP of Talent2022 β 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- RipplingVice President of Talent2019 β 2022
- nurxVP of People2017 β 2019
- Fuel CapitalTalent Partner2016 β 2018
- Weebly (Acquired by Square)VP of Talent2011 β 2017
- SFConnect /Project Homeless ConnectCo-Founder2005 β 2016
- DropboxVP of Talent (Consultant)2009 β 2010
- SearchMeVP of Talent2008 β 2009
- Vontu (Acquired by Symantec)Director of Talent Acquisition2005 β 2008
- Cast Iron Systems (Acquired by IBM)Director of Talent Acquisition2002 β 2005
- 12 EntrepreneuringTalent Acquisition2000 β 2001
- NBC Internet/SnapGM of Recruiting1998 β 2000
- Snap (Acquired by NBC)Technical Recruiter1998 β 2000
Education
- University of San Francisco
Same school
Also attended University of San Francisco51
Ashley ValentineChief People Officer at GreycroftCarmen PalafoxFounder & General Partner at 2045 VenturesEugene MalobrodskyManaging Partner at One Way VenturesBarmak MeftahGeneral Partner at Ballistic VenturesCara Brennan AllamanoAdvisor, People Tech & HR at Verissimo VenturesLuis GutiΓ©rrez RoyPartner at Inovia Capital
+ 45 more
Shared employers
Also worked at Tailscale7
Joseph RuscioI build scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.Jesse RobbinsFounder and Investor in AI Developer ToolsAileen AllenPartner at Mercury FundAndy McLoughlinBrit in San Francisco; seed-stage venture capital investorReid ChristianGeneral Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures)Amit KumarInvestor at Accel
+ 1 more
Also worked at Rippling22
Mamoon HamidPartner at Kleiner PerkinsAlex NicholsInvestor at CapitalGMelike Abacioglu GunesVP of Marketing at Asymmetric Capital PartnersGeoff LewisFounder & Managing Partner at BedrockIlya FushmanPartner at KPCBAnoushka VaswaniPartner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
+ 16 more
Also worked at Weebly (Acquired by Square)3
Colleagues at Crusoe
Alon Yariv
VP, Business Development; Country Manager, Israel at Crusoe
Andrew Likens
VP Business Development, Energy at Crusoe
Andrew Sweatman
VP, Manufacturing at Crusoe
Andrew Wee
VP, Procurement at Crusoe
Celeste Grebe
SVP, Financial Planning & Analysis at Crusoe
Chase Lochmiller
Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Crusoe
Chris Dolan
Chief Data Center Officer at Crusoe
Cully Cavness
Co-founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer at Crusoe





















.png)


.avif)






.avif)