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Title: Daniel Okafor, Chief Recruiting Officer | Deftridge
Summary: Daniel Okafor, Chief Recruiting Officer at Deftridge, based in Raleigh, United States. Writes only from daniel.okafor@deftridge.com.

Recruiting

# Daniel Okafor

Chief Recruiting Officer. Built the category teams and trains every recruiter on the same standard: one named person, one thread, a rate on every task.

- **E-mail** [daniel.okafor@deftridge.com](mailto:daniel.okafor@deftridge.com)

- **Based in** Raleigh, United States

- **Team** Recruiting

- **On the team since** 2025

About Daniel

## What Daniel handles

Built the category teams and trains every recruiter on the same standard: one named person, one thread, a rate on every task.

Responsible for

All recruiting teams.

Team

Recruiting: 70 people.

Writes from

daniel.okafor@deftridge.com and from no other address.

Never asks for

Money, a password or an identity document in a chat message.

How it works

## How to work with Daniel


### Write with the details

E-mail Daniel at daniel.okafor@deftridge.com or use the contact form, with the task or invoice number if you have one.


### A reply in writing

You get an answer in writing within one working day, in your time zone.


### One thread

The conversation stays in one thread, so nobody asks you the same thing twice.


### Escalate if it stalls

If a request is stuck, reply to the thread and a team head picks it up the same day.

Stay safe

## Did someone use Daniel's name?

Genuine mail from Daniel arrives from **daniel.okafor@deftridge.com** and from no other address. Nobody here asks for money, a password or bank details, or pushes for a quick answer. In doubt, run the sender through our checker.

Articles

## Written by Daniel

13 pages, each reviewed by the editor before it goes live.

- [How to read a task brief Published 2026-11-01](https://deftridge.com/guides/how-to-read-a-task-brief/)

- [Fractional, part time or freelance? Published 2026-11-01](https://deftridge.com/guides/fractional-vs-part-time/)

- [Side work for working professionals, next to a job Published 2026-11-01](https://deftridge.com/side-work/)

- [Part-time work in SaaS Published 2026-11-02](https://deftridge.com/industries/saas/)

- [Part-time work in Fintech Published 2026-11-02](https://deftridge.com/industries/fintech/)

- [Part-time work in Insurance Published 2026-11-02](https://deftridge.com/industries/insurance/)

- [Part-time work in Healthcare & HealthTech Published 2026-11-02](https://deftridge.com/industries/healthcare-and-healthtech/)

- [Part-time work in E-commerce Published 2026-11-02](https://deftridge.com/industries/ecommerce/)

- [Part-time work in Retail Published 2026-11-02](https://deftridge.com/industries/retail/)

- [Part-time work in Logistics & Supply Chain Published 2026-11-02](https://deftridge.com/industries/logistics-and-supply-chain/)

- [Part-time work in Manufacturing Published 2026-11-02](https://deftridge.com/industries/manufacturing/)

- [Part-time work in Consulting Published 2026-11-02](https://deftridge.com/industries/consulting/)

- [Part-time work in Nonprofit Published 2026-11-02](https://deftridge.com/industries/nonprofit/)

Colleagues

## The other leaders

Six people lead Deftridge.

- [Catherine Doyle Head of Rates and Data](https://deftridge.com/team/catherine-doyle/)

- [Helena Voss Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer](https://deftridge.com/team/helena-voss/)

- [Nina Castellanos Head of Trust and Safety](https://deftridge.com/team/nina-castellanos/)

- [Peter Lindgren Head of Client Services](https://deftridge.com/team/peter-lindgren/)

- [Richard Calloway Co-founder and CEO](https://deftridge.com/team/richard-calloway/)

[Meet all 120 people](https://deftridge.com/team/#dt-dir)

## Common questions

How to check that a message is really from Daniel, what a recruiter can and cannot ask for, and what happens after the first e-mail: [Verify a sender](https://deftridge.com/verify/), [Our promise](https://deftridge.com/our-promise/) and [How it works](https://deftridge.com/how-it-works/).

## Useful next steps

- [Meet the team](https://deftridge.com/team/)

- [Verify a sender](https://deftridge.com/verify/)

- [Our promise](https://deftridge.com/our-promise/)

- [Free Rate Report](https://deftridge.com/rate-report/)
