About Us:
Cyan Banister is a recruiter for several Bay Area startups. Recent clients include Slide.com, Tagged.com, RapLeaf and POSTroller. Prior to her recruiting career, Cyan held a Senior Management position at IronPort Systems where she managed over 50 employees. Her organizations included Customer Support Engineering, Strategic Support Operations, the Threat Operations Center, Bonded Sender Support & Operations (Now ReturnPath) and the Anti-Spam Operations Group. Cyan has 10 years of management experience ranging from retail to high-tech operations. She excels in scaling operational infrastructure, hiring talented employees and championing a positive corporate culture.
Kat Steinmetz is a recruiter with Banister Advisors and works with many of the Bay Area's HOT startups. Recent clients include Slide.com, Powerset, Tagged.com, RapLeaf and VideoEgg. In addition to her recruiting career, Kat is also a HR Management consultant with expertise in such areas as developing, training, and retaining employees; recruiting and hiring; employment practices, process, policy, and procedure creation and development; organizational planning; compliance with state and federal employment and labor law regulations; conflict resolution
Kat has over 10 years of experience in the technology industry and has held positions both technical (Analyst, Software Consultant) and in management (Consultant Team Lead, HR Manager, Senior Recruiter). She excels in connecting people, finding and hiring talented employees, and developing people to their fullest potential.
Scott Banister is an advisor with Banister Advisors. Scott has built his career on identifying new markets early and shaping innovative products for them. In 1995, he identified Internet search engines as a significant new advertising medium and invented the first products to automate marketing in multiple search engines, ultimately creating the bid-for-placement business model used by GoTo/Overture (and now Google AdWords) and serving as VP, Ideas at GoTo-incubator Idealab. As an initial investor and Director at PayPal, he was a co-inventor of the 'email payments' product that is now widely used on eBay. In 2000, Scott identified a market in the unbounded growth of email traffic, co-founding IronPort Systems and serving as CTO. Now the market leader in anti-spam technology, IronPort was acquired by Cisco Systems for $830 million in 2007. Scott is now Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board at Zivity.com, and he serves as a director or advisor for several other Bay Area startups.