Founding Partner
Ezra loves to launch and strategically grow impactful initiatives that improve people’s lives through technology. After working in multiple executive leadership roles and scaling global cloud programs for Amazon Web Services (AWS), he came to understand that the greatest challenge for modern businesses to scale is finding the right people with cloud experience and/or early career aptitude. Seeing this as the biggest hurdle of business today — and the greatest opportunity for the new workforce of tomorrow — he co-founded McKinley Hodge Group (MHG), a cloud-native executive and technical retained search firm. MHG is focused on helping fast-growing companies match with the top (and often hidden) cloud computing talent, placing a heavy focus on finding organizations strong in employee diversity, inclusion, cloud skills development, and work-life balance. MHG also leverages its founders broad, global experience in building early and mid-career cloud talent for solution architects, professional services consultants, trainers, technical support and cloud software development.
Prior to Amazon, Ezra led the largest educational data measurement (standardized testing) program in the country for Pearson, before going on to lead a startup software company that brought its cloud-based e-gov solutions to state and local government agencies, expanding heavily in the Pacific Northwest. At AWS, Ezra enjoyed the Day 1 spirit, which he still embraces, of launching and scaling large, global cloud efforts, with a heavy focus on global education-to-career initiatives and professional services consulting.
Ezra advises a number of entities in the education and tech space. He enjoys writing children’s literature and hiking the Pacific Northwest.
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