Summary
Chris Campbell is a Partner and seasoned Talent Acquisition executive with over two decades of experience building high-performance recruiting teams for hyper-growth cybersecurity, cloud, and software companies. He has led global TA organizations at Mandiant, McAfee, and Splunk, scaling teams, instituting KPIs, and driving enterprise-wide diversity and workforce planning initiatives. Known for hands-on execution, Chris combines strategic leadership with frontline recruiting—running executive searches, designing behavioral interviewing programs, and implementing talent forecasting and budget controls. He now runs business development and search operations at a boutique firm while leading TA for a SaaS startup, keeping one foot in agency growth and one in startup hiring realities. An unexpected technical thread: he’s contributed backend improvements to the notable open-source Copybara project, enhancing Gerrit-triggering flexibility—evidence of his affinity for developer workflows and tooling. Based in Texas, he blends operator pragmatism with enterprise-scale people strategy to deliver measurable hiring outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Tarleton State University
B.S. Radio and Televison, B.S. Radio and Televison at East Texas A&M University