Alli Phillips

Chief Operating Officer

Alli is an experienced startup executive and business consultant with a passion for building exceptional teams and companies. She has built successful sales and operations teams at several startups, and led both fundraising and exit processes. Prior to her startup career, she specialized in organization/culture design, leadership development, change leadership, performance management, and technology and operations management at McKinsey.

Why Pairin? I love working on technology that unlocks human potential. Global education and employment markets have many unnecessary barriers (class, race, gender, geography, etc.), and I’m psyched to be a part of this exceptional team working to break them down.

Who/ What has been your greatest teacher? Experimentation, time, and reflection, working together to create a virtuous learning cycle.

Things you love: family and friends, teaching and learning, travel and adventure, playing outside, dry white wine