Meet the Team Behind FocusedFit

The Founding Team

The active daily customer. The software builder. The behavioral scientist. Together, they built a platform designed around hire outcomes instead of recruiter handoff.

Chris Hefley

Chief Executive Officer

Co-founder of LeanKit (acquired by Planview)

As CEO of FocusedFit™, Chris brings 20+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise platforms. Co-founder of LeanKit, a pioneering visual project management platform acquired by Planview, he deeply understands the recruiting industry’s challenges and built FocusedFit™ to solve them with AI and Evidence Based Alignment. "I’ve experienced recruiting from all sides—from a heavily recruited developer during the dot-com boom, to a CEO hiring through recruiters, to working inside an executive recruiting firm. I’ve been passionate about good hiring my entire career, and we’re building not only power-tools for recruiters, but the future of expert hiring for everyone."

Specialties

AI Platform DevelopmentEnterprise SoftwareProduct Strategy

Christel Alvarez

Chief Customer Officer

Founder and Managing Director of Alvarez Search

As Chief Customer Officer for FocusedFit™, Christel brings 12+ years of executive recruiting expertise in healthcare and technology sectors. As Founder and Managing Director of Alvarez Search since 2019, she has placed over 200 professionals in leadership roles. She is also a daily FocusedFit power user and product design partner. "I’ve spent 12 years learning what makes executive search actually work—not theory, but the repeatable workflows and judgment patterns that produce strong hires."

Specialties

Executive Search ExcellenceHealthcare Innovation RecruitingC-Suite Placements

Sanchit Maruti, MD

Chief Operating Officer

MD, Psychiatrist, Medical Director of Inpatient Psychiatry Service and Addiction Treatment Program at UVM Medical Center, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine

Dr. Maruti is Medical Director of Inpatient Psychiatry Service and Addiction Treatment Program at UVM Medical Center and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UVM Larner College of Medicine. Trained in psychiatry at UVM (Resident of the Year) and completed an Addiction Psychiatry fellowship at Mass General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, he shaped how FocusedFit reads the fit between a role and its context. "We assess the fit between a role and its context — not the psychology of a person. We read documented evidence against the criteria that matter for the role. I look at what makes a working relationship thrive, not just what checks boxes on a resume."

Specialties

Evidence Based AlignmentTeam DynamicsExecutive Coaching