Todd Gitlin is the Talent Partner at TenOneTen Ventures and Managing Partner & Founder of Safire Partners, a premier executive search firm serving emerging technology companies with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Founded in 2006 and named after Todd's grandfather Steve Safire (who relocated from New York to LA in the 1940s), Safire Partners has a 25-person team completing ~100 searches per year. Todd has personally completed over 800 executive search assignments since 1999, placing CFOs, CTOs, and other C-suite executives at VC-backed companies. At TenOneTen, Todd has invested in 48 portfolio companies and advises many others on hiring strategy, organizational design, and talent acquisition. He also serves as a mentor at Mucker Capital.