SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Evolv Inc., a big data company with an award-winning software platform to help companies improve workforce performance, today announced that Steven Love has joined the senior team as chief financial officer. The appointment comes amid a strong growth and visibility period for Evolv, including a Series D round of funding, panel inclusion in The Economist’s prestigious Human Potential Forum and the recent hire of Carl Tsukahara, executive vice president, marketing and product.<br /><br />    “I truly believe Evolv is positioned in just the right place in the market to not just grow, but to really change how we think about workforce performance and management.”<br /><br />“Steven’s experience is both broad and deep in finance, operations, sales and compliance with private and public companies, which gives him a distinct point of view,” said Max Simkoff, co-founder and CEO of Evolv. “Coupled with his expertise in growing companies globally, I feel strongly that Steve is the right person to help accelerate Evolv’s financial growth at this time.”<br /><br />Love was previously chief financial officer at mBlox, the largest business-to-consumer mobile messaging company in the world. During his tenure there he also served in leadership roles in operations, building out a complete knowledge base of the technology business. Prior to mBlox, Love played instrumental global finance roles at a number of other Silicon Valley companies, including Informatica, Portal Software (acquired by Oracle) and Connetics (acquired by GlaxoSmithKline). In his career Love has secured multiple rounds of funding and spearheaded both a half-billion dollar sale and a successful initial public offering. He holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the University of Southern California.<br /><br />“My personal philosophy has always been that data is the foundation of every sound business decision – whether it be in ops, sales, workforce or finance – and I’m thrilled to be joining a company whose very mission is to use data to help an impressive roster of clients make better business decisions,” said Steven Love. “I truly believe Evolv is positioned in just the right place in the market to not just grow, but to really change how we think about workforce performance and management.”<br /><br />About Evolv<br /><br />Evolv is a big data company that helps solve workforce performance issues for the C-suite by utilizing a configurable cloud services platform. Evolv’s patent-pending technology platform unifies and supplements existing data from current systems, then utilizes that dataset to identify fact-based workforce insights that drive measurable ROI. By using objective, data-driven methodology, Evolv helps companies uncover the core reasons behind workforce performance, enabling executives to make better operational business decisions that generally result in tens of millions of dollars in measureable value per year.