Vetted Consulting Professionals

“Data/QA-focused professional with experience at Lonza and Jio Platforms, owning end-to-end data reliability work for QC forecasting (SAP/LIMS) and driving root-cause/corrective actions for recurring environment configuration issues. Strong in SQL-based data standardization/validation, requirements tightening for API consistency, and coordinating multi-workstream delivery using Jira/Azure DevOps.”

“HRIS/payroll support professional with hands-on Workday experience focused on pre-payroll validation, compensation data accuracy, and reconciliation. They stand out for catching effective-date and compensation mismatches before payroll cutoff, building practical Excel audit tools, and supporting merit/bonus cycles through reporting, exception management, and testing.”

“Product leader with deep edtech experience who helped take Honor Education from an incomplete early product at zero users/zero revenue to general availability and a $38M Series A. Combines zero-to-one product building, AI feature delivery, LMS integration strategy, and team leadership, with a clear philosophy around human-centered AI that supports educators and learners rather than replacing them.”

“Banking and fintech operator who built both an outbound sales pipeline and an investment banking unit from scratch. Combines analytical sales execution with institutional finance expertise, including capital raises, structured debt, regulatory buildout, and translating startup/fintech opportunities into board-approved banking products in the Ghanaian market.”

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer with 14 years of cross-functional experience, leveraging SQL-driven segmentation and structured A/B/multivariate testing to optimize engagement and conversions. Has led coordinated national/regional launches for a hardware product and tracks impact through CRM campaign codes tied to closed sales.”

Jon Davis

Screened

Executive business leader specializing in operations, growth, and M&A

Kalamazoo, MI23y exp

“Former CEO of Davis Oil who led an operational and cultural reset in a multi-location business—rebuilding org structure, KPI reporting, SOPs, and accountability systems. Now consults and advises leaders (especially family businesses) who lack formal operations backgrounds, using a systems-focused “diagnose before design” approach grounded in frontline discovery.”

“Candidate participated in Launch Factory's venture studio selection process, which introduced them to a formalized startup methodology, and then went on to found and recently exit their own business. They are highly motivated to keep building companies, with a clear emphasis on creating products that serve a community and validating market need through product-market fit.”

“Functional/implementation consultant with experience across 10+ ERP deployments, including Infor LN and Salesforce/Rootstock, primarily in manufacturing environments. Brings hands-on ownership across the full lifecycle—from requirements, process mapping, configuration, and documentation through UAT, training, go-live, and hypercare—with particular depth in shop floor, procurement, inventory, and global operational complexity such as tax and shipping integrations.”

Stephen Pappachen

Screened

Director-level physician consultant specializing in clinical operations and healthcare administration

Lakeland, FL31y exp

“Clinician and former Center Medical Director with experience building operations from the ground up across OB/GYN practice and plasma donation settings. Brings a distinctive blend of clinical oversight, quality improvement, safety-focused implementation support, and protocol/algorithm authoring, especially in regulated healthcare environments.”

“HR leader (VP of HR at Joe Coffee Company; previously at Equinox) with hands-on experience implementing two HRIS migrations and configuring timekeeping/HR systems used as an org-wide hub (ATS, performance management, timekeeping, system of record). Drove a major compliance-focused change to break tracking/pay practices using cost analysis and system configuration to reduce liability while minimizing employee dissatisfaction.”

Sarfaraz Karim

Screened

Mid-level Finance Analyst specializing in product, analytics, and technology strategy

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Startup-oriented business development candidate who built outreach and pipeline processes from scratch for early-stage companies including a law firm and consulting-related work. Stands out for highly persistent, research-driven prospecting across social, email, phone, and even in-person outreach, including winning a hotel client after failed remote attempts by showing up with a tailored strategy.”

“Product designer-developer leading the modernization of One Shot Records from a legacy PHP storefront to a React/Next.js marketplace experience. Particularly interesting for combining UX, frontend engineering, and product strategy—he not only redesigned the mobile-heavy experience, but also proposed a shift from eBay-style sales to a barter-based marketplace model backed by AI validation and a multi-layer API/data architecture.”

“Strategy and finance operator with experience spanning hotel asset management, hospitality operations, and tech consulting, including direct work with Samsung’s executive team. Stands out for combining analytical rigor with hands-on execution, from owning P&Ls and investor reviews to leading a multi-workstream Samsung initiative that produced an 8% sales lift and remains in use today.”

“OpenShift platform engineer with hands-on experience building OCP clusters on vSphere (bastion-host installs, VIP networking, OAuth/log forwarding/storage setup) and troubleshooting real-world install failures like IP exhaustion from incorrect subnet sizing. Also supported a client migration away from VMware by implementing OpenShift Virtualization, using the migration toolkit where possible and creating runbooks/YAML automation for manual migrations when workloads were incompatible.”

Judy Garza

Screened

Director-level HR & Talent Acquisition leader specializing in workforce transformation and HR operations

Rockwall, TX23y exp

“Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader who owned end-to-end recruiting ops and served as the Workday TA implementation SME at DART, standardizing a fragmented hiring process into documented SOPs, dashboards, and SLAs that cut time-to-fill by 52% in one year. Previously led recruiting/resource/payroll teams supporting 10k+ independent catastrophe adjusters, building surge workflows and compliance checkpoints to staff disaster events within hours.”

Brian Matthews

Screened

Senior Program Manager specializing in FinTech SaaS

Boston, MA17y exp

“Seasoned Fintech SaaS program leader with 12 years of implementation experience, including 8 years owning an online banking platform across 40 clients. Has managed portfolios of 10 concurrent customized deployments, budgets up to $15M, and executive-facing recovery plans that turned delayed projects into early deliveries.”

Nikhil Yenuganti

Screened

Mid-level SAP Consultant specializing in warehouse and supply chain transformation

Charleston, IL5y exp

“SAP functional consultant focused on S/4HANA and EWM-led warehouse and supply chain transformations, with hands-on experience across healthcare distribution, manufacturing, pharma, and retail environments. Particularly strong in translating warehouse operations into practical SAP configurations, leading fit-gap workshops, and supporting high-stakes go-lives, UAT, and hypercare for complex multi-system inventory and logistics operations.”

“Product leader with experience reshaping complex onboarding experiences at Progressive Leasing, where they expanded a tablet privacy problem into a broader universal application flow that improved trust, reduced hardware costs, and increased approvals and revenue. They also contributed to an AI conversational analytics product at SeekInsights, combining roadmap thinking, UX research, and cross-functional leadership.”