Description: Jess Hunt is an entrepreneurial executive, operator and board member of growth companies. With nearly 20 years’ experience, she has an established track record of driving revenue and profit growth while leading innovative companies with $40 million to $400 million annual revenue.
Under Jess’s leadership, Andela rebuilt the executive, engineering and commercial teams, refocused the client profile upmarket, launched the enterprise business, took the company all-remote across seven countries, and reorganized large real estate investments to raise margin and flexibility. Jess developed Andela's proprietary technology roadmap to build a marketplace platform, along with tools to enable customers to manage global distributed engineering teams. With the turn-around, the company moved upma
Today, Andela builds high performance, diverse distributed engineering teams for software and enterprise companies across three continents, and in so doing, is building the infrastructure for the future of distributed work. In 2020, the company made Forbes’ list of Next Billion-Dollar Startups .
Prior to joining Andela, Jess served as Executive Vice President and GM at Axiom Global from 2014 to 2018, the largest platform for high caliber, on-demand corporate legal talent with a network of thousands of legal experts across industries. She led Axiom's North America business, global marketing, and strategy, improving performance through upgrading leadership, centralizing operations from ten North American offices to one P&L and three GTM industry verticals. She doubled the 2014 - 2017 CAGR over the