Vetted Consulting Professionals in Massachusetts

Christopher McLean

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in security, privacy, and high-scale infrastructure

Brookline, MA18y exp

“Veteran operator from top-tier tech companies including PayPal, LinkedIn, Stripe, Facebook, and Merge, now seeking the right startup idea to found. Brings hands-on angel investing experience across 5 startups in the EU and US plus additional exposure through X-Stripe Angels, giving them both operator and investor perspective.”

“Life sciences business development leader with experience as Head of Business Development at Praxis Precision Medicines, leveraging VC relationships to source value-accretive opportunities such as a partnership with Cerebral Therapeutics. Demonstrates a founder-oriented mindset and unusually rigorous biotech opportunity assessment, including nuanced evaluation of mechanism, preclinical data, and compounded biology/technology risk.”

“Cybersecurity entrepreneur building a solution focused on emerging AI-driven security risks, aimed at helping mid-sized companies defend against advanced threat actors without needing large internal teams. Has a business plan, has raised capital, and is currently entering a seed VC round while doing fractional CTO/interim work to cover advisor and corporate legal costs amid upcoming EU cybersecurity/resilience policy changes.”

“Operations and leadership advisor with experience scaling and globalizing large and growing businesses, including Reebok’s expansion from ~$1B to ~$3B and Student Advantage’s rapid roll-up (15 acquisitions in 18 months). Known for post-merger/ERP-driven process redesign, building customer/metric feedback loops (NPS, time-to-ship), and coaching founders/executives across industries (tech, healthcare, biopharma, B2B SaaS/sports tech).”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production QA RAG for a University of Massachusetts faculty success initiative, cutting service tickets by 70%. Strong end-to-end RAG implementation skills (LangChain, Qdrant, hybrid/HyDE retrieval, FastAPI) with rigorous evaluation (RAGAS, LLM-as-judge) and practical handling of constraints like API rate limits and cost. Prior cross-functional delivery experience collaborating with SMEs and business owners at TCS and IBM.”

“President of Open Table, Inc. (food relief org) who modernized and scaled multi-site operations—moving intake/check-in to the cloud, implementing VolunteerHub to coordinate 750+ volunteers, and launching online ordering with curbside distribution during the pandemic. Strong in change management, end-user-driven process improvement, and using impact data/storytelling to align boards and teams on scaling decisions.”