Tadia is the founder and Managing Partner of ALIGNED GENERATION.
She is most known for her ability to bring control to chaos, catalyze connections to drive high-value impact, and get capital where it is needed most. Throughout her career, Tadia has been an early employee on both a newly formed corporate teams and VC Fund - gifted in building processes and teams from the ground up and bringing big visions to reality.
Tadia was previously an early employee at GingerBread Capital, a Venture Capital family office fund that invests capital in female founders and fund managers at the Seed to Series C stage. She built and managed the initial operational strategy and conducted investment due diligence resulting in millions of investment capital allocation for diverse tech founders. She was instrumental in developing and leading “Women Investing in Women”, a strategic event initiative with partnerships across top VCs, law firms, founders, and ecosystem influencers to educate and facilitate investment from women with capital to women-founded startups; facilitating many new first-time investors.
Tadia began her career on Wall Street at J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank where she worked in Product Development and Latin America Sales Strategy. She identified opportunities that resulted in over $1 Billion in new balances and $20mm in annual revenue leading her to be consistently ranked in the top 5% of her analyst class. Tadia later joined a newly developed team, Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence, as the first business hire serving as the functional COO responsible for operationalizing and managing the distribution strategy of threat intelligence data to all lines of businesses (IB, Asset Mgmt, Operations, and Consumer Bank). Tadia was the youngest person nominated for VP promotion in Cybersecurity at J.P. Morgan.
It was during her Wall Street career that Tadia saw intimately the disparities in Financial Literacy specifically amongst communities of color. She began to teach at DREAM Inc, a financial literacy organization for inner-city youth. She taught Financial Literacy classes at Rikers Prison (NYC) to juvenile female inmates, raised scholarship funding, and served as the Director of Mentorship exposing students of color to careers in Finance.
Tadia earned her MBA at The Stanford Graduate School of Business serving on the founding team and later Chair of Stanford’s Black Business conference. She built and managed a 21-person team across 5 verticals for programming and operational execution ultimately leading to $2mm+ in investments for Black-owned businesses.
She has been featured in numerous publications including Forbes and31 under 31: The Future of Venture Capital as well as many interviews, panels, and keynotes on topics ranging from business management and venture capital to diversity and leadership.
Tadia is an avid reader, Barry’s Bootcamp aficionado, Transcendental Meditation (TM) practitioner, and crystal collector. She spends the majority of her time between Los Angeles, New York, and Costa Rica - living her most balanced, ambitious, and joy-filled life which you may see her doing on her Instagram @tadiajames.
