About FirstWho

Leadership

We help teams hire with evidence. Our leadership team combines hiring operations, research, and product delivery experience.

Israa Alrawi

Israa Alrawi

Director of Marketing

Israa is the founder of The Winbox, an email marketing educational platform dedicated to helping direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands scale profitably without relying on discounts. With over eight years of experience, Israa successfully launched her own e-commerce store, scaling it to six figures in just three months, and has since discovered her passion for growing raving buyers through email marketing. She has helped over 1,000 clients and students generate more than $110 million in email revenue, implementing proven strategies to acquire cheaper leads and secure lifetime customers. As an expert in email deliverability, strategy, and retention, Israa also teaches at the SOS Ecom Academy, where she shares her insights on list growth and profit through email.

Grejdi Gjura

Grejdi Gjura

Cofounder - Technology

Grejdi is an experienced systems engineer focused on reliability, security, and simplicity. He keeps the product stable, scalable, and fast while ensuring that third-party integrations are working and that customer data and privacy are protected in accordance with cybersecurity best practices. Previously, Grejdi worked at the MBTA, BetterLesson, and Raytheon.

Ryan Mahoney

Ryan Mahoney

Director of Product

Ryan is the co-founder of FirstWho, a platform that removes the friction from high-quality structured interviewing so companies can make better, less biased hiring decisions. With over eight years of engineering leadership at the MBTA, where he helped grow the team from 15 to 100 people, Ryan has deep firsthand experience with the challenges of hiring at scale. He has an upcoming book, Fakers, about how hiring is broken on both sides, with companies faking rigor and candidates faking with AI, and what to do about it. As an expert in structured interviewing and team building, Ryan is also COO of TransitOPS, a non-profit building open-source technology for public transit agencies.

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