Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in California

Sean Cohen

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive medical device engineering leader specializing in digital health hardware platforms

Mountain View, CA7y exp

“Engineering and operations leader in connected healthcare/medical devices with senior experience at AliveCor and Sibel Health. He has owned everything from ultra-thin FDA-cleared ECG hardware architecture and firmware-risk decisions to supplier qualification, manufacturing system buildout, and make-vs-buy strategy across a portfolio of clinical sensing products. Strong differentiator: combines deep technical judgment with hands-on manufacturing scale-up, including taking KardiaMobile Card to mass production in under 18 months and driving Sibel to 98%+ yield with controlled production processes.”

jitender Hooda

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Executive Client Partner specializing in engineering and digital services

San Ramon, CA19y exp

“Founder building an agentic AI-based low-code platform for B2B enterprise applications, validated through enterprise client conversations and delivered via rapid paid MVP/POCs. Platform has seen production traction (6–7 apps, 1000+ daily users) and includes capabilities like QR scanning integrated with ERP/PLM systems. Experienced in business development and client relationships, with a pragmatic, ROI- and speed-focused approach to product and GTM under tight capital constraints.”

“Climate-tech founder with multiple EV infrastructure ventures, including Electriflow Finance and ChargeNet Stations. Has already raised $300k, signed a $1M term sheet, and piloted an AI-driven, app-less EV fleet charging platform with 36 fleets in Southern California.”

Richard Bemis

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Executive CIO/CTO/CDO specializing in data, AI/ML, and digital transformation

Long Beach, CA21y exp

“Founder building a healthcare provider data management startup who has progressed from problem identification to product architecture, patent filing, prototype development, beta customer outreach, and angel fundraising. They also have experience performing technical assessments for VCs and approach company-building with a structured focus on customer demand, risk mitigation, IP protection, and candid core-team formation.”

Devang Shah

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Executive AI and Cloud transformation leader specializing in enterprise GTM and product engineering

San Jose, CA23y exp

“Candidate is interested in building horizontal AI infrastructure capabilities, specifically around observability, and brings exposure to investor evaluation dynamics from experience at PE-backed firm WinWire. They appear strongly motivated by entrepreneurial ownership, creativity, and the ability to drive and pivot ideas in a venture studio or startup environment.”

Russell Gagnon

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Executive product leader specializing in digital health, AI, and B2B2C platforms

Los Angeles, CA21y exp

“Healthcare product leader who built AI-powered, human-in-the-loop experiences that personalized patient journeys while escalating risk to clinicians. Combines strong ML product judgment with disciplined UX simplification and cross-functional leadership, and ties that work to concrete outcomes like 10-20% better blood pressure control, lower A1c, stronger adherence, and higher engagement.”

Jamie Lusk

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Executive Talent Acquisition & Executive Search Leader specializing in high-growth tech

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“Talent leader with ~20 years reporting directly to CEOs/COOs and advising seed-to-Series C startups and venture studio portfolios on 0-to-1 hiring. Built recruiting infrastructure from scratch at FightCamp (cut time-to-hire to ~35 days with ~98% acceptance) and has proven hands-on executive search impact, including taking over and closing a Chief Product Officer search in ~45 days.”

“Engineering director and former front-end engineering manager with a strong blend of people leadership, UX/design-system ownership, and hands-on technical depth. At Siemens, they led a 15-person US/Europe team through a SaaS-era design-system transformation, winning over resistant product teams and exceeding adoption goals; at Intellimize, they solved legacy-browser constraints with a custom TypeScript-based build pipeline that improved quality, morale, and user experience.”

Melissa Bennett

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Executive engineering and AI leader specializing in healthcare AI and startup scaling

Los Angeles, CA21y exp

“Engineering leader who has built teams and products from scratch in both healthcare AI and consumer tech. Most notably, they grew Thrive AI Health’s engineering org from 0 to 20 and led delivery of a multimodal, multi-agent AI health coach—including a real-time voice experience piloted with Eli Lilly—while previously scaling Sweetgreen’s mobile ordering platform into a major revenue channel.”

“Former Societe Generale investment banking/markets professional turned startup operator who became the first employee at Two Dots and helped scale it from prototype to $12M ARR. Combines executive-level financial analysis, AI product understanding, and hands-on GTM/customer execution, with a standout example of building a backtest-led enterprise sales motion that pushed conversion above 90% and helped win major property management customers.”

“Biopharma R&D product leader with 6-8 years building enterprise data, analytics, and AI products for drug discovery and biologics research. Notably led a multi-site biosample discovery platform that became an enterprise-wide capability at Bristol Myers Squibb and also drove an AI-powered scientific insight platform using RAG/LLM approaches to reduce time-to-insight for researchers.”

