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Holly Swanson
Director-level Chief of Staff and HR leader specializing in people operations and global mobility
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Senior operator and Chief of Staff with over a decade at Amazon, including scaling HR infrastructure through hypergrowth and leading a 55-country, $750M Global Mobility program. Later built Peloton's global People policy framework from scratch and now serves as CoS to the CEO at Amperity, combining executive judgment, analytical rigor, and builder-style execution.
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Key Strengths
- Chief of Staff leadership at executive level
- Built operating infrastructure during Amazon's growth from 9,000 to 341,000 employees
- Led Global Mobility program with 62,000 annual relocations across 55 countries and $750M budget
- Built global People policy framework from scratch at Peloton
- Transforms messy data into decision-ready executive analysis
- Created Amazon Global Mobility metrics framework adopted as gold standard
- Designed defect tracking and scorecards to identify vendor and program issues early
- Strong stakeholder alignment across leadership, finance, recruiting, and vendors
- Policy harmonization at global scale
- Reduced 65 relocation policies to 10 global policies
- $35M cost savings delivered through policy harmonization
- Builder mindset in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
- Balances strategic thinking with hands-on execution
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