Originally from Delaware, Joseph moved to the Bay Area as a teenager and graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was an academic All-American in Track and Field. He started off his career as a Systems Administrator then transitioned into a Project Manager position. A project led him to CVPartners and he stayed to lead a recruitment division, later moving up to Managing Director, leading retained, contingent, and consulting services. CVPartners would then be acquired by Addison Group, which led to the Technology group forming a company called Arete Partners, where he was one of the founding leaders.
With the opportunity of building his own team from scratch, Joseph joined DeWinter Group in 2017. He is now Managing Director of DeWinter Group’s retained search division, DeWinter Partners, specializing in technology.
Outside of work, Joseph enjoys running, playing soccer, and exploring the great outdoors. He also coaches Track and Field with his wife at Castilleja High School in Palo Alto, the only non-sectarian all-girls school in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Josh is a recruiting specialist with 15 years of experience and extensive knowledge placing top-tier Finance and Accounting professionals in the Bay Area. He has a proven track record of matching high-caliber candidates with established companies and innovative Silicon Valley start-ups on both a retainer and contingent basis. Josh is highly skilled in understanding organizational dynamics and takes pride in building long-term, meaningful relationships with his clients and candidates alike.
Josh graduated California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo with a degree in Business. He is native to Northern California, where he currently resides with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he enjoys the outdoors, being active, live music, and playing golf.

Austin, a Business summa cum laude graduate from San Jose State University, discovered a passion and appreciation for recruiting after interning for the DeWinter Group as an undergraduate student. During his time at San Jose State University, he also worked for Student Outreach & Recruitment, where he engaged and recruited prospective students. Growing up in the heart of Silicon Valley, Austin has always had a passion for technology and innovation. His congenial personality, hard work ethic, and result-oriented nature makes him a great asset in the recruiting industry.

In Austin’s free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and friends. A few of his favorite pastimes are playing soccer, listening to music, and dirt bike riding.

A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, Linda began her career as an accountant with a large, multinational public accounting firm before transitioning into her first recruitment role in 1990, where she was quickly promoted to Executive Director for the company’s senior financial search team. She spent ten years overseeing all aspects of executive searches for Bay Area companies seeking financial leaders for their teams, including Chief Financial Officers, Vice Presidents of Finance, and Controllers. In 2000, she decided to take some time off to raise her two children and in 2015, she dove back into executive recruitment once more. Prior to joining the DeWinter Group team, Linda worked for an international retained executive search firm headquartered in the United Kingdom. In this role, she worked with Fortune 1000 to VC-backed startups to identify qualified executives for boards and leadership positions.
As Director of Search for the DeWinter Group’s retained search division, DeWinter Partners, Linda applies her experience and expertise to augment the efforts of DeWinter Partners’ recruiting and business development teams. Having come from a family of tech entrepreneurs, Linda’s approach to recruitment stems from a deep understanding of how key employees are to a company’s success. Even more so, she understands the need to identify executives which not only have the right skill set but also the behavioral chemistry necessary to improve a company’s bottom line.

Outside of work, Linda enjoys spending her evenings and weekends with her two children, cooking, and reconnecting with nature. She is also an active volunteer for several organizations, including the National Charity League and the American Heart Association.

Originally from England, Rebecca graduated from Oxford University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages, French and Linguistics. She started her career in Executive Search in London before moving to the Bay Area to attend University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business in 1999. Upon completion of her MBA, she moved into structured finance as Director of Capital Markets in the aviation industry, later moving up to VP of Aircraft Finance at a well-known Bay Area on-demand jet charter company. Rebecca moved back into recruiting in 2017 with a boutique retained search firm, focusing on financial officer searches.
As an Executive Recruiter with the DeWinter Group’s accounting and finance retained search division, DeWinter Partners, Rebecca is responsible for working with accounting and finance professionals living in the greater Silicon Valley area. She assesses their technical skill sets and develops a detailed understanding of their career aspirations, identifying opportunities to truly advance their careers.

Outside of work, Rebecca volunteers for Aragon High School’s Excellence Fund and Borel Middle School Music Boosters. She is an exercise junkie but will refrain when her kids are either in the swimming pool or playing soccer. Rebecca is also a fur parent to 2 rescue dogs.

Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Carla and her family moved to Mountain View, CA at the age of six. She began her career working in administration and business operations for several dental practices across the Bay Area. In October 2016, Carla joined Frank, Rimerman + Co. LLP, where she supported the organization’s outsourced CFO who worked with SaaS start-ups in Silicon Valley. It was here that she first developed an interest in recruiting, oftentimes taking part in intake interviews with the founders of SaaS start-ups and supporting the recruitment efforts with key stakeholders. As a Technology Recruiter for DeWinter Partners’ IT and engineering team, Carla continues to build upon her past experiences in recruitment by working with senior-level Bay Area tech professionals to understand their career aspirations and align them with the talent needs of employers.

In her free time, Carla volunteers for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. She enjoys spending time with her husband, pomeranian Coco, and friends, exploring new cuisines, and watching FC Barcelona games. Given her rich cultural heritage and love for foreign cultures, she would never pass up an opportunity to travel.

Originally from Dallas, Texas, Gianna moved to the Bay Area in 2013. After earning her Juris Doctorate from the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law, Gianna practiced law for a year before accepting a position as a legal recruiter. Over the past ten years, she has worked in a variety of internal and external recruitment roles, sourcing and recruiting professionals for legal, tech, and financial services roles. In addition to her extensive experience in recruitment, Gianna’s people-first mentality drove her to start working with professionals as a career coach in 2013. Applying her first-hand knowledge of the expectations of both internal human resources professionals and hiring managers, she has assisted professionals with career counseling, writing cover letters, reviewing resumes, and preparing their digital brand to augment their job search. As an Executive Recruiter with the DeWinter Group’s retained search practice, DeWinter Partners, Gianna supports the team’s retained financial search leaders by performing client and vertical-specific research and strategic sourcing of accounting and finance professionals at the director and C-suite levels.

Outside of work, she spends most of her time camping, attending music festivals, and having impromptu living room dance parties with her two daughters.

Originally from Indiana, Elle graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington with a Bachelor’s Degree in Multimedia Communications. She moved to the Bay Area in 2010 and kicked off her career in technology recruitment, with experience at both a small, boutique consultancy firm as well as an international staffing and recruitment firm. Elle is drawn to the ability to contribute to such an important piece in someone's life - a new career. She values the opportunity to help people and enjoys being an advocate for great candidates.

Outside of work, Elle enjoys hiking, camping, road trips, and catching Oakland A’s games.

Originally from Santa Barbara, Sean graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics, Accounting. Throughout his undergraduate career, he was co-captain of the men’s golf team and competed in NCAA Division 1. Sean started his career in sales and management before transitioning into technical recruiting when he moved up to the Bay Area in 2016. As a Technology Recruiter for DeWinter Group’s retained search division, DeWinter Partners, he is responsible for working with IT and Engineering professionals living in the Bay Area on their technical skill sets and develop a detailed understanding of their career aspirations, identifying opportunities to truly advance their careers. Outside of work, you can catch Sean on the golf course (he has 5 hole-in-ones!), in the great outdoors, or trying out a new brewery or restaurant in the area. He is also a proud fur parent of Bailey, a lovely Aussie Shepherd Lab Mix.

A Bay Area native, Brieanne earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Cognitive Science and Political Science in 2004 from UCLA before moving to Melbourne, Australia in 2011 to complete her Master’s Degree in International Relations. Between degrees, Brieanne spent the earlier parts of her career in Prague teaching English before moving back to the Bay Area to work in operations at a San Francisco-based hedge fund. Brieanne has worked in Business Development within the financial services sector in the Bay Area and Australia since 2013. As DeWinter Partners’ first official Director of Business Development, Brieanne works with venture capital, private equity, and specialty finance firms across the Bay Area to match the career aspirations and skill sets of executive level finance and accounting professionals with the talent acquisition needs of growing and late-stage companies.

When Brieanne is not at work or indulging in her passion for travel, she enjoys cooking and taking in all that the Bay Area has to offer, including wine-tasting and hiking around local parks.