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Josh Place - CEO

Josh got into recruiting after playing professional hockey.  Ed and Josh found each other while making placements for a mutual startup client. Under the close tutelage of High Tech Ventures founder, Ed Takacs, Josh became HTV’s all-time top performer.

Josh succeeded Ed as HTV’s Chief Executive Officer in April 2020.

High Tech Ventures was a seed investor in Dropbox.  Other investments include: Veracode (CA), Sqrrl (Amazon), bit9/carbon black (Vmware), Bladelogic (BMC), NuoDB (Vmware), Diffeo (Salesforce), Endeca (Oracle) – just to name a few.

High Tech Ventures has the highest success rate of any recruiting firm we have used. The candidates we get are well screened and match not just on technical capabilities, but are a good fit for our corporate culture as well. High Tech Ventures looks at the whole picture before they send us candidates.

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