Abbey Fortney

Abbey specializes in all aspects of talent — recruiting, onboarding, staffing, performance management, employee development, talent management and more.

Before Avoq, Abbey spent most of her career in the creative, public relations and advertising space, recruiting for agencies such as Weber Shandwick, Saatchi Wellness, VML&YR, APCO Worldwide and Droga5. Her main focus has been leading talent acquisition while building strong and diverse teams across the globe. She is a former graphic designer turned Talent professional who believes recruiting is so much more than just filling a role, it’s building teams and inspiring others. One of her career highlights was being hired as the lead designer for a 250+ paged book, “Polaroids,” which was published in conjunction with the exhibition “Polaroids: Mapplethorpe” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in partnership with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.

Abbey grew up in State College, Pa. and now lives in the Court House neighborhood of Arlington, Va. When she’s not recruiting top talent for Avoq, you can find her working out on her Peloton, doing yoga or walking her dog Cash.