About

Who am I?

I’m a passionate and dynamic leader with 17+ years experience in tech project management, operations, tech recruitment and people management. I specialize in attracting top talent and fostering happy, diverse teams in tech.  I use a reverse headhunting approach by prioritizing employer branding & corporate culture make top talent come to you.

  • Fluent in English, Italian, Serbian and French (B2). Legal to work in the US and EU
  • Author of Coding with Cody, an illustrated children’s book that introduces the concept of coding
  • Speaker at WWVrsac, Voxxed Days, Soft Skills Academy, Wolves Summit, and B2BRocks.

Bio

Catherine is a native New Yorker living in Europe. She started the Belgrade, Serbia office of leading Swiss Web Agency, Namics, a Merkle Company in 2014. She’s been featured in Netokracija, Blic, Blic Zena, Balkan Insight, E-kapija, B92, RTS, N1 and others.

From 2019 she has been working in Paris, France, primarily for French cloud provider and subsidiary of the iliad group, Scaleway where she successfully scaled the company from 20-600 people in three years while maintaining stellar Glassdoor results and diversity and inclusion metrics.

She is passionate about employee engagement and designs workshops and other training sessions for corporations to boost productivity and enthusiasm at work. She also loves to consult on how to streamline and optimize business procedures for optimal productivity.

Catherine began her career as an Executive Assistant working alone side the Presidents of Giorgio Armani Corp and Converse, a Line Producer for Italian TV “Rai” then found herself professionally at Start-up Wireless Generation (Amplify- a Newscorp company) as a Business Analyst. From there she moved to Belgrade to eventually head Namics Serbia and start her own entrepreneurial coaching company, Rockstar VA. Besides English, Catherine also speaks Italian, Serbo-croatian and French (B2) and is generally into all things linguistic. She holds a BA in Foreign Languages from Bennington College (2003) and a Master’s in Fashion Merchandising from the European Institute of Design, Milan (2004). 

Catherine likes to cook up a storm, is a jazz fan, former drummer, on top of being the mother of four kids.