Just to add a followup to my story.
If you can't find it, find people and create it!
What I did was to build my own grass field(started company with my team) and it has been fucking great.
We made a better product and made enough of a name of ourselves, that while I lost the battle that time with the former leadership, I fought long enough to see them all lose their jobs.
As a CEO myself now, I choose not to have an HR rep and try to do better for my people.
Also this is in EU so as a warning to others,like me then, who thought HR in the US could do this but not here.
What I did was to build my own grass field(started company with my team) and it has been fucking great. We made a better product and made enough of a name of ourselves, that while I lost the battle that time with the former leadership, I fought long enough to see them all lose their jobs.
As a CEO myself now, I choose not to have an HR rep and try to do better for my people.
Also this is in EU so as a warning to others,like me then, who thought HR in the US could do this but not here.