Fred Leong

Served as hands-on People partner to leaders across Product, Engineering, Data, Commercial, and corporate functions as the business scaled from 45 to 140 employees and $9M to $40M in revenue, culminating in dv01’s acquisition by Fitch Solutions. Led organization design, performance calibration, talent review, promotion, and compensation processes, and guided the People integration workstream.

Partnered with senior leaders across technology, editorial, operations, and revenue to help grow the Digital Media division 2x, expanding from 240 to over 600 employees. Led process redesign and implementation for Hearst's Oracle Cloud HR transformation across 15,000+ employees and 10 divisions.

Partnered with business and HR leaders to redesign global job titles, including 700+ roles for approximately 5,000 employees across 10+ businesses, creating a more usable job architecture that improved workforce planning and decision consistency.

Partnered with business leaders through growth, acquisitions, and operating change, including the integration of 600 employees through the Hachette Media acquisition. Modernized compensation and HR operations for 1,800 employees across 60+ departments, reducing processing time by 60% while improving consistency and service quality.

Supported pay-for-performance compensation and total rewards planning across its complex global technology operations, with over 15,000 global and just over 5,000 in the U.S.

Strengthened compliance and execution across mobility, payroll, tax, and workforce planning for the APAC expatriate populations.

Earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University.