Our story

Carve is a learning business created by digital learning expert and former executive assistant Fiona Young. Our mission is to build the next generation of AI-powered executive assistants that modern execs need. We’re passionate about helping individuals grow and carve out their career progression.

Meet Fiona

Our founder Fiona Young has spent 18,000+ hours of her career redefining what modern digital learning experiences look like.

Most recently she led learning programs at Hive Learning, the peer learning app that’s recognized as a top innovator in b2b learning tech.

Fiona built Hive’s learning content strategy, creating a cutting-edge approach to social learning that drove impressive outcomes for clients. She led a team of learning designers and crafted dozens of cohort-based programs (some award-winning) for corporate clients including household names in media, financial services, consulting, automotive, consumer products and sport.

  • She previously ran learning & development for Blenheim Chalcot, one of the world’s most successful venture builders, overseeing group learning strategy and programs for 3,000 people across 25 ventures. 

    Fiona started her career as an executive assistant in venture capital. She has a degree in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. 

    Fiona is Californian by birth, but a Londoner by choice. When not behind her laptop she’s usually found roaming Hyde Park or eating her way through London’s endless restaurant scene.

“We train assistants to the world’s top leaders how to use AI for everyday work productivity”

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Meet our advisors
& contributors

At Carve we’re big believers in collective genius — the idea that the best, most innovative solutions are built with many voices and perspectives, including some healthy disagreement (credit to Harvard Business School’s Linda Hill for this concept). We’ve brought together an advisory board of brilliant individuals at the top of their game in executive support, learning design, b2b marketing, tech and AI to help shape Carve’s content and offering.

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    Aimen Chouchane

    HEAD OF CONTENT

    Aimen is a b2b marketer who is passionate about creating brands and go-to-market strategies to help early-stage startups punch above their weight. He’s currently Head of Content at Uptick, a b2b saas scale-up. Aimen has 'T-shaped' skills having led growth marketing and demand gen campaigns spanning email marketing, in-person and online events, partnerships, customer marketing, ABM and paid media.

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    Aisha Everett-Khalif

    CHIEF OF STAFF

    Aisha is business manager/chief of staff at TruStage Financial Services (formerly known as CUNA Mutual Group) in Madison, WI. She previously served as an executive assistant for many years, and since stepping into the CoS role has mentored and coached dozens of ambitious assistants who aspire similar elevation. Along Aisha’s professional journey, she was also founder of an early years education business. 

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    Ann Dearden

    LEARNING PROGRAM MANAGER

    Ann is program manager for skills and learning at Hays in London, working to build a social mobility and training arm within Hays that's reducing the skills gap and creating opportunities for undiscovered talent. She has a background in building modern courses to upskill young people entering the workforce. Ann spent the first two decades of her career as an executive assistant in venture capital.

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    Ashlie Hannah

    EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

    Ashlie is executive assistant at chemical company Hexion in Columbus, OH, and has experience working in people operations roles in healthtech. She’s passionate about learning and development, and helping other assistants create their own career growth.

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    Ben Weinstock

    HEAD OF LEARNING STRATEGY

    Ben is head of learning strategy at venture builder Blenheim Chalcot in New York City. Before joining Blenheim Chalcot, Ben worked as a research associate at Harvard Business School, and has deep knowledge on leadership, strategy, entrepreneurship and designing high-impact learning interventions.

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    Christy Hogue

    SENIOR EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

    Christy is a senior executive assistant and manages operations at Conviction in San Francisco, a VC focused on incubating and funding AI startups. She’s a seasoned tech EA who uses many AI tools in her daily workflow, and recognizes the immense potential they have to transform the EA role. In a previous life she was a teacher, and her enthusiasm for helping others achieve their goals has carried over to her current career as she supports fellow executive assistants.

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    Helen Napoli

    EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

    Helen is executive assistant at Korn Ferry in London, with extensive experience supporting C-suite execs. In her previous role as EA at McKinsey & Company she designed and delivered training courses for assistants to step into their power and become a strategic thought partner to their execs.

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    Kojo Hinson

    GROUP ENGINEERING MANAGER

    Kojo is an engineering leader at VEED, the AI tool that creates professional-grade videos using text. Before joining VEED, Kojo built complex financial software in senior engineering roles at several FinTech startups. Kojo has a broad tech background, having worked on big data projects for Walgreens and programming for Google and Amazon connected IoT devices. He's passionate about GenAI and has been speaking about and following ChatGPT since before the rest of the world caught onto it.

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    Mark Ridley

    CIO / CTO

    Mark is an experienced CIO/CTO, entrepreneur and technologist in London. He’s passionate about working with firms of all sizes to ensure that technology is used creatively and effectively to support their strategy. He previously held CTO roles at the Financial Times and Blenheim Chalcot, and was the technical co-founder of recruitment giant Reed. Recognised as one of the top ten CIOs in the UK, Mark writes and speaks regularly about the use of tech, AI, agile methodologies and digital working.