In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we’re chatting with Evan Wittenberg, EVP and Chief People Officer of Ancestry. As a member of the senior executive leadership team, Evan helps to guide the privately held company through a period of fast growth by finding, developing, and retaining amazing talent, and ensuring a fantastic culture.

Evan Wittenberg is EVP & Chief People Officer at Ancestry, the world leader in both genealogy and consumer genomics, with $1B+ in annual revenues and 1500 employees world-wide. As a member of the senior executive leadership team, Evan helps to guide the privately held company through a period of fast growth by finding, developing and retaining amazing talent, and ensuring a fantastic culture. Before Ancestry Evan spent 5 years as SVP of People at Box, a public cloud content management software company. As Box’s chief people officer he was responsible for scaling the company from ~$50M to ~$500M in revenue and 400 to 1700 employees in 14 countries. He was a member of the executive leadership team that took the company public in 2015.