Adriana Bokel Herde

Chief People Officer

Risepoint
Adriana Bokel Herde

Adriana Bokel Herde oversees people strategy and operations at Risepoint, including the candidate and employee life cycle experience. She previously served as chief people officer at Synk, Pegasystems, and People Doc. She also held talent-related roles in the biotech and clinical consulting industries in several countries.

As the daughter of a teacher, she learned early that education is a driving force of personal and societal progress. It has the potential to create a more equitable, prosperous, and sustainable world.

She holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, a Master of Arts in organizational leadership from Fielding Graduate University (CA), a Master of Arts in adult educational psychology and educational psychology from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and a Master of Arts in clinical psychology from Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Rio de Janeiro, which included a two-year exchange program with the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D.