Mai Ton

Founder & CEO

EMP HR Consulting

Mai Ton has been a People Leader at ten different technology startup companies in San Francisco and New York City. She formerly led the People team at Fabric, Kickstarter, White Ops, HelloSign, OneLogin, RichRelevance and Trulia. She's created her own company, and founded EMP HR Consulting to help more companies and employees thrive at work.

Her experience spans some of the most defining moments in tech from securing the first union contract at a tech company to pioneering one of the first 4-day work weeks in the United States.

She has been part of 1 IPO, 9 M&A transactions, 1 divestiture and 6 CEO replacements and specializes in the future of work programs. Mai has won 14 Best Workplace awards for her companies, and was named to the list of the Top 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business, Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology, Top 50 Tech Leaders, and Top 20 Tech Trailblazers.

She is the author of a book called Come into My Office: Stories from an HR Leader in Silicon Valley. She has spoken at over 50 conferences and her writing has appeared in the Economist, The New York Times, and Time magazine.