CEO & Founding General Partner, Good Trouble Ventures · Global Tech Executive
Venture leader. Two-time public company CHRO. Twenty-five years
architecting human capital at Microsoft, Sony, Twitter, Disney,
CBS, and PepsiCo — now backing founders who treat trust
as a competitive advantage.
Monica leads Good Trouble Ventures as CEO and Founding
General Partner, a high-impact venture fund investing at the crossroads
of AI, emerging technology, and the global creative economy. The fund’s
name is a tribute to Congressman John Lewis and his call to “get in
good trouble, necessary trouble” — which tells you most of what
you need to know about how she operates. Over 25 years, she has served as
chief architect of human capital at some of the world’s most iconic
tech, media, and consumer brands, shaping how talent is found, developed,
and retained at massive scale.
A two-time public company CHRO and former HR executive at Microsoft,
Monica now serves as a Board Director at BetterUp, the leading
professional coaching platform, and as an advisor to SemperVirens
Venture Capital. She holds an MBA from the Texas McCombs School of
Business and is a recognized force in the Executive Leadership Council
and Chief. Her chapter brings a rare dual perspective: what trust looks
like inside the C-suite of a trillion-dollar tech giant, and from the
other side of a venture partner’s desk, deciding whose vision to back.