Ed Zschau
Member at Climate Vine
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2020 - Current
Parker Remick is a retained executive search firm that provides our clients with research, insights, and guidance to make sound hiring decisions for their executive teams. We specialize in recruiting Product, Engineering (CTO, CPO, VP Engg, VP Product, VP Data Science, etc), and Design leaders for public clients like Square, Google, Walmart, and the portfolio companies of Amplify Partners, Accel, Coatue, Homebrew, Kleiner Perkins, IVP, Menlo Ventures, Sequoia. Our firm is building a foundational Climate and Energy practice. Recent clients include AiDash, Carbon, ChargeLabs, Mighty Buildings, Perennial, SES.ai, Sewer.ai, Spruce Power, and Waymo. We have also built a leading Healthtech practice where we serve Arsenal Bio, C The Signs, Cedar, Collective Health, Headway, H1, Komodo Health, Opala, Ophelia, Prealize Health, Regard, Roivant Science, and Vivodyne.
Director
2018 - 2020
Advisor and Investor
2016
Fitz Gate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests primarily in companies founded by alumni, faculty, or students of Princeton University and Rice University. I advise the firm's Partners on talent recruitment and work directly with portfolio companies. Fitz Gate's investments include Cheers, Overtime, Optimal Dynamics, and SmartAsset.
Fitz Gate is an early stage, network-driven venture capital firm.
Member
2024 - 2025
Climate Vine is technology, information and media service company.
Mentor
2023 - 2024
CrowdSolve is an online platform for climate entrepreneurs and innovators to confidently develop their ideas.
Raised $150,000.00 from Fulcrum Venture Accelerator and Everywhere Ventures.
Partner
2006 - 2018
Inductus Associates was my solo retained search practice. I specialized in Product Leader recruitment but worked across all functions. I recruited 160 executives and impact contributors across a wide variety of clients. Some of my Product placements include: CPO, TaskRabbit; CPO, Life360; VP Product, STRIVR Labs; VP Product, Stitch Labs; VP Product, Lean Data; VP Product, Alluxio; VP Product (became CEO), UpWork; VP Product, LendingClub; VP Product, Apsalar; Head of Product Analytics, Edmodo; VP Product, Mint.com, VP Product, Euclid Analytics; VP Product, Ticketfly; SVP Product, TrackVia; VP Product, GoodSearch; VP Product, Outbound Engine; Head of Product, InformedK12; Head of Product, Fountain; VP Product, Reverb; Director Product, Granular; Director Product, Craftsy
Advisor
2015 - 2017
Seven Peaks Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that backs brilliant entrepreneurs in SaaS-based businesses. I worked directly with the firm's portfolio to recruit executive talent. I completed multiple searches for Bright.md (Portland), Manzama (Bend, OR), Client Success (American Folk, UT), and CrowdStreet (Portland).
Seven Peaks Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on funding highly scalable software businesses.
Principal
2005 - 2006
Howard Fischer Associates is a retained executive search firm with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and the Bay Area. I completed 25 searches across VP Marketing, VP Engineering, VP Sales, CFO, and VP Operations functions for enterprise software and systems companies. Some of my clients included: Blue Lane (VMware), Dot Hill Systems (NASD: HILL, 4 placements), Flextronics (NASD: FLEX), Intelliden (IBM). Movaris (Trintech Group). NeoScale (Thales). Omnicell (NASD: OMNI), PS Soft (BDNA), Transera, and Wireless Highways.
Partner
2001 - 2005
I started Inductus Associates executing Director and VP-level searches, Overtime, I specialized recruiting for clients in the data storage industry. I made over 60 placements during this time. Some of my clients included: 3PAR (HP), Accruent, agami Systems, Candera, Data Domain (EMC, 4 placements), Ensim, Fabric7, Lowermybills.com (Experian), Marketwire (CCN Matthews), Monosphere (Quest Software), Omniva Policy Systems (Liquid Engines) , PeopleSupport (NASD: PSUP), PERSIST Technologies (HP), SDForum, and TRADOS (SHL Systemhouse).