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Leia Organa

Chief of Staff · San Francisco, CA

📞 Phone (415) 555-0164

🏷️ Tags exec ops planning comms

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I've spent 9 years running the operating layer behind executives, the last 4 as chief of staff at a 300-person company. I own annual planning, board prep, and exec comms, and I ran the operations side of a $40M Series C. I keep a running doc of every meeting that could have been an email; it is long.

▶Experience

Chief of Staff · Fernwheel

2021–present

Run annual and quarterly planning for a 300-person org: 8 departments, one planning-master doc, cycle time cut from 9 weeks to 5.
Owned the ops side of a $40M Series C: data room, diligence tracker with 214 items, and a close that slipped by only 3 days.
Write the CEO's company-wide notes and board pre-reads; 6 board meetings a year, materials out 5 days early every time since 2022.

Business Operations Lead · Copperline Labs

2019–2021

Built the weekly metrics review from scratch; leadership decisions moved off 4 competing spreadsheets onto one metrics.review page.
Ran the office move for 120 people, delivered $180K under the facilities budget.

Program Manager, Executive Office · Halvern & Co.

2017–2019

Managed the exec calendar and travel for a 3-person leadership team across 40+ trips a year.
Cut recurring exec meetings by 30% after a 2-month audit of every standing invite.

▶Skills

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Everything below has shipped at least once in production, on a real deadline, with a real board watching.

Annual & quarterly planning cycles
Board materials & investor updates
Fundraise operations & data rooms
Executive communications

OKR design & scorekeeping
Offsite & all-hands production
Budget tracking ($12M opex)
Meeting hygiene enforcement

▶Selected wins

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Planning cycle, 2023. Rebuilt the annual plan process after 2022's ran 9 weeks. New version: 5 weeks, 1 source-of-truth doc, 0 departments missing the deadline.

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Series C, 2022. $40M closed. I ran the diligence tracker, coordinated 11 functional owners, and kept legal, finance, and the CEO on one timeline.

▶Education

UC Davis · B.A. Economics 2013–2017