Vetted Board Members

“Operations and scaling leader who launched Management Events' Germany office from 0 to 10 employees and advised HQ on scaling into mature European markets (Germany/UK/France). Also has Intel and Microsoft experience taking local best practices global, including scaling the Microsoft Virtual Academy worldwide, plus recent executive mentoring via nonprofit board leadership (co-chair at United Planet).”

“Operations and GTM advisor for early-stage and scaling software companies who implements practical operating frameworks (RACI, OKRs) to translate founder vision into execution. Notable outcomes include cutting sales ramp time from 6–9 months to 3–4 months at OPSWAT through enablement programs and driving 124% of financial plan at Cradlepoint (2022) after cascading OKRs across the organization.”

“Sitting General Counsel/executive leader who helped post-IPO Coursera transition from founder-led to scaled global enterprise by embedding legal, compliance, governance, and risk management into the operating model (including committees, OKRs, and automated compliance/contract tooling). Also led high-stakes international response work (coordinated exit from Russia) and brings prior Siemens North America supply chain/procurement leadership experience in a blended business/legal role.”

“Operator with founder/COO/CEO experience in professional services, managed services, and cloud services (Adjoined Consulting, Virtustream, Lemongrass). Known for instrumenting businesses with real-time pipeline/backlog-to-resource planning systems and for building sales organizations end-to-end, including bookings-based comp plans that drove ~40% CAGR. As VC-backed non-founder CEO, scaled Lemongrass from ~$25M to ~$100M run-rate and applied AI to de-risk SOW/costing and to improve service desk efficiency and gross margin.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based semantic search and summarization system for large legal/technical document sets, owning the full backend (embeddings, vector store, chunking, prompting) and driving a reported 40–60% reduction in manual review time. Experienced with LangChain/LlamaIndex plus Airflow/Temporal-style orchestration, and applies rigorous evaluation/monitoring (A/B tests, drift detection, staged rollouts) to keep agentic systems reliable. Also partnered with a supply-chain manager at TE Connectivity to deliver an AI inventory recommendation tool projected to drive millions in value.”

“Operations and transformation leader who ran UPS Security through a major McKinsey-led restructuring, implementing a shared-services/territory-based "Patch of Land" model. Built task/time-based staffing models that enabled a 1K+ headcount reduction and $70M+ in recurring savings, earning the first UPS CEO Change Maker Award. Also mentors emerging leaders with simple, scalable operating rhythms (cadence meetings, decision frameworks, goal tracking).”

“Entrepreneurial operator with a decade+ of experience running businesses (teams, P&Ls, partnership scaling) now building a free, AI-driven fitness/nutrition/mental health platform with a B2B2C monetization model. Plans to fund the venture by leveraging equity from a current business exit (sale/IPO) and to launch via influencer equity partnerships and local wellness business collaborations.”

“Early strategic partner recruited by the CEO to help launch and scale Curio Wellness, a vertically integrated medical cannabis/wellness company, from inception to $150M+ in annual revenue. Built scalable governance and operating systems (three-tier governance, P&L ownership, balanced scorecard, KPI dashboards integrated across ERP/CRM/POS) and coached founders/executives to professionalize leadership and execution, including an 18-month plan that doubled revenue while reducing executive turnover.”

“HR/operations transformation leader with experience implementing HR shared services and building corporate HR functions from scratch across large industrial organizations (BorgWarner, Federal Signal, Dycom, Univar Solutions). Led HR tech enablement (Ultimate Software/Payroll, SAP), created HR business solutions and analytics teams, and drove major efficiency gains including ~30% reductions in team size and budget through self-service, automation, and structured change management.”