The technological industry veteran, Damien Hooper-Campbell, is the first Chief Diversity Officer at Zoom. Prior to his career journey to Zoom, Damien was a Vice President at eBay, at where he served as the company’s first Chief Diversity Officer. In this role, he championed the design and implementation of eBay’s global strategy for fashioning diversity and inclusion that cut across its workforce, workplace, and marketplace. He also led eBay’s University Recruiting & Programs team, and which he was also a member of the eBay Foundation’s Board of Directors.
Before joining eBay, Damien served in the capacity of Uber’s first Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion, where he steered the company’s foundational Diversity & Inclusion strategy, and led its community engagement efforts with the City of Oakland, California. He was an advisor to Google’s senior leaders and was able to build partnerships across communities as a Diversity Strategist. Damien has also occupied the seat of the Vice President in Goldman Sachs’ Pine Street Leadership Development Group, where he coached the company’s most senior leaders. Previously, he was the trailblazer for the underrepresented minority outreach for Harvard Business School’s Admissions Board, and empowered Harlem’s non-profit community as an Associate Program Manager at the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation (UMEZ). Before moving to UMEZ, Damien was an Investment Banking Analyst in Morgan Stanley’s Consumer Products and Retail Group.
Damien has served on the Board of New Jersey Needs You, and also as a mentor in Morehouse College’s Executive Mentorship Program. Damien graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Morehouse College, and subsequently with an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was both a Bert King and Morgan Stanley Fellow.
“I was first drawn to the virtual, yet authentic and human connections that Zoom’s platform is enabling around the world. It is this level of human connectivity that sits at the heart of diversity and inclusion. In spending time with the Zoom team, I can tell that this is a group of people who place the value of caring for their communities, their customers, and each other at the forefront of the decisions they make for Zoom and its products. This value of care is a key component to the empathy and vulnerability needed to drive meaningful diversity and inclusion efforts. There is an opportunity to not only help make the organization more diverse and inclusive, but also to make the Zoom platform one that acknowledges and incorporates the needs and backgrounds of the hundreds of millions of participants who use it daily. I look forward to partnering with the rest of the Zoom team and valued external partners to make this a reality,” said Damien.
Today, Damien will be bringing his over 15 years wealth of experience in diversity and inclusion, leadership and management coaching, recruiting, community engagement, and finance to his new office at Zoom. As the former Chief Diversity Officer for eBay, Global Head of Diversity for Uber, and a Diversity Strategist at Google, It is no doubt that Damien will champion the design and implementation of Zoom’s global diversity and inclusion strategy with a focus on its current and future employees with its products. He will also be saddled with the responsibility of establishing Zoom’s university recruiting program and initiatives.
Zoom is highly committed to maintain an equal, respectful, and inclusive environment on its platform for all users irrespective of background. The company is equally invested in ensuring that diversity and inclusion are central to its internal culture and organization. Hooper-Campbell will help Zoom build on its foundational efforts to date, which include company-wide inclusion education, employee resource groups, and inclusive hiring initiatives.
“Our core value as a company is to care – we care for our community, our customers, our company, our teammates, and ourselves. Damien embodies this key part of our culture. Not only does he care deeply, he puts it into action, building programs and relationships, and developing initiatives that reflect that value. Diversity and inclusion are everyone’s responsibility, but I know that Damien will work with all of us to make Zoom an innovator in this area, which will make our culture, platform, and communities even stronger,” said Eric S. Yuan, CEO of Zoom.
