Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in the Austin Metro

William Elderton

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in FinTech, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Austin, TX26y exp

“Seasoned operator with 30 years of experience at multiple startup companies, primarily in venture-backed environments, plus some exposure to private equity-backed firms. The candidate is highly familiar with the VC and accelerator ecosystem, though they clarified they were pursuing a CTO role rather than actively planning to found a startup.”

“Early-stage venture and talent operator with experience sourcing founders and leadership talent, including helping source Truemoringa into a pre-seed investment. Brings a relationship-first style, broad venture-network sourcing, and structured diligence processes spanning product, IP, legal, operations, and cap table review.”

“Revenue and GTM leader with cross-industry experience spanning cafes/e-commerce, fintech, SaaS, and energy. Has repeatedly built or rebuilt commercial functions from scratch, including a 300% EBITDA improvement at Second Cup, international sales leadership at Trulioo, and an $800k ARR enterprise win with Public Storage at Storable.”

“CTO candidate with experience in multiple VC-backed startups, emphasizing timing and disciplined scaling of engineering orgs (people, product, process). Evaluates technology choices through a customer-value lens and proactively flags business/tech misalignment, with a pragmatic approach to venture viability using TAM, competitive landscape, and leading indicators.”

“Engineering leader with experience owning product engineering strategy, architecture, and org scaling across hospitality/workforce management and insurance startup environments. They describe being brought in to help Fourth Inc. revamp engineering for large-scale enterprise customers, while also scaling teams at The Zebra and staying hands-on with production monitoring, performance analysis, and cross-team architectural execution.”

Jeff Cushler

Screened

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in Healthcare IT, SaaS, and Cloud Transformation

Austin, TX30y exp

“Startup product/enterprise-stack builder who helped take Ventric Health from R&D to a market-launched healthcare product in 2024, operating in a $34M-raised, revenue-generating model leveraging Medicare C reimbursement through providers. Previously drove adoption of an integrated K-12 digital learning platform distributed to 100+ institutions over two years, with reported improvements in test scores.”

“CTO-oriented engineering leader who emphasizes building and mentoring teams while aligning technology work to real business needs through close collaboration with product stakeholders. Also has entrepreneurial exposure, including an alcohol-related startup and prior experience securing funding.”

“CTO/AI executive with repeated 0-to-1 leadership and founder experience across banking software, cloud, and fintech. Most recently, as a fractional CAIO, built a 50+ person team and launched 3 products in 9 months generating $10M+ new revenue; previously founded Trilogy (200+ clients in 7 countries) and created cloud tech that helped drive a $35M acquisition by VMware.”

“Operations leader with repeated startup/entrepreneurial experience building internal operating systems from the ground up—creating department-by-department SOP/policy manuals and implementing KPI-driven management. Strong in diagnosing issues via operational/financial data and rolling out scalable people systems (structured interviews, training/certifications, onboarding) with retention measured across 14/30/60/90-day cohorts.”

Praveenkumar Angadi

Screened

Director-level telecom sales and solutions leader specializing in AI and 5G

Austin, TX23y exp

“Heads an innovation center at Wipro Technologies and has built go-to-market motions for enterprise private 5G solutions in partnership with Google Cloud, Verizon, and AT&T. Brings a distinctive blend of strategy, partner orchestration, and enterprise deal execution across manufacturing and automotive customers, with experience tailoring tiered offerings and using digital twins to drive pipeline.”

Matthew McVaney

Screened

Executive revenue leader specializing in FinTech and SaaS GTM

Austin, TX14y exp

“Revenue leader and repeat zero-to-scale operator with 15+ years across SaaS, MarTech, and fintech, including founding-employee experience and multiple major growth milestones. He has built GTM motions from scratch, led full revenue organizations, scaled brands from $200M to $500M ARR, and was part of a $6.5B exit—positioning him as a high-impact leader for growth-stage or turnaround environments.”