Chris Rice is a Partner at Riviera Partners, a global executive search firm dedicated to technology, product, and design leadership roles. He joined Riviera in 2020, bringing extensive experience in hiring C-suite and other senior-level leadership. His practice area focuses on late-stage and public company technology leadership.
Before Riviera, he ran talent and recruiting for engineering, R&D, data, digital, IT, and quality & regulatory groups at JUUL Labs. Before JUUL, he spent nearly five years at Intel leading global recruiting for its data center business and working alongside Intel Capital and M&A to grow its talent in bleeding-edge areas, including AI, autonomous driving and IoT.
Chris is a decorated US Army Veteran and holds a Bachelors in Business and a Masters in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Southern New Hampshire University.
Smaller enterprises stand to benefit from a combination of large tech industry layoffs. But visa costs are one factor to consider.
This might be uncertain times for tech workers, but smaller enterprises could benefit from the influx of job-seekers into the workplace. While layoffs are not something anyone wants to face, be it the employee or employer, there is an upside for those currently seeking key hires. Right now, there is a significant supply of talent for earlier and growth-stage companies that a year ago was unobtainable.