Marylene Delbourg-Delphis (@mddelphis) is the co-founder and CEO of TalentCircles. One of the first European women to found a tech company in the Silicon Valley, she launched a bestselling relational database (4th Dimension) at ACIUS, co-founded with Guy Kawasaki. She later became the CEO of Exemplary Software, a lean supply chain management system (acquired by Persistent Systems) and Brixlogic, a platform for the native implementation of XML Schemas (acquired by Diebold). Throughout her career, Marylene has assisted about thirty young companies as a shadow CEO, board member, or investor. She has hired a lot of employees (and fired a few too!).