“Pre-seed founder (pre-product) building a new enterprise control layer for AI-enabled organizations focused on governed autonomy and decision-cycle compression; thesis formalized in their book "The Decision Velocity Era." Former CEO of Evaluation Solutions who built an internal proprietary operating system, proved it in live operations, commercialized it as SaaS, and enabled growth to $120M+ in contracted revenue.”

Mohammed Siddique

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Executive Operations & Strategy leader specializing in global digital transformation

Oakland, CA28y exp

“Global operations/program leader from PSI who ran concurrent transformation initiatives across US/APAC/EMEA—AI-driven proctoring automation, vendor consolidation, and BI/exec dashboards—while overseeing delivery of millions of exams in 120+ countries. Known for KPI-based governance (RACI, steering cadences, shared dashboards) that drove measurable outcomes: +20% throughput, $5M annual cost reduction, and 30% reduction in executive meeting load with faster decision cycles.”

Francois Odienne

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Director of Engineering specializing in SaaS platforms, AI-first product development, and telecom

Moorpark, CA28y exp

“Technology leader with venture-backed company experience at LogicMonitor, where they aligned engineering strategy with business growth and long-term platform scalability. Demonstrates strong familiarity with the VC/studio/accelerator ecosystem and a thoughtful founder mindset centered on validating real problems, innovative solutions, and execution capacity.”

“Operations and manufacturing leader with experience acting as an internal CEO to build a new business inside IDEX Corp from a $15M budget, owning P&L and a 3-year plan through product launch. At Planet Innovation, used Lean/DMAIC-style value stream mapping to 4x production throughput (400 to ~1600 units/month), exceeding a customer’s 1200/month scaling target. Strong in building teams and operational systems (product development, quality, supply chain) and coaching non-ops founders using structured frameworks.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup experience who owned end-to-end features on Impact’s Hiring Solutions platform, including a hiring inbox spanning React UI and Postgres data models; the product helped drive 500+ jobs filled shortly after launch. Comfortable designing modern React/TypeScript + Node architectures (GraphQL, testing, migrations) and operating on AWS (RDS, EC2/Fargate, S3, Datadog, CircleCI). Also founded their own startup (Bibbr) and made early-stage stack/infrastructure decisions under high ambiguity.”

“Part-time founder building a bootstrapped IT startup in the R&D phase, running multiple product iterations and cost/benefit analyses to validate uniqueness and monetization potential. Has prior experience working for venture capital firms and is familiar with how accelerators operate, with a strong focus on finding investors who can be true thought partners for rapid pivots.”

Adam Safran

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Engineering Director specializing in platform modernization, microservices, and cloud reliability

Pleasant Hill, CA26y exp

“Former founder (ran a custom web development shop in Los Angeles) with extensive startup experience and a solid working understanding of the VC ecosystem. Helped build and scale a team at Turo from founding member to ~10 people, and is motivated by ownership, impact, and originating ideas—interested in the venture studio model and disciplined about rapid validation and execution.”

Han Dong

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Executive growth marketing leader specializing in B2B SaaS and developer platforms

San Jose, CA19y exp

“Startup operator who launched and scaled Hyphenate as VP of Marketing and GM, creating a new category in white-label in-app chat for mobile apps. He owned messaging, acquisition, onboarding, and funnel design end-to-end, growing the business to 100+ customers, roughly $1M ARR, and a 16-person team while building a repeatable inbound and freemium growth engine.”

“Hands-on engineering leader who has scaled teams quickly (hired 20 engineers in 4 months) and led major architecture shifts including monolith-to-microservices and serverless, async AI-driven medical data ingestion/search. Also drove a versioned-inventory redesign with auditability and rollback that reduced operational errors by 22%, and demonstrates strong incident response with clear stakeholder communication.”

“AI product leader working at TAU Ventures Innovation Lab and previously at Verint and NYSHEX, with a track record of turning legacy and ambiguous AI opportunities into shippable, human-centered products. Notably led Verint’s evolution into a low-code AI orchestration platform with 20+ capabilities and measurable gains in CSAT, handle time, and recurring revenue, while consistently emphasizing trust, workflow fit, and human-in-the-loop design.”

Ben Ayed

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Executive product leader specializing in AI, security, and connected devices

Fremont, CA22y exp

“Product leader with hands-on experience building and scaling a production Voice AI Assistant for automotive dealerships, combining LLMs, speech technologies, workflow orchestration, and system integrations. Stands out for balancing AI capability with trust, UX, and operational ROI—shipping a system that answered over 90% of incoming calls while improving conversion, reducing workload, and augmenting rather than replacing human staff.”

Ilya Kravchenko

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Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and internet-scale platforms

Thousand Oaks, CA20y exp

“Engineering leader with a rare blend of SaaS, robotics, and AI systems experience, most recently leading a 21-engineer org under the CTO. They pair strong people/process leadership with hands-on architecture depth, driving dramatic delivery improvements while also building grounded LLM support tooling for warehouse operations where accuracy directly impacts physical execution and customer outcomes.”