Vetted Consulting Professionals

Shery Saeed

Screened

Executive Strategic Advisor & Executive Coach specializing in transformation and growth

New York, NY26y exp

“Transformation/PMO leader who launched the Bear Stearns program management office for a firm-wide business transformation, building governance (steering/ops committees), communications, and an issue-resolution system to align five parallel teams. Known as a highly discreet trusted advisor who improves executive effectiveness through delegation systems, and who can influence senior leaders via storytelling and ROI framing—while also advocating strongly for teams on deadlines and workload.”

“Telecommunications strategist with more than two decades of experience spanning 3G through emerging 6G, focused on shaping global standards and advising senior leadership. Created a global AI-enabled autonomous systems framework in NGMN, has multiple patents in telecom, and is particularly differentiated by his ability to represent company interests in 3GPP while driving interoperable, multi-vendor 6G ecosystems.”

“Sourcing/procurement professional with hands-on CAPEX equipment sourcing experience, building RFI/RFP packages, qualifying new vendors, and negotiating using market and internal spend data. Demonstrated process-improvement impact by redesigning proposal evaluations into a parallel workflow, cutting sourcing cycle time by ~20% while maintaining evaluation rigor.”

“Operations/finance-focused advisor with experience helping early-stage companies build lightweight but effective operating systems—monthly financial reporting, KPI frameworks tied to revenue levers, and forecasting cadences using tools like QuickBooks and Metabase. Has also implemented scalable request-prioritization (Jira) and guided founder/executive org design changes, including transitioning a founder to president while elevating an internal leader to CEO.”

“Customer Success/Account Management leader with deep enterprise SaaS implementation experience, including end-to-end ownership of a Fortune 500 rollout across 800+ locations. Known for rescuing high-risk onboardings through hands-on data remediation and executive stakeholder governance, driving measurable improvements in NPS/CSAT, ticket volume reduction, and major adoption/expansion. Also led cross-functional, accelerated POS integrations (including early Toast POS) to meet tight POC deadlines and enable full-location deployments.”

Jordan Roga

Screened

Director-level Business Operations & Finance leader in venture capital and early-stage tech

New York, NY10y exp

“Operations/program leader with experience at Open Core Ventures driving cross-functional initiatives across content/engineering and legal/tax operations. Built systems-heavy process improvements (public handbook + SOP frameworks, DRI accountability) and delivered measurable outcomes like +30% Hacker News front-page frequency and ~80% faster company formation.”

“Manager at Prophet with 5 years in management consulting, spanning growth strategy, monetization, market expansion, and go-to-market work for clients including Netflix, AstroTurf, PwC, and Success Academy. Stands out for combining mixed-method research, analytics, and cross-functional execution to drive measurable outcomes, including an 18% improvement in teacher retention and pilot-based rollout strategy work at Netflix.”

Adam Weinstein

Screened

Director of Corporate Development specializing in pharmaceuticals and life sciences M&A

New York, NY11y exp

“Healthcare-focused finance and strategy professional with two major chapters: roughly six years in healthcare investment banking followed by progression from Senior Manager to Director in Corporate Development / Strategy at Viatris. Brings a strong blend of transaction execution, analytical rigor, and cross-functional leadership, with repeated experience driving acquisitions, partnerships, and other complex initiatives in ambiguous environments.”

Allwyn Brown

Screened

Executive Law Enforcement Leader specializing in constitutional policing and public safety

SF Bay Area, California41y exp

“Law enforcement operations leader who modernized a police organization by shifting from a traditional hierarchical model to a matrix structure and driving cross-functional collaboration. Served as project manager for major public-safety technology deployments (ShotSpotter, body-worn cameras with CJIS-compliant cloud storage, LPRs, CAD/RMS upgrades) while expanding community engagement and public transparency through social and video communications.”

“Senior public sector sales leader who ran EMEA for a public safety technology company spanning intelligence, software, analytics, and SaaS. He combines full regional ownership—P&L, GTM, channel strategy, hiring, and executive relationships—with standout results including 185% revenue growth, 300% headcount growth, and 300%+ channel growth.”

Atyab Hakeem

Screened

Junior Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and computer vision

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Software engineer who built and deployed OddPulse, a multi-agent LLM-powered continuous financial auditing system aimed at reducing compliance penalties by catching issues before audit cycles. Experienced with TrueAI-based agent orchestration, Airflow on GCP batch workflows, and rigorous evaluation/benchmarking (hit rate/MRR, latency/TTFT, cost) alongside security controls for sensitive financial data.”

Barbara Christina Cruze

Screened

Senior Business Analytics Consultant specializing in BI, data engineering, and predictive analytics

Dallas, TX8y exp

“Healthcare analytics candidate with hands-on experience turning messy claims, enrollment, and reference data into trusted SQL reporting layers and reproducible Python workflows. They emphasize metric standardization, stakeholder alignment, and operational impact, including ~40% reduction in manual reporting effort and improved forecasting/resource prioritization through high-risk patient segmentation.”

“Product leader working at the intersection of AI, data governance, and industrial/energy operations. They have led a major finance-platform rewire for solar and wind asset forecasting at NextEra and previously built an AI-assisted field service app for fire alarm technicians across four business units, showing unusual depth in both enterprise data architecture and safety-critical mobile workflows.”

“Product-oriented startup operator with hands-on AI experience across chatbot UX, PRDs, and technical RAG pipeline design. They’ve worked across early-stage builds and portfolio-company product strategy, including improving engagement by 46% on an internal AI product through better workflows, content pipelines, and analytics-driven iteration.”