Ebony James

Ebony James is Founder & CEO of Atlast, the AI-native recruiting operating system built for ambitious teams scaling without a dedicated HR or TA function. She brings more than 17 years of people and talent leadership from some of Europe's fastest-growing companies, including Facebook, Instagram, N26, Glovo, Tier, and Amenitiz, where she repeatedly owned hiring outcomes and was the person called in to build the people infrastructure that fast-moving teams lacked. That pattern, seen across six high-growth companies, became the foundation for Atlast, which she co-founded to sit as the orchestration layer to make hiring run itself. Alongside Atlast, Ebony advises early-stage founders as a fractional talent partner, helping them put in place the hiring foundations most teams only wish they had from day one. She speaks on the intersection of founder mindset, people strategy, and the systems that separate companies that scale cleanly from the ones that don't.