I'm Mike Greenleaf — founder of Folium Search and a talent leader with 16+ years of experience building recruiting functions at high-growth companies like Rubrik, Moderna, and Paradigm Health.
I've spent my career on the inside — running full-cycle recruiting at scale, standing up talent functions from the ground up, and learning what actually makes hiring work (and what quietly breaks it). Along the way I noticed the same thing at nearly every company: hiring had become far more complicated than it needed to be. Too many tools, too much process debt, too much noise.
Folium is my answer to that. I don't just fill roles — I build the system around them. Recruiting finds the people, clean process makes it repeatable, and the right tooling makes it scale. When those three click, hiring stops being a bottleneck and starts being an advantage.
Here's what makes Folium different: I don't advise from a distance. When I take on an engagement, I'm embedded — in your ATS, your intake meetings, your hiring decisions. I learn how your team actually hires, where it slows down, and I build the system to fix it. You get 16+ years of senior experience directly, not a junior recruiter learning on your roles.
I'm also a builder at heart. Beyond Folium, I created Repped, an AI-powered interview practice tool — which keeps me fluent in the tech and the founder mindset of the companies I serve. I get what it's like to build something from nothing, because I'm doing it too.