Jeffrey Spector
KaratJeffrey co-founded Karat with Mohit Bhende in 2014 to fix the process of interviewing and hiring software engineers. Karat conducts technical interviews for its clients, supporting the design of predictive and fair processes for hiring developers. The company has completed nearly 100,000 technical interviews and counts Intuit, Roblox, and Wayfair among its clients.
Before co-founding Karat, Jeffrey served as Chief of Staff to Melinda Gates at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this role, he supported Co-Chair Melinda Gates and program teams on the full range of the Foundation’s work, which cuts across health, education, and poverty issues domestically and around the world. Jeffrey joined the Foundation in 2006 as a Program Analyst on the Financial Services for the Poor team.
Previously, Jeffrey worked in the private sector as an Investment Analyst at John A. Levin & Co.’s hedge fund in New York. He began his career at Linktone, a Shanghai-based mobile services startup, where he served as VP of Customer and Market Research and helped guide the company through its NASDAQ IPO.
Jeffrey holds a BA in economics from Duke University. He lives with his wife and three children in Seattle, WA.