TOM HAMILTON, RECRUITER

During his recruiting career, Tom has sourced and placed at all levels, from C-Suite to interns. The functional disciplines he has recruited for include, but are not limited to, Engineering, Accounting, Sales & Marketing and Life Sciences.

Prior to joining the Canepa team, Tom was Director of Talent Acquisition for Kernel, a neurotechnology startup founded by Bryan Johnson, the entrepreneur who built and sold Braintree to PayPal for $800M in 2014.

Tom spent nearly seven years recruiting for SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space exploration company. Tom joined SpaceX in 2010, 3 weeks before the first launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, when the company had only 800 employees. During his time there, Tom recruited rocket scientists of all kinds, including propulsion engineers, material scientists, software engineers, mechanical engineers, and even space suit design engineers. Before SpaceX, Tom recruited for the video game industry for several years.

Tom relishes a challenge, loves to learn, and loves helping companies fill seemingly impossible-to-fill positions with extraordinary talent. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley.

Contact Tom: tom@canepaassociates.com