Barbara Smith

Barbara was the first of the Foundation Talent team across the wider company to be based in Ireland. She specializes in sourcing, assessing and closing top talent and building teams and individual contributor roles for Foundation’s high growth client companies. Barbara comes to Foundation with 14 years of in-house tech industry experience. Having worked for Oracle, Yahoo, AdRoll and PayPal, she holds a proven track record in direct recruiting at all levels across EMEA. She has successfully placed within the customer care, sales, business development, HR, finance, technical and business analysis disciplines.

Barbara graduated from Dublin City University Business School with a degree in Business Studies, specializing in Human Resource Management. In her free time, Barbara likes to spend time with family and friends, read, cook and enjoys Bikram yoga.