"Rogers says she was leaning against the wall near the bathroom, with the back of her foot propped back against it. Her knee was jutted out at about a 45-degree angle, she says. That was when she alleges that Carta's chief revenue officer, Jeff Perry, walked by, slapped his hand on her leg, squeezed it, then kept walking. "It wasn't something normal-definitely not professional," Rogers says in an interview with Fortune, recounting the claims she made in a lawsuit against her former employer, Carta, and Perry in August."
"Rogers says she shouted Perry's name, he turned around, and then she stared at him. "He just kind of laughed it off and walked away," she says. Rogers says she was interviewing for a sales manager role at the time, one that would report directly to Perry. Two months later, the evening before Rogers says she officially started the new role, she ended up sitting next to Perry at a Carta dinner, where she alleges in her lawsuit that Perry placed his hand on her leg under the table, twice, and stroked her arm above the table."
""He touched my leg again," Rogers sent her mom in a text that evening, according to messages reviewed by Fortune. "Who? Your boss?" her mom responded. "CRO yes," Rogers said. "The one i [sic] complain about." Rogers reported these incidents to Carta's human resources department in June 2023, according to the lawsuit Rogers filed this summer in a California state court in San Francisco."
"It wasn't long after that she alleges in her lawsuit that Carta's CEO, Henry Ward, started behaving differently toward her. She says he started to single her out i"
Alexandra Rogers describes an incident at Hi Dive bar in San Francisco while waiting for a restroom before a Giants game. She alleges Carta’s chief revenue officer, Jeff Perry, slapped her leg, squeezed it, and walked away after she shouted his name. Rogers says she later sat next to Perry at a Carta dinner and alleges he touched her leg under the table twice and stroked her arm above the table. She reported the incidents to Carta’s human resources in June 2023. Rogers alleges that after her report, Carta’s CEO Henry Ward began behaving differently toward her, including singling her out.
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