Meet the
Tech Ladies tEAM

Our team — small but mighty — keeps the lights on and makes everything we do possible.

The Tech Ladies Team

our team

Caro Griffin
General Manager

Caro is a senior operations leader who originally started her career as a developer. She joined as employee #1 in 2020 before she was promoted to GM in 2022. Caro is based in Mexico City, where she lives off al pastor tacos and dirty chai lattes.

Wendy Saccuzzo
Head of Hiring Services

Wendy helps our Tech Ladies find the best opportunities at the best companies, using her extensive experience in recruiting and hiring. She’s worked in tech for most of her career and is also a professional career coach. You can find Wendy and her houseplant collection just north of San Francisco.

Carly Taylor
Head of Sales

Carly helps new Tech Ladies partners find us and design the best partnership experience for them. Prior to joining our organization, she led sales teams at a number of startups. Carly splits her time between Denver, El Salvador, and a few new places each year.

Cheryl Morris
Community & Partnerships Manager

Cheryl ensures that all of our members have a positive experience in our community and accelerators. She previously worked in customer success and operations in the tech and media space. Cheryl is based in New York City and has the most dazzling earring collection you’ll ever see!

Kelli Smith
Partner Success Manager

Kelli works closely with our hiring partners to help them get the most out of their partnership with Tech Ladies. Before breaking into tech, she co-owned a logistics company and was a business English instructor and translator. Kelli is from the U.S. but has lived in Finland since 1995 and loves dancing, traveling, podcasts, and productivity tools.

Professional headshot of a Tech Lady team member.
Allison Esposito Medina
Founder

Allison founded Tech Ladies in 2015 as a small coffee meetup in NYC. She eventually left her job at Google to launch Tech Ladies full-time in 2016. Nowadays she’s an angel investor and advisor to startups (including Tech Ladies!). She lives in NYC with her husband Ben.