Justin Boots is Chief People Officer at UpGuard, a global cybersecurity SaaS company, where he leads people strategy across 13 countries and 360+ employees. With 20+ years in HR and a decade scaling technology companies through hypergrowth, he specialises in building the people systems that take companies from $20M to $200M ARR. Justin is known for pragmatic, AI-native approaches to talent, performance, and culture, bringing a direct, no-fluff perspective to the people challenges founders and operators actually lose sleep over. He's based in Melbourne and speaks regularly on the future of work and AI in HR.